15 Horrifying Video Game Easter Eggs You Totally Missed
13. Animal Crossing And Harvest Moon Think You Shouldn't Watch Late Night TV
There arent many more inoffensive games than Animal Crossing: New Leaf, a classic Nintendo title about running your own town, doing odd jobs for people and getting your kneecaps broken by a tanuki loan shark. Theres nothing remotely scary in this game maybe apart from the mole that shouts at you every time you forget to save unless you happen to be watching TV at a very specific time in the dead of night. Yep, every night at 3:33 am (and remember, it runs off your DS clock), if you switch on the TV, itll stare right back at you with unblinking red eyes. This happens every single night at the same exact time, without fail then suddenly stops. Whatever alien being is trying to communicate, it obviously thinks humans are nocturnal. A similar thing happens in the Japanese version of another slice-of-life sim, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town this time at 4:44 am. Switch on the TV at the appropriate time, and youll see a steam of 4s interspersed with Japanese kanji. That might seem like nonsense to us, but in Japan, the word shi doubles as both the number 4 and the word for death. Imagine if the English word thirteen also meant murder, and a message like that suddenly popped up on screen youd be more than a little freaked out. This egg was removed in western versions of the game, because without the cultural context it doesnt really work as its supposed to. Probably for the best.
