Lies about the Flower Fest
Monday / 04.03.06 / 08:56PM / Joe / all entries in AC Wild World Diary
 I usually find time for a little AC:WW every weekday morning around 9am. On a few mornings, I've noticed a small flock of white birds that takes to the sky as soon as my character steps outside the door. This adds to the Goofy vs. Pluto puzzle begun in the first Animal Crossing: we have animals that are "people" and animals that are animals.
The most blatant example was the frog. You can catch "animal" frogs in the ponds, yet you can have "people" frogs living in your town. Then there's the birdcage item, but I always saw the bird inside as a toy, not an actual bird. But this flock of doves heralding the dawn makes me wonder.
The Flower Fest is on now, where you're supposed to grow a magnificent garden by week's end. Then Tortimer judges which villager has the best garden and hands out a flower trophy. You'd think Nook would jack up the price of seeds this week.
Here's something that pissed me off. Check out the promise in this email I received from Nintendo: "Gardening tips galore in the official player's guide!"
Well folks, I took the liberty of scanning in every single section of the guide that references flowers. Please click them for the zoom-in.
 
Or just let me summarize these great "tips":
- You should plant flowers.
- You should water flowers.
- You should not run through flowers.
- You should remove weeds.
- Flowers that cannot be found at Nook's will grow in the wild.
- You should include rare flowers in your Fest garden.
No discussion on how to get those rare flowers through hybriding (I love how the Flower Fest section references the Outdoor Plantlife section to "find rare flowers to grow," and then the Outdoor Plantlife section just says they "grow in the wild.") No discussion on what Tortimer actually likes, in terms of colors or patterns or monetary value. No discussion on what (if any) difference the Golden Watering Can makes. No discussion on whether non-flowers like dandelions and clover and jacob's ladder count. If I get Gold Roses, is that a shoe-in?
So my plan is to plant a mad amount of flowers around my house, and then secretly trample everyone else's gardens. Or steal their flowers and re-plant them in my yard. I'll be interested to see if the game picks up on that.
Thanks for the tips, Nintendo.
I finally hit the last house expansion and the 900,000 bell debt that comes along with it. I'm thinking of making it a storage room (which is kinda what my main room is now) and turning the main room into a Nintendo / Mario theme. I'm counting on Nintendo trickling out more exclusive Nintendo items soon... but then again, we're still waiting for SMB, LoZ and Punch-Out on the GameCube, aren't we? | 
