Saying Goodbye to my Launch Day Animal Crossing New Horizons Town

 

Tomorrow, March 20th, 2025, marks the five-year anniversary of two pretty big events this decade. First, it was the official beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, but more importantly, it was the launch day of the biggest Animal Crossing game to date: Animal Crossing New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch.

To say that I had a ton of fun in that town would be an understatement. Brickhedge was a whole huge thing, even having a long-running video series on my old Youtube channel following my first two years in the game. 

I loved the town name so much that I reused it in my series of Furry Literature called 'Last Tail'.

But that's where the town name of Brickhedge ends. For you see, I had initially planned to name every town I start in the Animal Crossing series going forward 'Memoria', but the intrigue of being able to name a village with longer than average names was too good an opportunity to pass up.

But now, on the even of New Horizon's fifth birthday, I am ready to begin anew in the world of Animal Crossing. In preperation of the Switch 2 and wanting to design a new town that leans less to the Main Street asthetic and more a rustic, English village, I have decided to start a new town on the game's anniversary.

And it shall be named Memoria, as will the town in the title that proceeds, and so on and so on.

But before I wave goodbye to Memoria, I'd like to share some screenshots showing the interiror of my little town house before it gets transferred to my launch day Switch unit for eternal presevation.

Here we have a street-level view of the two story, one bedroom house on scenic Main Street, Brickhedge.

 

An aerial view of my home. The tomato garden is visible from this angle.

Inside the house is the main living room. Doorways to the left, right and back each lead to important locations. I went with a simple wooden look for the inside here. Not quite a cabin, but close enough.

I am quite happy with how the bathroom turned out too. Though I don't think I'll dedicate a room to my bathroom in the next town.

To the left of the main room is my media area. I went with a darker look for this room versus the rest of the house as I wanted that cool, dark cinema-viewing vibe.

The backroom is the kitchen, which is densely decorated and full of all the goodies needed to whip together a top notch meal.

The basement is, well, the basement.

Finally, my bedroom. Same flooring as the base level, but with a blue theme and wall as opposed to the green look seen downstairs. 

Sitting beside my TV as it always has is my Nintendo Switch. Ready to go first thing in the morning while I wait for Gamestop to open up so that I can pick up my copy of Xenoblade X and my Pyra & Mythra amiibo.