in my second ever town i had zucker and i was really fond of him, i got him from a really nice user here who was always inquiring abt him like hey, how is zucker doing? and she would visit my dream code to see him and stuff. then i fell out of playing for awhile and you can probably guess where this is going...he moved away. i was pretty sad about it, and felt esp guilty because i had received him as a gift from such a nice person.
i don't know whether or not they're still active, and i have zucker again in my secondary town now, but it's not quite the same. maybe as time goes on i can re-find my fondness for him.
I was never fond of Ed, but on the day he was to move out I went to visit his house. I talked to him and he told me that he isn't worried about moving, but that he wishes that everyone in Rain (my town) stays as happy as they were during the time he spent here, or something of the sort. It was just really touching to me for some reason, and that's where I've finally really grown fond of him. It really felt like one of my residents was actually leaving me and all their friends behind.
when i restarted, i don't regret it but it was pretty hard for me
plus i restarted before the update so i didn't get a chance to sell it to tom nook so... (i think he buys it?)
I accidentally dug up a hybrid. I had been going around watering flowers and digging up fossils and gyroids, switching back and forth between my watering can and my shovel. I thought I had my watering can out but I was still holding my shovel.
When Julian moved out unexpectedly. I think I cried a little when Isabelle told me he was leaving. Thank goodness I got his card randomly and the Welcome amiibo update happened, but...yeah.
When I had to let Muffy go due to bridge problems. I removed the bridge by her house, got the request and Isabelle said no. I spent 30 minutes moving Isabelle and no go. Than I remember the rule. While I waited for her ping I removed another bridge. Isabelle refused for 25 minutes and finally gave in when I moved her just a little. Tried one more time to save Muffy and it was a Big No.
Muffy was sweet and didn't ask to stay. When her letter arrived in the mail I put it in the saved mail to keep.
Added a windmill with shrub/flowers where her house was. I still catch myself trying to visit her. With the amiibo cards I might place her in one of my towns.
when merengue moved out of cherry ;_; she was in my town for two years and was a random move-in, i went to both of her birthday parties and she went to both of mine. my first birthday wish was "merengue stays forever"
In a past town, when I TTed even knowing the dangers, and I wasn't careful... I ended up losing Sprinkle. I was so upset I stopped playing for a while. When I started again, I actually ended-up deleting that town, the memories lol. I haven't had her/tried to get her in any of my subsequent towns. I've lost other villagers that I liked, but for some reason losing Sprinkle sticks out in my memory. So silly to be so upset over a game, huh? ; v ;
when I tore down the bridge in front of my house so I could replace it with a modern bridge and isabelle told me no.
oh, but they fixed that in the update, nevermind!
oh, but built a path to the next bridge in the back of my house with lampposts, trees and bushes AND now that path leads to a dead end thanks to the bridge in front of my house returning.
I haven't really had any sad moments with New Leaf. The GCN version, yes... and WW I had a moment, too. =/
On the GCN version I rented the game and created my first town. I played it for a whole entire day. I realized somewhere throughout that day that I couldn't save it because I didn't have a memory card with enough free space. So I played it long enough for my dad to come home from work in the evening. Back then my (IRL) hometown wasn't developed like it is today and the closest store was a K-Mart. We went there to get me a memory card. They had only off-brand memory cards, but I went with one that had 1000 blocks and I was excited to have such a large memory card. 1000 blocks was a huge deal back in 2002 before Nintendo released their large memory cards. I ended up falling in love with this town. I even got my sister to play it, too. This was the last time we really played anything together, but that's just coincidence so I'll leave it at that.
So anyway, that backstory was necessary, I promise! At least as a build-up. In like the first days of 2003, I woke up one morning and went to play the game and it had corrupted. D: I took this so hard. I bawled. A 14 year old bawling over a video game. My parents were like "It's just a game!" but at that time I felt like it was all I had.
Wild World's sad story is a lot less dramatic. Ten years ago, I was on a high school marching band competition trip, we stayed in a hotel for a couple of nights or so. I brought my DS with me. Somehow when I was in the bus going home I noticed I was short my Wild World and Mario Kart DS cartridges! D: I must have somehow left them in the hotel. I'm not really sure how this happened, but when I think about it we had unexpectedly won this huge competition that our band had never done before and the band directors had told us high school kids that we could stay up as late as we wished that night (that never happened other times lol) so we all stayed up and watched movies for a long time and my whole room ended up waking up super late the next morning which was us going back home. I imagine that's how it happened, I was in a hurry to scramble everything together.
Oh well, in summer of 2007 I bought another copy of Wild World and all was good. I didn't get Mario Kart DS again until last year when it was released on the Wii U VC, though.