After coming back to the forums the other day I decided to finally get back into Animal Crossing. My childhood copy of New Leaf was somewhere in a storage facility, so I decided to boot up New Horizons despite becoming bored of it. I opened the game and Timmy and Tommy greeted me like I was a new player. As it turns out my original save file of New Horizons from launch day is gone forever. I didn't know there was a tool to transfer islands to new systems and I ended up losing my 5 star island, 10,000,000 bells, and fully expanded house. I had wiped my original Switch and sold it over a year ago in favor of a new one. so there was no going back. 245 hours wasted. With my fancy Switch OLED and third party joycon grip in hand it was time to start over.
This Island Journal will chronicle each play session I spend on this playthrough until I get my second island to five stars and complete the museum. To this day I've never completed a museum in any Animal Crossing game. How long this will take I'm not sure. Without further ado, let's get started.
The first thing I noticed was how much better this game looks on the Switch OLED compared to past versions of the Switch. The contrast is higher and the colors truly pop on the screen, but unlike some games, doesn't look oversaturated. I've had a theory Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is one of the games the OLED's colors were calibrated with in mind and I think this game might be one too.
On the insert name screen I decided to enter "Neb" this time instead of my real name like before to try something different. For the character creation screen I went with dark brown hair, a wide smile, pale skin, a hairstyle with a side part, and a triangle nose. Other than the eyes, which I had to make brown instead of hazel, he looks pretty close to me. I was stuck between choosing two islands. I ended up going with the island with a river that flows between the east, center, northwest, and center south of the island. Halfway through the river is an islet situated just slightly to the west of the center of the island by Nook's tent. To the north of the island is a wide hill that covers most of the top 20% of the island with two peaks and the western peak has a dead end for the river.
Once I left the airport I was greeted by Timmy, Tommy, Sly, and Kat. I've had both of those villagers before, so it was a pleasant surprise. I placed my tent by a small pond on the southeast side of the island and put the villager's tents side by a side by a river in the center south side of the island. I gathered ten branches like Tom Nook wanted and named the island Nebuen II. I wanted to reference my first island while using cool Greek numerals instead of a generic number symbol.
After that I began to get rid of the many weeds that filled up the portion of the island I was stuck in. As I did this chore I made sure to pick up any peaches, rock pieces, or branches I missed. I talked to Sly and he expressed his struggle to catch a fish and Katt gave me a recipe card that contained a leaf umbrella.
I finished cleaning the island and went inside to talk to Tom Nook. He said I had the materials needed to make a flimsy fishing rod. I built the item and once I was done I went outside to fish. My first catch was a tire in the river, but at the very least I got a new recipe idea out of it. I moved to the ocean in the southside by the pier and caught two horse mackerel, a coral, and a squid. Content with my fishing for the night, I checked in with Timmy, Tommy, and Tom Nook to see what else I could do. I showed Tom Nook a horse mackerel and he got the idea to build a museum with his friend Blathers. I received the insects and sea creatures app on the phone. I donated the remaining sea creatures I had to Tom Nook and went to Timmy to sell the peaches I gathered around the island. I decided I was done for the night since it was almost 11 pm. At the end of the session I earned my first 4,250 bells and had 2,600 Nook miles! I feel optimistic for what will happen next.
This Island Journal will chronicle each play session I spend on this playthrough until I get my second island to five stars and complete the museum. To this day I've never completed a museum in any Animal Crossing game. How long this will take I'm not sure. Without further ado, let's get started.
The first thing I noticed was how much better this game looks on the Switch OLED compared to past versions of the Switch. The contrast is higher and the colors truly pop on the screen, but unlike some games, doesn't look oversaturated. I've had a theory Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is one of the games the OLED's colors were calibrated with in mind and I think this game might be one too.
On the insert name screen I decided to enter "Neb" this time instead of my real name like before to try something different. For the character creation screen I went with dark brown hair, a wide smile, pale skin, a hairstyle with a side part, and a triangle nose. Other than the eyes, which I had to make brown instead of hazel, he looks pretty close to me. I was stuck between choosing two islands. I ended up going with the island with a river that flows between the east, center, northwest, and center south of the island. Halfway through the river is an islet situated just slightly to the west of the center of the island by Nook's tent. To the north of the island is a wide hill that covers most of the top 20% of the island with two peaks and the western peak has a dead end for the river.
Once I left the airport I was greeted by Timmy, Tommy, Sly, and Kat. I've had both of those villagers before, so it was a pleasant surprise. I placed my tent by a small pond on the southeast side of the island and put the villager's tents side by a side by a river in the center south side of the island. I gathered ten branches like Tom Nook wanted and named the island Nebuen II. I wanted to reference my first island while using cool Greek numerals instead of a generic number symbol.
After that I began to get rid of the many weeds that filled up the portion of the island I was stuck in. As I did this chore I made sure to pick up any peaches, rock pieces, or branches I missed. I talked to Sly and he expressed his struggle to catch a fish and Katt gave me a recipe card that contained a leaf umbrella.
I finished cleaning the island and went inside to talk to Tom Nook. He said I had the materials needed to make a flimsy fishing rod. I built the item and once I was done I went outside to fish. My first catch was a tire in the river, but at the very least I got a new recipe idea out of it. I moved to the ocean in the southside by the pier and caught two horse mackerel, a coral, and a squid. Content with my fishing for the night, I checked in with Timmy, Tommy, and Tom Nook to see what else I could do. I showed Tom Nook a horse mackerel and he got the idea to build a museum with his friend Blathers. I received the insects and sea creatures app on the phone. I donated the remaining sea creatures I had to Tom Nook and went to Timmy to sell the peaches I gathered around the island. I decided I was done for the night since it was almost 11 pm. At the end of the session I earned my first 4,250 bells and had 2,600 Nook miles! I feel optimistic for what will happen next.
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