Animal Crossing: New Horizons reveals new animal looks and hotly anticipated sleeves

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Your old friends have some fresh new styles

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The new Animal Crossing Switch game is getting ever closer, and so far we've seen lots of teasers about how we'll be able to claim our own deserted islands, but not so much about who we'll get to share them with. The other half of Animal Crossing beyond building up your own customized home is making friends with lots of animals, and we now have a fresh look at many of them - and their bold fashion choices - thanks to a new preview in a Japanese magazine.

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The magazine spread also confirms that animals will be able to enjoy more fashion options. In previous games, your animal neighbors would only wear sleeveless clothes - even if you gave them one of your own garments, their arms would remain intractably bare. Now animals can enjoy the comfort and warmth of sleeves whenever they darn well please. Just look at Fang on the lower right there, feeling sexy as hell in his new Christmas sweater.

Making yourself, your home, and your friends look good is some of the most fun you can have in any given Animal Crossing game, so I am fully on board with this new, sleeved future. We can start turning our deserted islands into the premiere fashion festivals of the world when New Horizons arrives on March 20.

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Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.