Day 1

READ THIS FIRST:
Even though I have finally found a town, right now I have a major case cold feet about it :lol:. Right now I do not know if I will keep this town, rebuild it, or get a 2nd game card because I already love this town and have put a lot of work into it in two days. My grudge about it is the placement of the shop in relation to the town hall.
With that out of the way…

1. I started my town!
2. It’s in German 😛

Well, the starting pictures are in German. I tried out the game in French while resetting, German and then finally switched back to English later. I’m really glad that I can play Animal Crossing in more languages than just English this time, as we’ve switched regions from NA to EU for the 3DS. Unfortunately that means I’d have a hard time learning everyone’s names because they’re different for every language, so I may just stick to English in the long run.

Welcome to Arcadia! I like all of these villagers 😀 It’s so cool being able to get Ankha.

I originally only wanted apple, because perfect apples looked so lovely. But about midway through resetting, I stumbled upon a town with cherries that changed my opinion about it. Compared to the normal apples, the new towns filled with normal cherries looked even nicer with the beautiful strong red colour against the green. I started resetting for either apple or cherries, and got a town with cherries 🙂

Map of Arcadia! 🙂
My requirements were:
1. Blue or grey roofed town hall
2. Blue train station
3. Red fruit
4. Windy river yet with a large empty area on the lower side for my house(s) and other features.

Using flowers to plot my house, lol 😛

Done. The house should go bang in the middle!

“Kleo” urging me to see Tom Nook, seeing the worry in my face 😛

Off I go, then.

Yes yes.

Should you build my house here? Heck yes, convenience! xD
He tells me the train tracks are nearby. No kidding.

 “Tada”?? You were meant to conjure a house, not a tent!

Commemorative first-day-in-empty-tent picture.

Now off to do my first mayoral duty:

It took me a second to realise nothing was gonna happen until I pressed A.

Ahh, A is pressed. I feel accomplished.

Later on…

Oooh who send this??
Up until now I just went by the theory that this whole thing was a ploy by Tortimer to pass on the reins to someone new and retire 😛

Hehe, I like Mac’s personality 😛

Monty the monkey. I only realised today when I looked at a guide that he was a cranky villager. It’ll be interesting, relearning all the traits and habits of the personalities in New Leaf. Everything’s so familiar, yet so new.

So red, so shiny, so pretty 🙂

My perfect cherry! Actually it’s two cherries, mwahaha.
No point shaking it off yet though – I don’t have a shovel.

 

Apparently the rainbow screen is available for Europe and Australia as well ^_^

*Smack* Ah, yummy.

My first possession! ^_^

Awww, Isabelle’s so cute x3 And I love the new Shyness emotion in New Leaf!

N’aww, wouldn’t you fetch anything for this pooch? 😛

Haha, it’s so cute every time Isabelle reminds you that she’s a dog 😛

How sweet that the foreign fruit Isabelle gives me from her hometown is apple 🙂

Hehe, I suppose it is charity 😛

I have a strange waterfall. You can’t see it at all from the beach, because there’s this odd bit of the cliff juts out.

Visiting Re-Tail for the first time.

Sleeping blue guy.

I know this happens, but I can’t resist doing it myself x3

He’s not working! He’s drawing doodles of his wife!

 

Examining all the shells on the beach that day. The clam shell is cool!

Tadaa~

Yay, my first fortune cookie got a prize ^^ I wasn’t very familiar with other Nintendo games but I guessed this item’s name exactly: fire flower 😀 Not very hard to guess though 😛
I think the Japanese fortunes are actual fortunes, rather than clues for prizes. I’m not sure which I prefer, but this guessing is fun, too.

Odd pile of disused items here.

Imposter!

The goldfish. Makes me wonder why they’re in the river.

Visiting the Ables’:

This can’t be good for my neck.

Oopsie, every is German now 😛 It says it’s by someone from somewhere, and it’s called flower dress.

Haha, I actually have an undergarment xD

Ahhh, something more fitting for the “freshman mayor” to wear 🙂
I think this was my first time designing actual clothes (in Wild World I made wearable patterns and not really clothes), and I really enjoyed it! I think it came out well ^_^ The preview of the clothing on the top screen is very helpful! BTW You can make it stop spinning by pressing L or R. It took me a while to realise that!

 

There’s so many small changes to fishing, like the size of the shadows and the way the fish move. The red snapper now has a shadow about the same as the olive flounder’s, and the olive flounder appears so much bigger in the hand.

I like this spot in Nook’s Homes. Pity it will become more unpleasant soon 😛

From all the zoomed out pictures I’d seen before, I’d thought these flowers were Jacob’s Ladders, and wondered how Nook had a whole frickin’ bunch of them. But upon closer inspection they’re actually orchids! I want some >_<

A pic of my town hall 🙂

Wow, they even have the equipment Isabelle uses to make announcements.

Sigh…

Fishing mischief:

(Hey I can finally see my waterfall.)

I never actually find any fish out here, so I guess they only spawn right at the beach.

 

Uhhhhh, we only just met… today.
Victoria wanted to give me some wallpaper.

Naww dang 😛 Where’s the creativity??

My townies have strange catchphrases now, because they’re from the German version 😛

Woohoo a bed!

Ankha was in so I visited her. Wow her room is impressive!

Ahh, my rightful place. You there, hurry and bring me meat and wine.

Ahh noo, she asked for furniture but all I had was a fish, which she put in her room immediately >_<

It’s so pretty in the evening ^_^

NOOOO, you are staying out of my museum!!!

Btw mosquitoes in New Leaf are polite! They don’t you until you’re done fishing.

Char. It’s good to catch them from here (and on the other side).

Hehe, it was cute the funny pose the character does when pulling up the fishing pole.

Woooah, that’s a freshwater goby? You could hardly see it in Wild World xP

Gack! I took a screenshot because this shadow was especially big and fat, and missed pulling the pole up on time because of the lag xP I will never know who this shadow belonged to!! >_<

I like the lightning that comes on in the evening 🙂

. . .

Back to the Ables’ to do some more work:

Hah! I’ve been waiting forever to push you behind the counter! 😈

My 2nd design ^_^ It’s a steampunky dress, but I already have an undated version now with long sleeves. I’ll post it in Day 2.

The only suitable backdrop for photos right now 😛 I suppose the museum would be good too.
I’m missing some long boots 🙂

Aaand last item of business for my first day.

PHEW that was a loooong post, sorry! >_< Day 2 is probably even longer, because I played the whole day (literally x_x), and I can’t help taking pictures! xP

See ya!