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Animal Crossing for the Wii.

Despite being only minor characters who (supposedly) would make a cameo in the game, Chris felt he should make a box art focusing on Sonichu and Rosechu.

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 filthy kitchen. Just like home.
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.
That's quite a sculpture you have there.

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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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.

Chris's Animal Crossing Cards

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.

References

[1] November 2023 social media posts#Animal Crossing: New Horizons Dream Code

[2] ttps://old.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/17nn97t/the_one_and_only_message_on_chris_bulletin_board/ (archive)

[3] ttps://old.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/17nr8he/i_went_to_chris_chans_animal_crossing_island_last/ (archive)

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-[[Image:CWCAnimalCrossing.jpg|thumb|''Animal Crossing'' for the Wii. So much for [[Nintendo]]'s overly neurotic online servers to keep [[Pedofork|pedophiles]] away from da kidz.]]
+{{Articleofthenow}}
-[[Image:Accityfolkschurchuad.jpg|thumb|Despite being only minor characters who made a cameo in the game (or so Nintendo informed Chris), Chris felt he should make a box art focusing on Sonichu and Rosechu.]]
+[[Image:CWCAnimalCrossing.jpg|thumb|''Animal Crossing'' for the Wii.]]
-[[Image:ChrisShirtACCF.jpg|thumb|While Chris's plans to add Sonichu and Rosechu as villagers in the Wii version weren't successful, Nintendo did produce a clothes line that uncannily matches Chris's fashion sense.]]
+[[Image:Accityfolkschurchuad.jpg|thumb|Despite being only minor characters who (supposedly) would make a cameo in the game, [[Chris and his ego|Chris felt he should make a box art focusing on Sonichu and Rosechu]].]]
-'''''Animal Crossing''''' by [[Nintendo]] was one of [[Chris]]'s favorite games before ''[[LittleBigPlanet]]'' came out. Worldwide, the game has been released in three incarnations: ''[[Wikipedia:Animal Crossing|Animal Crossing]]'' (GameCube), ''[[Wikipedia:Animal Crossing: Wild World|Animal Crossing: Wild World]]'' (DS) and ''[[Wikipedia:Animal Crossing: City Folk|Animal Crossing: City Folk]]'' (Wii).
+'''''Animal Crossing''''' is a life simulation [[Chris and video games|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 – ''{{w|Animal Crossing: Wild World|Wild World}}'' (for the Nintendo DS), ''{{w|Animal Crossing: City Folk|City Folk}}'' (''Let's Go to the City'' for Europeans) (for the Wii), ''{{w|Animal Crossing: New Leaf|New Leaf}}'' (for the Nintendo 3DS), and ''{{w|Animal Crossing: New Horizons|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, go fishing, catch bugs, fill up the art/fossil/bug/fish collections at the local museum and in general, try to make the town a happy place to live.
+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.
-The game is quite playable by actual adults, as long as you realize you are ''wasting time'' - it's truly a game where excessive enthusiasm can be safely dumped into. Aside of the special events, there's not that much to keep you interested unless you ''want'' to do repetitive things. (This has gotten a little bit better in the DS and Wii games, though.) It's not a game to play if you have, uh, say, ''Tetris'' around in some form.
+In other words, it's [[Chris and hypocrisy|everything Chris avoids doing in real life]].
-== Chris and A''nimal Crossing'' ==
+==Chris and ''Animal Crossing''==
-The series obviously appeals to Chris: the milieu is a cartoony small rural town of bright happy colors, everyone in the city is nice to you, there's no violence at all, and most importantly, you're never in any hurry of doing anything. (There are rumors that the raccoon who runs the general store has mafia connections and [[I'LL BREAK YOU DEAD|will break you dead]] if you fail to pay the mortgage, but those are ''just'' rumors.)
+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 [[autism|avoid prickly-wicklies because they cause distress]] and [[stress|crash into slumber if they have to do anything particularly demanding]].
-Perfect for people who [[autism|avoid prickly-wicklies because they cause distress]] and [[stress|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.
-=== The 24th Wedding Anniversary Special ===
+===''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.<ref>[[November 2023 social media posts#Animal Crossing: New Horizons Dream Code]]</ref> 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 [[Signature|J.C.W.C.S.P.]] (Jesus Christine Weston Chandler Sonichu Prime).<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/17nn97t/the_one_and_only_message_on_chris_bulletin_board/ ([https://archive.ph/NEnZ1 archive])</ref>
+<center><gallery>
+File:AnimalCrossingNewHorizons bulletin1.jpg
+File:AnimalCrossingNewHorizons bulletin2.jpg
+</gallery></center>
+A tour of Chris's island reveals some interesting, if not surprising, things. For one, Chris's island has [https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Item:Vine_(New_Horizons)| 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, [https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Rilla| Rilla], [https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Chai| Chai], [https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Marty| Marty], [https://nookipedia.com/wiki/%C3%89toile| Étoile], [https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Chelsea| Chelsea], and [https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Toby| 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 [[Flutter|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 [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]] furniture, a makeshift arcade (perhaps to reminisce on playing Donkey Kong Jr. Math back in the GameCube game), a [[rainbow]] [[SLGBTQ|pride]] themed dock, and an ominously quiet [[Central Virginia Regional Jail|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.
+<center><gallery>
+File:ACNH CWC City Map.jpg|A map of CWC City.
+File:ACNH Main Room.jpg|Chris's house. Note the heart crystals and tickets left on the floor, and Mint's photo in the top right.
+File:Puzzle Piece Wallpaper.jpg|[[Autism|Puzzle piece wallpaper]] was quite a choice, Chris.
+File:ACNH Back Room.jpg
+File:ACNH Left Room.jpg|[[14 Branchland Court|A filthy kitchen. Just like home.]]
+File:ACNH Right Room.jpg|A room full of Sanrio merchandise.
+File:ACNH Basement.jpg|Chris's mancave - I mean, tomgirlcave.
+File:ACNH Upper Room.jpg
+File:Nook's Cranny.jpg|CWC City's Nook's Cranny, surrounded by [[Monthly Tugboat|coins.]]
+File:CWC City Arcade.jpg
+File:Pride Dock.jpg
+File:Etoile.jpg|Étoile, one of Chris's DLC villagers.
+File:ACNH_Rocky_Outlook.jpg|Reminders of a... [[Jail Saga|better time?]]
+File:Chai.jpg|Poor Chai has Stockholm Syndrome.
+File:Leonardo.jpg|Leonardo, one of Chris's villagers with a Finnish catchphrase.
+File:Agnes.jpg|Agnes, one of Chris's villagers with a Finnish catchphrase.
+File:Rilla.jpg|Rilla, one of Chris's villagers with a Finnish catchphrase.
+File:ACNH David.jpg|[[Homos|That's quite a sculpture you have there.]]
+</gallery></center>
+Another r/ChrisChanSonichu user posted screenshots of Chris's island.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/17nr8he/i_went_to_chris_chans_animal_crossing_island_last/ ([https://archive.ph/plPNt archive])</ref>
+====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"
+{{Infobox/video
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+| subject        = {{Video games|text}}
+}}
+{{Infobox/video
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+{{Infobox/video
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+| subject        = {{Video games|text}}
+}}
+{{Infobox/video
+| name           = Animal Crossing: New Horizons 03Aug2024 clip4
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+| maker          = Tank
+| subject        = {{Video games|text}}
+}}
+===The 24th [[Wedding Comic|Wedding]] Anniversary Special===
 {{main|The 24th Wedding Anniversary Special}}
-Chris made this video in honor of his parents' anniversary.
+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.
-=== Animal Crossing documentary ===
+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|Animal Crossing Documentary}}
-The Animal Crossing Documentary, featuring Chris's incarnation of [[Cwcville]] and [[Cwccity]] in GC Animal Crossing, is one of the great 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.
+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 ===
+===Sonichu and Rosechu as characters===
-{{main|Miyamoto saga}}
+{{main|Miyamoto Saga}}
-Nintendo was in negotiations with Chris to release [[Sonichu]] and [[Rosechu]] as characters on Chris's 27th birthday, but - for some mysterious reason - this plan never came to fruition. (Spoiler: [[trolls]] did it and Nintendo would never use shitty original content in their games).
-=== Chris's Sonichu Animal Crossing cards ===
+In 2009, a genius troll concocted a screenshot of [[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]] and [[Rosechu (character)|Rosechu]] as playable characters and told Chris that Nintendo was planning to release them on his 27th birthday, but--for [[Chris and reality|some mysterious reason]]--this plan never came to fruition.
-Chris made a bunch of character cards for GameCube ''Animal Crossing''.
+<gallery style="margin: 0px auto 0px auto;">
+Image:CWCShirtAC.jpg|You too can dress like Chris!
+Image:Sonichu and Rosechu Approval for ACCityFolk.jpg|Sonichu, and Rosechu.
+Image:ACCityFolkSonichuRosechu.jpg|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]].
+Image:3161674f78583fda5139ec49bbaa6b524b64aa06.jpg|What Chris...
+Image:SonichuAC.jpg|...actually believed.
+</gallery>
-Of note is that he didn't bother to download a code generator or anything - he just copied random codes from real cards. While you can't actually add custom ''items'' in AC games, thanks to the code generators, you can easily create universal codes for ''Animal Crossing'' that have custom ''messages'' (e.g. the codes found in Nintendo's AC website used to have ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' as sender), but this space-age technology is too complicated for Chris...
+===Chris's Sonichu ''Animal Crossing'' cards===
-<center>
+Chris made a bunch of character [[Card games|cards]] for GameCube ''Animal Crossing''.
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-</center>
-=== Chris Chan's Animal Crossing friend codes ===
+===Chris's ''Animal Crossing'' codes===
-*City Folk: 4124-9531-8122
+Friend codes:
-*Wild World: 0558-9666-5003 *bricked by yours truly*
+* ''City Folk'': 4124-9531-8122
+* ''Wild World'': 0558-9666-5003
-Have fun! (note you will have to convince him to add you as well)
+Dream codes:
+* ''New Horizons'': DA-2294-7638-3795
 ==Gallery==
+<center>
-{{collapsible
-|Gallery
-|<gallery perrow="5">
 <gallery>
 Image:Animal Crossing - Wii Box.jpg
 Image:AnimalCrissingCWCEdition.jpg
-</gallery>}}
+File:AnimalCrossingAntics.jpg|[[TSSSF]] card (2019)
+File:Animal Crossing Dream Code.jpg|Chris's Dream Address for ''Animal Crossing: New Horizons''
+File:Animal Crossing New Horizons - CWC Isle in December 2023 picture1.png|Chris's personal greeting in ''Animal Crossing: New Horizons'', taken from the text he inputted on his passport.
+File:Animal Crossing New Horizons - CWC Isle in December 2023 picture2.png|CWC Isle's Town Hall in ''Animal Crossing: New Horizons''.
+File:Animal Crossing New Horizons - CWC Isle in December 2023 picture3.png|The first room of Chris's house in ''Animal Crossing: New Horizons''.
+</gallery>
+</center>
 ==See also==
-*[[Animal Crossing Documentary]]
+*[[The 24th Wedding Anniversary Special]]
+*[[Animal Crossing Documentary|''Animal Crossing'' Documentary]]
 *[[Shigeru Miyamoto]]
 *[[Takashi Tezuka]]
+{{References}}
+{{TV}}
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About Animal Crossing