October Favourites

Another month has passed so here are my favourites for the month of October!

Gaming
Still playing Disney Magical World and slowly working my way through it. I'm currently up to 82 stickers and cleared most of the episodes. I'm stuck on defeating the final boss in Aladdin's World and I'm having trouble upgrading the wand as I don't have access to the last item I need for it. It's hard to earn coins in this game compared to the second one so now I've got a system of playing the game a few times a day just to collect coins at the Cafe.

Also in gaming news, I'm super excited for the release of New Style Boutique 3: Styling Star! I can't believe a new one came out so quickly, I'm still playing the second one. I've played the demo a few times and it seems the game is similar to New Style Boutique. The in-game clock system is going to drive me nuts though, I prefer the 3DS clock one.

Music
Didn't pick up any new albums this month, I'm saving up to get E-girls E.G. Crazy album and Dream Ami's Try Everything single. I really wanted to get Dream Ami's album she released this month but it was just too expensive and I already owned nearly all the tracks. That's one thing that frustrates me about j-pop albums, they often have songs I already brought in single form. I would've loved to have gotten the CD+DVD+Photobook version of her album as the cover was stunning, but it's a bit too out of my budget.

Isn't this Dream Ami cover so gorgeous?

Art 
My friend got my some gifts this month from Daiso which has the cutest and quirkiest stationery. A while ago we were in Daiso and found this hilarious pencil caps which are just caps you put on top of your pencil. Turns out my friend brought me a packet and they're actually quite good. It's handy to use on coloured or drawing pencils when you carrying them around in a pencil case. I also got some decorative tape which as an interesting case. It's kinda like a click pen, you click the top and the tape comes out the bottom. Then when you are finished, you just click it again and the tape retracts. I find it better than the usual white-out tape dispenser as I always seem to misplace the lid of mine. The BMO Badge shown in the picture was a gift as well and that comes from a company called We're All Mad Here. I have a super cute Lumpy Space Princess one from them as well that says Whatever It's 2009.

Toys
I had a gift card to use up recently so I decided to pick up two new Barbie Fashionista dolls for my collection. I used to be into Barbie collecting a long time ago, but stopped because my collection got too large (ended up selling half of it) and I wasn't interested in teh dolls that were out at the time. Now I've slowly been getting back into collecting mainly because of the amazing Fashionista dolls that Mattel produces. Fashionista dolls however are hard to get hold of in Australia and I rarely see new ones. I check all the toy stores and departments every week and they're still selling Fashionistas from 2016. I contacted Mattel and they said new ones aren't scheduled for release in Australia until next year which is annoying. Anyway I ended up getting Dolled Up In Dots (Number 13 Original) and Chambray Chic (Number 22 Curvy). I choose the Dolled Up one mainly for the outfit and I choose the Chambray Chic as I did not yet have a curvy doll and I really liked the face mold of this doll. I've already got a petite brunette doll in my collection so now I'm only missing a tall one to have all the different varieties. I also picked up a few outfit sets but I'm planning on making a post about Barbie's soon to cover those.

This month I came across the most adorable mug. Saw these cute Pokemon themed Halloween mugs in a store and they are just perfect! The top one is my favourite as I love the colours on it and how cute Pikachu looks in that Halloween outfit. Halloween merchandise from Japan is always amazing and if I lived there, my place would just be full of so much stuff (especially Rilakkuma which is my number one favourite).

Girls Mode 3 Magazine キャラぱふぇ ゲーム スペシャル

Thought I'd share some photos of one of my Girls Mode 3 magazines I brought from Japan. This issue is the special game edition of Chara Parfait which is a game magazine in Japan targeted at girls. I brought the magazine from Amazon Japan and the title of the magazine is キャラぱふぇ ゲーム スペシャル released in June 2015. The first section of the magazine is devoted to Girls Mode 3 whilst the rest is about other games.

Magazine Cover

The beginning of the magazine contains some adorable Girls Mode themed postcards. The postcards are themed around the brands and styles of the game. There is also a tear-out calendar covering months in 2015 and 2016. It features characters dressed in the various styles and photos from the game. The back of the calendar has a study schedule to write in and more character images. I haven't used any of the postcards yet as they are just too perfect to use and I just can't bring myself to tear them out.

Adorable postcards

The magazine covers the features of the game such as hair styling, fashion shows, designing clothes and the different fashion styles in the game. There is a wealth of information to read and gorgeous pictures of characters, items and aspects of the game. The first section details the locations and activities in the game and further information about each one. You can notice in the photos below that in Girls Mode 3, some of the main characters look different. The skin tone of characters such as Noor, Laurie, Tarquin and Arabella was changed to a darker tone in the Europe/Australia and North America versions of the game (Style Boutique & Style Savvy).

Information on where to visit & what to do in the game.

Information on the beautician.

Information on the hair salon.

Disney Magical World 2 - 100% Completion!

Finally fully completed one of my favourite games on the 3DS, Disney Magical World 2! After a year of playing, I finally got all the items in the game and achieved 100% completion. It's actually over 100% because I downloaded the DLC and Magical AR Items. I unlocked most of the items last year but I had to wait a while to get the rest as they were seasonal items only available at certain times of the year such as Halloween.

Disney Magical World 2 is an extremely fun and adorable game! I highly recommend it if you like games such as Animal Crossing or ones where you collect and craft items. The second game in the series is much easier than the first which I'm playing through now. You can clearly see how they fix certain features to make them easier to achieve such as crafting quest items, prices of items and completing favours for residents.

I will make a more detailed blog post about the game in the future as I have so many photos to post, but for now I'd thought I'd share one of my favourite things to do in the game. One of the best things in the game is being able to take photos whilst doing silly greetings. I had a joke running that I would always do the look up greeting in the photos so here's some hilarious photos of that.

Animal Crossing New Leaf - Badge Collection

Thought I'd share my badge collection I have in Animal Crossing New Leaf. Now I've been playing since the game came out in 2013 and I've got quite a few badges in my collection. However it's nowhere near 100% complete at the moment. So far I've got 14 gold, 7 silver, 2 bronze and one not obtained yet.

First I'll list the gold badges I have obtained. I only recently got a few of these as I focused on getting them in the game. These were ones such as catching 1000 sea creatures/food, K.K. Slider performances and sending letters. I didn't attend K.K. Slider shows much as I used to work saturday nights and would miss it. So what I did to get the badge quickly was to attend multiple shows in one night and it still counts. Same thing with the letters, I would send about 16 letters a day. I bet my villagers got tired of receiving letters that always said 'I'm trying to send 200 letters so here's another letter so I get closer to 200'. With the streetpass badge, I know some players have difficulty getting that one. I had no toruble as I live in a location where people always have their ACNL streetpass turned on and I attend streetpass events like meet-ups and conventions. It didn't take that long to get, but it was a pain clearly through streetpasses at conventions where I would get about 300 streetpasses a day.

• Dive Master - Caught 1000 sea creatures/food
• Professor of Entomology - Complete bug collection
• Professor of Ichthyology - Complete fish collection
• Professor of Seafood - Complete diving collection
• Gardening Specialist - Planted 500 trees or flowers in the town
• Master Shopper - Spent over 5,000,000 bells
• Refurbishing Master - Refurbished 200 items
• Catalog Maniac Gold - Catalog at 80%
• Happy Home Gold - Earned 150,000 points from the Happy Home Academy
• K.K. Slider Diehard - Watched 100 K.K. Slider performances
• Town Concierge - Completed 300 tasks for villagers
• Postmaster - Sent 200 letters
• Streetpass Master - Tagged 1000 players through streetpass
• Villager Of Honor - Played over 500 hours

I have 7 silver badges in total and some of these will be staying at silver for a long time as the amount you need to jump from silver to gold is huge! I was surprised when I got the 2000 weeds one, but I'm never going to get the 5000 needed for the gold. The trick to getting the weed badge is to plant heaps of flowers at the beach and do not have the beautiful ordinance on for your town. Pull up the flowers when they are wilting because they count as weeds! I've kinda given up on the medalist one as it took me forever to get 1500 medals as I don't like the tours much and I had to grind at one that gave you 16 medals each time for ages. For the dream addresses visits, I usually do this when I'm watching streams or movies because it's so time consuming to visit dreams. I just select random ones to visit, but it still takes forever to get through all the menu screens.

• Expert Bug Catcher - Caught 2000 bugs
• Expert Angler - Caught 2000 fish
• Balloon Buster - Shoot 100 balloons out of the sky
• Silver Medalist - Earned 1500 island medals
• Weed Buster - Pulled up 2000 weeds in the town
• Wealthy Bell Saver - Saved 10,000,000 bells
• Heavy Sleeper - Visited 200 Dream Addresses

There's only 2 bronze badges in my collection and these are ones I haven't really tired much with. Honestly I never even touched the turnip trade until recently as I just didn't have the time or interest to by investing in it. I used to use turnips all the time in Wild World and it was hectic trying to keep track. I find turnips difficult as sometimes I don't get time to check the price twice a day with my schedule. Luckily one day I got lucky and my friends town was buying turnips for 417 bells! Made quite a bit of profit that day and I'm quite close to the silver badge by my tracker I keep for badges (more on that later). With the hostess one, I never had many people visit my town besides friends occasionally. I do appreciate how you check how many visitors by sitting on the tree as I would have no clue what the number would be without that. Last time I checked it was 57 but I've had a few visits since so I think it's around 70 now maybe.

• Amateur Turnip Trader - Earned 500,000 bells in profit from turnips
• Good Hostess - 50 players have visited my town

The only badge I am currently missing is the badge for visiting other towns. I believe I am getting close to the bronze badge which is 100 visits. I'm teaming up with someone in my local Nintendo club to earn the badge as well as the hostess badge. We are taking turns at visiting each other's towns to up the numbers. I had visited towns over the last few years, but who knows how many that was. I doubt it was higher than 20 or 30 visits as I didn't play online much. Hopefully I should get it by the end of the year as we only meet up once a month.

Pop Vinyl - Daphne from Scooby Doo

Now I'm not one to collect Pop Vinyl's but there was one particular Pop Vinyl I just needed to have when it was released. It's taken me a few months to get hold of one, but I finally got my dream Pop Vinyl and it's Daphne from Scooby-Doo. I absolutely love Scooby-Doo especially the original series and I love Daphne's original outfit she wears in the series (and other series that follow). So I just had to have the Daphne Pop when it was released.

Originally I had seen the figure in a store but it was way too expensive for what I wanted to pay for it. Luckily I was able to order one through my work and get it really cheap! And she's gorgeous! Normally I'm not interested in Pop's because of their design, but this one isn't too bad. I like the pose the figure has and her hairstyle is just right.

There are a few others in the Scooby-Doo collection of Pop Vinyl's but I'm not planning on collecting any others. If I were too, I'd get Velma because of her design and maybe Fred. I'm not too fond of his pose though, I would've preferred him to have a pose more similuar to the show such as with his arms crossed.

Side of the box and Pop Vinyl number.

Back of the box showing the other characters.