Animal Crossing Globetrotter - Two Years Later

In April of 2018, a supposed leak was unleashed on the internet known as Animal Crossing Globetrotter. It received a decent amount of attention, much of which was skeptical. However it wasn't much later that the leak was confirmed to be a fake.

What I find interesting is that we just hit the two year anniversary of the "leak". Animal Crossing for the Switch is finally out, and now there's something to compare it to.

The most interesting picture show the player in front of The Roost. Funnily enough, The Roost is not currently in New Horizons, with many players expecting it to be patched into the game in a future update. However I think it's fair to say that this picture actually might look more credible now than it did two years ago. Aside from the clock being the same one used in Animal Crossing Plaza, this image captures the same artstyle New Horizons would end up using.

There's unfortunately not much to say regarding the fake leak, since it was confirmed fake. But I do think it's interesting that it captured a lot of the look New Horizons would later go for. This was made at a time when no visual elements for New Horizons had been shown.

If you want a piece of leak debunkery, I did release a post just over two years ago discussing why I thought the leak was most likely fake.