All Animal Crossing, all the time

Yes, all I have been doing of late is playing Animal Crossing: City Folk. As soon as I get home, I check in on my little village, speak to the neighbors, pull weeds, and check the shops for new items.

Pandtown is a beautiful place to live, and you can bet your golden watering can that in a few months I’ll be gridding this sucker out to make it as perfect as possible.

For now, though, I’m concentrating on collecting – I’m working on fossils, fish, furniture sets (though I don’t have a favorite yet), hats, glasses and umbrellas. I found a very useful spreadsheet that was created for Wild World and am using Google Docs to tick off items, adding in City Folk inventory as I go along.

Perplex City pal Andrea Phillips wrote a very good article comparing village maintenance in Harvest Moon to grinding in World of Warcraft, and I thought it rang very true for my Animal Crossing experience as well. The grind is all there is, and it is so deeply satisfying to know that if you put in the time, you will get the rewards.