Bizarre Animal Crossing: New Horizons Clip Shows Luigi Cult Burning Player Alive

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a relentlessly wholesome game. When it was released in 2020 it became the game of choice for many quarantining gamers. The game’s simple focus on going outside and interacting with other villagers and players was serendipitously exactly what many players needed at the time, and the title quickly became a popular comfort game. But with Animal Crossing’s cute art style and gameplay centered around endlessly improving an island village, it doesn’t take much for players to start casting shades of dark over the game's bright facade.

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 ofAnimal 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