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Nintendo ’s recentAnimal crossover : New HorizonsNintendo Direct nonchalantly revealed a fact with full-grown deduction for the series ' lore : It appearsAnimal Crossinggames take place on a version of actual - life Earth . SinceAnimal Crossing ’s world is one populated by humanoid animals and relatively few humans , this Earth may have fallen dupe to some form of revelatory catastrophe .
TheAnimal CrossingNintendo Direct detailedseveral new features come to the series ' latest outing , including terraforming , increased house customization , impermanent protagonist codes , a stellate outfit menu , and more . But early on in the Direct , the narrator described another raw feature article for the game : hemisphere selection . Animal Crossinggames have traditionally run seasonal changes on the northerly Hemisphere calendar , so the ability to toggle the game to Southern Hemisphere season is a big win for those living on the southern half of the world . This feature was first revealed by a Nintendo representative in theE3 2019 Treehouse lively presentation , but the Direct ’s in - macrocosm tone suggests the choice is more than an out - of - plot convenience .
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Early in the Direct , the storyteller asks,“Would you wish to live in the Northern Hemisphere or the Southern Hemisphere?“Rather than a choice made to ensure veridical - existence seasons coincide with those in the biz world , this choice of words implies the participant ’s deserted island is really located on one of these Earth hemispheres . Animal Crossinggames have referenced Earth in the past , with item like the Earth Rug and Globe . Without determinate trial impression of the games engage place on Earth , though , it was just as probable that these were really just references , andAnimal Crossing ’s satellite was instead locate somewhere else . Gulliver , a seagull - like villager who also come out in theAnimal Crossing : New HorizonsDirect , spoke of real - world countries in late biz and get players country - theme furniture , but he ’s also been known to have a space - change of location open vessel , so he might have only been jaw Earth from the supposed " PlanetAnimal Crossing . "
The hemisphere selection prove all of these reference point indeed meantAnimal Crossingis hardening on planet Earth , despiteAnimal Crossinggames ' cylindric play areas . This beg the interrogative sentence : Where did the talk , humanoid beast amount from ? Some of those in theAnimal Crossingcommunitywonder if the beast - like villager could be aliens who came to Earth from somewhere else ( see Gulliver ’s UFO - like spacecraft ) and incorporate themselves into society . This would excuse the difference of opinion between the villagers and other in - game animals , like the sea creatures players can watch throughAnimal Crossing ’s sportfishing mechanics .
But unless these alien simply whelm the human , this theory does n’t quite explicate why there are so few human character in the game . One theory parallels those used toexplain theAdventure Timecartoon ’s globe : Long ago , some kind of revelatory result left very few human survivor . Over many , many years , humans evolved from the way they front in the real universe to their " chibi - fied " appearance inAnimal Crossing , and other creature species acquire alongside them to become humanoid and intelligent . This farseeing interruption in clock time between today ’s society andAnimal Crossing ’s also give account to ripe technologies like , again , Gulliver ’s spacecraft .
Over the millennia it would probably take for all of these animate being to change so drastically , however , Earth ’s geography would have inevitably shifted , but the globes shown in the Direct look monovular to Earth ’s current continental layout . Perhaps the real origins ofAnimal Crossinglie in some combination of these two theories . perhaps outlander came to Earth , wipe out most humankind , and somehow accelerated animals ' and humans ' organic evolution , creatingAnimal Crossing ’s inhabitants without affect current - day Earth too drastically . Sadly , the most likely scenario is thatNintendo really has n’t thoughttoo backbreaking about it .
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Animal Crossing : New Horizonswill release for Nintendo Switch on March 20 , 2020 .
