#acnl fossil

[retrogamingblog2]

Animal Crossing Bags made by BlueRobotto

[bugblast]

animal crossing fossil plush/pillow i made in 1 day lol

[the-town-of-twix]

...This feels like a trap's mixed in somewhere.

[pumpkabeee]

Do people still play ACNL, the servers will shutdown in march so I'm trying to see if I could visit or trade with people. I'm looking for a lovely bed and series in general and black roses. I have all fruit and a bunch of fossils and bells I can help people with. Comment here or pm me if you want to play together!

[quannaix]

What is your experience with Animal Crossing?

Okay it has been literally over three months since you sent this so I apologise I just have a lot to say and wanted to enjoy going on about Animal Crossing.

My first was Animal Crossing Wild World, which I saved up for and bought, even pre-owned it was expensive for primary school me. I did not know much about the game and it was years before I realised that the copy hadn't been wiped so I'd walked into someone else's town. I'm guessing someone called George, since my town was named Egroeg. But by that point I'd been playing for so long I didn't want to wipe my progress. Also by then I had realised that he had upgraded Nook's to the highest version, which would have been hard for me to replicate because it involved playing multiplayer and I only had one other friend with the game. I really loved ACWW, and I spent lots of time playing it even though I definitely didn't understand a lot of elements of the game. My friend and I spend loads of time imagining things we'd love to add to the game, like if you could get a job (paying that loan off in shells is hard!) and I thought it would be cute if you could drive around in a little car that had a boot for extra inventory space (backpacks fill up a lot when things don't stack). I became best friends with Kiki in this game and when she moved I was so sad that I planted a tree where her house had been thinking that would stop another house taking her place (I was wrong, but it's the thought that counts).

I did get AC Let's Go to the City for the Wii, but never racked up many hours on that because being console based I'd have to find time when the family wasn't using the TV. I definitely prefer it as a handheld game.

I got given Animal Crossing New Leaf for my birthday when it released and I maintain this is best AC game. I still love it so much. I love that they introduced the mechanics of town design, most notably that Roost was a stand alone cafe and you got to choose where to place it!!!!! I think this might be around the time I first started following you (saxyplaya hehe) I assume because I found you from looking for QR codes for designs. I am still obsessed with so many of the QR code dresses people came up with. I think ACNL had the best balance of effort to output. Like it had these town design features but still took ages to do things. You had to grow trees from scratch and grow them again if you placed em wrong. This made everything feel more satisfying though, imo. You really put in the hours, and days and weeks, so the results would make me feel proud. I love that there are so many fruit tree varieties, I love visiting the island, I love that you CAN work at the Roost and that Brewster would give you coffee rewards. The updates they made with Happy Home Designer and the campsite, including adding the 'god mode' furniture design thing did make things a lot easier. But I like actually that to see anything you have to actually put it on/put it in the room, in your cupboards everything is just the generic category icon. I still have not caught all the bugs and fish in this game. I THINK I have all the fossils, but I think it makes it more fun for longer if it's not so easy to catch everything. I love the shopping street, and slowly unlocking the buildings. I love that little bench at the end of the street looking out. I think the music in this game is so lovely too, and one of my most favourite things is walking around on a rainy day in my town. I also actually loved that it was always the opposite weather hemisphere-wise, often I'd log in in irl winter so I could feel warm and vice-versa.

I also just love the graphics and look and feel of the game. The characters are still sassy and have a lot of personality. I always think fondly of my neighbour O'Hare, because his birthday is two days after mine. Now I could wax rhapsodic about ACNL al day but I should move on!

I freely admit I did obsessively play AC Pocket Camp for like a year or two when it came out (maybe longer??) to fill the void while I waited to see if there would be a Switch game. My partner also got me the original GameCube Animal Crossing for Christmas, which I played a little, but we don't usually have the GameCube set up and see above my preference of handheld play for AC. Still, a very cute present that I love having.

The second they Switch was announced, I said that I would be holding off on buying one until I saw if they put out a new AC game with a console to match. And I am SO glad I did because I was able to get the console and the game when they came out and I think the console is sooooo pretty. ACNH is really fun as well, I do like the addition of terraforming, being able to place furniture outside, and that they went really ham on the graphics. While I think I still have more of a soft spot for the older graphic style, I love things like the raindrops on the windows and the furniture blowing as the fan goes over it, etc etc those little tiny additions really melt my heart. I do feel like they smoothed out the characters too much, they don't have as much personality as they used to. And as much as so many things are easier (changing clothes, furniture, moving trees and plants, catching all fish/bugs and fossils) I think I preferred it when it was a bit more challenging. I wish the Roost was separate still </3. I loved the addition of Island Designer, I find that so fun, and I love the glowing moss furniture, and being able to design villager's houses (given that sometimes they start to look really dogshit after I've been gifting them my garbage furniture sorry guys). I don't send letters as much in this game as I used to, idk why exactly it just never seemed as fun or important in ACNH. I like the addition of cooking, more just because it tickles me personally. I'm back and forth on the crafting mechanism. I think overall I like it, and in many ways it's a return to the challenging aspects I just went on about loving in the previous game in terms of it being an involved process (esp if you want to change the colours), but I think that tools breaking SO fast annoys me and that even gold tools break annoys me heaps. Overall I do still enjoy ACNH, and I'm actually glad that it introduced the game to a whole lot of new people because it's widened the audience of people I can ramble about AC to. I do wish I had gone with the other hemisphere weather, I went back and forth on that and I discovered I actually prefer it NOT aligning with my real life weather so it can serve as an escape.

Thank you for asking me this question, in case you can't tell I love talking about Animal Crossing it is definitely one of my favourite game series of all time <3

[journalsouppe]

I initially played ACNH for 300 hours in between release day - july of 2020, and never played the 2.0 update or the HHP dlc until recently! So I decided to make a second ACNH spread with the goals to: experience as much of the 2.0 update as possible, beat HHP, complete all the bugs and fish in the museum (I have the fossils done and I will finish art another time).

I had a ton of fun but this was the longest grind I've ever done. I still have nightmares waiting like 5 hours for that damn giraffe stag to spawn my fucking god. Super worth it though bc this was the first time catching all bugs and fish even though I've played CF and NL :}

The Lily of the Valley sticker is a freebie I got from MariKrekeler!

Writing typed below!

rating: 8.5 played: sp 2023 port: nintendo switch favorite? Y replayable? Y recommend? Y series: animal crossing

comments:

Dagnel (YT) inspired me to pick the game back up

I look so cute in my work uniform >.<

the hopeful goal is to finish bugs, fish, and flowers

forcing the villagers on vacation to work and go to school is wild T^T

I love the evolution of adding new items like partitions and nature sounds

I didn't expect to do check-ups

OMG IT'S BAMS BDAY WHEN I PLAY AGAIN AND JULIAN IS HERE (my two faves)

decorating all the buildings does get tiring

i really love the venue decor

Bam gave me the pumpkin soup recipe while wearing my fruits basket sweater T^T!!!!!!!!!!

i can only play in short bursts as it's not as fun when playing alone and it's so grindy and long

an apparel shop is a really fun idea

kk concert goes pretty hard

IT TOOK FIVE FUCKING HOURS TO CATCH THE GIRAFFE STAG T^T

i haven't played aa4 yet but klavier reminds me of Julian esp bc julian was also in a band and had a falling out with a band member (ive played aa4 since then and can confirm theyre the exact same person lmfao)

8 FUCKING HOURS FOR THE MAHI MAHI

okay the rest of the writing is my checklist of bugs and fish i needed to catch and ... yall im not typing that who cares about that anyways T_T

Summary

This was brutal. I curse the name of giraffe stags, mahi-mahis, and Dagnel. I had a lot of fun with HHP and I'm happy to be done with 3/4 of the museum, but my god at what cost? I wish my 2020 self did like a small grind to get these pier fish because why the hell did it take me 8 hours for the mahi-mahi T^T. Enough complaining, I highly enjoyed happy home paradise. I never played HHD for ACNL so this was a fun surprise and I loved the range of homes you could design. I also loved how there were overarching goals to complete: school, cafe, restaurant, hospital, clothing store, and when those were all done you were treated to a KK rave. I also enjoyed seeing my favorite villagers again and getting to play in seasons I hadn't previously played in ACNH. I have mixed feelings about Harv's island. I like that a ton of characters are brought back but I think some of them could've been integrated on the onto the main island better, like reese and cyrus having an add on to nook's shop and also give us another nook shop upgrade T^T. I miss playing with friends but it seems I might be making plans to play with Grimspark! Perhaps in the future I'll pick up this game again to finish art and flowers but that'll be in 2024 me problem. Tired of grinding T^T.

[sleep-nurse]

dream hate anon reminded me of a dream I had where Himawari was in it and a mother fucking landlord in an acnl like world and (tried) to evict my ass but I fucking donated her ass to the museum and she became a fossil don't ask how

HSDJKGHKEDGHKEHGKHEJKGKEGHGE????? ?^ ?? ?? HELP

[nate-a-minute]

i am so confused right now,, im doing my daily acnl tasks in my towns rn (fossils, ore rock, money rock, shops, etc) and i've only checked 3 out of my 5 towns, but ive gotten bad money luck with all of my money rocks?? does anyone know how daily luck is determined in acnl bc i am v curious now

[hades-brooke]

hai my name is hayden! i use they/them pronouns 💪😼

i really love video games especially old ds games like fossil fighters and acnl. also a big fan of sonic.

[jelledrabies]

i’m replaying it again and have been for months. i’ve gotten so far, im trying to get the furthest i’ve been. still upgrading the TT shop, almost at the last one (not even. i just started the second to last shop.) but my fossils are almost complete, i literally only have one more left. i’m thinking of time traveling for all the fish and bugs but also im trying to play with low stress and i feel that that would stress me out. but anyways i started flower breeding for the first time ever ! there a limited supply (i did not care about flowers before this.) but i just my first ever purple rose and blue violet ! ALSO i got all the emotes from shrunk !! ive been DYING to post abt this i literally got the finale emotes a few hours after i deleted instagram but i stayed SO strong. i was so happy though SOSOSOSOOSO happy !! i didn’t look anything up for his final emotes and it was such a nice surprise and so was the gift he gave !! also i got all the brewster rewards, a while ago. i’m so locked in when taking orders. 3ds in one hand, fandomwiki in the other. also i NEEEEEED one of my villagers to suggest a police station for a town project. i had one in my old save file and i wish i had it in this one two but NO ONE HAS SUGGESTED IT. anyways hopefully more of my flowers grow tmrw. also i need to do more feng shui research soon

ik this was long, i’ve just been dying to post abt my animal crossing ventures i love this game so much. also i didn’t really many opinions on New Horizons other than, it wasn’t for me (i don’t like decorating in video games). but playing New Leaf has made me HATE New Horizons. because ANYTHING that i look up for New Leaf always gives me New Horizons results. no matter how many times i specify New Leaf. Animal Crossinf New Leaf. Animal Crossing: New Leaf. ACNL. AC NL. ANCL. NEW LEAF PLEASE NEW LEAF NO MORE NEW HORIZONS PLEASE. the answers are always just slightly off it’s so annoying.

(also just learned how to bold text, idk if you noticed)

no one even knows what i would trade in order to go back 12 years just to play animal crossing new leaf as a little kid

[laintv]

playing acnl everyday (no time travel) is actually soooo good for my mental health like. yea i gotta get up tmrw cause the hairdresser is opening! and i gotta collect my fossils!

[huni-bii]

Finally got all the ACNL fossils after starting my new save in October! Will probably be taking an Animal Crossing break until I beat Sandrock :3

[feline-insolitum]

i finished my fossil exhibit in acnl!!!! yippee!!!!

[beepsnivy]

The fact that ACNL says this about Pteranodon bothers me. I’ve been replaying it real recently (it is one of my favorite games of all time) and it really caught me off guard.

The idea that Pterosaurs are closely related to birds, or specifically their close ancestors, is an extremely old idea popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was even first denied by Richard Owen, who came up with the term “dinosaur.” It was an old enough idea for HIM to have beef with it!

Birds being dinosaurs (which pterosaurs are NOT!) isn’t a new idea either. That’s from the late 20th century, during the dinosaur renaissance. This game came out in 2012. I understand it’s not an educational game by any means (I probably sound like a prude) but I think my standards were heightened by ACNH, which clearly had a lot of passion put into modeling the items, ESPECIALLY the fossils. A lot of research went into the ACNH fossil department of the museum

[komabaichirouu]

fun facts: nassim acnl edition

used to dump all my progress on tumblr before i deleted the app so now is time to document all progress made since (very approximatively) (not a single soul cares. and neither do i. im having fun)

dream town code is 4C00-01E3-AC59 btw if anybody wants to visit. only had 1 person witness Ezonoo in its full glory and it makes me sad

GOT ALL FOSSILS

got a shit ton of bugs

got a shit ton of fish (got all ocean fish btw)

got a shit ton of paintings

only like 3 statues

perfect town rating!

still waiting for my bff preppy villager to ASK for a FUCKING WINDMILL

celebrated birthdays. thank you thonky dot com

blue rose infestation in front of my house

said house is almost fully paid for

awesome

[megatownac]

The only reason I’m posting this is that I didn’t remember that fossils could spawn one space left of the entrance to Re-Tail. It just sorta surprised me, and that’s all I can say about it!