Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing is a life simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo. Originally released for the Nintendo 64 console in Japan in 2001 and the GameCube in America in 2003, it spawned 4 more installments – Wild World (for the Nintendo DS), City Folk (Let's Go to the City for Europeans) (for the Wii), New Leaf (for the Nintendo 3DS), and New Horizons (for the Switch). It was one of Chris's favorite games, at least before LittleBigPlanet came out.
About Animal Crossing
All of the games in the series involve the player character moving in a town populated by animals, doing random jobs for them to earn rent money, pulling weeds, planting trees, helping visitors, going fishing, catching bugs, filling up the art/fossil/bug/fish collections at the local museum and, in general, trying to make the town a happy place to live.
In other words, it's everything Chris avoids doing in real life.
Chris and Animal Crossing
The series obviously appeals to Chris: the milieu is a cartoony small rural town of bright happy colors, everyone there is nice to you, there's no violence at all, and most importantly, you're never in any hurry to do anything. It's perfect for people who avoid prickly-wicklies because they cause distress and crash into slumber if they have to do anything particularly demanding.
Aside from making the following weird and puzzling video productions, he has also picked up a few nuggets of wisdom from the games. Blathers, the owl who runs the museum in the games, has the habit of rambling about things you donate to the museum until he realizes he's boring you, at which point he usually ends the infodump with "but I digress...". In the 15th slide of The Sonichu Chronicles Chris said that he picked up this phrase from the game, yet he tends to use it only in writing and not when he's actually boring people to tears in other forms of communication.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a sequel game to Animal Crossing, released on Nintendo Switch in March 2020. On 4 November 2023, Chris posted his Dream Code for the game on Twitter, allowing others to visit his virtual island.[1] A r/ChrisChanSonichu user observed that Chris's in-game bulletin board contained only one message, written on 27 September 2023 - a drawing of Sonichu, signed as J.C.W.C.S.P. (Jesus Christine Weston Chandler Sonichu Prime).[2]
A tour of Chris's island reveals some interesting, if not surprising, things. For one, Chris's island has vines all around it, an item that can only be obtained through the Happy Home Paradise DLC, meaning he must have bought it. Six of his ten villagers are the characters created in collaboration with Sanrio, Rilla, Chai, Marty, Étoile, Chelsea, and Toby, characters that can only be invited through Amiibo cards, meaning Chris must have bought them as well. Another notable villager among his ranks is Mint, a squirrel villager he name dropped all the way back in the Animal Crossing Documentary as being his favorite villager, meaning he's held a torch for her for more than twenty years. Hers is also the only picture he has, a gift an animal will give you if you raise their friendship high enough, meaning he's poured all of his attention into her and ignored everyone else. Although his remaining three villagers, Leonardo, Agnes, and Portia, aren't interesting in their own right, Leonardo and Agnes have the catchphrase "alkuperainen", a Finnish word meaning "original", and the aforementioned Rilla has for her catchphrase "Terve", meaning "healthy", likely both words Chris picked up from Duolingo. The majority of his island itself isn't very notable, aside from a preference towards Sanrio and Mario furniture, a makeshift arcade (perhaps to reminisce on playing Donkey Kong Jr. Math back in the GameCube game), a rainbow pride themed dock, and an ominously quiet rocky outpost with tall gray towers. He also prominently displays a copy of Michaelangelo's David sculpture in his gyroidite garden, with its bare buttocks visible.
A map of CWC City.
Chris's house. Note the heart crystals and tickets left on the floor, and Mint's photo in the top right.
Puzzle piece wallpaper was quite a choice, Chris.
A room full of Sanrio merchandise.
Chris's mancave - I mean, tomgirlcave.
CWC City's Nook's Cranny, surrounded by coins.
Étoile, one of Chris's DLC villagers.
Reminders of a... better time?
Poor Chai has Stockholm Syndrome.
Leonardo, one of Chris's villagers with a Finnish catchphrase.
Agnes, one of Chris's villagers with a Finnish catchphrase.
Rilla, one of Chris's villagers with a Finnish catchphrase.
Another r/ChrisChanSonichu user posted screenshots of Chris's island.[3]
Video clips
On 3 August 2024, Official CWCki Server user Tank revisited Chris's game island and recorded some clips of it. Tank wrote: "He felt the need to add an electricity effect to practically everything in his house which gives off a vibe that everything in the house is broken, lol"
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| Direct link | YouTube, archive |
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| Direct link | YouTube, archive |
| Stardate | 3 August 2024 |
| Subject Matter | Video Games
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| Animal Crossing: New Horizons 03Aug2024 clip3 | |
| Direct link | YouTube, archive |
| Stardate | 3 August 2024 |
| Subject Matter | Video Games
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| Direct link | YouTube, archive |
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The 24th Wedding Anniversary Special
- Main article: The 24th Wedding Anniversary Special
Chris made this video in honor of his parents' anniversary. It would have been kind of cute if Chris was six at the time, but it's just sad because he was actually 22.
This video is notable for introducing the Animal Crossing versions of both Bob and Barbara. This wouldn't be exactly damning if they had been created just for this video special, but it appears that the characters have fully decorated houses of their own... and the house loans have been fully paid up (signified by the statues in front of the train station). Fully paying up the house loan takes an incredibly long time in game – and this video shows that he's done it at least four times.
Animal Crossing Documentary
- Main article: Animal Crossing Documentary
The Animal Crossing Documentary, featuring Chris's incarnation of CWCville and CWCcity in the GC Animal Crossing, is one of the greatest cinematic achievements Chris has made. Regular players of the game may notice a few things, such as the fact that while wasting time is unavoidable while playing this game, Chris is clearly wasting way too much time on this game. And that even when he fully paid his mortgage, he still had no idea how to sell multiple items at once.
Sonichu and Rosechu as characters
- Main article: Miyamoto Saga
In 2009, a genius troll concocted a screenshot of Sonichu and Rosechu as playable characters and told Chris that Nintendo was planning to release them on his 27th birthday, but--for some mysterious reason--this plan never came to fruition.
You too can dress like Chris!
Sonichu, and Rosechu.
Chris's drawing of the Sonichu and Rosechu characters for the game, with special instructions on how they should be made, dated '06 January 2009.
What Chris...
...actually believed.
Chris's Sonichu Animal Crossing cards
Chris made a bunch of character cards for GameCube Animal Crossing.
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Chris's Animal Crossing codes
Friend codes:
- City Folk: 4124-9531-8122
- Wild World: 0558-9666-5003
Dream codes:
- New Horizons: DA-2294-7638-3795
Gallery
TSSSF card (2019)
Chris's Dream Address for Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Chris's personal greeting in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, taken from the text he inputted on his passport.
CWC Isle's Town Hall in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
The first room of Chris's house in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
See also
References
- ↑ November 2023 social media posts#Animal Crossing: New Horizons Dream Code
- ↑ https://old.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/17nn97t/the_one_and_only_message_on_chris_bulletin_board/ (archive)
- ↑ https://old.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/17nr8he/i_went_to_chris_chans_animal_crossing_island_last/ (archive)
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