Cute Chronicles – Going to Town

Su-per happy gaming fun time!

Animal Crossing: New Leaf has swept in and taken over my journey into work, my lunchtimes, and most of my evenings. It’s easy to get into, easy to play, and now that summer’s come in the game and it’s stopped raining, the village is a very pretty one to wander around.

Let me take you on a quick tour of my village, Rabbiton. Recently, we’ve achieved ‘perfect town’ status, although not without planting lots of trees, constantly weeding, carefully placing flowers, and most of all, not running. That’s the only annoying thing about this game – that you can’t run around the village without destroying your grass. While walking around means you can appreciate the surroundings, it is awfully slow. While you can put paths down, who would want to do that? Ain’t no paths in my town, man, you find your own way around. Anyway, first thing’s first, let’s start with my house.

This exterior set makes your house look pretty sweet!

This exterior set makes your house look pretty sweet, I’m just waiting for the paving set to become available. The biscuit roof is probably one that the Ready Up team can all appreciate, despite their differing tastes in biscuits.

Inside, it’s a balloon-ocalypse! That took a lot of slingshot shooting. By the way, does anyone have a balloon table, or a balloon clock they’d be willing to trade? The furniture set isn’t quite complete. The furniture does make funny balloon squeaky sounds when you sit on it, though.

The other rooms aren’t quite finished yet. One room is an arcade room, with music from the machines constantly playing. Upstairs is an office space. Another room is working its way to becoming a bridge, like in Star Trek. Well, if they allowed you to have floating asteroids on the bridge, anyway. It needs flooring, I’m pretty sure wooden floors aren’t part of standard Starfleet interiors.

If only it were that easy to earn money in real life…

Moving on, around the town we have a number of public works projects. If you think about how much work has been done on the house, and then add to that the cost of all the projects, it’s a little worrying to consider how that must translate into hours spent playing the game. If only it were that easy to earn money in real life…

Work also continues in the museum, filling it with bugs, paintings, sculptures, fish and fossils. Nobody has ever really stopped to wonder just how there are so many fossils buried around town, though. Once you unlock the second floor of the museum, you can also display your own exhibits. It’s the perfect place to put all those Nintendo things you can get from fortune cookies at the store on Main Street.

Elsewhere around town, there are plenty of flowers. Interestingly, if you plant lots of a certain type of flower in one place, your neighbours eventually catch your drift and will only plant that type of flower in that area. It’s how we ended up with a field of flowers around Re-Tail! Dotted around town, all contributing towards the money and ‘perfect town’ status are fruit trees, one of the most important things as any Animal Crossing player will know.

I love my little town! At the moment, I’m working on tidying the arrangement of the fruit trees around town, and planting more cedar saplings to the north, near the river. The café has also recently been built, the lighthouse keeps things bright at night and the town campsite continues to attract visitors. We’re also trying to raise money for a town hall renovation, something that looks like a fairytale palace with pink and blue towers. If you have the Dream Suite, why not pay a visit? The address is 7300-2062-2504. Or if you want to be 3DS friends, add me, and let me know on Twitter.