Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis host to some incredible terraforming feats, resulting in beautiful and creative map designs. One such map was done and subsequently posted by Reddit userVaynMaanen, whomanaged to recreatethe entireThe Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Pastmap on his island:
After 4 grueling days of terraforming I’ve modeled my island after Hyrule from Link to the Past! More pictures in the commentsfromr/AnimalCrossing
They also postedan image gallery, which gives a closer view of the island:
GameXplainalso did a full tour of the island in a nearly 30 minute video for those who are interested in seeing the full scale of the recreated map:
This is some truly outstanding work, and serves to once again remind me that I will never reach these levels of ingenuity. Which is fine by me, as I can simply live vicariously through these incredibly talented folks.
Thelatest free updatewas back in April and it brought a host of changes such as new villagers to the island, added some fun seasonal events, and opened up a new wing in the museum.Animal Crossing: New Horizonswas recently featuredin the Financial Times, an actual real life publication, after some severe in-game interest rate cuts from Tom Nook.
According to Famitsu,Animal Crossing:New Horizonson Switchsold more than1.88 millioncopies as of March 23th. The title released worldwide on March 20th, which means it managed to sell1.88 millionphysical copies in Japan in only three days. Even more surprising is that Famitsu reported that according to its estimates,Animal Crossinghad the best first-week sales ever for a Switch game in Japan.
In the months that led up toNew Horizon‘s release,DOOM Eternalhas been consistently paired with the former as the two games share a release date. This resulted in tons of wholesome crossover fanart, which culminated in anew animated videofrom 3D artist and animatorThe Dashing Doctor K. Said video (which was built in Source Filmmaker) brings together the worlds ofAnimal CrossingandDOOM, as it imagines the Doom Slayer making a new friend in Isabelle, with the two quickly becoming best buds and working together to fight off the demons of Hell.
And Tommy Wiseau, ofThe Roomfame, hasbeen apparently playingAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsas well. A recent tweet from the infamous actor, writer, and director showed off a screenshot that contains a ton of easter eggs from The Room. His in game room contains a football sitting on a desktop, a famous piece of iconography, and even a piece of art hanging up in the background which is a recreated still frame of himself from the movie.
If you’re new to the franchise and are still unsure,our glowing reviewofNew Horizonsis a good place to start. verify to check outour guideon how to import art into the game using the QR code system. And be sure to read whyAnimal Crossingare giving our Features Editor Ryan Meitzler asemblance of routineonce again.
