It is finally happening! After more than five years, Animal Crossing: New Horizons will be hosting a collaboration with The Legend of Zelda. You can learn all about it in today's announcement, but let's get through everything shown. There are new furniture and clothing items, as well as Tulin and Mineru as new villagers.
Like in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, you will need amiibo from the Zelda series to unlock these things. We don't know any specifics, but in the very least you will need Tulin's and Mineru's. Speaking of, we don't have a release date yet for the latter, but it should be available on January 15th at the latest, which is when the 3.0.0 update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons launches.
On Nookipedia you can find a complete list of all the Zelda contents in past Animal Crossing games, where most of it was in New Leaf. Some of these contents will return, but not all of it. From what we could see in the footage, it's at least the following:
- Heart Container (now in the Breath of the Wild style)
- Rupee (with different colored variants)
- Fairy Bottle
- Master Sword (with pedestal)
- Triforce
- Majora's Mask
- Hero's Cap, Clothes & Pants
- Champion's Wig & Outfit (+ new pants)
In addition to the returning items, you can spot a variety of new things:
- Ancient Princess outfit set
- Tulin's garbs
- Mineru's garbs and goggles
- Master Sword & Hylian Shield backpack
- Ocarina of Time
- Decayed Guardian
- Silent Princess
- Zonai Authentication Crest
- Tri
- Tri Rod
- Korok Forest Wall
- Korok Forest Floor
Most of it is from three most recent Zelda titles on Nintendo Switch, which makes sense, but there could have been a bit more variety. At least one item from The Wind Waker, Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword would have been nice. But maybe there is more that they haven't shown...
The most important additions are the two new villagers, though. We have Tulin as a jock bird, who has "gust" as his catchphrase. And Mineru is a snooty deer saying "construct". They look both very detailed, which is also thanks to the new outfit items that come with them.
Sadly, there is no news on the four Zelda villagers from New Leaf:
- Ganon (cranky pig)
- Wolf Link (smug wolf)
- Epona (peppy horse)
- Medli (normal bird)
Curiously, there is no overlap between the personalities of the old and new Zelda villagers, where you could cover 75% of all personality types with them, leaving only lazy and big sister. I originally had planned my island with these four characters in mind, but now I have to rethink who I'm going to keep.
And it's understandable that they wanted to replace Medli with a more recent Rito, but it's still a shame about the other three. In the very least they could have brought back Pig Ganon, since he was featured in Echoes of Wisdom. Maybe this will still happen or maybe they haven't announced all of the collaboration items yet, but I very much doubt it. I'm just happy that this collaboration is happening at all, after all hope seemed lost years ago.
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