Gamerace said:
Enjoy!! You lucky bas^@$% (grumble, grumble, grumble). Just trying to finish my encyclopedia too. Just got orcas! (My favorite, had to use a walkthrough though to find out how) Will I need to change seasons to get some critters? And to do that would I have to endlessly advance time? |
Well I think I found all but about 10 species without going past the first month. And you only need to advance into Winter for about 4 species. and there is only 1 that doesn't appear till Spring.
The game begins in July (already 1 month into Summer)
Autumn begins in September, Winter in December etc.
And yes, I have spent a few sessions of advancing time in chunks to get through to March.... I generally did it in about 1-2 week chunks (which means advancing time 14-28 times in 1 go... so takes about 5-10 minutes. That way I got to check out some of the monthly things like the "Sepau days" where big groups of 1 species collect at the secret lake area. Though once I got into December and completed everything but the 1 species I did it in larger chunks, with a shorter dive in between.
From about December 3rd/4th I advanced to the 24th (to see if Catherine wished me a Merry Christmas or something... she didn't, but I did get new year) then through to 1st Jan and had a dive to check out the baby Japanese bullhead sharks, then advance through to February, stopping to see the Bigfin reef squid hatchlings, and then onto March when there is a shark hatching (can't remember the specific species) and the beginning of Spring which means I found the last missing species: multicolourfin rainbow-fish.
