One Animal Crossing: New Horizons player has recreated Pallet Town, the starting location of the original Pokémon games. This is just one of many fan-made tributes to other games and properties, built using the island-life simulator’s in-depth terraforming and town-building gameplay, which allows fans to flex their creativity in ways few could see coming.
Based in the Kanto region of the original Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow games, fans will know the small and humble Pallet Town as the home of the player character, as well as both his in-game rival and the wise and helpful Professor Oak. The town has been featured in all of the various retellings of the classic Kanto-era storyline – whether that would be the long-running Pokémon anime series, the 2004 Pokémon Red and Green remake games for the Game Boy Advance, or the recent Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu/Evee! for the Nintendo Switch in 2018. Now, one fan has brought it to life like never before in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and the result is pretty impressive.
A fan by the name of LinkMigue posted a brief video of a faithfully recreated Pallet Town in Animal Crossing: New Horizons on his Twitter page earlier this week. During the clip, LinkMigue’s in-game avatar, naturally dressed in Pokémon Trainer Red’s iconic outfit, walks across the accurately translated town until he steps inside what is positioned to be the player’s house in the upper left side of the tiny map. You can check out the tweet below:
Since Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ release last month, fans have been using the game’s deep customization options to make tributes to their favorite games, movies, and television shows. Earlier this week, one fan remade the land of Hyrule from The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, while another recreated scenes from iconic horror movies like The Shining. Yet another player took the more topical approach of creating characters and outfits based on the bizarre and recently-released Netflix true-crime documentary Tiger King.
Pallet Town’s layout might be a simple one, but it is still impressive to see it rebuilt using Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ amusingly versatile customization tools. Watching this recreation of a classic video game locale is sure to bring a smile to shared fans of both Pokémon and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, especially seeing Red’s spot-on cap and shirt on an Animal Crossing avatar.
Source: LinkMigue (via Twitter)