Animal Crossing's Isabelle totally snaps in new Doom 2 mod

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The Isabelle Doom 2 mod is surreal and brilliant

Isabelle has had enough. After earning her reputation as a joyful Shih Tzu with a cute little topknot in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, it seems she's done being type-casted. In a new Doom 2 mod that makes Isabelle an immortal companion to the player, the cheerful pooch uncomfortably content trudging through demon guts and blood-splattered dungeon walls.

If you have a certain image of Isabelle and you'd rather hold onto it, watch the trailer for the mod at your own risk. You'll see the villager doing not-that-chill things like bludgeoning demons with her hammer, sweeping around a scythe, and chugging whiskey straight from the bottle. Fun aside, the mod is incredibly well done. Isabelle not only helps you kill baddies, but also tosses you health pots and does little animations while idling.

This absolute riot of a mod comes from It's Me Veronica (via VG247), and it runs on an advanced source port called ZDoom. The developer single-handedly made the whole mod, including the wonderful Isabelle sprites, "from scratch" in about a week. With that, they say it's possible you'll find bugs and glitches, which you can report to the developer via Discord.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Doom Eternal both launched to fanfare on Friday, March 20. Since the two games are so laughably opposite to each other, there was some hope that one of them would feature a cheeky reference to the other, but to no avail. For now, Isabelle's new Doom 2 mod is as close as we can get to a crossover.

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Jordan Gerblick
Jordan Gerblick
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After earning an English degree from ASU, I worked as a corporate copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. I got my big break here in 2019 with a freelance news gig, and I was hired on as GamesRadar's west coast Staff Writer in 2021. That means I'm responsible for managing the site's western regional executive branch, AKA my home office, and writing about whatever horror game I'm too afraid to finish.