Animal Crossing article and contemplating making my doll house

(tags game, Animal Crossing, DualScreen, Windows, purchase, ECsite, creative)

I've been meaning to write something down about Animal Crossing, but that week I did that time travelling ("Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.") screwed up one week's turnip prices so I haven't been playing much. I wanna go to that Shinjuku shop (thanks Kotaku) and hang out or do some photos of the Nintendo mags with Animal Crossing omake. I've even been thinking of buying those ACWW handbags to hold the ol' NDS, but only use them for the character strap, because shoot they all don't match my current bag.

I did check out that Girlie magazine with Kaera Kimura on the cover (she's got great face by golly, but the hair must be a wig) and Animal Crossing "for the ladies" as one of the specials (thanks Kotaku, Jean Snow magazine review). First, trying to buy it was pretty hard, because I didn't know where this magazine was at the bookstore. I had to muscle between the girls doing tachiyomi (reading mags for free for great justice) in the "ladies fashion" section. I got some blank stares (sorry about the gamer B.O., ladies) but I don't let deter me from my goals, yo. I did find it in the fashion section, but another bookstore, Junkudo, actually put some copies in the game section. Ack! All that wasted effort taking a shower and putting on colonge, sniff sniff.

The article spread was pretty long, but there wasn't anything about the actual game-play. Instead, the articles and pictures showed major fashion sense: there was a sub-section for this season's fashions for guys and gals, top 8 favorite animal pals by guy and gal, etc. By far the best part was the expose on creative gamers and their towns. New duds, even some towns were tiled over with creatively new and/or played-out copyrighted pictures, such as Disney's Arial & Sebastian. Wow. It takes 10 hours with that graphic editor thing to make a 6 by 6 tile picture? Kinda reminds me of ASCII pr0n... The making of it, I mean. How do you make that stuff (and I don't mean using aalib)? Doesn't it take the patience of "grandma" making a "quilt"?

There are the kind of games that bring out the "canvas" (you can do it any way you want) or the "checklist" (did I get all the dog tags?) in the gamer. After looking at this article, I can firmly say that I'm in the "checklist" camp.

The rest of the stuff in the picture are guide books, one of which is a costume freestyle book, and goodies that you get from those Nintendo flavored magazines.

Animal Crossing hasn't been giving me that much of a high, so I was actually thinking of buying The Sims 2 to see what the hubbub is about. Almost 2 years old and still it is making headlines. I checked out my favorite importer GDex Online Shop and its about 7000 yen. I could buy the Japanese version for 6000 yen (and this price doesn't drop much at the used section either!) but I rather play it in English, huh. I notice on the box that there isn't any Japanese in the screenshots, but there's no English either. No way I want to buy a console version because the "community" has lots of creative stuff out there for free. But I don't really want to play the PC version because I'm now used to the freedom of playing on-the-go ala Nintendo DS.

Wow I can't believe I want to try out this game?!? Isn't this more of a "canvas" game? Not much "checklisting" here I don't think.