Another thing about the shoe-removing thing. In Japanese culture, when people commit suicide, they remove their shoes to represent stepping into the afterlife.
one thing I noticed is that all the perfect peach trees die as soon as you shake them. perfect trees have some sort of life span, they don't die that quick, so that's put there on purpose too. I interpreted it as showing how close things were to getting bad.
BALALUGA You can’t keep what you find in dreams except pictures (not villager pictures, but the ones player can create, I don’t know how they’re called in english either).
Just as you walked into the room where the doll was staring at a television of static, my TH-cam video began glitching out and faded to black because of an advertisement and it scared the hell out of me at first
I just want to point out that the music playing is the 4 A.M. music. 4 has an association with death in Japanese culture. The 4 A.M. music is also the eeriest hourly music in the game.
4AM is the Witching Hour.. which ironically OP didn't seem to realize lol. It's said to be when Occult/Witchcraft/Dark magic is at it's most powerful at 4AM. I'm not sure why. That stuff is really interesting to me.. always has been.
I'll take it from a logical stand point. A dolly can't kill people, although we're all intrigued by creepy dolls. I think the doll represents Aika herself. Being under all that pressure, she wanted to free herself of it and killed her parents, even the dog. She felt intense guilt afterwards that eventually led her to commit suicide, burying herself with the dolly. The dolly itself is shown placed in several upbeat and happy rooms, probably representing Aika hiding her resentment towards her parents, or just trying to find happiness in a world where there is too much pressure on her. Her parents give, and they take, but they take too much, hence the eggs and the piano. She kills her parents with a knife, represented by an axe because an axe is way too outlandish, like she did the dog. The scene where she is in a prison with the dolly, it shows the dolly with an axe in front of it, with Aika next to it. That symbolizes the pain and guilt she felt trapped with after the murders. So she ended it. Now I think the idea that the doll being evil overcomplicates things, but in this case it is moreso a symbol, like most of the things in the town. It is a physical thing, but it switches from physical to symbolic really quickly. The dolly is the side of her that lingered all along, a psychopath. The dolly is also red, like her clothes. She could've chosen the green or the blue, but no. She chose red, just like the clothes she wears. The dolly is the symbolic embodiment of her psychopathic tendencies (i.e. in the maze of books, representing her mind) whereas Aika is the physical embodiment, the psychopath herself. "This happy dream is coming to an end."
This gave me chills... Especially the room with the flickering full screen dolly... Especially how chugga didn't say a single word while in that room freaked me out...
Heard of this during the TSP days, TheStickyPaddle that is. Never got to fully see it uninterrupted until today, and I'm no Animal Crossing fan myself.
For anyone aware: Aika said different things in previous versions. She basically said "I love my mommy", and with each house, it got more jumbled up and creepy.
I've an interpretation of my own. Aika herself never existed, and the story actually centers around her mother, who once was married, owned a dog, and became obsessed with the idea of having a child. She had this perfect image in her head of a house in the center of a garden of peach trees and carnations, a daughter who could expertly play the piano at a tender age. Slowly her obsession drove her to obtain all of these items prematurely and focus only on maintaining them at the cost of everything else. Thus the actual room where the piano sat decayed and fell apart around it, trash became strewn about the house, and eventually her husband left her (he's never crossed out in any paintings, so it seems somewhat likely he survived). The mother also owned a collection of dolls which she dressed in the likeness of her imaginary daughter, and eventually she began to see them as her daughter, calling out to them as if they could respond, though they never did (the megaphone). Eventually the mother became completely absorbed by these dolls, devoting her attention to only them as both the garden around her house and the dog died of neglect (the dolls holding axes I see as representing the idea of Aika killing the dog and the garden, as the attention the mother lavished on "Aika," ended up causing their deaths). Eventually the mother comes to grips with what's happened, and she commits suicide out of grief. Thus Aika, whose face is blackened out on the mannekin as she never had a face in the first place, is shown to be imprisoned, as she can never be conceived.
The dolly can represent the child. After seeing the Adam and Eve room, I believe it may suggest a poisoned, or abusive raising of the dolly, the dolly being the child Aika. The parents force Aika to be perfect (walking on eggshells), having her play the piano, draw pictures of the family. The party basement, where the doll is seen with other dolls can symbolize how Aika is forced to attend gatherings, and the axe there represents her hate for them. The parents being crossed out can be because they died. But who killed them? Aika. She begins to lose her sanity, and executes her parents for treating her like an object. The crossout of her, represents her losing her sanity. The perfect peaches represent how she has to gain a God Complex, and how she views herself as immortal. The multiple Aika's can represent her omnipotence. More to be analysed later. Leave feedback on this theory if you wish.
My personal theory is that the doll represents Aika herself. That under all the pressure, she felt she was just a doll for her parents meant to fit their perfect family life, and she eventually cracked under the abuse, killed her mother (who killed or got rid of the dog so she would focus on her studies), and eventually killed herself after realizing she was past the point of no return. Sealed in a box, forever still...she became a doll.
That's a reasonable explanation because the doll does look like Aika. I was thinking about that too but thought with the painting being scratched out, the doll was evil. I came to the thought that they were plotting together, sentenced to execution and ran out of the Last Supper to commit suicide so she dies on her terms. Also, the Last Supper area had 12 dolls, with the player that walks in, being the 13th and one is rogue. So, it's likely symbolising that the doll is the traitor and Aika ran out. Aika is a player entity. Exactly like Chugga, or whoever walks in.
@@yogfan1139 It isn't bad, it just feels kinda scary since people tend to play acnl in quite and that song looping messes with your head. People don't like straying too far in thought, and for some reason k.k hypno just feeds into it and makes you feel like wandering in your head. It's unnerving, I guess because having your body do things without willing it too has always been a little frightening for some people.
Given how in many Eastern countries children have extremely strict parents that are pressured from a young age into molding into this "perfect image" their parents created, you could almost say this is their way of expressing how they felt (Of course in an extreme manner)- A lot of it being a cry for help. This can be shown not in just games or shows, but in songs and how in most of these places there's high suicide rates, as well. The mind can form into a very dark place, instead of being scary I always consider these type of stories to be quite sad.
Taylor Heil I’ve never read something so true. coming from a moderately strict Asian family. I’ve seen what those parents do and yes many of my friends with animal crossing have a dark theme
Fortune cookie quote "If you leave my mask out there, something terrible will happen!" It is from Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask and is said by the Happy Mask Salesman
Okay, so I just realized something. The name "Aika" is also relevant. In japanese the word for love is "Ai". Furthermore, when you want to make a sentence a question, you end it with "ka". For examle, "Do you like apples" translates to "Anata wa ringo ga sukidesu ka?". The name "Aika" can actually be translates as the question "Do you love me?"
Chuggaa, I think that the "feast room" was supposed to be the "The Last Supper" since there are twelve dolls and you being the thirteenth, also the upstairs room was a biblical reference so I think the downstairs room would be too, but that's just what I think. :/
I know i’m late, but here’s my take on it: I think it’s symbolism. I don’t believe the doll killed people; I think the doll represents Aika’s conscience or something, or even Aika herself. i agree with the pressure of her parents, but not only her parents, but everyone else. That’s why there’s so many faces. I believe Aika ran away from home, because of all the exit signs. She has been battling all of these bad thoughts, hence the room with all the clocks. Anyways, I think the parents put pressure on her to be perfect and to hide her imperfections. This is why the back room was covered at first, then revealed at the end. That back room symbolizes how Aika feels on the inside; trapped. But she can’t show it, which is why it was hidden. Perhaps she killed her parents, I don’t know. But what hit me was that back room. This video was very well-done, by the way. I’ve never got scared my an animal crossing town until this one, so thank you!
"You can not be an Animal Crossing fan without having even heard of this, it's just that talked about in the Animal Crossing community." I've been playing this series since day 1 and I've never heard of this, never seen it talked about.
My interpretation: Aika was a small girl. Her family seemed to love her, never showing any negativity towards her, and even spoiling her. But when her father was away, Aika's mother was loud, abusive, and was pressuring her to be perfect, when she couldn't. One day, she got a doll for her birthday. Among all the other toys, she only liked that doll. Other than her dog, it was the only "person" she could tell her true feelings to without being hurt. One day, Aika's dog dies. I can't really interpret how it died, but it wasn't killed by the doll. Aika is sad, so she keeps going to the doll. Her father isn't really there to do anything, but he isn't a negative influence, either. Aika's mother is still abusive, and Aika begins to fall deeper in to a trauma developed by her abuse. With said trauma, Aika also develops a mental illness. She starts believing the doll is speaking to her, and becoming an actual influence. Aika can't decide if she wants to stay the same she is - or kill her mother to stop the abuse. Aika eventually takes the latter path and kills her mother, and is later blamed for the murder. She tries to explain the situation, but nobody believes her - except one person, symbolized by the different statue in the "prison" room. That person possibly being her father. Eventually, she is convinced that everyone hates her, so she commits suicide. She is remembered at a small shrine at the coast of the village, where the doll is buried alongside her.
@@purpleguyishot2228 apparently, there's a forum of a guy, who claimed to be a friend of the creator of the map, who told the backstory. However, in the world of the internet, you can claim to be the son of Bill Gates, so don't take it as factual evidence.
.....okay, i think i figured it out. i feel like the doll was an ally to Aika, or the doll IS Aika. at first she acts like an innocent possession and plaything, but as she shows up with the axe more and more, she seems kind of pushy, like she wants to tell us something. maybe that Aika was murdered in her sleep by her parents. the paintings in the last house make me think that Aika was murdered by her parents. the only two people left are Aika's mom and dad. there are also lots of hints about two people being part of something. you have the two pairs of eyes "hidden" in the room of dolls and toys turned to the walls. toys represent innocence and eyes represent truth, so the room is symbolizing ignorance of truth. you have another "ignorance of truth" vibe in that room with the patterns of the paintings everywhere, and the doll looking away at the tv screen, almost as if it was forcing itself to believe in the concept of "family". the piano in that other house represents Aika as well, since her name is related to music (sad song? elegy? lament? love song?), and the eggs might represent life, especially as easter eggs what she perceived as a bright and colorful one. also, that room with the wheels? and the dolly being uncomfortably close to the shark? it's like a bunch of wheels of fortune (or time) spinning faster and faster, with doom on the horizon for Aika, or the red doll. these rooms seem relatively separated from the "parents" and seem to just symbolize "Aika", perhaps representing a disconnection from each other. in terms of the parents being behind it, you also have adam and eve and the apple and the serpent representing temptation in the other room, and the two journals in that one paper room, which might represent secrets. the basement with the dolls feasting at first made me think of Valhalla with dead heroes feasting together in happiness, but considering the adam and eve room and the 12 dolls seated at the table, it's more fitting that it goes with the Last Supper. the axe behind the red doll symbolizes two things. first off, one of the 12 disciples betrayed an innocent person (Jesus), so it represents a betrayal that led to the downfall of an innocent. second, i think it's a pun. the red doll is/is related to Aika, and since there's an axe behind her, it means she's "getting/got the axe", or that someone got rid of her. it's interesting that the painting with mom is scratched out, even though mom and dad are implied to be "alive". Aika has a strong devotion to her mom but nothing really showing her love for dad, maybe because dad was a newcomer to the family as a love interest to mom (adam was eve's love interest, for example), so i'm thinking that mom murdered her to be with dad (the adam and eve room imply that, like the Biblical story, the woman is the first to sin), or at the bequest of dad, and Aika's repeated phrase must mean that she loved her mother dearly prior to her murder and felt a deep betrayal from her actions. maybe that's what the dog symbolism is for - dogs represent loyalty thanks to their reputation as "man's best friend", and the death of Aika might have been caused by a loved one she trusted, aka her mother, and the dog houses in the graveyard and the dog scratched out in the painting represents a broken loyalty. the dog and loyalty theory goes along with something else not shown in this video. in the maze of bookshelves, a beehive is found in front of a picture hanging on the wall, which is of Aika and her mom. the lost and found station in Aika Village is FILLED with beehives. beehives also are used in symbolism of Jesus Christ because of how bees come back every year and are "reborn". Jesus and Christianity are connected to faith, so it could mean that Aika has lost a lot of faith, and since there's a beehive right in front of the picture of mom and Aika, it means that she must have lost faith in her mom. i also feel that Aika's mom later regretted her actions and committed suicide, like La Llorona from Spanish folklore, who was known to have drowned her children in a river to be with a man she loved, who drowned herself, and who is connected to water because she is said to walk alongside rivers and bodies of water, searching for the children she murdered. which would explain the shoes by the seashore. i feel that Aika is missed, because her grave has candy and sweets, meaning that someone, somewhere, misses her. maybe it was the dad who was seemingly left behind. maybe he regretted his actions or didn't even see her death coming, and wishes he had. this is all just speculation, really. i LOVE searching for the hidden symbolism in things.
TheLastHylianTitan this is such deep analysis, really gave me chills. more people should take the time to read it.........Thank you for putting your ideas out there!
I think Aika might BE the doll, or rather the doll symbolizes Aika herself. I think she went crazy from the constant pressure, and killed her parents, but projected her actions onto the doll. When she realized that she was the one who killed them, she committed suicide, hence the line about the dream ending. The "dream" was her deluding herself, trying to act like nothing happened. The town begins to fall apart as the lies she built for herself fall apart. She and the dolly are in "prison" because she feels trapped by her parents expectations, I would guess they were hyper-critical, and likely religious fanatics. The biblical imagery through the house reference scenes of sin or betrayal. The original sin in the Garden of Eden, and Judas' betrayal of Jesus after the last supper. She realizes her sin and kills herself, and the doll is buried with her because the doll represented the displaced blame that she had come to realize the truth about.
Personally, I think Aika village is about growing up, the doll represents aika's childhood and how it follows her everywhere she goes, it never leaves her as she struggles to grow up, the houses are meant to represent different stages of her life, notice how the houses slowly get more frightening and dark, it's showing how she's coping with her life, I really can't go into much detail about all the rooms but I do have a couple of theories for most of them but I'll do the first room and the last room, the first room is meant to be a birthday party, and when it's your birthday, you age (obviously) I think this is the start of Aika's downward spiral into near insanity. Also for the room with the heads and Aika and her dolly in the middle, it's meant to show how many people judge her and what people expect of her, they're constantly watching to make sure she's acting like an adult, she wants to interact with her childish side but people stop her from doing it. Anyway thanks for reading!
I love the idea of Luna as a Tapir considering in old lore, Tapirs were known to eat dreams . Hence the Pokemon Drowzee. But I'm sure most of you knew that already.
And here we are, at the end of the online life of this game, more than a decade after it's release. The online service for the 3DS will go offline soon, as did the DS before it. Soon, videos like these will be the only way for people to experience what was a cultural icon of the New Leaf dream world scene. But, perhaps...It was due time for all of this town to finally rest peacefully.
I seriously expected the dolly to be in Chugga's main room with the axe, and Chugga being really silent, walking up to the dolly then having it cut to black
I remember when I went to this town once I shook the perfect peach trees and every single one of them rotted at the first shake. Not only is that insane levels of planning, but it made the dream thing so much more relevant. The perfect town was only a dream, a romantization ready to break at any moment.
I like both the common interpretation and yours... I almost think it's a combination of both. Aika's parents give her the doll for a birthday. It's cute and meant to be a best friend. That's why the animals have it too.... ( Think of the creepy dog doll from paranoia agent) Later that year, Aika is feeling pressured by her parents to be perfect at the piano, at school and still make friends. One night, when she feels she can't take the constant pressure to be perfect anymore, she rants saying she hates her parents and wishes they'd go away and leave her alone. The Doll hears it and makes it happen. they're killed and "leave her alone". Aika finds out what the doll did and feels trapped, both by guilt for thinking such things and by fear of the doll. She feels like her mother is asking "Why, Aika? I loved you ... I wanted what was best for you... how could you Aika...."... it drives her to kill herself in the end
Here's my personal take on it: Aika was given a doll on her birthday, made to look like her. Aika and the doll, in a metaphorical sense, are related. The mother gave her that doll as a way of saying "she is perfect, just like you." Further placing the standards the mother has for Aika. Dolls have a common theme associated with them, a sense of beauty, subjective and objective perfection, and absolute face-value. Women and little girls are compared to dolls sometimes as a way of saying they are not a person, or a living breathing human, but a toy or object with the purpose of satisfying and entertaining the owner, while maintaining a perfect and beautiful paint job. So when we see the doll in the houses, it symbolizes that concept, as well as Aika herself. That doll is basically her sister. They are both in a position of forced ideals. Aika is pressured to be perfect in everything. Her school work (the room with all the papers), her music lessons (piano with eggshells), and throughout this time, as the stress builds, she is contemplating killing her parents. The stress and confusion is emphasized in the rooms with the owls looking back and forth, plus the room with the chaotic spinning wheels. (also there's probably an inner conflict in Aika and how she sees her personal sins (or failures), reflected in the Adam and Eve room). The pressure and stress caused Aika to snap, and she kills her parents. After being left with no one to care for her, multiple people finding out and judging her, nearly getting arrested, she kills herself with her sister in her arms. Her doll.
I. Am. Speechless. I never thought it was possible to craft a story this symbolic in animal crossing of all things. And it makes me proud to call myself an artist. The story that is explored here is multifaceted and had many interpretations. In art, that's a great thing to have because then people find something that speaks to them. From modern dance to video games, what makes a work memorable is the level of which it speaks to you. Seeing all the interpretations about this story reminds me why I chose to study dance: to explore a thing we take for granted or to tell a story through movement. Because getting people to talk about what they get out of a work allows them to make some realizations about themselves or about ideas. Chuggaa, thank you for showing us this town. My props go out to the person who crafted this world.
I've came up with a story of my own. *ahem* when Aika was a little girl, her parents got her a doll for her birthday. What they didn't realize that the doll was actually the devil and the doll brought pain, stress, misery, and anger into the family(hence the room with with the piano, eggs, and creepy background). The doll noticed the mother trying to fix the problem so the doll took matters into its own hands(hence the doll with the ax) and killed the mother, but the father witnessed the doll kill the mother and ran from the doll as far away as possible with Aika. But the doll always followed Aika because the doll needed a host to feed on(hence the Aika statue with the doll in the cages). They moved from house to house(hence all the different houses) but the doll would always be there. Eventually the father and Aika moved back to their old house and the doll was waiting for them. Years later Aika couldn't take it anymore and killed herself. When the father buried Aika's corpse, he noticed a different tombstone that said Aika's doll. He never visited Aika's grave ever again. Let me know what you think
I remember when I first saw this,I was 12 and a huge new leaf player at the time. This scared the shit outta me-I remember like spending a few weeks trying to figure out what the story was about.
I can't believe it's almost been 6 years since this was uploaded, and since I first watched it. I used to watch this channel all the time when New Leaf had first come around, in 2013, all the way til I deleted my town and fell out for a while in 2015. I miss those times, haha.
when you went in the doll room with the doll looking at the static tv please say im not the only one that saw the flashing images of the doll on the screen? Im dead serious
After watching this video (it's been almost a year since I've looked into Aika village), here's what I think: The doll and Aika are the same "person" (I'll explain why that's in quotations later). I know this is nothing new when it comes to theories about this place, but let me explain in greater detail. The first house and part of the town symbolizes Aika's early years. Life seemed perfect, but everything changed once she reached a certain age. The party was her last day of true happiness. Her family was all together, and she was able to happily play with her dolls like a normal child. But the doll persona upstairs (literally and figuratively) painting the pictures of her family was a hint at what was coming. The next part of the town has a maze of pitfalls, holes, and sweets. Aika is confused. What happened to her perfect little life? She's losing the innocent little girl she once was, and is slowly falling into madness. The old her is dying (hence the graveyard). I'm pretty sure the megaphone is her mother yelling at her, and the doghouses in the old version of the down showed the dog died. I don't think the mother killed the dog like a lot of people say, but the dog ran away and Aika's mother told her to just get over it so she could focus on her studies. They later found the dog dead (one person in the comments said that the dog might've gotten stung to death by bees, hence the beehives in the lost and found. Copper’s a dog, the dog was *lost*, and they *found* it stung to death) and Aika blames her mother for not looking hard enough, basically killing the dog. Now house number two. More mazes, more confusion, you probably get where I'm going with this. The signs signify her trying to escape her insanity. The left room is her mother (the statue) pushing her deeper into this dangerous part of herself (the shark). The right room is Aika's choice between this dark version of herself or the perfect girl her mother wants her to be. The shoes may signify failed suicide attempts. The back room is her parents' (but mostly her mom's) eyes, always watching her. The dolls could be her turning her back on her parents, or possibly her childhood (the dolls). Upstairs symbolizes the level of perfection her parents want her to reach, but they took the wrong path to do so (the mom statue is the same, which is why it makes me think that. Yes, I get the Bible reference, but I'm not that knowledgable when it comes to this stuff, so you definitely comment if you know more). Downstairs we got a party (another Bible reference, read the other note). Aika's celebrating her "success" with her family, but they are unaware of the fact that she's suffering in insanity. Now the town is deteriorating, just like Aika's view of the world and sanity. The bookshelf maze is her being trapped in her studies toward perfection (I should probably mention the doll-perfection connection). The piano room and the picture of her mother punishing her are examples of this. Ht fact that the doll is no longer hiding the axe may show that Aika has now shown what she's become. The back room is her dwelling on her past. The books are diaries, and what were once happy memories seem evil to her now, so she ripped them out of her mind, which is starting to become blank of feeling, like the ceiling and floor of that room. The some played at her birthday party haunts her. Upstairs, she is surrounded by her "loving" family, but she might as well be staring nothing. They are nothing to her. Downstairs, I think Aika's mother got pregnant (shown with the baby carriage) and that was the straw that broke the camel's back. Aika was not going to let another child suffer the same thing she did, so she killed her mother and her unborn sibling in the night. The bird in the cage singing to sheet music symbolizes a lack of freedom (kinda a side note, tbh). The last house shows Aika's return to reality. Her house, once a place of joy, is ruined. Upstairs, the doll persona has scratched out all of the dead, including the old Aika. The back room shows Aika trapped in her mind by the doll persona, while she is watched like she always was (this time by what I assume to be workers at some sort of asylum). Aika realizes the only way out is suicide. Her father (which I assumed was often away on business trips) finds her body, and buries her in their quite hometown. He offers sweets to her grave, remnants of her destroyed childhood. The doll buried next to her symbolizes how Aika finally trapped it through her own death.
Such a good analogy!! I thought she may have been murdered and trying to contact her mother, hence the crying noise in the library room and a billion pictures of her mother. I was too scared to watch twice though!
The fountains seem to be crying. It's like Aika's 'perfect life' is flawed, and the fountains could represent aspects of Aika, or her in different times, with her crying as an indication that she isn't happy. Also, I think the doll is Aika's 'dark side', and the prison with her in it is her succumbing to her dark side.
I have a different interpretation of Aika Village's story. Keep in mind this is my first time ever seeing or hearing of this place. The doll is dressed remarkably similar to Aika. Due to this, I think Aika's mother was very controlling, very bossy, very strict. As a result, Aika kept turning to her toys to find company at home. One dolly in particular. After so long of her life being a fake, cheery dream, the stress breaks her. She starts associating more and more with the dolly, perhaps hallucinating the axe, or perhaps the axe is to symbolize her stress. Then, something, or someone, kills Aika's mother. I believe that to be Aika. She's then trapped in her own mind, her own self next to the murderous, stress-broken dolly, the world able to watch her. Driven from grief, guilt and anguish, she commits suicide, killing herself and the stress-broken dolly with her.
I agree with you about the parents putting pressure on Aika, Chugga, but I think that the story is more about mental illness; Aika's, actually. You see at the beginning that they are a happy family. As you progress, the environment starts to decay. The dog is gone (maybe Aika killed it). Cracks begin to appear. I think the environment is representative of Aika's mental state, and shows the gradual decline from her original healthy self. The pressure from the parents is them not being able to cope with her illness. They try to cover it up and force her to be normal. Aika has an internal struggle between her very real problems and her parents suppression of them (the owl clocks looking back and forth). The dolly is representative of her mental illness (perhaps it is a split personality, or psychotic urges). It starts out seemingly innocuous, but becomes increasingly dangerous. In the end, Aika becomes a cellmate with her own illness, and kills herself. Her parents are the only ones not crossed out. Maybe they are happier she's gone. Or, maybe the parents never existed. The beginning birthday was a hallucination, and Aika is insane the entire time. The final house shows what her house actually looks like, and the beginning shows what she thinks it looks like. In this interpretation, the journey is moving from what Aika thinks is real, to what actually is real. Loved the playthrough either way. Thanks for the awesome Halloween video! :)
To quote Game Theory and PeanutButterGamer on the Majora's Mask Link is Dead video, that's one of the most beautiful things about art. Everyone has their own interpretation. To quote myself, HOLY CRAP that place was freaky and overall quite disturbing.
Aika had a happy family. Her favorite hobby was playing piano. Until her mom saw how good she played and decided to enter her into contests and kept treating her like she’s a pretty toy while the dad did nothing to stop it along with forcing her to get straight As in school from all that paperwork. She liked it at first but when she kept going to every single piano competition to the point of burnout she hated it. She wanted to hang out with her friends (the other dolls) but they’re forced to be away from each other due to also being forced into being perfect by their own parents, so they all had one time together before they’ll never see each other again. She was then punished for sneaking out to hang out with friends by being locked up in the room so she could continue with her studies, she also went there when she wasn’t playing good enough. She had enough of this and decided to kill her mom when she was sleeping, but didn’t want her to die due to her conscience so she slashed her mom on the back instead leaving her to bleed, but it eventually resulted to death anyway since she lost huge amounts of blood, the hospital couldn’t even save her. Out of guilt she took her dog with her since not only was it the only family she loved she doesn’t want her dog to go through the same pain. Few days later after the hospital the dad was looking for the dog and Aika until he found a burial, which she staged to make it look like she died cause she drowned, which she told her friends to cover it up. She left with her dog to start a new life somewhere so she’ll never be pressured into anything again.
My take is that the doll is a coping mechanism made by Aika after killing her mother (maybe due to stress), which would explain the owls with the statues representing good and evil sides. She shifts her guilt by blaming the doll for the murder. When she's in the jail, she is literally in jail for murder, and the doll with the axe represents how she doesn't consider herself the perpetrator. The scene with the doll party might represent her alongside other children struggling with her "doll" side. I'm not sure how the shoes work with that though.
Hey Chugga, To end off this great Series, you should play a slide show of all the pictures of ACNL that you took from the beginning! Play some Sadish music and put it together! It would be a touching way to end it all! :) Thanks! -Iggy
I like the interpretation that the doll is Aika's outlet. It's both her escape from the life she has, as well as her scapegoat when the pressure gets too strong for her. Given the first Aika we meet flat out says that this is in her dream, that means it's her mental state. She was in a perfect home with a perfect family and she got the dolly. However either right before the birthday, or sometime after it, she discovered her talent, and her mother wanted her to realize her fullest potential. Over time the pressure put on her started to damage her mental health., indicated by the decay of the village as you go through it. She comes to resent her mother for forcing her down a path of life she wanted nothing to do with, giving tons of pressure and stress, she begins to talk to the one friend she has left, due to this new life of hers where she no longer has any friends... the doll. And in her decaying mental state, the doll starts to talk back, and they aren't the thoughts of the Aika who had received the doll, it was the new darker side of her, telling her that it could all end if she made the tough decision to end the source of her pain. It is a decision she secretly fights back on forth on, as whatever happens, there's no going back. She makes the decision and with her mental state completely gone, kills her mother in cold blood during the night. At some point, she gained a moment of clarity and realized what she had done. She couldn't live with what she did, so she ended her own life. One piece of good evidence when interpreted with this story is the megaphone... remember where it was found, in front of town hall. What does town hall represent? Leadership, government, AUTHORITY. Maybe the megaphone wasn't an indicator of her mother LOOKING for her, but instead commanding her, ordering her, dictating her life. A sign of change from the happy family as she slipped more and more into insanity from the pressure. Well that's just one possible interpretation anyway :)
I think the room with the spinning wheels represent life's randomness, and losing control of what you have. Your life spiraling out of control, slipping out of your hands.
Aika villager, and my other favorite town, Cannibal Village, have been lovingly remade in New Horizons. Also, when this episode first came out, I kinda freaked out. I had known about Aika for a bit but hadn't kept an eye on this LP(I mentioned in a previous episode I was staying Spoiler Free since NL was my first AC since GCN) and I skipped half the playlist to watch this one episode out of sheer excitement and bafflement.
this video is so nostalgic for me. i remember watching this and thinking the concept of a horror village was so freaking cool. the K.K. song still reminds me of Aika
........... This town reminds me of a game called Ib. In the game, Ib and her family go to an art museum. Ib, wanting to see the art, wanders off until she finds a rather scary looking painting. (I forget what it's called) After looking straight into the painting, Ib finds her self in an alternate version of the art gallery. Her parents are gone, all the spectators are also gone, and the doors are locked. However, the gallery has opened up a previously locked door. After going though the door, Ib finds a single red rose in a pot in the middle of the room. This rose acts as your health meter. If it wilts completely, she will die. whew..I didn't intend for it to be so long, but yeah. I'll stop here because I don't want to spoil the end. Or ends. This game has many endings, and is rather dark. Just like this town. And the main character is a young girl. .......On a completely separate note, why pretell am I watching this at 9:22 at night?!
Dude thanks for telling me about Ib. I just watched Markipliers play through and I love it! Totally irrelevant, but thank you stranger for telling me about this masterpiece.
@@jimin6813 you should. And also I highly recommend the rpg game Mad Father. It involves experimenting with dolls, a bit like Aika Village. Jacksepticeye did lets plays of all of them.
13:49 okay this got me, fuck, I was literally just thinking to myself "I love animal crossing horror because it's safe enough to digest because it's JUST animal crossing but can tell a story" and then boom
I'd love to share my interpretation of this story, but I have so many ideas that I can't decide which one's my favorite. So I'll say this: Anyone who can make Animal Crossing creepy is very creative and has serious talent.
I was on aika village a hour ago and the room in the right in the house with the electronic signs looked much different plus the room with aika and the doll had jail bars blocking it.
I won't explain it much, I'll let you see for yourself, but I think it's: Aika got her first beloved doll on her birthday, and she never did anything without it. But her parents always demanded perfection from Aika and made her do everything she couldn't, making her freak-out and get frustrated with everything. Eventually she thought her doll was telling her things and would listen to it at night. That same night, Aika ran away with her father's axe, and killed her dog. A few days later, the mother was searching town for Aika, and her parents eventually gave up and went home, thinking their daughter had died. That night, Aika came home and killed her mother only, with the axe she used on her dog, taking her doll and running to the beach. She kept the doll and axe somewhere before the beach, taking off her shoes and drowning herself. Later that week, her father found the shoes and body of Aika, and swam to a secluded beach to bury her with everything Aika was close to.
If you meet Wendell in the dream, his drawings are pretty weird too. There's the standard stuff, but also a black and red stripe design, an exit sign, a design with Aika's face and the words "Aika Cafe" on it, and a picture of Mary holding Baby Jesus.
MY INTERPRETATION I think Aika Village is about the parents' wish to get a child (Aika). They are imagining to celebrate birthday parties and playing around with her (first house). The second house symbolizes the notion of the mother being left alone (for instance, by the toys facing away) and being alone in "paradise" (Adam and Eve). The piano, the eggs, the torn out diary pages and the axes shows how the mother's dream has been shattered. The basement tells us the reason, her baby/utero died. From this point everything is getting f**ked up. In the attic, you can clearly see the mother's obsession to become pregnant. The last home builds the end of the story, the happy home wich the mother imagined to have is distroyed. Her thoughts, hopes, wishes, everything. The second level (wich showed the happy playing thoughts) now showes how the dreams got distroyed and how the mother unfortunately had to deal with it. The last room, that was blocked by the furniture in home #1, is showing how the parents tried everything to become pregnant (the statues watching Aika). The fenced cage of the doll represents the utero and the axe the death of it. And the grave on the "Island" or the "unreachable beach part" symbolyzes the death of the mother by commiting suicide (shoes on the beach). In conclusion, I think Aika Village is more sad than creepy to me.
I somewhat share Chugga's theory. However, I think the doll wasn't evil. I think the doll was just a doll that came to represent her mental state over time. You could see it as her insanity, cracking under the pressure. The eyes and faces watching were her parents and other people watching and judging her. The Eden thing was to show that she was corrupted by her own instability.
This is my interpretation of the story: Aika used to live a happy life. Her parents were happy, and so was she. But later on, the parents became stressed, told Aika to do some things with pressure, ( Like the piano ) and eventually, her parents wanted her to choose between them because they got divorced. This lead Aika to pure stress, hating her life. I'm assuming that she went to live with her mom, but It's still unclear. The dolly must've represented Aika. At the birthday party, it shows she has an axe. That means she's hiding the fact that she wants to commit suicide. The spaces between houses are how life changed for her over the years. First happy, slowly getting sadder through life. I don't know if the mom died, but I'm assuming she was alive. In the room with the spinning wheel, it means " Should I go in the ocean and commit or not?.. " Sadly, Aika did. The dolly was her. After all, the dolly was the one inside the room. Sitting on a chair. In the maze house, It shows how she is confused on what to do. Choose dad or mom? Would this happen? I feel trapped.. Etc. Soon, she couldn't handle anything anymore. So, she decided to commit. Also, at the first house, It might just be Aika's dream. Aika might have had a dream of a perfect life. After all, she says; "This is my dream. " We all know Aika committed suicide in the ocean. It's a sad story, but sometimes life is like that. If you're depressed, I'm here for you. I don't want anyone to have the same life as her.
When I started playing, I didn't know we could make several save files - I thought it was one per town, and I was good with one town. Anyway I went to Aika village and saw the same girl more than once and f r e a k e d o u t. I thought she was following me, and with the whole vibe of the town, I really just wanted to turn my 3DS off without saving lol.
The Horror and Beauty behind Aika village is awesome. It not only gives a creepy story but also a very strong moral and warning to parents and children alike. (At least to me)
For those interested, 2D00-002A-49A0 is Aika's current dream code (thanks to angelkay16's comment on GameFaqs from 6 years ago). There are several changes to the town since this video, and as others have mentioned the 3DS online services will go down next year so if it's something you want to do, i'd advise that you make time to visit before the end of March 2024. (And if you're here, you probably also want the address for Palette: 4B00-00A2-F421 ) Here's a list of things to look out for in Aika which I noticed were changed from the video: Flowers were removed from the spawn area House 2, Left room - 14 black clothed Dollys having a picnic around Aika and a spoiled turnip House 2, back room - The eyes have been removed from the back wall House 2, basement - The feast was replaced with screaming gyroids and pyraminds of money in a desert House 3, main room - The black doll is hidden amongst the bookshelves House 3, back room - Letters on the floor were replaced with the child's drawings from house 1, writing, a family portrait, and several balled up, discarded pieces of paper. The music box was removed House 3, left room (new)- A room made up of cat themed furniture with fish and surgical implements scattered about House 3, attic - Some furniture was swapped out, and a new picture of Aika and someone was added to the chalkboard House 3, basement - The room is now a bakery with the same run-down floor and walls. A sign reading "Aika Cafe" next to a picture of Aika's face and a cup of coffee is displayed House 4, main room - Some furniture was swapped out House 4, back room - prison bars were swapped out for larger bars which prevent the player from entering the room House 4, attic - The order of the paintings was changed The Beach - At the right most point of the beach, a sand castle, a fortune cookie ("Some people shy away from bombs, but you are not most people (#15)"), and two mystery bags are on the ground next to the water Aika's Grave - Flowers were removed
![[TH] VCT Masters Shanghai Swiss Stage DAY 5 // FPX vs TH | FUT vs LEV](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/r61uDZTmu44/mqdefault.jpg)
imagine how much creepier they could make this town in new horizons? seeing that you can place things outside and terraform the land
Aika village 2: electric boogaloo
Oh no
big zoinks OMGGGGG LMAOO
yeah im really excited to see what people will do in new horizons...[ if anyone knows of any yet plz tell me lol]
big zoinks lmfaooooo
Another thing about the shoe-removing thing. In Japanese culture, when people commit suicide, they remove their shoes to represent stepping into the afterlife.
+Ghosty144 Neat
I noticed that from Yandere Simulator and my Japanese cousins told me that
Ya I've heard of that
Ghosty144 2 years late but holy fucking shit
Hamatee *Hecc
I'm just imagining some kid using the random dream town option and stumbling on this or the Cannibal Town lmaoooo
Excuse me, the WHAT town?
Thomas Baughman yea... cannibal town exists... it’s pretty terrifying.
yep! hitokui. its actually really cool
I was a kid when i spowned in that town....i actually liked it ;-;
Soapy That sounds like fun xD
The creator is making this in New Horizons!
How do you know that?
Malek O. They tweeted it
@@ElbowStuff Do you still have the link?
Malek O. mobile.twitter.com/a67502529
Thanks for the fast replies lol
one thing I noticed is that all the perfect peach trees die as soon as you shake them. perfect trees have some sort of life span, they don't die that quick, so that's put there on purpose too. I interpreted it as showing how close things were to getting bad.
I also found a pink night cap and pajama bottoms next to a buried skeleton by the police station
Bre9a so fricking spoopy m8y
Bre9a
Or maybe someone was destroying the perfections and making things bad
I dunno
Maybe it means that everything looked perfect, but when you get closer, it really isn't
Was that not just a function in the game? Haven't played in years no idk
whoever created aika village is very creative i like how they did it
The creator said it was a story about rape
@@baycic Oh man.
Clearskies Stardust you’re probably too young then....
HyperClear_Stardust UwU ya...
@Baycic Bich holy crap lmao
That address doesn't work anymore, this one is the current one:
2D00 002A 49A0
EggAbyss thanks, I was looking for the new code 👍
EggAbyss this one isn’t working anymore either, is there another?!
Things what find in dream world i have in my inventory after get up? Sorry for my english
BALALUGA no.
BALALUGA You can’t keep what you find in dreams except pictures (not villager pictures, but the ones player can create, I don’t know how they’re called in english either).
Just as you walked into the room where the doll was staring at a television of static, my TH-cam video began glitching out and faded to black because of an advertisement and it scared the hell out of me at first
AngeredIrken03 the glitching was editing
fearyn same
AngeredIrken03 lol same
AngeredIrken03 I ALSO HAD AN AD WHEN THAT HAPPENED
@@idkwhatimdoingbuthopefully6980 O MI FOOKIN GOSH XD I SEEN THIS COMMENT AS SOON AS IT PLAYED THE AD
I wonder how the HHS rated the house.
Jennifer Bannink HHA*
Jennifer Bannink 100,000,000 points
Jennifer Bannink Lyle: OH SHITE -1111111111111111111 POINTS Dolly: 999999999999999990 POINTS OR I KILL YOU
Jennifer Bannink they probably walked in the house with the dolly and books and be like 'NOPE, NOPE,NOPE....'
666/10
I just want to point out that the music playing is the 4 A.M. music.
4 has an association with death in Japanese culture.
The 4 A.M. music is also the eeriest hourly music in the game.
But the 11PM is the most depressing
"shi" or "yon" means 4 "shinde" means DIE
Crazy how this innocent children's game developed such dark undertones. I never saw this coming lol.
And the sun rises at 4 A.M. in Japan.
4AM is the Witching Hour.. which ironically OP didn't seem to realize lol. It's said to be when Occult/Witchcraft/Dark magic is at it's most powerful at 4AM. I'm not sure why. That stuff is really interesting to me.. always has been.
I'll take it from a logical stand point. A dolly can't kill people, although we're all intrigued by creepy dolls. I think the doll represents Aika herself. Being under all that pressure, she wanted to free herself of it and killed her parents, even the dog. She felt intense guilt afterwards that eventually led her to commit suicide, burying herself with the dolly. The dolly itself is shown placed in several upbeat and happy rooms, probably representing Aika hiding her resentment towards her parents, or just trying to find happiness in a world where there is too much pressure on her. Her parents give, and they take, but they take too much, hence the eggs and the piano. She kills her parents with a knife, represented by an axe because an axe is way too outlandish, like she did the dog. The scene where she is in a prison with the dolly, it shows the dolly with an axe in front of it, with Aika next to it. That symbolizes the pain and guilt she felt trapped with after the murders. So she ended it. Now I think the idea that the doll being evil overcomplicates things, but in this case it is moreso a symbol, like most of the things in the town. It is a physical thing, but it switches from physical to symbolic really quickly. The dolly is the side of her that lingered all along, a psychopath. The dolly is also red, like her clothes. She could've chosen the green or the blue, but no. She chose red, just like the clothes she wears. The dolly is the symbolic embodiment of her psychopathic tendencies (i.e. in the maze of books, representing her mind) whereas Aika is the physical embodiment, the psychopath herself. "This happy dream is coming to an end."
yeah i never thought the doll was alive either. just more symbolism
Also, red is always a color that is perceived with anger, war, danger and the like, so that would make since with the color choice
This is a 14-line paragraph about a fictional town in a fictional game. What are you doing with your life?
Yeah I thought the same thing
Luigifan129 well I think the mom died of natural causes and the dog then she just eventually got depressed and well we know what happens
In the back room of her house, if you look at the walls there's Japanese written saying あいして, meaning love.
I wonder what isabelle say about the citizens satisfaction for this village XD
i was thinking that when i went there 😂
Villagers say I like this town wait... I don't XD
+usernameundefined123 It has Jacob's Ladders. But at the same time they have weeds and all that trash at the end
7/10 too much demon-possessed dolls
she would probbly just be "..." cus shes probably dead
This gave me chills... Especially the room with the flickering full screen dolly... Especially how chugga didn't say a single word while in that room freaked me out...
Lmfao...
I think emile did not say anything because he edited that into the video
The flickering reminded me of 5 nights at freddy's. uncommonly the screen flickers, in the same sense.
This is scary :O
Tom Nook probably make bank from selling all these damn dollies lmao
It's 2020, and I'm just now hearing about this, being an avid AC fan.
Magma743 they’re making one in new horizons!
Heard of this during the TSP days, TheStickyPaddle that is. Never got to fully see it uninterrupted until today, and I'm no Animal Crossing fan myself.
For anyone aware: Aika said different things in previous versions. She basically said "I love my mommy", and with each house, it got more jumbled up and creepy.
Oh, I remember!
I've an interpretation of my own. Aika herself never existed, and the story actually centers around her mother, who once was married, owned a dog, and became obsessed with the idea of having a child. She had this perfect image in her head of a house in the center of a garden of peach trees and carnations, a daughter who could expertly play the piano at a tender age. Slowly her obsession drove her to obtain all of these items prematurely and focus only on maintaining them at the cost of everything else. Thus the actual room where the piano sat decayed and fell apart around it, trash became strewn about the house, and eventually her husband left her (he's never crossed out in any paintings, so it seems somewhat likely he survived). The mother also owned a collection of dolls which she dressed in the likeness of her imaginary daughter, and eventually she began to see them as her daughter, calling out to them as if they could respond, though they never did (the megaphone). Eventually the mother became completely absorbed by these dolls, devoting her attention to only them as both the garden around her house and the dog died of neglect (the dolls holding axes I see as representing the idea of Aika killing the dog and the garden, as the attention the mother lavished on "Aika," ended up causing their deaths). Eventually the mother comes to grips with what's happened, and she commits suicide out of grief. Thus Aika, whose face is blackened out on the mannekin as she never had a face in the first place, is shown to be imprisoned, as she can never be conceived.
AchtungFreud {*-*}
AchtungFreud What about the things Aika says to you throughout the story? What do those mean? Excellent theory btw
Your username is quite fitting for the theory. What an unsettling story you wove out of the town, holy jeez
Dang!
@@joozhuah8017 I believe Aika is narrating the story, imo
whoever made this town should write horror novels
The dolly can represent the child. After seeing the Adam and Eve room, I believe it may suggest a poisoned, or abusive raising of the dolly, the dolly being the child Aika. The parents force Aika to be perfect (walking on eggshells), having her play the piano, draw pictures of the family. The party basement, where the doll is seen with other dolls can symbolize how Aika is forced to attend gatherings, and the axe there represents her hate for them. The parents being crossed out can be because they died. But who killed them? Aika. She begins to lose her sanity, and executes her parents for treating her like an object. The crossout of her, represents her losing her sanity. The perfect peaches represent how she has to gain a God Complex, and how she views herself as immortal. The multiple Aika's can represent her omnipotence.
More to be analysed later. Leave feedback on this theory if you wish.
Guys, the person who created the town said this was a story of abuse and rape.
the party basement has 12 dolls, and with the creation of sin upstairs, i'd take a guess that's the last supper. the doll with the axe is judas.
@@baycic can I get the exact quote / where you found this?
Oh wow I never thought of that
I am an animal crossing fan, yet i had never even heard of this until now...
Yeah, for a happy and cute game, that town was deep and terrifying.
+Madison Ysasaga my thoughts exactly
hacked by poodle corp twitter.com/poodlecorp hacked...
hacked by poodle corp twitter.com/
Madison Ysasaga True, true... Quite a change for an animal crossing town's expectations!
My personal theory is that the doll represents Aika herself. That under all the pressure, she felt she was just a doll for her parents meant to fit their perfect family life, and she eventually cracked under the abuse, killed her mother (who killed or got rid of the dog so she would focus on her studies), and eventually killed herself after realizing she was past the point of no return. Sealed in a box, forever still...she became a doll.
That's a reasonable explanation because the doll does look like Aika. I was thinking about that too but thought with the painting being scratched out, the doll was evil. I came to the thought that they were plotting together, sentenced to execution and ran out of the Last Supper to commit suicide so she dies on her terms. Also, the Last Supper area had 12 dolls, with the player that walks in, being the 13th and one is rogue. So, it's likely symbolising that the doll is the traitor and Aika ran out. Aika is a player entity. Exactly like Chugga, or whoever walks in.
I was thinking almost the exact same thing.
Same here I thought she killed her mother
YoshiTheAwsome Same here.
yeah, this is what I thought too
This place legit used to scare me so much when I was younger
as soon as the eye paintings were shown my dog scratched at my door and scared the hell out me
The room with the eyes on the walls is so creepy D:
*****
Yes I did
Yeah I liked the story but it's a bit scary
+Emily .B "-??
in my opinion, i think the toys represent aika's purity/childhood, and the eyes represent the parent's harsh judgment and critic
saltedsweets same
This is why K.K. Hypno is my least favorite thing in the world.
It gives off the same vibe as 'lavender town'.
@@michaelmilam7285 omg yes that's terrifying
for some reason its my favorite? i always get this song first
@@yogfan1139 It isn't bad, it just feels kinda scary since people tend to play acnl in quite and that song looping messes with your head.
People don't like straying too far in thought, and for some reason k.k hypno just feeds into it and makes you feel like wandering in your head. It's unnerving, I guess because having your body do things without willing it too has always been a little frightening for some people.
It's actually my favorite K.K Slider song
K.K Synth is the worst though
Anyone else notice how Japanese people always have some sort of fascination with horror and childhood-like themes?
childhood stress is a pretty real issue in East Asian cultures
Given how in many Eastern countries children have extremely strict parents that are pressured from a young age into molding into this "perfect image" their parents created, you could almost say this is their way of expressing how they felt (Of course in an extreme manner)- A lot of it being a cry for help. This can be shown not in just games or shows, but in songs and how in most of these places there's high suicide rates, as well. The mind can form into a very dark place, instead of being scary I always consider these type of stories to be quite sad.
Taylor Heil I’ve never read something so true. coming from a moderately strict Asian family. I’ve seen what those parents do and yes many of my friends with animal crossing have a dark theme
Fortune cookie quote "If you leave my mask out there, something terrible will happen!"
It is from Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask
and is said by the Happy Mask Salesman
I noticed that too!
Okay, so I just realized something. The name "Aika" is also relevant. In japanese the word for love is "Ai". Furthermore, when you want to make a sentence a question, you end it with "ka". For examle, "Do you like apples" translates to "Anata wa ringo ga sukidesu ka?". The name "Aika" can actually be translates as the question "Do you love me?"
weaboo
weaboo
Daniel Lindberg *sigh* you ain't even wrong, bruh.
Do u know what a weeaboo is
+Daniel Lindberg Or
They could tell the town is japanesse and used google translate
Or it could just be the fact they are smarter than you
Chuggaa, I think that the "feast room" was supposed to be the "The Last Supper" since there are twelve dolls and you being the thirteenth, also the upstairs room was a biblical reference so I think the downstairs room would be too, but that's just what I think. :/
Also the red doll has an axe (the was that was said to betray) aka Judas
So based of the bible cool
The Miners if the doll is judas then it is easy to kill
The Miners i know but in binding of isaac judas has 1 base health so he dies in 2 hits
wow that sounds so... Corrects actully!
"Here we have a pair of red shoes
Aika's shoes",
Your shoes
My shoes
Shoe's shoes
Shoe shoe shoe
moonwell ot comeside
when i saw the beginning i was like _where could this be going._ i was not disappointed.
Communism
why this made me laugh
I know i’m late, but here’s my take on it:
I think it’s symbolism. I don’t believe the doll killed people; I think the doll represents Aika’s conscience or something, or even Aika herself. i agree with the pressure of her parents, but not only her parents, but everyone else. That’s why there’s so many faces. I believe Aika ran away from home, because of all the exit signs. She has been battling all of these bad thoughts, hence the room with all the clocks.
Anyways, I think the parents put pressure on her to be perfect and to hide her imperfections. This is why the back room was covered at first, then revealed at the end. That back room symbolizes how Aika feels on the inside; trapped. But she can’t show it, which is why it was hidden.
Perhaps she killed her parents, I don’t know. But what hit me was that back room. This video was very well-done, by the way. I’ve never got scared my an animal crossing town until this one, so thank you!
and Aika traps you in here never to ESCAAAAAAAAPE!
Lol I cracked up at that part!
+Silly Stuff Productions same!
I fell of my bed when he said that lol.
uhhh... am i the only one who saw his screen flassh when he went close to the dolly?
That scared me. Badly. Maybe a glitch.
If it wasn't a glitch then chugga definitely edited it in
I was literally scared I taught it was gonna be a jump scare it was a picture of the dolly.who knew this type of game can be scary????
I saw that too!
mushroomcakes ikr?
The doll reminds me of the Elf on the Shelf.... frickin demon
you've heard of elf on the shelf, now get ready for... creepy doll in the dream town.
I don't really like dolls
You've heard of Elf on the Shelf. Now get ready for organ failure.
You've heard of elf on the shelf , now get ready for...Terminal 7
in a tree Is it bad I own 7 Elves on the shelf? 😂
i remember when this looked like good quality...but id still kill for dream towns in new horizons
So...who did you kill?
@@xxmemexmachinexx8472 🤭🤫🤫
I interpreted the piano as highly strung which goes along well with the walking on egg shells since she's close to snapping.
everytime i watch this, when he goes upstairs in the 3rd house... the screen flashes red 4 times
+Amelia
same
But I think they progrmmed that in
Or Chugga edited it in
I'm about to find out
idk but it scares me sumtimes
+KaiLeigh LaRoche
It's edited
+Amelia yea that's what I see
yeah I saw it
"You can not be an Animal Crossing fan without having even heard of this, it's just that talked about in the Animal Crossing community."
I've been playing this series since day 1 and I've never heard of this, never seen it talked about.
😬
I’ve been playing for a while and haven’t heard of it until probably a month ago
i played animal crossing since 2016. i played it when i was 10 and found out about it and that's when i got into shit like this lmfao.
My interpretation:
Aika was a small girl. Her family seemed to love her, never showing any negativity towards her, and even spoiling her.
But when her father was away, Aika's mother was loud, abusive, and was pressuring her to be perfect, when she couldn't.
One day, she got a doll for her birthday. Among all the other toys, she only liked that doll.
Other than her dog, it was the only "person" she could tell her true feelings to without being hurt.
One day, Aika's dog dies. I can't really interpret how it died, but it wasn't killed by the doll.
Aika is sad, so she keeps going to the doll. Her father isn't really there to do anything, but he isn't a negative influence, either.
Aika's mother is still abusive, and Aika begins to fall deeper in to a trauma developed by her abuse.
With said trauma, Aika also develops a mental illness.
She starts believing the doll is speaking to her, and becoming an actual influence.
Aika can't decide if she wants to stay the same she is - or kill her mother to stop the abuse.
Aika eventually takes the latter path and kills her mother, and is later blamed for the murder.
She tries to explain the situation, but nobody believes her - except one person, symbolized by the different statue in the "prison" room.
That person possibly being her father.
Eventually, she is convinced that everyone hates her, so she commits suicide.
She is remembered at a small shrine at the coast of the village, where the doll is buried alongside her.
That makes sense actually
c: c: Aika was raped, and has schizophrenia and a personality disorder.
How do you know?
Wolfz Music huh can you explain that interpretation?
@@purpleguyishot2228 apparently, there's a forum of a guy, who claimed to be a friend of the creator of the map, who told the backstory. However, in the world of the internet, you can claim to be the son of Bill Gates, so don't take it as factual evidence.
.....okay, i think i figured it out.
i feel like the doll was an ally to Aika, or the doll IS Aika. at first she acts like an innocent possession and plaything, but as she shows up with the axe more and more, she seems kind of pushy, like she wants to tell us something. maybe that Aika was murdered in her sleep by her parents. the paintings in the last house make me think that Aika was murdered by her parents. the only two people left are Aika's mom and dad. there are also lots of hints about two people being part of something. you have the two pairs of eyes "hidden" in the room of dolls and toys turned to the walls. toys represent innocence and eyes represent truth, so the room is symbolizing ignorance of truth. you have another "ignorance of truth" vibe in that room with the patterns of the paintings everywhere, and the doll looking away at the tv screen, almost as if it was forcing itself to believe in the concept of "family". the piano in that other house represents Aika as well, since her name is related to music (sad song? elegy? lament? love song?), and the eggs might represent life, especially as easter eggs what she perceived as a bright and colorful one. also, that room with the wheels? and the dolly being uncomfortably close to the shark? it's like a bunch of wheels of fortune (or time) spinning faster and faster, with doom on the horizon for Aika, or the red doll. these rooms seem relatively separated from the "parents" and seem to just symbolize "Aika", perhaps representing a disconnection from each other. in terms of the parents being behind it, you also have adam and eve and the apple and the serpent representing temptation in the other room, and the two journals in that one paper room, which might represent secrets. the basement with the dolls feasting at first made me think of Valhalla with dead heroes feasting together in happiness, but considering the adam and eve room and the 12 dolls seated at the table, it's more fitting that it goes with the Last Supper. the axe behind the red doll symbolizes two things. first off, one of the 12 disciples betrayed an innocent person (Jesus), so it represents a betrayal that led to the downfall of an innocent. second, i think it's a pun. the red doll is/is related to Aika, and since there's an axe behind her, it means she's "getting/got the axe", or that someone got rid of her.
it's interesting that the painting with mom is scratched out, even though mom and dad are implied to be "alive". Aika has a strong devotion to her mom but nothing really showing her love for dad, maybe because dad was a newcomer to the family as a love interest to mom (adam was eve's love interest, for example), so i'm thinking that mom murdered her to be with dad (the adam and eve room imply that, like the Biblical story, the woman is the first to sin), or at the bequest of dad, and Aika's repeated phrase must mean that she loved her mother dearly prior to her murder and felt a deep betrayal from her actions. maybe that's what the dog symbolism is for - dogs represent loyalty thanks to their reputation as "man's best friend", and the death of Aika might have been caused by a loved one she trusted, aka her mother, and the dog houses in the graveyard and the dog scratched out in the painting represents a broken loyalty.
the dog and loyalty theory goes along with something else not shown in this video. in the maze of bookshelves, a beehive is found in front of a picture hanging on the wall, which is of Aika and her mom. the lost and found station in Aika Village is FILLED with beehives. beehives also are used in symbolism of Jesus Christ because of how bees come back every year and are "reborn". Jesus and Christianity are connected to faith, so it could mean that Aika has lost a lot of faith, and since there's a beehive right in front of the picture of mom and Aika, it means that she must have lost faith in her mom.
i also feel that Aika's mom later regretted her actions and committed suicide, like La Llorona from Spanish folklore, who was known to have drowned her children in a river to be with a man she loved, who drowned herself, and who is connected to water because she is said to walk alongside rivers and bodies of water, searching for the children she murdered. which would explain the shoes by the seashore.
i feel that Aika is missed, because her grave has candy and sweets, meaning that someone, somewhere, misses her. maybe it was the dad who was seemingly left behind. maybe he regretted his actions or didn't even see her death coming, and wishes he had.
this is all just speculation, really. i LOVE searching for the hidden symbolism in things.
That........... was deep
TheLastHylianTitan ......wow.......
TheLastHylianTitan this is such deep analysis, really gave me chills. more people should take the time to read it.........Thank you for putting your ideas out there!
TheLastHylianTitan i did not read a word of that whole story. im am now edumacated
TheLastHylianTitan wow just 0.o wow
I think Aika might BE the doll, or rather the doll symbolizes Aika herself. I think she went crazy from the constant pressure, and killed her parents, but projected her actions onto the doll. When she realized that she was the one who killed them, she committed suicide, hence the line about the dream ending. The "dream" was her deluding herself, trying to act like nothing happened. The town begins to fall apart as the lies she built for herself fall apart. She and the dolly are in "prison" because she feels trapped by her parents expectations, I would guess they were hyper-critical, and likely religious fanatics. The biblical imagery through the house reference scenes of sin or betrayal. The original sin in the Garden of Eden, and Judas' betrayal of Jesus after the last supper. She realizes her sin and kills herself, and the doll is buried with her because the doll represented the displaced blame that she had come to realize the truth about.
Actually, it has some of the same vibes as Binding of Isaac, in some ways.
LaydiNite Perhaps the cradle represents Aika's parents deciding they could not make her in to a 'doll', and had another child to replace her?
LaydiNite Aika actually means 'lamentation' or 'sad song' so personally, I think it's the title of the story instead of the doll thingy or the girl.
LaydiNite www.belltreeforums.com/showthread.php?105703-Aika-village-dream-town-(True-story-behind-it)
Deep
everyone else: "creepypasta theory"
me: poor girl :(
Same
😂
uh no
Same here XD
Personally, I think Aika village is about growing up, the doll represents aika's childhood and how it follows her everywhere she goes, it never leaves her as she struggles to grow up, the houses are meant to represent different stages of her life, notice how the houses slowly get more frightening and dark, it's showing how she's coping with her life, I really can't go into much detail about all the rooms but I do have a couple of theories for most of them but I'll do the first room and the last room, the first room is meant to be a birthday party, and when it's your birthday, you age (obviously) I think this is the start of Aika's downward spiral into near insanity. Also for the room with the heads and Aika and her dolly in the middle, it's meant to show how many people judge her and what people expect of her, they're constantly watching to make sure she's acting like an adult, she wants to interact with her childish side but people stop her from doing it. Anyway thanks for reading!
I love the idea of Luna as a Tapir considering in old lore, Tapirs were known to eat dreams . Hence the Pokemon Drowzee. But I'm sure most of you knew that already.
Bro
Certified
7 years ago
No comments
b r o
what if someone asks for the backstory of the village and the guy says "idk man i was just bored"
And here we are, at the end of the online life of this game, more than a decade after it's release. The online service for the 3DS will go offline soon, as did the DS before it. Soon, videos like these will be the only way for people to experience what was a cultural icon of the New Leaf dream world scene.
But, perhaps...It was due time for all of this town to finally rest peacefully.
That fortune said " If you leave my mask out there something terrible will happen!" Cough Majoras mask cough
I seriously expected the dolly to be in Chugga's main room with the axe, and Chugga being really silent, walking up to the dolly then having it cut to black
I was going to say the same thing
Thats wat i thought 2!
I remember when I went to this town once I shook the perfect peach trees and every single one of them rotted at the first shake. Not only is that insane levels of planning, but it made the dream thing so much more relevant. The perfect town was only a dream, a romantization ready to break at any moment.
Updated Dream Address: 2D00-002A-49A0
@Austin Elbert does it work?
@Austin Elbert ok thanks! ^^
The town got updated from what Ive seen. including the deletion and addition of some rooms
I couldn't tell if that flashing effect was part of the game or he added that editing, cause it definitely made me uncomfortable lol
He added that in. You wouldn't be able to have that happen in Animal crossing.
Inkling Lavender And thank goodness for that.
Blergh Blergh Yup.
Inkling Lavender Oh good. Didn't think so.
DeathBoyX1 well he was totally silent then; probably consontraiting on the special effects!
I like both the common interpretation and yours... I almost think it's a combination of both. Aika's parents give her the doll for a birthday. It's cute and meant to be a best friend. That's why the animals have it too.... ( Think of the creepy dog doll from paranoia agent)
Later that year, Aika is feeling pressured by her parents to be perfect at the piano, at school and still make friends.
One night, when she feels she can't take the constant pressure to be perfect anymore, she rants saying she hates her parents and wishes they'd go away and leave her alone. The Doll hears it and makes it happen. they're killed and "leave her alone". Aika finds out what the doll did and feels trapped, both by guilt for thinking such things and by fear of the doll. She feels like her mother is asking "Why, Aika? I loved you ... I wanted what was best for you... how could you Aika...."... it drives her to kill herself in the end
Lame
Sounds too much like an anime plot :/
That’s actually a good interpretation
Makes sense but the dolly buries herself and Aika on the beach
Here's my personal take on it:
Aika was given a doll on her birthday, made to look like her. Aika and the doll, in a metaphorical sense, are related. The mother gave her that doll as a way of saying "she is perfect, just like you." Further placing the standards the mother has for Aika. Dolls have a common theme associated with them, a sense of beauty, subjective and objective perfection, and absolute face-value. Women and little girls are compared to dolls sometimes as a way of saying they are not a person, or a living breathing human, but a toy or object with the purpose of satisfying and entertaining the owner, while maintaining a perfect and beautiful paint job. So when we see the doll in the houses, it symbolizes that concept, as well as Aika herself. That doll is basically her sister. They are both in a position of forced ideals. Aika is pressured to be perfect in everything. Her school work (the room with all the papers), her music lessons (piano with eggshells), and throughout this time, as the stress builds, she is contemplating killing her parents. The stress and confusion is emphasized in the rooms with the owls looking back and forth, plus the room with the chaotic spinning wheels. (also there's probably an inner conflict in Aika and how she sees her personal sins (or failures), reflected in the Adam and Eve room). The pressure and stress caused Aika to snap, and she kills her parents. After being left with no one to care for her, multiple people finding out and judging her, nearly getting arrested, she kills herself with her sister in her arms. Her doll.
I’m watching this at 1:30 AM and needless to say I’m at the doll room with the eyes and I nearly shit myself.
I. Am. Speechless. I never thought it was possible to craft a story this symbolic in animal crossing of all things.
And it makes me proud to call myself an artist.
The story that is explored here is multifaceted and had many interpretations. In art, that's a great thing to have because then people find something that speaks to them. From modern dance to video games, what makes a work memorable is the level of which it speaks to you.
Seeing all the interpretations about this story reminds me why I chose to study dance: to explore a thing we take for granted or to tell a story through movement. Because getting people to talk about what they get out of a work allows them to make some realizations about themselves or about ideas.
Chuggaa, thank you for showing us this town. My props go out to the person who crafted this world.
Actually, this never happened, it's a dream...
+Yosi ... Or is it XD
Devster Dun dun duuuuuuuun!
dun.. dun... *DUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN*
The thing is, maybe not, but I did hear this is kinda based on a true story
Cami Bajek budum pssh
9:16 This room is an allegory on the evil present in the popular TV shows _Shark Tank,_ and _Wheel of Fortune._
Aika looks literally as similar as possible to that dolly.
I would have loved to see some kind of alternate text to this when talking to Luna where Emile couldn't have woken up from the dream.
I've came up with a story of my own. *ahem* when Aika was a little girl, her parents got her a doll for her birthday. What they didn't realize that the doll was actually the devil and the doll brought pain, stress, misery, and anger into the family(hence the room with with the piano, eggs, and creepy background). The doll noticed the mother trying to fix the problem so the doll took matters into its own hands(hence the doll with the ax) and killed the mother, but the father witnessed the doll kill the mother and ran from the doll as far away as possible with Aika. But the doll always followed Aika because the doll needed a host to feed on(hence the Aika statue with the doll in the cages). They moved from house to house(hence all the different houses) but the doll would always be there. Eventually the father and Aika moved back to their old house and the doll was waiting for them. Years later Aika couldn't take it anymore and killed herself. When the father buried Aika's corpse, he noticed a different tombstone that said Aika's doll. He never visited Aika's grave ever again. Let me know what you think
wow good story
I think its a cool story
Thanks, now I'm not gonna sleep tonight. Or ever.
come on its 11:00 how am I going to sleep
Not bad, the town certainly is set up so people can experience it, and come up with their own stories.
I remember when I first saw this,I was 12 and a huge new leaf player at the time. This scared the shit outta me-I remember like spending a few weeks trying to figure out what the story was about.
ME WHEN I WAS 8
I can't believe it's almost been 6 years since this was uploaded, and since I first watched it. I used to watch this channel all the time when New Leaf had first come around, in 2013, all the way til I deleted my town and fell out for a while in 2015. I miss those times, haha.
when you went in the doll room with the doll looking at the static tv please say im not the only one that saw the flashing images of the doll on the screen? Im dead serious
No it didn't you dumb fuck it's editing
I'm Not here no need to get salty
And flashs of aika with the people
13:50 spoopy
After watching this video (it's been almost a year since I've looked into Aika village), here's what I think:
The doll and Aika are the same "person" (I'll explain why that's in quotations later). I know this is nothing new when it comes to theories about this place, but let me explain in greater detail. The first house and part of the town symbolizes Aika's early years. Life seemed perfect, but everything changed once she reached a certain age. The party was her last day of true happiness. Her family was all together, and she was able to happily play with her dolls like a normal child. But the doll persona upstairs (literally and figuratively) painting the pictures of her family was a hint at what was coming. The next part of the town has a maze of pitfalls, holes, and sweets. Aika is confused. What happened to her perfect little life? She's losing the innocent little girl she once was, and is slowly falling into madness. The old her is dying (hence the graveyard). I'm pretty sure the megaphone is her mother yelling at her, and the doghouses in the old version of the down showed the dog died. I don't think the mother killed the dog like a lot of people say, but the dog ran away and Aika's mother told her to just get over it so she could focus on her studies. They later found the dog dead (one person in the comments said that the dog might've gotten stung to death by bees, hence the beehives in the lost and found. Copper’s a dog, the dog was *lost*, and they *found* it stung to death) and Aika blames her mother for not looking hard enough, basically killing the dog. Now house number two. More mazes, more confusion, you probably get where I'm going with this. The signs signify her trying to escape her insanity. The left room is her mother (the statue) pushing her deeper into this dangerous part of herself (the shark). The right room is Aika's choice between this dark version of herself or the perfect girl her mother wants her to be. The shoes may signify failed suicide attempts. The back room is her parents' (but mostly her mom's) eyes, always watching her. The dolls could be her turning her back on her parents, or possibly her childhood (the dolls). Upstairs symbolizes the level of perfection her parents want her to reach, but they took the wrong path to do so (the mom statue is the same, which is why it makes me think that. Yes, I get the Bible reference, but I'm not that knowledgable when it comes to this stuff, so you definitely comment if you know more). Downstairs we got a party (another Bible reference, read the other note). Aika's celebrating her "success" with her family, but they are unaware of the fact that she's suffering in insanity. Now the town is deteriorating, just like Aika's view of the world and sanity. The bookshelf maze is her being trapped in her studies toward perfection (I should probably mention the doll-perfection connection). The piano room and the picture of her mother punishing her are examples of this. Ht fact that the doll is no longer hiding the axe may show that Aika has now shown what she's become. The back room is her dwelling on her past. The books are diaries, and what were once happy memories seem evil to her now, so she ripped them out of her mind, which is starting to become blank of feeling, like the ceiling and floor of that room. The some played at her birthday party haunts her. Upstairs, she is surrounded by her "loving" family, but she might as well be staring nothing. They are nothing to her. Downstairs, I think Aika's mother got pregnant (shown with the baby carriage) and that was the straw that broke the camel's back. Aika was not going to let another child suffer the same thing she did, so she killed her mother and her unborn sibling in the night. The bird in the cage singing to sheet music symbolizes a lack of freedom (kinda a side note, tbh). The last house shows Aika's return to reality. Her house, once a place of joy, is ruined. Upstairs, the doll persona has scratched out all of the dead, including the old Aika. The back room shows Aika trapped in her mind by the doll persona, while she is watched like she always was (this time by what I assume to be workers at some sort of asylum). Aika realizes the only way out is suicide. Her father (which I assumed was often away on business trips) finds her body, and buries her in their quite hometown. He offers sweets to her grave, remnants of her destroyed childhood. The doll buried next to her symbolizes how Aika finally trapped it through her own death.
DAMN I wrote a lot... Heh, I tend to do that pretty often. Oh well, hope somebody enjoys my ramblings.
geekybunnycat wow :P
This, is... AMAZING!!!
Darth Olimar well, the fact that you figured this out is amazing,
Such a good analogy!! I thought she may have been murdered and trying to contact her mother, hence the crying noise in the library room and a billion pictures of her mother. I was too scared to watch twice though!
The fountains seem to be crying. It's like Aika's 'perfect life' is flawed, and the fountains could represent aspects of Aika, or her in different times, with her crying as an indication that she isn't happy.
Also, I think the doll is Aika's 'dark side', and the prison with her in it is her succumbing to her dark side.
Hello. Today is October 31st, 2021. Can’t believe it’s been 7 years
Also aika village (the original) hasn’t been working at least from what I’m aware October 31st to now
Now it’s been longer.. yay..
I have a different interpretation of Aika Village's story. Keep in mind this is my first time ever seeing or hearing of this place.
The doll is dressed remarkably similar to Aika. Due to this, I think Aika's mother was very controlling, very bossy, very strict. As a result, Aika kept turning to her toys to find company at home. One dolly in particular. After so long of her life being a fake, cheery dream, the stress breaks her. She starts associating more and more with the dolly, perhaps hallucinating the axe, or perhaps the axe is to symbolize her stress. Then, something, or someone, kills Aika's mother. I believe that to be Aika. She's then trapped in her own mind, her own self next to the murderous, stress-broken dolly, the world able to watch her. Driven from grief, guilt and anguish, she commits suicide, killing herself and the stress-broken dolly with her.
Entity of Justice wow
Poor girl
I agree with you about the parents putting pressure on Aika, Chugga, but I think that the story is more about mental illness; Aika's, actually. You see at the beginning that they are a happy family. As you progress, the environment starts to decay. The dog is gone (maybe Aika killed it). Cracks begin to appear. I think the environment is representative of Aika's mental state, and shows the gradual decline from her original healthy self.
The pressure from the parents is them not being able to cope with her illness. They try to cover it up and force her to be normal. Aika has an internal struggle between her very real problems and her parents suppression of them (the owl clocks looking back and forth).
The dolly is representative of her mental illness (perhaps it is a split personality, or psychotic urges). It starts out seemingly innocuous, but becomes increasingly dangerous. In the end, Aika becomes a cellmate with her own illness, and kills herself. Her parents are the only ones not crossed out. Maybe they are happier she's gone.
Or, maybe the parents never existed. The beginning birthday was a hallucination, and Aika is insane the entire time. The final house shows what her house actually looks like, and the beginning shows what she thinks it looks like. In this interpretation, the journey is moving from what Aika thinks is real, to what actually is real.
Loved the playthrough either way. Thanks for the awesome Halloween video! :)
To quote Game Theory and PeanutButterGamer on the Majora's Mask Link is Dead video, that's one of the most beautiful things about art. Everyone has their own interpretation.
To quote myself, HOLY CRAP that place was freaky and overall quite disturbing.
Yeah, it's like putting together puzzle pieces that actually can fit together in more than one way. :)
But her mother's picture is scribbled out, so maybe it's a problem with a step-mother too.
Omg how was this 8 years ago, it’s been so long I remember watching this when I was younger, time goes by too fast 😢
Aika had a happy family. Her favorite hobby was playing piano. Until her mom saw how good she played and decided to enter her into contests and kept treating her like she’s a pretty toy while the dad did nothing to stop it along with forcing her to get straight As in school from all that paperwork. She liked it at first but when she kept going to every single piano competition to the point of burnout she hated it. She wanted to hang out with her friends (the other dolls) but they’re forced to be away from each other due to also being forced into being perfect by their own parents, so they all had one time together before they’ll never see each other again. She was then punished for sneaking out to hang out with friends by being locked up in the room so she could continue with her studies, she also went there when she wasn’t playing good enough. She had enough of this and decided to kill her mom when she was sleeping, but didn’t want her to die due to her conscience so she slashed her mom on the back instead leaving her to bleed, but it eventually resulted to death anyway since she lost huge amounts of blood, the hospital couldn’t even save her. Out of guilt she took her dog with her since not only was it the only family she loved she doesn’t want her dog to go through the same pain. Few days later after the hospital the dad was looking for the dog and Aika until he found a burial, which she staged to make it look like she died cause she drowned, which she told her friends to cover it up. She left with her dog to start a new life somewhere so she’ll never be pressured into anything again.
Hypno kk scares me :(
SAME
Spencer Davis 13:14 now Hypno K.K. Scares me now ;-;
K.K. Synth gives me the creeps. I know it's unrelated, but it's just... creepy 😨😖
this village is a bit disturbing
+Ashley Gionfriddo No really? I never would have thought of that! XD
Twisted Toon Taylor XD lol
Ashley Gionfriddo It's not like it's a creepy pasta come to life or anything! D:
Twisted Toon Taylor nope not at all
too disturbing
My take is that the doll is a coping mechanism made by Aika after killing her mother (maybe due to stress), which would explain the owls with the statues representing good and evil sides. She shifts her guilt by blaming the doll for the murder. When she's in the jail, she is literally in jail for murder, and the doll with the axe represents how she doesn't consider herself the perpetrator. The scene with the doll party might represent her alongside other children struggling with her "doll" side. I'm not sure how the shoes work with that though.
I remember being obsessed with this creepy village in 2014- ahhh memories 😌💅🏻
hello fellow traveller
i remember watching this when it was uploaded and i just found it in my recommended i’m crying
Hey Chugga, To end off this great Series, you should play a slide show of all the pictures of ACNL that you took from the beginning! Play some Sadish music and put it together! It would be a touching way to end it all! :) Thanks!
-Iggy
I keep thinking that he'll sit at the town tree and it plays the town history.
I sure hope not :)
NO! I'll cry :,)
just a sec. did anyone ANYONE see those minor jumpscares?!!!!
I DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
did you figure out what it was? O.o
If your referring to those flashing images, they look like the red dolly
was it the game itself >_
Rashard Knowles I seriously doubt it
The doll flickering on screen around 13:56 gets me every time ;u;
Help.
My resident lily gave me DOLLY
help
aww now i miss Lily she left
loved that frog
Demon frog
John Laurens lily is my favorite villager
DOWLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYY
My favorite villager Lucy, gift me dolly too hahah and I put it in my bedroom ❤️
I like the interpretation that the doll is Aika's outlet. It's both her escape from the life she has, as well as her scapegoat when the pressure gets too strong for her. Given the first Aika we meet flat out says that this is in her dream, that means it's her mental state. She was in a perfect home with a perfect family and she got the dolly. However either right before the birthday, or sometime after it, she discovered her talent, and her mother wanted her to realize her fullest potential. Over time the pressure put on her started to damage her mental health., indicated by the decay of the village as you go through it. She comes to resent her mother for forcing her down a path of life she wanted nothing to do with, giving tons of pressure and stress, she begins to talk to the one friend she has left, due to this new life of hers where she no longer has any friends... the doll. And in her decaying mental state, the doll starts to talk back, and they aren't the thoughts of the Aika who had received the doll, it was the new darker side of her, telling her that it could all end if she made the tough decision to end the source of her pain. It is a decision she secretly fights back on forth on, as whatever happens, there's no going back. She makes the decision and with her mental state completely gone, kills her mother in cold blood during the night. At some point, she gained a moment of clarity and realized what she had done. She couldn't live with what she did, so she ended her own life.
One piece of good evidence when interpreted with this story is the megaphone... remember where it was found, in front of town hall. What does town hall represent? Leadership, government, AUTHORITY. Maybe the megaphone wasn't an indicator of her mother LOOKING for her, but instead commanding her, ordering her, dictating her life. A sign of change from the happy family as she slipped more and more into insanity from the pressure.
Well that's just one possible interpretation anyway :)
I think the room with the spinning wheels represent life's randomness, and losing control of what you have. Your life spiraling out of control, slipping out of your hands.
Aika villager, and my other favorite town, Cannibal Village, have been lovingly remade in New Horizons.
Also, when this episode first came out, I kinda freaked out. I had known about Aika for a bit but hadn't kept an eye on this LP(I mentioned in a previous episode I was staying Spoiler Free since NL was my first AC since GCN) and I skipped half the playlist to watch this one episode out of sheer excitement and bafflement.
this video is so nostalgic for me. i remember watching this and thinking the concept of a horror village was so freaking cool. the K.K. song still reminds me of Aika
...........
This town reminds me of a game called Ib.
In the game, Ib and her family go to an art museum. Ib, wanting to see the art, wanders off until she finds a rather scary looking painting. (I forget what it's called)
After looking straight into the painting, Ib finds her self in an alternate version of the art gallery. Her parents are gone, all the spectators are also gone, and the doors are locked. However, the gallery has opened up a previously locked door. After going though the door, Ib finds a single red rose in a pot in the middle of the room. This rose acts as your health meter. If it wilts completely, she will die.
whew..I didn't intend for it to be so long, but yeah. I'll stop here because I don't want to spoil the end. Or ends. This game has many endings, and is rather dark. Just like this town. And the main character is a young girl.
.......On a completely separate note, why pretell am I watching this at 9:22 at night?!
Dude thanks for telling me about Ib. I just watched Markipliers play through and I love it! Totally irrelevant, but thank you stranger for telling me about this masterpiece.
Same. I also feel like the drawings have an "Ib" vibe to them.
I watched Jacksepticeye play that game. For me, this also reminds me of The Witch's House rpg game which for me is even better.
@@booksaremybag4684 I'm gonna start watching that Let's Play now!
@@jimin6813 you should. And also I highly recommend the rpg game Mad Father. It involves experimenting with dolls, a bit like Aika Village. Jacksepticeye did lets plays of all of them.
13:49 okay this got me, fuck, I was literally just thinking to myself "I love animal crossing horror because it's safe enough to digest because it's JUST animal crossing but can tell a story" and then boom
I'd love to share my interpretation of this story, but I have so many ideas that I can't decide which one's my favorite.
So I'll say this:
Anyone who can make Animal Crossing creepy is very creative and has serious talent.
I have made my final visit to Aika village
I will never forget the memories this place brought on me
I was on aika village a hour ago and the room in the right in the house with the electronic signs looked much different plus the room with aika and the doll had jail bars blocking it.
I won't explain it much, I'll let you see for yourself, but I think it's:
Aika got her first beloved doll on her birthday, and she never did anything without it. But her parents always demanded perfection from Aika and made her do everything she couldn't, making her freak-out and get frustrated with everything. Eventually she thought her doll was telling her things and would listen to it at night. That same night, Aika ran away with her father's axe, and killed her dog. A few days later, the mother was searching town for Aika, and her parents eventually gave up and went home, thinking their daughter had died. That night, Aika came home and killed her mother only, with the axe she used on her dog, taking her doll and running to the beach. She kept the doll and axe somewhere before the beach, taking off her shoes and drowning herself.
Later that week, her father found the shoes and body of Aika, and swam to a secluded beach to bury her with everything Aika was close to.
Um...that is...um... Freaking cool!!! 🤓
If you meet Wendell in the dream, his drawings are pretty weird too. There's the standard stuff, but also a black and red stripe design, an exit sign, a design with Aika's face and the words "Aika Cafe" on it, and a picture of Mary holding Baby Jesus.
I'm probably late but あいか can mean elegy in Japanese, or it could be an anagram for あかい（赤い）, the word for red
MY INTERPRETATION
I think Aika Village is about the parents' wish to get a child (Aika). They are imagining to celebrate birthday parties and playing around with her (first house). The second house symbolizes the notion of the mother being left alone (for instance, by the toys facing away) and being alone in "paradise" (Adam and Eve). The piano, the eggs, the torn out diary pages and the axes shows how the mother's dream has been shattered. The basement tells us the reason, her baby/utero died. From this point everything is getting f**ked up. In the attic, you can clearly see the mother's obsession to become pregnant. The last home builds the end of the story, the happy home wich the mother imagined to have is distroyed. Her thoughts, hopes, wishes, everything. The second level (wich showed the happy playing thoughts) now showes how the dreams got distroyed and how the mother unfortunately had to deal with it. The last room, that was blocked by the furniture in home #1, is showing how the parents tried everything to become pregnant (the statues watching Aika). The fenced cage of the doll represents the utero and the axe the death of it. And the grave on the "Island" or the "unreachable beach part" symbolyzes the death of the mother by commiting suicide (shoes on the beach).
In conclusion, I think Aika Village is more sad than creepy to me.
I somewhat share Chugga's theory. However, I think the doll wasn't evil. I think the doll was just a doll that came to represent her mental state over time. You could see it as her insanity, cracking under the pressure. The eyes and faces watching were her parents and other people watching and judging her. The Eden thing was to show that she was corrupted by her own instability.
This is my interpretation of the story: Aika used to live a happy life. Her parents were happy, and so was she. But later on, the parents became stressed, told Aika to do some things with pressure, ( Like the piano ) and eventually, her parents wanted her to choose between them because they got divorced. This lead Aika to pure stress, hating her life. I'm assuming that she went to live with her mom, but It's still unclear. The dolly must've represented Aika. At the birthday party, it shows she has an axe. That means she's hiding the fact that she wants to commit suicide. The spaces between houses are how life changed for her over the years. First happy, slowly getting sadder through life. I don't know if the mom died, but I'm assuming she was alive. In the room with the spinning wheel, it means " Should I go in the ocean and commit or not?.. " Sadly, Aika did. The dolly was her. After all, the dolly was the one inside the room. Sitting on a chair. In the maze house, It shows how she is confused on what to do. Choose dad or mom? Would this happen? I feel trapped.. Etc. Soon, she couldn't handle anything anymore. So, she decided to commit. Also, at the first house, It might just be Aika's dream. Aika might have had a dream of a perfect life. After all, she says; "This is my dream. " We all know Aika committed suicide in the ocean. It's a sad story, but sometimes life is like that. If you're depressed, I'm here for you. I don't want anyone to have the same life as her.
When I started playing, I didn't know we could make several save files - I thought it was one per town, and I was good with one town. Anyway I went to Aika village and saw the same girl more than once and f r e a k e d o u t. I thought she was following me, and with the whole vibe of the town, I really just wanted to turn my 3DS off without saving lol.
When the dolly flickered on and off, I shat myself.
Jesus Christ Emile! I had a mini heart-attack when that flickering of the dolly on the screen happened.
I remember when I first watched this...such good memories. The story was hella creative and just *yes.* Wish people did things like this in NH :>
The Horror and Beauty behind Aika village is awesome. It not only gives a creepy story but also a very strong moral and warning to parents and children alike. (At least to me)
For those interested, 2D00-002A-49A0 is Aika's current dream code (thanks to angelkay16's comment on GameFaqs from 6 years ago). There are several changes to the town since this video, and as others have mentioned the 3DS online services will go down next year so if it's something you want to do, i'd advise that you make time to visit before the end of March 2024.
(And if you're here, you probably also want the address for Palette: 4B00-00A2-F421 )
Here's a list of things to look out for in Aika which I noticed were changed from the video:
Flowers were removed from the spawn area
House 2, Left room - 14 black clothed Dollys having a picnic around Aika and a spoiled turnip
House 2, back room - The eyes have been removed from the back wall
House 2, basement - The feast was replaced with screaming gyroids and pyraminds of money in a desert
House 3, main room - The black doll is hidden amongst the bookshelves
House 3, back room - Letters on the floor were replaced with the child's drawings from house 1, writing, a family portrait, and several balled up, discarded pieces of paper. The music box was removed
House 3, left room (new)- A room made up of cat themed furniture with fish and surgical implements scattered about
House 3, attic - Some furniture was swapped out, and a new picture of Aika and someone was added to the chalkboard
House 3, basement - The room is now a bakery with the same run-down floor and walls. A sign reading "Aika Cafe" next to a picture of Aika's face and a cup of coffee is displayed
House 4, main room - Some furniture was swapped out
House 4, back room - prison bars were swapped out for larger bars which prevent the player from entering the room
House 4, attic - The order of the paintings was changed
The Beach - At the right most point of the beach, a sand castle, a fortune cookie ("Some people shy away from bombs, but you are not most people (#15)"), and two mystery bags are on the ground next to the water
Aika's Grave - Flowers were removed