User blog:Zarinaaa/Weird/Creepy Animal Crossing Towns Part 2: Fade

See first blog post here.

Fade

Dream Address: 7B00-0047-9C5E

I wasn't sure about bringing Fade up here because as far as story goes, it's not very clear. It is, however, very pretty and well-made, and it provides enough hints about its backstory that I decided some people would want to take a look.

Fade is a very overgrown and tropical/East-Asian looking town. Flowers and trees are everywhere. Skeletons are also everywhere (specifically the Peking man, one of the fossils you can obtain in the game). You'll find villagers wandering around like in any other dream town, but my interpretation of how wild and overgrown the town has become, plus the many skeletons (ignoring that the Peking man is an example of Homo erectus and not a modern human) is that something happened to wipe out the human life here, and wilderness is reclaiming the town.

Support for this is the several pairs of shoes you can find on the beach (commonly interpreted as a leaving of someone who committed suicide in Japanese culture) and the scenes you can find in some houses of people being menaced by someone or something with devil horns or an oni mask. The only humans you'll encounter are a female PC who won't speak to you and the town's mayor, who will spawn in the garden outside her own home and only say, "Don't look at me." The implication to me is that the mayor did something or other that probably summoned some demons and decimated her town. There are a number of villagers with futuristic interiors to their houses which contrasts the outside of the village, making it seem that a long time has passed since whatever took place here. Overall, a town worth exploring because it's nice to look at, and because it hints at things but doesn't overshare.