Bogus ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ On Microsoft Store Is A Hilarious Wannabe
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The hit Nintendo Switch game Animal Crossing: New Horizons presents a new reality that those on lockdown can escape to. In another reality, however, you’d be stuck in a loop of helping animals cross the road.
That interpretation of the US$59.99 Animal Crossing: New Horizons by developer HugoStudioLab exists on the Microsoft Store, no less, under the same title with identical artwork. For context, there are no animals crossing any road in the Nintendo video game franchise.
For US$2.99, you get to install a completely different game on the PC, which is a platform that the original doesn’t even support. As seen in the hilarious screenshots, the copycat behaves more like Crossy Road and Frogger than an island simulation.
Fake Animal Crossing New Horizons is $2.99 on the Microsoft store: https://t.co/9nBlbx26ie don't buy this pic.twitter.com/oCv75D0e6N
— Nintendeal (@Nintendeal) April 30, 2021
What the game rewards you with is a hard hit of reality in the form of possible car collisions—it does, after all, come with a “Fantasy Violence” warning. Whereas there’s no semblance of death in the original, the Microsoft Store version of “Animal Crossing New Horizons” challenges you to help five different characters escape from their farm to the city “without being run over.”
According to PCGamesN, the title has been up on the Microsoft Store since March 23. Somehow, the game and its animal characters are still alive and kicking as of the time of publishing.
Screenshot via Microsoft Store
Image via Microsoft Store
Image via Microsoft Store
Image via Microsoft Store
[via PCGamesN, images via various sources]
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