Nintendo's upcoming Animal Crossing: New Horizons is more hotly anticipated than ever following a 30-minute Nintendo Direct last week. While many have been eagerly waiting to jump into the calm, lackadaisical Animal Crossing universe, Chilean illustrator Camila Cumplido has instead been imagining what it would be like if the series' characters were dropped into an entirely different game.

Cumplido posed the idea of a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired "Animal Crossing RPG" by posting a drawing of the purple cat villager Bob dressed as a rogue and the blue frog villager Lily dressed as a mage on Twitter February 17. Over the next week she began posting more drawings, which culminated in a collective Tweet today that, as of this writing, has received over 16,000 likes and nearly 6,000 retweets in about ten hours.

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The three drawings that followed Bob and Lily depict some of the more popular recurring characters with central roles in Animal Crossing: Tom Nook's twin nephews Timmy and Tommy as a sword-and-shield wielding knight duo, musician K.K. Slider as a bard, and secretarial darling Isabelle as a druid. Cumplido has a number of other fantasy-inspired character sketches and backgrounds on her website, as well as illustrations inspired by other Nintendo properties like Pokemon and The Legend of Zelda.

The sextuplet look like they would be right at home serving as the adventuring party in a game of D&D, with full credit to Cumplido for blending the cutesy style of Animal Crossing with a traditional fantasy aesthetic. It's not even that hard to imagine them getting into a cliched bout of tavern shenanigans given Isabelle's questionable drinking choices in footage from the Nintendo Direct.

After a delay last year, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is set to release on March 20, 2020. The recent Direct has confirmed that New Horizons will get post-launch updates on top of the bevy of customization options for each player, the ability to completely terraform one's island, and plenty more that should keep the game running for a long time to come.

With New Horizons having at least 383 possible villagers, it's hard not to wonder what RPG niche each and every one might fit into. Chances are Cumplido could have a lot more fantastic work ahead of her if any future commissions ask to expand the alternate universe she's brought to life.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is set to release on Nintendo Switch on March 20, 2020.

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Source: Camila Cumplido's Portfolio