Animal Crossing: New Horizons has captured Nintendo players during this difficult period of quarantine. Fairly recently, NPD reports revealed that New Horizons is one of the Switch’s fastest-selling games ever, which comes as no surprise to players with social media accounts.
The love for New Horizons is clear from fans and members of the community on nearly every social media platform under the sun. In fact, some fans have taken the games broad customization aspects and transformed them into some truly incredible creations like fully themed islands or even movie trailers.
The Animal Crossing community has always flaunted its creative streak through in-game creations. In New Leaf, themed towns that could be explored through the Dream Suite, which dataminers have theorized could return eventually. While New Horizons has no Dream Suite feature to speak of currently, players are able to showcase their unique island creations all across social media. Some players have already posted their horror-inspired creations for all to admire.
While players can’t currently share their own Aika Village creations in New Horizons and have other players visit at their leisure, they can still share them on social media. One recent fan creation takes the popular horror-town craze of New Leaf and adds an interesting twist to it. Specifically, a YouTube creator by the name of Evil Imp created a full-fledged horror movie-inspired trailer using only in-game assets. The video is about two minutes long and well worth a watch.
The trailer uses classic tropes from modern day horror trailers, like the eerie, distant sounds of a music box or the use of thunderous booms to add emphasize to “jump scares.” What makes this trailer so impressive is that it consists of only in-game footage and assets, complete with Animalese narration. Another huge boon to the trailer is the excellent editing done, making it feel like something that could almost realistically be a trailer for an actual game. The trailer also makes use of some great spooky villagers from Animal Crossing like Coco and Pietro.
As mentioned before, the Animal Crossing community is one of the most creative fandoms out there. Even with fairly rigid and limited tools, members of the community are able to cobble together some truly impressive feats. For example, one player recently remade Disney’s Haunted Mansion in New Horizons. As the game’s life extends and Nintendo continues to add updates, hopefully players will be able to capture specific snapshots of their island to share with the world, like New Leaf’s Dream Suite provided.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now exclusively for Nintendo Switch.