As Animal Crossing: New Horizons is so cheerful and pleasant most of the time, players quickly notice the quirks that don’t quite fit with the game’s presentation. Usually this comes in the form of a creepy Animal Crossing villager interaction or lingering questions about the Animal Crossing world that goes unanswered.

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But it’s the player’s ability to feely design the island and influence the actions of their villagers that means the creepiness of Animal Crossing can be ramped up when the player leans into it. Reddit user TommoQuelloNonFigo05 has done exactly this, sharing a short clip of them and their island villagers all dressed as Luigi from the Super Mario crossover with Animal Crossing. These Luigi cultists are seen in the basement of the player’s house, seemingly ritualistically burning another player that is dressed like Princess Peach while dancing.

The scene is of course a joke set up with another player invited to TommoQuelloNonFigo05’s island, but it is an example of the Animal Crossing community’s surprisingly dark sense of humor for a game so cheerful. Recently there was also a trend of Animal Crossing fans making parody anti-piracy screens for the games, these fake scenes began as funny but very quickly skewed towards creepy.

It’s Animal Crossing’s relentless cheeriness that makes the game subject to such dark humor, after all New Horizons famously released on the same day as Doom Eternal, hilariously linking the two completely different games forever. A ritualistic burning in Doom would seem downright blasé, but not in Animal Crossing, with its cute art style that makes even the creepiest player-made situations appear more like a pantomime recreation than the real thing.

Animal Crossing players will continue to resist and question the games wholesome presentation by coming up with fan theories as to how the Animal Crossing’s world is secretly darker than the game lets on. In a way this kind of fan theorizing does add to the game’s world, especially when the game does feature some unusual and strange elements, like ghost characters and alien Easter eggs.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available for Nintendo Switch.

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