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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Fan Shares Stunning Disco Elysium Recreation

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November 17, 2024

Christoph Rediske

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One dedicated fan has recently recreated the world of Disco Elysium in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Their efforts produced impressively accurate ACNH recreations of over a dozen Disco Elysium locations.

One immensely patient Animal Crossing: New Horizons player recently undertook the effort of recreating numerous Disco Elysium locations in Nintendo’s hit game. The results of their work later made the rounds on social media, eliciting praise from many Disco Elysium fans.

Disco Elysium has been available on the Switch since October 2021, reaching Nintendo’s hybrid console two years following its original release. Although the narrative-driven RPG doesn’t have anything of substance in common with Animal Crossing: New Horizons, people who enjoy both games do exist.

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One of them is Reddit user SpookySocks83, who has lately been spending a lot of time recreating the world of Disco Elysium in the latest Animal Crossing game. Their efforts have so far yielded over a dozen areas inspired by ZA/UM’s critically acclaimed RPG, including rooms themed after the Whirling-in-Rags cafeteria and attic, Harry’s trashed hostel room, and the backyard with the hanged man. The fan also recreated Evrart Claire’s office and Bird’s Nest Roy’s Martinaise pawnshop, both instantly recognizable to Disco Elysium fans.

As part of their design efforts, SpookySocks83 utilized both their own island home and the houses of their Animal Crossing: New Horizons villagers. Since the game’s 2.0 update in November 2021, villager homes have been customizable, allowing players to remodel them after completing the main storyline of the Happy Home Paradise DLC. SpookySocks83’s designs incorporate an extremely wide variety of furniture, suggesting that they have been playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons for a fairly long time.

SpookySocks83 Spent Weeks Recreating Disco Elysium Locations in ACNH

Reflecting on their achievement, SpookySocks83 revealed that they spent weeks on these designs, noting that they’ve been working on them “fairly regularly for about a month” whenever they had some time. Individual rooms took them between 30 minutes and three hours to complete, depending on the location they were aiming to recreate. They didn’t shy away from tackling even the most visually complex scenes, like the backyard dream sequence that Disco Elysium uses to explore Harry’s amnesia, which seems to have required quite a bit of effort to recreate within the confines of Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

SpookySocks83’s designs emerged on the front page of the r/DiscoElysium subreddit in mid-November 2024, amassing hundreds of upvotes and earning widespread praise from the game’s fans. The player described the overall process of recreating the world of Disco Elysium in Animal Crossing: New Horizons as immensely fun, in addition to expressing happiness that so many people appreciate the end result of their efforts.

Disco Elysium – The Final Cut is the definitive edition of the groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city block to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders, or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Full voice acting. All of the city’s beautiful people are brought to life with full English voiceover. Play characters against each other, try to help them, or fall hopelessly in love as each word is spoken to you with the appropriate accent and emotion.

New political vision quests. Face the reality of your worldview as your political compass leads you down new paths. Discover more citizens, a whole extra area, and monumental sights as you leave an even bigger mark on the world by chasing your dreams.

Unprecedented freedom of choice. Intimidate, sweet-talk, resort to violence, write poetry, sing karaoke, dance like a beast, or solve the meaning of life. Disco Elysium – The Final Cut is the most faithful representation of desktop role playing ever attempted in video games.

Countless tools for role playing. Mix and match from 24 wildly different skills. Develop a personal style with over 80 clothing items. Wield 14 tools from guns to flashlights to a boombox, or pour yourself a cocktail of 6 different psychoactive substances. Develop your character even further with 60 wild thoughts to think – with the detective’s Thought Cabinet.

A revolutionary dialogue system with unforgettable characters. The world is alive with real people, not extras. Ask probing questions, make insightful observations, or express your wildest desires as you play cop or something completely different. Disco Elysium’s revolutionary dialogue system lets you do almost anything.

Carve your unique path across the city. Explore, manipulate, collect tare, or become a millionaire in an open world unlike anything you’ve seen before. The city of Revachol is yours for the taking, one small piece at a time. From the streets to the beaches – and beyond.

Hard boiled, hard core. Death, sex, taxes, and disco – nothing is off the table. Revachol is a real place with real challenges. Solve a massive murder investigation, or relax and kick back with sprawling side-cases. The detective decides, the citizens abide.

Released: October 15, 2019
Developer(s): ZA/UM
Publisher(s): ZA/UM
Engine: Unity
ESRB: M For Mature 17+ due to Blood, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs, Violence
How Long To Beat: 23 Hours
PS Plus Availability: Extra & Premium
OpenCritic Rating: Mighty