If there is one thing Animal Crossing fans are known for, it's ingenuity, with New Horizons players constantly creating amazing builds using the game's construction tools. A new island build from a Reddit user has gone so far as to recreate Phenac City from Pokemon Colosseum, complete with its waterways and many of its buildings. Phenac City is perhaps most notable due to it having the only trading post in Pokemon Colosseum's Orre region, located in its Pokemon Center.
Pokemon Colosseum is one of the lesser known Pokemon games, despite being the best-selling RPG for the GameCube to date, most likely due to the GameCube's low sales compared to other consoles of its generation. With this being such a niche build, many fans of the game were excited to see one of the more memorable cities from the game reconstructed in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, with some just excited to see that other people were aware of the game's existence.
Redditor IanThaGame has clearly put a lot of thought into their build, with an emphasis on recreating as many of Phenac City's water-themed areas as possible. In Pokemon Colosseum, the city is located in a desert, built around an oasis, and its water supply is on display as a point of pride. This Animal Crossing: New Horizons build has captured this perfectly, with the town's main fountain taking prominence at the center of the build and a large array of waterfalls moving water around their island.
The structure of my island is based on Phenac water city from Pokémon Colosseum/XD from AnimalCrossing
IanThaGame also does a great job of approximating Phenac City's gym, using Animal Crossing: New Horizon's museum as a stand-in, while managing to capture the original's tiled floor using various different shades of pathing. IanThaGame's version of Phenac City is certainly a lot more lush with greenery, as while the original had the odd palm tree scattered around, this New Horizons build has a myriad of bushes and flowers to brighten up the desert city's vibe.
What's great about this build is that it doesn't use too many custom parts or any of Animal Crossing: New Horizon's glitches to function. While IanThaGame utilizes some custom floor tiles around the central fountain, most of the detailing is done using Animal Crossing: New Horizon's default construction tools. This means that players who want to attempt to reconstruct this Phenac City island theme in their own game will have an easier time of doing it, without needing to download a load of custom content. Having said that, anyone attempting this build will likely need an eye for detail, as this island uses the water terraforming tool fairly expertly.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now for the Nintendo Switch.