Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Day 8

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With a new day comes the opening of the new Resident Services building!


One thing that was really nice is I wasn’t penalized for not being able to access the Nook Stop yesterday.

I had saved up a lot of Nook Miles so I immediately made a very important purchase.

I kind of hope they may consider letting us get even more inventory space someday… I like to have all my tools on me at all times which can be inconvenient as they take up an entire row X-x

I also made sure to pay off my loan. I was sad to be behind a day, but glad to still make progress.

I then got my next big goal.

I will admit while I do like K.K. in general as a character, I only like a couple of his songs so I kind of wish there was an option between “Big fan” and “Never heard of him” as neither really worked for me. Regardless, my first goal was to set up the camp site so I went ahead and placed it in the back left.

I also spoke to Alfonso about moving his house as I really wanted all the Villager houses to be to the right of Resident Services.

I then immediately spoke to Isabelle to set up a Town Tune and flag for now. The Town Tune I used in my New Leaf town won the vote so I used it again while a new flag won the flag vote.

We also celebrated the Resident Services upgrade.


And I even started on building a bridge.

Despite all the Nook Miles I saved, I wasn’t able to get the all the new DIY Recipes and Nook Miles items, but I did at least manage to get all of my top favorites.

And I redid my flag from an old design I had saved.

I also visited a friend’s town and it was really inspiring.

I then stopped by my husband’s town to drop some stuff off.

And then also visited Theo! He was nice enough to give me some flowers too and a cute dress T~T

Speaking of cute dresses, I bought some new really nice ones and even played around with patterns.

I also continued to do work on my house, but I’m still not really satisfied with it.

And finally, I learned a new reaction– Bashfulness:

Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Day 7

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Day 7 had the Resident Services under construction which would’ve been less an issue if I could still use the Nook Shop and withdraw and deposit bells and pay off my loan… I almost wished they moved the Nook Stop outside temporarily. Despite the closure though and no overarching goals, I did finish some personal goals of mine today.

Margie also finished moving in and surprised me with a gift as well.

I also got Teddy a new shirt.

And I hung out with Kymera a bit.

I got another new recipe from a bottle.

And I got my Pink Lolita dress!!

Now I just need to get my Ballet Slippers… In the meantime, I at least got some of the Shell furniture too that people were nice enough to craft for me! A Shell fountain and a Shell partition :D

And I visited a lot of friends’ towns!

I also got a recipe from Dom in Melissa’s town and met Norma in Renae’s.

I actually like Dom a lot and he’s probably my second favorite of the new villagers, even if not at the same caliber as Judy. Meanwhile, Norma has always been one of my favorite cows. I’d probably put both in my second or third tier of villagers.

Despite the busy day, there were still some surprises that night too. For one, I got a Shell Lamp. The Pearl version is so pretty lit up.

Mira then challenged me to a game of Treasure Hunter.

Unfortunately, I failed. There was no quick and easy way to get around my island just yet and there were too many spots for her to bury it. I hope I’ll get another chance some day.

Despite my complete failure, Mira asked me to bring an apology gift to Margie so I did my best to help out.

And thanks to Melissa, I got a Sea Globe of my own!

Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Day 6

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Audie finished moving in today and Margie started her own unboxing procedures.

Tom Nook also announced that Resident Services would be closed tomorrow as it was being upgraded and Isabelle would be coming to help! While I was sad that we would not be able to access Resident Services while everything was being upgraded, I was excited for the upgrade.

Meanwhile, had visited a friend’s town who already had the Able Sisters shop. I wish there was some kind of catalog feature as not only did it take like an hour, my inventory was so full, I had to come back looking awful. And then, of course, that was when Mira decided would be the perfect time to teach me a new reaction.


I’m sorry you have to see me like this

Once again, not much ended up happening overall, but I did finally catch an ant!

And I hung out over in Sami’s town too.

I felt bad for not having an instrument though… The apologetic reaction is absolutely going to get a lot of use.

Unrelated really, but I love how she waves after returning back home:

And once again, it’s just really beautiful to look out sometimes.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Day 5

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So, while my husband and some of my other friends had gotten Gulliver already, I still hadn’t seen him. Alas, today was today as the first thing I saw as the screen booted up was him passed out on my beach. Honestly pretty useful considering nobody tells you anything otherwise unless a villager randomly speaks up.

And thus, I quickly went off to meet him to help him with his task.


To be honest, I’m not super fond of his new quest of finding 5 of his machine parts. I liked the trivia questions. And between the shovel being able to break, the fact that this is the only way to get a fairly rare material, and you need to help him 30 times when him showing up is completely random to get the golden shovel just puts a lot on something that should be a fun optional event. They’ve also given Gulliver so many other items like masks and things he didn’t used to have and while I would’ve been okay with more worldly landmarks, I wish things we could wear kept to the Able Sisters instead.

Anyway, since I finished the plots for Nook immediately, 3 random villagers were actually set to them– Alfonso, Audie, and Margie. I have nothing against any of them, but none were any of my top 8 favorites. Originally, I was kind of upset for finishing so quickly as if I spent time roaming Nook Miles Islands, I could’ve found villagers I wanted to invite that would’ve claimed these plots instead. However, I later found out that the first 5 villagers you get (your starting two and the three from building these plots) have “default” homes that are separate from their original houses. I’d like to hope maybe this could be patched in the future once you fully pay off your loan, but regardless, it made me feel a bit better about having not found them just yet after all as I’m sure their houses would be really cute.

Regardless, I still made sure to greet Alfonso now that he was all set (and had greeted him in boxes yesterday).


It was nice of him to give me a gift and I hope we can still be friends even when he eventually moves.

With plots done, things were relatively lowkey. I had no tasks from Nook and wasn’t really in the mood to do Nook Miles grinding, but I did spend some time with friends!

Zed came to visit for one and he even caught an Oarfish!

I also stopped by Sami’s who was kind enough to craft some stuff for me.

And went to Carina’s later on as Celeste was there and a Meteor shower was going on! While I had gotten to see a Meteor Shower at Rune’s, Celeste wasn’t in town so I wasn’t able to get the Star Wand recipe so it was nice to finally meet her in this game.


I wished until I hit the 200 for the Nook Miles goal.

Later, surprisingly, I saw Celeste in my own town, though, no meteor shower. She mentioned she could tell me a story if I had any zodiac-related things so I brought her an Aries fragment. I hope I can eventually show her all of them.

I hope one day I’ll have my own meteor shower, but for now, I’m just happy whenever Celeste shows up.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Day 4

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A new day had dawned and I was immediately greeted with a phone call. And as mentioned, these phone calls got old almost immediately.

When I start playing, I generally have an idea of what I want to do and am ready to go so just getting stopped here for this dialogue when it is LITERALLY explained when I interact with the box is incredibly jarring and kills my momentum.

On the bright side, I got my first Star Fragments.

I actually find these really pretty. I want to get so many more of them. Not just for all the recipes, but maybe to put some around town…

But best of all, the museum opened!!

I genuinely don’t have enough words for how much I love the museum. It’s breathtaking and while I’ve always adored the museum, I’ve never wanted to complete it more than this time.






I loved how it built up as you donated more things. It actually gave me a lot of inspiration for how I hoped to use waterfalls and other water elements in my own town.

And because it wasn’t a busy day enough, we also met Daisy Mae today and got our first run-in with the turnip business.

I had pretty high prices, but I bought some anyway… And well, it worked out as a friend in a different timezone had managed to get decent prices for me to sell which helped a lot with the bell earning.

Our first bridge was built too and while I get that it was a free bridge, I do wish we still got to pick the style– I don’t have plans to keep it and I feel kind of bad about it.

And I even finally got to learn about customization!

I really wish we could recolor everything :/ Here’s hoping Reese & Cyrus make a return and they can customize what we can’t. Unfortunately, Nook didn’t have any other tasks for me and thus, with my loan paid off as well, I turned my focus to the museum.

While I was finally able to demolish the donation pile for Blathers by finally bringing everything to him, I still had things I needed to catch and managed to make some progress in that department too.

I also visited friends! I hung out with Carina and Puku at their towns.

And went to my husband’s town to say Hi and also meet with Saharah.

I also continued to look longingly at waterfalls for the day I may too have beautiful waterfalls.

I have to say in general, the game is really pretty. I don’t necessarily mean a graphic perspective (though, I do think they’re nice– it’s just not my area of expertise), but just it’s really nice to just look out into the horizon, no pun intended. Like it makes me think of a postcard or desktop wallpaper or something.

The constant best friend notification kind of ruins it though. I’m not sure why it has to buzz every time someone gets online– it already tells us. If they send a message to us or to everyone, I can understand the chat notification lighting up, but the best friend notification does not need to be alerting as much as it tends to.

With a lot of progress on the Northern Hemisphere though, it was time to take a trip down under to the Southern Hemisphere for some more donations for the museum.




Just seeing how the museum grew already and how it changed at night just added to how amazing it is.

Outside of Museum progress, I did try to do some work on my house too. I’m not super proud of it, but it’s at least something for now.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Day 3

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Day 3 was probably my worst nightmare when it came to hoping for a more relaxing day. I just wasn’t prepared for how intense crafting could get, but that was only half the issue.

I’m getting a bit ahead of myself though, so let’s start from the top when I ended up helping Gulliver out.

Honestly, I miss the worldly trivia questions. Especially when my shovel can break so quickly while digging things up :(

On a semi-positive note, Nook’s Cranny opened up!

As for why I say “semi-positive”, while we obviously get a lot more shop items, it feels a bit of a downgrade when it comes to selling things, especially for those with “odd” sleep schedules. My allergies are all over the place and sometimes I may be up for most of the night until very early morning and then just be out of luck. It just feels silly for them to switch from a 24 hour place you can sell things to a 13 hour place unless you want to use the dropbox and lose 20% of your profits. And like, yes, you can place things outside, but that isn’t fun and honestly, the penalty for the box is unneeded– just the having to wait until the next day is more than enough, but it’s faster and I’d use it more often if I didn’t lose any of my pay and didn’t have to sit through Timmy or Tommy calling me to let me know the money was added when I’d expect as much anyway just based off the information given from it whenever I go to use it.

At the very least, Mabel was there too which means getting to see clothes for sale soon which is always nice as I really didn’t want to stick to a designed outfit for my main outfit again.

Regardless, here was a lot going on today though besides Gulliver’s appearance and the opening of Nook’s Cranny. Everything with Nook’s Cranny yesterday was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to the big task today– setting up three new housing plots and furnish them with freshly crafted items. The crafting was an issue in itself, but the biggest problem was the fact that these plots were HUGE. Due to the fact that they required having a “yard” with certain items outside, the plots, which usually are 4 x 3 (and you can more or less work with 4 x 2) were suddenly 9 x 5. I had plans for where I wanted all the houses and with this requirement, there was no way for me to actually fit them. I didn’t have the resources to take care of trees and was just at a loss, in the end needing to place them all somewhere I didn’t care for just keeping in mind I’d be able to move them in the future.

Either way, that didn’t make it less anxiety-inducing to place them:

This is ridiculous for what essentially became this size in the end:

To make matters worse, after struggling with all the wood and iron I needed for Nook’s Cranny, I then needed tons to make all these items for these plots. It made me feel so incredibly defeated. Resource management has never been my forte, but part of it is I just can’t deal with constantly doing the things to earn them. I find it too repetitive and it’s the fastest way for me to get burned out in a game.

On the bright side, not long after making progress, Tom Nook called and gave me access to the ladder.

And despite my frustrations, I did get them done.

And while I felt some sense of accomplishment, I mainly just was happy it was over. I even got my first reactions which was unfortunately unlocked shortly after being harassed by a bee.

I did end up having to go to islands more for materials, but it did let me stumble upon an island that I found absolutely beautiful. Plus, I even got some new fish.

And thanks to Mo, I got a start on my pink flower collection. I am going to need so many T__T

I also got to shop while there and so my husband finally got some new clothes too and I bought some new things as well:

Harvey then ended up showing up on the island and told me about his island. While I’m not super into photos, I immediately went over there.

It isn’t really my thing, but I’ll probably at least do it for poster unlocking. Now if only my Amiibo cards weren’t currently packed :(

When I asked Tom Nook for any further tasks, he unfortunately had nothing for me right now.

And to make matters worse, upon finishing the plots, three villagers automatically were set to move in– Alfonso, Audie, and Margie. I don’t have anything against them nor do I hate any villager, but they weren’t who I wanted and if I realized, I would’ve spent longer looking around on islands to invite three people before finishing them… But I just didn’t realize and it’s one of my biggest regrets. The only solace I really have is that the first five houses are all “starter” houses in a sense– they aren’t the villager’s proper rooms and never will be, so at least when I DO get all my dream villagers, they’ll have the house of their dreams too.

Regardless, in the meantime, I continued amassing items for Blathers’ as, unfortunately, the museum was under construction today and would not be opened until tomorrow.

At least I certainly have a lot to contribute. I also got to visit a friend’s town and wish on some stars. Here’s hoping something special will arrive tomorrow too.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Day 2

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I essentially took it a bit easier. Partially because I had been up for over 24 hours by the time the day rolled over at 5AM, but mainly because I worked so hard preparing on Day 1, there wasn’t much I HAD to do. Most of what I wanted to do either involved running around on semi-outdated information ooor just luck which is a bit frustrating, but lets start with the things that actually went somewhat well with the game itself progressing after everything I finished yesterday.

I headed over to Tom Nook’s tent for an update to see he and Timmy in deep conversation.

Timmy wanted us to build him a store and needed 30 of each type of wood plus 30 Iron Ore. This was… not a good feeling, honestly, because that is a lot of materials and I still had been struggling quite a bit. I also accidentally destroyed some of my rocks (I forgot eating fruit can be used to break them as well as lift trees and had wanted to have a stock full thinking I had more control when I could use it… and at the time, I had no way to reset them and didn’t think of just picking up a tree and putting it back down) and thus, iron was not something I had much of. And considering we needed these materials for many other things, it was really frustrating needing to give up an entire stack of each.

This may be the case for some people, but certainly not for me.

Regardless, what I COULD get done was continuing my house loan goal of paying it off every day:

Most excitingly, Blathers was here and I had quite a lot to give him.



I may have been a bit TOO prepared though as I still had quite a lot left for him.

With the sadness of continuing to have an army of random sea creatures and insects outside my house, I continued forward and got revenge from yesterday’s mishaps by catching a Wasp:

Something I never really expected is this game has probably been the best I’ve been at catching them. Or maybe I just found a good strategy of dealing with them.

I also found my first golden spot. I wish we could still get a golden shovel from them.

Regardless, it was back to work and to my surprise, Teddy and Mira actually tried to help out with the shop project.

As a side note, I feel like this game could have so many really pretty wallpapers. The sky is especially lovely.

Anyway, thanks to Blathers showing up, even if I wasn’t able to give him everything, he DID give me two very important recipes– the pole and the shovel so I could dig up fossils, but also so I could see the rest of my island. I also finally got to find one of my waterfalls.

When picking my island, I mainly focused on things I knew I would be unable to change since I knew Terraforming is a thing eventually. I just really underestimated how long it’d be, but also it kind of kills me that I just have two barely able to be seen side-set waterfalls while so many people I know not only have lovely frontal waterfalls, often two-story ones and multiples. I think for what I’m hoping to do, my island is a great starting place, but right now, it still feels kind of hard to deal with.

Like I helped out Blathers, I made sure to help out Timmy the same day too and got Nook’s Cranny all ready to go along with all the materials.

And with the airport now open, I was finally able to take a flight to some of the Nook Miles Islands.

I also spent some time in my husband’s town.

One day I’ll have amazing waterfalls too.

A big surprise was running into Wisp as the day came to an end.

It took a while, but I eventually found his spirits.

I hope so too, Wisp.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Days 0 and 1

It’s kind of crazy that we’re finally at the launch. I’ve been so excited to play and it’s nice for it to be happening finally. I will be streaming Twitch every day barring any issues and then uploading to Youtube after. This page will also continuously be updated to keep a general track of my progress.

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It’s hard to believe that the game is finally here after so long. It’s such a nice break from everything going on, honestly, and I’m really happy that I’ve been enjoying it despite my apprehensions with the crafting system. I will say there are still some issues, but none of it changes how much fun I had– I do think it’s going to test a lot of people’s patience though.

It started off meeting Timmy and Tommy at the airport to check in, picking our map, and creating my character. I’ve said it before, but while it has grown on me, I was a bit disappointed by how limited the starting options were.

Considering some of the big features were having so many options and being able to change whenever, I really expected it to be more like Pocket Camp or Happy Home Designer and not through unlocking a handful of things. The ponytail especially is used on a handful of things and yet it wasn’t even a starter one either T~T

Though, honestly, I think my least favorite part of this was the outfit. Normally, the outfit I got with the eyes I usually ended up getting (which I have kept even now out of habit) I really liked and this was just… not my style in the slightest.

Regardless, despite my issues with character creation, I feel like I got pretty lucky with nearly everything else. I ended up getting a map I really like:

The red airport along with Mira and Teddy as my villagers:

And cherries for my fruit:

Red was one of the ones I wanted most, Cherries were one of the 3 options I was hoping for (AND it’s pink on my passport which was the only reason I was hoping for Peaches more), and Teddy is actually one of the only Jock villagers I really like (though, the new sheep, Dom, seems cool too). Mira is also one of the few Uchi I’m fond of. I don’t know if they will stick around or not just yet, but I will admit the opening sure made me attached to them.

After setting up my own tent, I made sure to help them with theirs.


I sadly didn’t have any waterfalls in sight, but it works for now and to be honest, I’ll probably have to move every single building at some point.

Despite that, the bonfire party was a really sweet bonding experience and really warmed my heart, honestly.

It was a group effort to name and all of us shouted out different ideas.

Pink Sea was voted in unanimously in the end though.

And thus, my villager got to add “Resident Representative” to her long resume of things she has done.

We then toasted some fresh cherry smoothies to celebrate. (Why… have I never had a cherry smoothie?? I need to.)

With some final chatter and last gifts from Nook, it was time to head to bed.

And that finished up the tutorial day– aka Day 0. After a very odd dream of K.K. Slider talking to us, we finally hit the next day.

Tom Nook ends up waking us up to give us our Nook Phone and tell us about what we owe him.

Of course, I have no bells to my name and thus, Nook comes up with a solution with the Nook Mileage Program.

With that, we’re free to finally get moving and one thing I was surprised about was I already had Mail. Three letters from Nintendo, apparently.

I also updated my Passport. I love that Cherries are a pink stamp, as is my zodiac sign.

We then got a DIY Crash Course directly from Nook so we could finally craft stuff (also I ditched my blue plaid shirt).

Mira and Teddy were quite nice. Mira gave me a new recipe to make an umbrella while Teddy ended up giving me a new hat.

I then started bugging Tom Nook for some tasks while working towards the 5,000 Nook Miles I had to reach to pay off my current loan and get an upgrade to a house. There were a handful of Nook Miles items I wanted outside of the 5,000 needed and I needed to earn 98,000 bells for the next house upgrade so I began a routine that had me almost constantly going around the perimeter of the small area of my Island I was on.

Once I had paid off my initial 5,000 bells and gave Nook 5 creatures to convince Blathers to come, there was really nothing to do except wait until tomorrow… but I like preparing so I went kind of hard on it.

And that was all I really needed to prepare even more. Just because the museum didn’t exist yet didn’t mean I should sell all my stuff. Now that we were able to put items outside, I used that to my advantage and put the first item of each outside my tent.

I also bought the Pro Designer planner for a nicer dress until I could actually get some official clothing and the Pocket Organizer for more inventory space. I know there has to be another one (probably when the tent upgrades into Town Hall), but it really can’t come soon enough.

I also got the Tool Ring, which I’m still having trouble fully getting used to (also why can’t it keep our tools in it versus taking up inventory space??), the Pop Hairstyle Pack for my ponytail, and a few random accessories. I bought a Nook Miles Ticket as well, even though I couldn’t use it yet as all Airport functions were closed down for the first day. It still looked pretty nice despite being “closed” though.

I played somewhere between 10-11 hours on Day 1 doing all these goals. My tools broke over 50 times. If I had to say my biggest complaints with the game, it’s the breaking of tools (for Flimsy, fine, whatever, but anything beyond that is unneeded and even then, not all materials can constantly be gotten), some of the excessive rarity for certain materials for recipes, and most of all, the brick walls.

Animal Crossing has always been a game that you played to relax and go at your own pace. But you run out of things to do within an hour or two of Day 1 at MOST. You can’t visit friends. You can only wander around in circles in the same starting area you have until things have progressed further. It feels really slow and while I could more or less deal with it because I enjoy having moments to prepare, I know that isn’t the common idea. To make matters worse, the regular versions of the crafting items barely feel worth it with how annoying iron ore is to get versus shaking trees for some branched to repeatedly make the Flimsy tools.

I never time traveled to get ahead, but there’s a lot of reasons people did and making it so things need to be patched in (I generally fell out of interest with Splatoon to the point where I stopped checking in relatively quickly– I don’t want that to happen here and I don’t MIND finishing a game. One big update is fine, but constant little ones that are anything beyond a monthly free item get annoying to me) just feels like furthering that waiting progress.

I think what frustrates me the most is that you’re locked to such a small amount of your island at first. My first part is already so cluttered and even once I can jump across, I’d be too worried about it breaking to WANT to put things over there. I will have to move every single facility already, I can’t even try to imagine what I want to do because I have so little to work with right now and it’ll be a long while before I get to that point.

There’s still a lot I want to do and I think right now my big goal, besides trying to keep up with loans to pay them off the next day immediately, is trying to get all the bugs and fish that will be leaving when this month ends. Unfortunately, not everything matches up with New Leaf so I feel a bit overwhelmed when it comes down to it.

Among all the craziness, I ended up getting stung by a wasp twice and fainting… But it unlocked a new Nook Mile card so it wasn’t all bad. Teddy, meanwhile, seeing my face ended up teaching me how to make medicine with my DIY staton and thus, I was healed back up very quickly.

The Villagers are kind of weird in this game. I’ve never really gotten a task to help them out and everything feels so quiet in a way. They also react a lot more personally to things, but at the same time, Teddy had no reaction to my character appearing back after his suggestion. It’s honestly a bit crazy how random it can be.

I still haven’t fully figured out how DIY stuff unlocks. I actually ended up unlocking more trash recipes after finding so much. Sadly forgot to screenshot it though.

I will say I don’t feel all the controls are always explained well. I still haven’t figured out a better way to organize my inventory as an example beyond dropping and picking things back up. And how long it ended up taking me to get a Sling slot because I missed the R second page and thus, missed out on so many of them. I did, however, get a pretty cute closet and some nice boots from recycling the ones I fished up.

While I did miss out on so many, the ones I have gotten have been all over the place, having become a lot more random. I did, however, get these super cute boots which went nicely with my recolored pattern dress.

I think my only complaint with the dress is I wish it could have the poofed shoulders with some long sleeves like the Lolita dresses have.

Regardless, all that was left was the hair and while I had gotten the mirror from a DIY Recipe in a bottle, I was an Iron Ore short :( Thankfully, due to the lovely balloon gifts, I got dropped off a package of ore and thus, had my ponytail hair.

I REALLY hope more hairstyles get added in updates. I would love to see a ponytail version of the wavy hairstyles so much.

Pocket Camp to New Horizons (and a Special Delivery!)

With my Animal Crossing: New Horizons-themed switch in hand and the game itself being available in just a few hours over in Australia (and a couple more after that in Japan), we’re getting really close to its release. They recently finished up a special fishing event with Tom Nook, Timmy, and Tommy along with a special code we can redeem starting early tomorrow morning for some items in New Horizons and so I wanted to share some screenshots from the event and one other special thing.

Not to mention, today is Merengue’s birthday! So a very happy birthday to my great assistant. Here’s hoping she’ll be with me in New Horizons sometime soon…. though, likely not on her birthday.

The choices were “Happy Birthday!” or “I did know!” and honestly I wish I could’ve picked both because I DID know, but the first felt more appropriate to say…

As for the event, we had to fish for the New Horizons versions of fairly familiar Fish for lovely New Horizons-themed items.

The fishing rod is pretty neat (and thankfully doesn’t break unlike the suffering I will soon be facing in New Horizons), but I didn’t get to use it for long:

I expected a special goal version too– maybe even a gold version of the special one, but no, it was just the usual gold rod which wa sa bit disappointing.

I still enjoyed the event though.

And it was really neat seeing the new fish models.

I also had fun doing the HHA missions too.

While not NH-related, I also made a small update to the Afternoon Tea Cafe as I got the Tea Cup Fountain and well, that was incredibly on theme so:
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Finally, yesterday I also got my adorable bag from being one of the winners of the Pocket Camp Club contest!!

The cute logo on the back:

It’s a lot bigger than I expected (and also a bit shorter– I expected it to be more long and stocky over short and stout, but I still love it), but it’s really great. It also came with this cute Thank you-manual:

New Horizons Plans 3.5? Or just random excitement I suppose.

Because if there wasn’t enough from the PAX Videos, there was even more extra footage revealed the following week of direct feed some people were able to get. I spent all day looking through videos and while most of them had a tendency to show the museum over and over (I love the museum too guys, but…), the biggest highlight for me was seeing some new furniture and especially, a lot of new clothing.

Being completely honest, Animal Crossing (before Pocket Camp) was always a mixed bag for me with clothing. There was never anything I SUPER liked– my favorite top/dress was changed from pink to blue when in City Folk:

(Credit for CF Princess Top)

And I never really managed to find a replacement. The dress I liked best after that were the Fluffy Dress and the The Pink Lace-up dress (though, I found it a bit bright). The Ballet Outfit was also kind of nice, but I preferred dresses with sleeves. Maybe a sleeved one will exist through New Horizons. The Kiki and Lala and My Melody dresses that were introduced in the Welcome Amiibo update were also really cute at least. I probably would’ve used the My Melody one if it was a bit of a more pale pink (or the Kiki and Lala dress if it had long sleeves) and I wasn’t already attached to the pattern dress I was using.

I’m also really hoping we could see a pink variant of it (and maybe the Princess set in general) considering all the different colors in this game. That said, some items seem to have 3 or less recolors, if any, and I’m not sure if some items just don’t have multiple colors or if not all colors always show up in Able Sister’s and just what recolors they have in stock that day. I guess we’ll see at least. I’m also curious if you need to buy every color for the catalog or if only the “original/main” color will show up…

I feel silly getting so hyper-observant and focused on the clothing of all things considering I have no idea when I’d even be unlocking Able Sisters, but with clothing like this how can I resist? (And heck, this isn’t even everything I’ve liked…)

Video credits: 1, 2

I’m pretty sure the top left one is New Horizon’s version of the Pink Lace-up dress and not only does it look amazing in general (plus it’s a more pastel pink), it has my two favorite sleeve types together– Poofy Princess Shoulders and bell sleeves. At the moment, I feel like that may be my main dress, but it’s hard to say as SO MANY of those are just… really great? When they first mentioned the Star Wand to quick-change outfits, I kind of shrugged it off as I don’t usually change my outfit anyway as there’s not many I like, but I may have to actually consider it this time. These weren’t even everything I saw that I liked– just a few highlights.

Heck, even the wigs are cute:

(Video Credit)

While I generally don’t prefer wigs as I can’t wear a cute hat with them, I would make an exception for that. Especially a ponytail version (but I’d still prefer an actual hairstyle):

Disclaimer: This is an edit!! It should be obvious as my edit skills are poor, but just incase…

I really hope there will be a wavy/curly/ringlet-y ponytail sooo badly :( Or maybe one can be added at least… I feel like there could still be a handful of hairstyles we haven’t seen yet as there’s still ones like this one we really haven’t seen outside of a single short video:

(From one of the videos in the crafting section on the official site)

The closest otherwise is a short ponytail with sideswept bangs or the bun with the long wavy side bangs. There’s also a lot of hairstyles introduced through Pocket Camp that we haven’t seen and I feel have a good chance of coming over. Pocket Camp has SO MANY unique items and it’d be a shame if they are kept solely to that game as they could open up all kinds of opportunities in this one just like Happy Home Designer. Still really hoping we’ll see ceiling items.

Anyway, besides my failure at deciding what the heck my character’s “main” outfit will be and hairstyle woes, I’ve also been struggling on a Town Tune and if I should still use the same as I did in my original Pink Sea town:

There’s 7 themes in that video including the one I used for New Leaf. I’m also tempted to try and see if I can make a town tune from part of SHE’S by Letter from one of the recent Japanese commercials for the game as it’s an absolutely beautiful song and I think it could work really well.

But yes, feel free to vote for what you think!:

What should my town tune be?

  • Town Tune #1 (33%, 2 Votes)
  • Town Tune #3 (17%, 1 Votes)
  • Town Tune #5 (17%, 1 Votes)
  • Town Tune #6 (17%, 1 Votes)
  • Try and do SHE'S by Letter! (17%, 1 Votes)
  • Town Tune #2 (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Town Tune #4 (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Town Tune #7 (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 6

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It’s crazy to think we’re less than 2 weeks out now. I can’t wait to finally play :) I just wish knowing the fruit stamp would show up on my ID card wasn’t making me reconsider my no-resets policy… 💔 (Sorry Resetti T__T)

I hope I at least get a nice spot for Dodo Airlines… And I really hope there will be more bridges and ramp styles than we’ve seen (and maybe even a customization for Town Hall and the Airport like New Leaf had for Town Hall and the Train Station) as I didn’t super like any, but I’ll probably be using the Stone, Brick, or white fence ramps depending on where I’m putting it and probably stone bridges otherwise.

On a side note, and one of the other reasons I’m really excited, is after my general aesthetic of cute things, teddy bears and plushies, animals, pink frilly things, waterfalls/fountains, and pink + ocean colors together, I absolutely love travel motifs. My dream has always been to travel the world so things like… old passports filled with stamps and even just the idea of traveling hype me up so much. It’s part of why I absolutely adore the Plane Ticket from one of the France pre-orders and the Press Kit given out by Nintendo France. The “suitcase” is beautiful and the bottle of sand?? Amazing. I have a small collection of sand bottles and just, there’s so many little details. As much as I am looking forward to bringing Pink Sea to such a new level with the terraforming option (WATERFALLS EVERYWHERE PEOPLE!!! …I promise I’ll use my new powers in moderation), I really hope to find a way to bring that travel motif into the Island as well. At the very least, I’m definitely completing all the Nook Miles to get all those stamps and it’s one of my favorite parts about them.

Edit as of March 12th: With with one of the recent new trailers, I just need to scream once again about Waterfalls because LOOK AT THESE!!!:

These look absolutely amazing. We get an idea of how close ramps can be (maybe even closer??), my double decker waterfall idea is pretty likely, I could do a combination of tall, short, tiny, and double waterfalls… There’s so much I’m hoping to do. I sure hope I can do it.