Animal Crossing: New Horizons Player Recreates 1917's Iconic Beach Scene
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a seemingly innocent game which allows for a casual but fun experiences, but players have consistently surprised by using its creative functions for other, less innocent means. Just as fans are using Animal Crossing to continue Hong Kong protests, one player recreated the final beach scene from the award winning film 1917 in game.
The scene in question is at the very end of the movie when Lance Corporal Will Schofield leaves the safety of the trench to run across the battlefield in an effort to get a letter that would stop the attack to his commander. The scene is dramatic and tense, and somehow some of that was captured in this Animal Crossing: New Horizons adaptation of it.
Of course, the limitations of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, such as the maximum allowance of eight players on an island, do weigh heavily on this recreation, but it is still impressive nonetheless. The level of detail in this player's recreation deserves to be applauded.
Using audio directly from the movie, twitter user Michal recreates the scene with surprising detail. Her Animal Crossing character plays the role of Lance Corporal Schofield, and even begins her trek through the battlefield at a walking pace, slowly speeding up like Schofield did in the movie. Another interesting detail is the way that her character bumps into one of the extras that is running the other direction, which happens not once, but twice to Schofield during this scene in the movie.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons allows players to create their own designs for clothing, something that is used to great effect here as everyone is wearing matching outfits and wielding the closest thing there is to a weapon in Animal Crossing, a hatchet. This kind of creativity speaks to the way players will create an endless stream of content for games should the game itself allow it. That principle is seen in other places as well, like the modding community for games like Skyrim and in level creators for games like Little Big Planet and Mario Maker.
There are of course some differences; the scene is much shorter and there is an obvious lack of actual shelling, but those kinds of things are to be expected. Still, the effort put into recreating the trenches using holes, fences, and wiring and everyone's outfits is impressive. If one good thing has come from self isolation it is a huge spike in people's creativity.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now exclusively for Nintendo Switch.
Source: ScreenRant
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