ATTENTION ALL PLAYERS WHO HAVE GIVEN UP: Assuming you didn't just time travel to this week already, we're in the middle of the Acorn Festival.
This week is Wild World's only attempt to mimic the fun and timely "mini-games" that graced the major holidays back on the GameCube version. Every day, you can find acorns littering the ground around a randomized selection of your non-fruit trees (hope you still have some!) Scoop them all up - dump the rotten ones - and give them to Cornimer, who is hanging out by the Town Hall where you usually find Tortimer. SUSPICIOUS?
As you give him more and more acorns, Cornimer will yield items from the Mush furniture series, which is cooler than it sounds. In an unlikely break from Animal Crossing tradition, the Mush items are given out in a specific, non-random order. It's as if somebody on the AC:WW development team suddenly grew a pair and decided to sneak in something accessibly fun. I bet Iwata was pissed when he found out.
So all you have to do is hand over enough acorns and you'll score the entire series. Fantastic. I've collected around 100 acorns and I have about half of the set already. Wonderful.
Why oh why couldn't they have given us more of these? This is genuinely something to anticipate, unlike the monthly parade of useless Yay Days and La-Di-Days that stink up the calendar. It's something different. The acorns only appear during this week, the rewards are rare and cool, the scavenger hunt game part is fun, flippin' Tortimer shows up wearing an acorn mask. There should be events like this every season.
Of course, this being Wild World, Tortimer's exterior presence blocks out all the other travellers... so you won't be seeing Dr. Shrunk or Saharah or Gracie this week. And this probably includes Joan on Sunday morning as well, so don't count on buying turnips for next week. Craphats.
Speaking of that, take a look at this from the latest Nintendo Power:
Since when, Nintendo? When did you start this generous policy? Because I seem to recall slogging through months with only a bare two WiFi letters, plus one that everybody said was a hacker attack. Sure, they've stepped up the delivery since the summer - including some hilarious in-game advertising for Starfox Command - but every Friday?
And does that mean I have to hit the WiFi anytime on Friday to get the letter? Pacific time or Eastern time? What if I start late on Thursday and stay connected through early Friday?
Would it kill Nintendo to get specific about anything in Wild World?
They hate us.
