(Hi, Kevin.)
For the past seven weeks or so, I played Animal Crossing: New Leaf consistently. It's surprisingly addicting. Who would've thought fishing, bug-hunting, fossil-hunting, and paying off loans could be so much fun?! Making my town my perfect dream home has become a part of my daily routine. Unfortunately, something bad happened.
I was with my family for an overnight trip (which, sidebar, would've been much better at a different hotel and without our dogs) when it happened. I was viewing a K.K. Slider concert and decided to take a quick snapshot of the credits and K.K. playing while it happened. It took several minutes before it said "An Error has occurred. Please try again." So, I tried again. This time, the game crashed after a minute. When I booted the system up again, the game was delted. Oh, and not just the game: all of my games that I had downloaded, their saved data, StreetPass and SpotPass data, and any DLC and update data was lost. The card itself was so corrupted, nothing could be recovered.
I called Nintendo about it on Monday to figure out what would happen. At the very least, I hoped I would still be able to redownload the games. I plugged it into my grandmother's computer and tried to format it to no avail. It was gone. My 32 gig SDHC card was now useless. I ordered a new one on Amazon and smashed the old one. It felt satisfying to deal with this. Thankfully, I was still able to download all of my old games.
I learned my lesson and was going to buy another one as a back-up, as well as backing up to my boyfriend's PC. So, since my town was lost, I had to start all over. And I made sure to start from release day by setting the game's calendar to June 9, 2013. It was nice getting reacquainted with the town's humble roots.
The beginning of my new town, named Knothole like my first
I hurried through the days until I got to the real life date. It felt good, but my town's museum and shops were still a bit lacking. It kicked my behind trying to get through about five weeks' worth of work through my town. But yes, it finally caught me up.
Since then, I've had my friends Jessika, Elyse, and Cassie visit while I worked on my town, including a trip or two to the island:
Each moment of the hard work has been really fun. I absolutely love this game, and while I've been playing this game probably much more than I should've, it's been extremely addicting and fun. I'm Kevin, I'm a New Leaf Addict, and that's okay.
Oh, and there was the fury of losing all of my other game data including my progress in Fire Emblem: Awakening, but whatever. I got over it pretty quickly. At least it'll give me something to do on my days off for the rest of the summer!
