Since Day One

So today I started New Leaf. It’s a tremendous experience, already clearly the best entry in the series. I called my town Emlyn, because I live (well, lived, I’ve moved house in reality today too) in Emlyn Gardens. I thought it would be… well, not appropriate. Interesting, maybe? Only it’s not interesting. Ah well, that’s my reason for the name.

I had a glance at all four possible maps before I picked one. I was interested to see what was available. I’d decided that I wouldn’t reset unless I got a string of really poor options. My ideal town would have had Re-Tail, the town hall and the square all very close to the station. After that I was Keen to have the town hall and the square close to one another. It feels od for them to be far apart.

The first map I looked at was the one I went with. It’s the first of the four shown below.

 

 

I was met at the station by Rolf, Bud, and Marcie. My other two villagers are Marcel (who I think is supposed to be French) and Chrissy. I was pleased to see Rolf and Bud's pretty cool. I'm fairly indifferent to the rest. Hopefully I'll get Limberg soon. He's one of my favourites.

 

 

For the first time ever in an Animal Crossing town I got something other than peaches as my town fruit. I got pears. From reading around message boards over the last couple of weeks I realise they’re probably the most unpopular fruit. I don’t care. I’m pleased to have something, anything, that’s not a peach.

I still wound up with peaches though. As I was asking Isabelle for jobs she handed over a punnet of peaches, telling me her mother sent them to her and told her to share (because that’s what “good puppies” do).

 

I planted them and then pestered some Isabelle some more, eventually getting a net because I told her I’d like to hunt insects. That wasn’t true: I’m much more interested in getting fish because they seem more varied. Nookling Junction had already sold me a fishing rod though. I knew Isabelle would hand over a net if I lied. So there you go. Lying gets you what you want.

  

 

Truth be told I’ve not done anything noteworthy in Emlyn today. I quickly paid off my debt, missed out on a few balloons, and then did loads of fishing and bug catching to build up a nice wad of bells. In the end I did manage to down two balloons by being at the cliff at the right time.

 

And that was my first day in Emlyn. Nintendo, you’ve done a great job.