Welcome to the fifth edition of Animal Crossing Chronicles. This feature originally began in January 2010 and has evolved into a diary following a new character in the town of Tokyo on the GameCube version of Animal Crossing. Each quarter, we will look at the life of Samus as she makes her way through Tokyo and learns the ropes of life.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Samus visits with some of her Tokyo neighbors.

Today is April Fool’s Day! And it’s apparently a semi-special event here in Tokyo. I went for a walk today and happened to run into Tortimer. He’s a crusty old turtle but he’s nice. He was walking around inspecting the town, I guess, and he decided to give me a gift. I love gifts, especially of the free variety, so I didn’t turn it down.

So, when I got back to my house, I opened it. Imagine how surprised I was when I realized that he’d given me an NES game. Well, the NES game was actually a joke. I was not amused. I was hoping for something awesome, and all I got was this game that doesn’t actually work called Super Tortimer. Looks like I won’t be taking gifts from the mayor anymore.

Friday, April 15, 2011

I went for a walk today just to get out of the house. Because the weather is now nice again, it’s good to get out and see the landscape of the town. I ran into some new animals such as Rio, who isn’t exactly neighborly. The inside of her house is nice, though.

The weather and the landscape have changed quite a bit. In March the green leaves made a return, and the snow melted off. This month, we’ve had cherry blossoms all over the place. If I could find my kimono, I would wear it outside to view the blossoms, but the kimono is in storage somewhere in the house.

I had an idea of taking a trip on the train, but I don’t know of any other towns I could visit. Traveling would be nice.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

I went through the majority of Super Mario Bros. earlier today. I didn’t have much time to sit down and play as much as I wanted to, but Jamie wanted to borrow my copy so I played a little of it before I let it go.

Samus upstairs in her house.

I managed to make it all the way to World 8-3 before I quit. Jamie told me that if I beat the game and saved my progress, it would be permanently saved unless I delete my NES data. So, right as I got to World 8-4, I quit so I could at least save my high score. I have about 360,000.

I want to go over to his house and play Zelda because he has a retro TV that is awesome. I have an Apple TV, which isn’t bad, but the retro TV looks more cool.

Monday, May 16, 2011

I went decorating again. For some reason, the Happy Room Academy insists that I have junk on the floor and then takes off points. I’m not sure what they’re referring to, but I took some shells that I had and sold them. I hope that fixes the problem.

For now, my house is a mix that I like. I have a lot of the fruit-related items downstairs and flowers to brighten the room. Upstairs, I changed to yellow furniture and added a custom yellow wallpaper and wooden floor to brighten it for spring and summer. In the fall I will probably switch to a brown wallpaper or deep red. I think it looks cool right now.

Thursday, May 20, 2011

I’m gearing up for the summer events in the town! The fishing tournament starts soon and I think I will enter this year. Lyndsey has previously won several of them, and her trophy looks sweet. I think it will be fun to catch fish, and I know the trick to winning the contest. Hopefully, I can catch a large-enough fish at some point to enter into the contest.

I actually paid some of my ginormous loan off today. I’d been saving money off and on from the sale of fossils, and I had some left over cash that I could afford to put toward the bill. The loan was at 788,000 Bells, and I paid 30,000 Bells to bring it down to 758,000 Bells. I can’t get any more upgrades so I guess I should get started paying more of it off to get from underneath it.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Samus celebrates catching a yellow butterfly.

It is so hot outside now! The temperature has gone up so fast that I have to carry an umbrella outside with me just to get some shade. While I’d love a tan while I’m outside I don’t want to get sunburned. I have several umbrellas that will work.

Sunday starts the fishing tournament, and I’m getting more excited. If I can catch a large Bass that would be wonderful. And I hope to not make as many puns, either. While I’m waiting for the tournament to start it’s probably going to be a good time to get my fishing and insect collecting up to par again since most of the creatures that I can catch in Tokyo are now definitely out of hibernation. There is money to be had in the landscape of town for sure.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

I entered the fishing contest today. I did well for my first try or so I thought. Every time I thought I had a winning entry, someone else came along and entered something better. I finally gave up at about 5 p.m.

I had been outside since 10 a.m. catching fish and insects to sell and for the contest, but I was tired and beat by the time the contest actually started. It also didn’t help that Wendell was in town. He plays the starving artist really well, so I tried to be nice and give him something to eat. I gave him a Sea Bass so that I didn’t have to give up my contest entries, and he gave me a Tree-lined Wall wallpaper in return.

My contest entry was a 19-inch large Bass. Olivia, who lives several acres over, turned in a 24-inch large Bass and won according to Chip, who overseas the contest. Oh well. I guess there’s always next week.