The large amount of customization options that Nintendo’sAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsoffers to its players often inspire them to create unique fan pieces that cross over with other franchises. This includes movies, animated series, and even other video game titles, such as thepopular action-RPGElden Ring. Recently, anACNHplayer combined their love for the life sim with another popular RPG series,Final Fantasy 7.They recreated iconic game scenes onNew Horizonsto celebrate Tifa Lockhart’s birthday this May.
Fans of bothAnimal CrossingandFinal Fantasyoften create a lot of fan art that combine the two series together. Some placeAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsspecial villagerslike Isabelle in theFinal Fantasyuniverse, while others dress up their villagers in character outfits from theFFvideo games. This shows that there seems to be no lack of love for both of the franchises, and that the gaming community seems to enjoy seeing both of them together.
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To celebrate the birthday ofFinal Fantasy 7’s Tifa Lockhart, JapaneseAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsplayer with the Twitter handle namico_x created a short video that recreated the character’s beloved and humorous scenes in the life sim title. For those who are unfamiliar with Tifa Lockhart, the character’s official birthday in the game is May 3. The video showcased the artist’s villager dressed up as Tifa with a variety of scenes in the character’s popular 7th Heaven bar, and even the Sector 7 slums church. OtherFF7main characters such as Cloud Strife and Aerith Gainsborough even make cameos in the footage.
Though the video is less than a minute long, fans will likely appreciate how namico_x painstakingly reflected details fromFinal Fantasy 7intoAnimal Crossing: New Horizons. They even shared how they aged Tifa’s 7th Heaven bar, from its Midgar city look to its Edge look inFF7: Advent Children. Fans will also likely appreciate namico_x’s version of Tifa’s water tower scene, and how they even made it feel more magical with theAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsshooting stars.
According to the artist’s Twitter profile, fellowAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsplayers can visit their island through their Dream Address. This means that they can actually step into these incredibly detailedFinal Fantasyscenes and take some snapshots for themselves. Hopefully the artist keeps the scenes for a long time, as manyFF7fans will likely want to hop on over and check them out for themselves.
Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis available now on the Nintendo Switch.
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