Today’s game is Animal Crossing New Leaf. I apologize for the abysmal compression. If i had known the screenshots were going to come out like this i would have picked another game entirely.
Me and a friend decided to play this because it got Pretendo support. For anyone not in the know, Pretendo is replacement servers for the 3DS and Wii U. I never played it much growing up, and the only reason i have a copy really is because i got it bundled with my 3DS i bought from GameStop years back. But i wanted to give it a shot because i had this itch in the back of my mind to play it. I guess i was just really in the mood to run a town of animals.
As soon as i opened my gate to my friend, he left this note for my villagers. For context, i do not have a good track record when it comes to games like Animal Crossing. I always end up dropping them after a day. We’ll see though with this, the new year has me motivated to keep up on this and also finish my second Pokemon Platinum playthrough.
Isabelle isn’t making it easy though. Everytime i try to do a mayoral duty she wants to stop me and make me do something else. It’s like “Do you know how to use a shovel? You should go learn how”. Isabelle, it’s a fucking shovel. It’s not rocket science. Please for the love of god just let me do my job.
Besides the government struggles though, i went down to the beach and went shell collecting for some money to pay off my house some. When i went to pay part of it off though Tom Nook was closed, so it looks like i’ll have to do that tomorrow. That’s all really though. I went and planted some Cherries before going off. I wanted to clean up my 3DS after a while away for a fresh install, which seemed like the right idea. Honestly i might get the parts to refurbish it. It certainly needs it, as the whole thing was basically held together with duct tape at one point, and the shell’s paint is peeling.
I never got to play the 3DS growing up unfortunately. I loved the GBC/A and DS when I was younger, and I was like the target demographic for the whole 3D thing, thinking it was super fucking cool. But when my parents bought me one for Christmas when it was new, I lost it outside like the very next day. I was too embarrassed to tell them, so I pretended that I still had it for months before eventually “the dog chewed it up” one night.
I had a DS Lite growing up and that thing lived a long life until one day it was tossed by my younger sister in a fit of rage. one day to find it and to try and fix it
I had an original DS, the big gray brick that’s been nicknamed “panzer” compared to DS Lite and DSi… Amusing when you see how 3DS XL and then the Switches turned out.
After years of service the upper screen broke into a pretty LCD rainbow. At the time it was long into DSi life and 3DS was almost coming, but I still got a new white DS Lite because I wanted the GBA port. I still have that one.
That’s very sad
What a coincidence! I was strongly considering starting up a New Leaf file after watching the Golden Net % race on AGDQ yesterday morning. I’m taking this post as divine confirmation.
Let me know how it goes! I’m always happy to see people pick things up because of me
I played the og gamecube AC for a bit last month. It’s very nostalgic, but damn is there not a lot to actually do. Part of me wants to check out NL or NH … but will I actually play them for longer than two days?! Lol
I hear New Leaf touted as the pinacle of the “old” Animal Crossing. Whether that’s true or not though idk. I’ve never been a big AC guy, i usually stick with them for a day and then forget about them
It was a bit awkward because New Horizons (Switch) is not very different from NL except it started very rough and unfinished. It removed a lot of things from NL (especially furniture customization options, which is still a shame), and at launch there was very little to do.
Nowadays though, following several updates, it’s great. There’s still a bit of nostalgia for great stuff in NL (better Isabelle, funnier dialogues, more furniture sets and customization, and a few special villagers and cool mini-games).
But the missing NPCs/events were progressively added, exterior furniture is a huge pro, and especially the big update along the Happy Home Paradise DLC added a ton of new items. And there’s a new update coming soon (probably the last one, and after a very long time wothout anything, but it was a bit unexpected).
the whole thing was basically held together with duct tape at one point, and the shell’s paint is peeling
Yeah, sounds common on 3DS. I have a Majora’s Mask edition n3DS XL, its paint started flaking on edges for normal use only a year or so from getting it.
Got a free new shell (correct golden colour!) from support back then, so there was that at least. After that I encased my 3DS in a clear rubber protection so the paint doesn’t wear off again. But those rubber things don’t age well and start getting an ugly yellow hue after a while.
The paint flaking off is what annoys me about the N3DS XL the most. They were this close to the perfect 3DS in my opinion, and then they cheaped out on the shell. It’s aggravating.
The rubber is starting to go on mine too though. It’s not too bad but it’s still getting there.
