Animal Crossing - One of the Darkest Games (Theory)

'''Animal Crossing is one of the cutest Nintendo games. In New Leaf, there’s been a train mix-up and you end up being mayor! Golly, what a coincidence! In Pocket Camp, you have to manage your own camp for cute little creatures who come and go. I’m not sure about the previous games, but these are the cutest games ever.'''

'''Right? But my theory may just throw that logic out of the window. There’s just something unsettling about Animal Crossing to me. For one thing, the only townspeople (other than the player character(s)) are all animals. The only humans we meet in the world are other player characters and our parents. The same goes for Pocket Camp. Though, you may argue that we see humans on TV, the shows look old and the same things are repeated over and over again on television. Everything seems to be made, sold and managed by these animals.'''

'''How did these animals get so smart in the first place? Well, it’s hard to tell, since some animals are smart and some are the usual that we have in the real world. Also, some animals even keep other animals as pets or go to see animals and insects in the museum, trapped there. Yet they’re okay with this, knowing that their animal friends are being caged up. They even catch the fish themselves! An article also pointed out an important detail in Pocket camp - some of the requirements for some animals are animal-related. Caged birds, cooked chicken, meat… they’re fine with it. They’re fine with eating other, lesser animals. This is a somewhat messed up food chain.'''

But the questions still remain - how did these animals evolve and what happened to the other humans?

'''Well, about animals evolving, there’s a possibility magic has something to do with it. Magic does seem to exist in the game, such as talking snowmen, Jack (from Halloween) and a fortune teller who can accurately predict the future (and change our surroundings). Perhaps magic has something to do with how some animals evolved, though it still doesn’t explain how others didn’t.'''

'''About what happened to the humans, there are multiple possibilities. For one thing, they could have been killed by that massive disaster shown on the news on TV (fire or lava). Or, it could’ve been something much darker. When the animals evolved, a war broke between humans and animals. The animals were victorious, but a peace treaty soon formed, which left the players and their parents alive as long as they complied with the animals. There’s also something else. Do you know those little gyroids? They’re just made out of clay, so how can they move? How come some of them can talk? Well, maybe after something disastrous happened to the humans, only some humans were left (the players and their parents). The animals then used their magic to seal the souls in the gyroids and then buried them.'''

I do realize that this is all just speculation, but there is definitely something strange going on in the world of Animal Crossing.