Animal Crossing: New Horizons player turns island into Hyrule from Zelda: A Link to the Past

Related Articles

Enter the Upside Down world of Stranger Things with the new SFX

July 13, 2022

Fable reboot appoints a new narrative lead

July 10, 2022

Overwatch 2 beta update will address Mercys controversial changes

July 9, 2022

While the rest of us were gleefully dotting our Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab) islands with flowers, bamboo trees, and candy machines, one single-minded Zelda fan turned their island into Hyrule from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

Reddit user VaynMaanen (opens in new tab) shared a screenshot (opens in new tab) of their island’s overview map compared to that of Zelda: A Link to the Past, revealing a strikingly similar layout of roads, rivers, bridges, and buildings. Even specific locations, like Death Mountain, Haunted Grove, and Lake Hylia have been recreated with impressive accuracy. Naturally, the player character is all dressed up as Link, with a green tunic, pointy hat, and some sort of leather contraption around their torso. One can only assume they’ve also changed their island tune (opens in new tab) to something from Zelda.

The creator says it took them “four grueling days” of terraforming to get the look just right, and I 100% believe it. It’s not until you “beat” the game’s story, which involves a number of time-consuming projects, that you’re gifted the Island Designer App. From there, you can build roads, reshape bodies of water, and move around buildings to get the look you want. But it takes many hours, not to mention tens-of-thousands of Nook Miles to do anything like what this Zelda fan has done. You can see all the shots of Hyrule in Animal Crossing: New Horizons here (opens in new tab).

As for me, I’m in egg city. Earth eggs, sky eggs, water eggs… leaf eggs. It’s an eggstravaganza in here. It’s Bunny Day in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab), and Bunny Day lasts 12 days. That means you have almost two weeks to make all the Bunny Day recipes (opens in new tab) you can with every Bunny Day egg (opens in new tab) you can find.

If you’re new to Animal Crossing and too busy grappling with the basics to wonder why eggs attached to balloons are floating around your island, here are GamesRadar’s essential Animal Crossing: New Horizons tips (opens in new tab).