Animal Crossing Confessions

[AlinaBanana]

This is a pretty straight forward topic! What do you have to confess about your experience in Animal Crossing?

As for me, I had thought for the longest time after Chadder moved into my town that he was a girl. Don't ask how I didn't notice the voice, personality, or BLUE name. I must've had him for at least nine months before I saw that someone referred to Chadder as a "him." Well, he's still in my town to this day, and one of my top seven favourite villagers of all!

 

[Dorian]

For YEARS (and various game incarnations) I had no idea that if you walked around on summer evenings with your net equipped the tarantula and scorpion would automatically attack you upon sight. I carried my net out of fear that I would be attacked and was so terrified I hardly ever played when it was summer evening. Just recently within the past year I learned that you only equip your net AFTER you stumble upon those pesky buggers. Then you can walk slowly toward them and they won't attack you. I felt so incredibly dumb for not knowing that.

 

[EvilTheCat6600]

This is a pretty straight forward topic! What do you have to confess about your experience in Animal Crossing?

As for me, I had thought for the longest time after Chadder moved into my town that he was a girl. Don't ask how I didn't notice the voice, personality, or BLUE name. I must've had him for at least nine months before I saw that someone referred to Chadder as a "him." Well, he's still in my town to this day, and one of my top seven favourite villagers of all!

I can't stop abandoning my town, giving up and starting over...and I have a really worthwhile town that I should keep around this time. Send help T_T

 

[AlinaBanana]

I can't stop abandoning my town, giving up and starting over...and I have a really worthwhile town that I should keep around this time. Send help T_T

Oh gosh, I always feel so bad even imagining losing my town! The original Animal Crossing put you through such a guilt trip if you asked to reset... I could never do that to my villagers. Just think about them!! They’ve got lives to live!!!

 

[Charcolor]

i didn't know that perfect fruit trees only grew in your town if it was your native fruit so i stole a girl's perfect apple (which killed her tree!!) for no reason

i also stole my friend's coconuts right in front of her eyes

 

[EvilTheCat6600]

Oh gosh, I always feel so bad even imagining losing my town! The original Animal Crossing put you through such a guilt trip if you asked to reset... I could never do that to my villagers. Just think about them!! They’ve got lives to live!!!

I never noticed that due to just being lazy and erasing the data from the memory card if I ever started over. My main reasons for wanting to keep my current town: I have Kabuki as a resident and a Coelacanth in my musem lol. But outside of opening my gates to help someone out over the weekend I haven't played since...June.

 

[Garrett]

I've never completed a museum.

 

[rhinoo]

i hate popular villagers, minus a few.

 

[Hat']

When I was little I used to spam Moe with letters only containing things like "I love u <3" "Baby I love you"

Uh
Yeah

 

[Ellexi]

When I was a kid and I played Wild World, my DS battery died several times so Resetti yelled at me. I cried. I distinctly remember being like “it wasn’t my fault!” .... LOL

 

[DinoDymo]

A few years ago I reset my town without really realising the repercussions, I just thought 'wow a new town would be fun'. As soon as i did it i was so upset about losing all my money and villagers and town. I should've just bought a second cartridge. Wasn't exactly my brightest moment :/

 

[mimituesday]

i forget to give petitions back to villagers........... i feel bad because i had to bother someone to go to their town and then i don't even finish the request

 

[chamsae]

i find resetti funny so sometimes i intentionally quit the game without saving just to have him yell at me lmao

 

[Kiwi]

I feel like this kind of thread would work better in the general Animal Crossing area, or is this just about New Leaf confessions?

Anyway, I have one. It is a "real" confession though, as in it's actually a confession of something negative, but I need to get this off my chest.
Believe me, I am really ashamed of having done something immature like that now. But then again, I must have been like what, 10? 11? at the time, so go easy on me please.

While playing Animal Crossing Wild World online back in 2006/7 I once visited a really impressive town of a friend of a friend of a friend - meaning I didn't actually know that town's owner all that well, I had just met them in another town once and we had exchanged friend codes on a whim.
The town had tons of blue roses, gold roses, you name it. Fully expanded house in a time when making bells was still pretty tough, and the owner also had a crown on and everything.
She lead us through her town, me and two other visitors, and we marveled at it all.
The owner and one of the two later traded items or something, and let the other person and me wander through the town unsupervised. And suddenly that person who had been with me was gone and out of sight as well... and I was all alone.

In a field of blue roses.

And... naughty 10/11 y o me just decided to go wild. Yep, I totally wrecked havoc on those flowers. Pretty sure I picked a bunch of them up as well to use them for my own village. I don't really know what exactly compelled me to do it. I think it was the thrill of it all.

I know, I know! I know what you're thinking! That's a real jerk move, and I agree. I can't believe I used to be a person who would do that, but again, I was basically still a dumb child who didn't really think about how much these things can mean to people. (To be fair though, I do believe that person was a cheater. Which I don't have a problem with... I hope they were one, because it'd mean they could have just cheated the roses in again to rectify my chaos.)

To my surprise the owner of the town didn't even notice the destruction my sudden outburst of mischief had caused, and when she was done trading items with that other visitor, she ended the wifi session... which saved the game including the chaos. And just like that I got away with my stolen goods.

When she finally noticed the missing flowers she confronted me on an online message board most of my online friends and acquaintances were using at the time, and I tried to get out of it by saying "my brother" (which I don't have) had been playing my copy of Animal Crossing, so it totally wasn't my fault. I don't think she believed me, but hey.

Don't worry though, I got my payback eventually. If I remember correctly she (or maybe it was someone else, but "karma" definitely did its work) later visited my town and "pretended" to want to help me (re)design it, but instead she got her axe out while I wasn't looking and she just went crazy chopping down nearly all of the trees in my town... and left, which saved her handiwork. Ouch. But I deserved it.

That's my confession. Please don't think negatively of me, I would never do such a disrespectful thing again! Thinking about it I'm still amazed I used to be *that* type of jerk that I'm now wary of when playing online, haha. It fortunately only happened that one time though.

 

[neoratz]

when i was 9 in wild world i wrote egbert a letter telling him i didn't like him because i thought he kept sending me love letters

ALSO when i was 9 i would go into villagers' houses at night, jump on their bed (if they had one), and close my ds til i woke up the next morning cuz i thought it was like i was having sleepovers with them!

 

[PugLovex]

I CONFESS!

Whenever a villager asks me to deliver something to another villager, I walk to my house and open it myself

 

[stitchmaker]

Found out last year that you could visit another town in gamecube with a 2nd memory card. Sad that I never tried it when AC GC came out.

First experience with online was with Wild World wasn't fun. Asked for an online player to visit my town to unlock the hair salon.
Back than the internet was horrible and the game took forever to connect with the player. As soon as they unlocked the hair salon my DS starting flashing red and I had to end the party. Felt horrible.

Our internet is very good now but I still worried about visiting another ACNL for the first time. Thankfully the host was very nice and everything worked on the first try.
I've mixed up the boy and girl villagers before in ACNL. Got the PWP picnic blanket and forgot to save. Lost it and had to wait 3 months to get it again.

 

[AlinaBanana]

i find resetti funny so sometimes i intentionally quit the game without saving just to have him yell at me lmao

...i thought i was the only one...

 

[Dorian]

when i was 9 in wild world i wrote egbert a letter telling him i didn't like him because i thought he kept sending me love letters

ALSO when i was 9 i would go into villagers' houses at night, jump on their bed (if they had one), and close my ds til i woke up the next morning cuz i thought it was like i was having sleepovers with them!

You are absolutely adorable

 

[Lucas4080]

So, when Gracie first came into my town I was annoyed on how rude Gracie was in Wild World about my clothing style with her little certificates so whenever she popped up in town I'd wear the most outrages pairings of clothing just to annoy her, this continued through City Folk to New Leaf because I thought her reactions were funny and also because I never understood it... It wasn't until about a little less than a year after I started New Leaf that I started to try with the Fashion Checks and soon found out that I actually needed to pass her Fashion Checks in New Leaf to Upgrade the Nooklings store... I mean, she still insulted my clothes and gave me a moldy shirt in the first place so, it was worth it I guess, lol. Plus, I'm nicer now.