Yep. That story is mentioned in _Animal Crossing: City Folk_ when you donate a mantis. In _Animal Crossing: Wild World_ , he mentions he once opened a library book and maggots fell out. (He also mentions being afraid of cockroaches, but he doesn't give a story for that one.)
This is truly wonderful. I had always hoped for an animal crossing horror game! You did an amazing job blending animal crossing with horror; you used lore that I wasn't even aware of, made the museum at night a surprisingly spooky place, and kept Blathers perfectly in character! The ending is sweet, and I can honestly believe this is what Blathers's nights are like when he has to put away bugs. I hope to see more from you one day!
For a horror game, this is pretty light on the horror. But for Blathers, this is basically a nightmare. Though I don't mind the more light horror. I'm not the fondest of the "make cute thing overly disturbing" approach, so this is nice. The art is also pleasant to look at too. And that ending is really cute. D'aw, Celeste is looking out for her brother. I think most of his game is just in Blathers' head, considering the fact that part of this ties into the reason he fears bugs in the first place (the grasshopper). Most as in pretty much all the blood and bugs breaking out. Blathers probably just freaked out upon finishing his job. ...Maybe he should get another curator to help him with the bugs...
You know what would be more scary? If there was an animal crossing game that was first person and your goal was to catch all the tarantulas around your island.
This is pretty cool since I've heard before that Blathers had a bad experience with mantises when he was a kid that scarred him for life, so seeing a fan made game about that concept is awesome!
To be fair, a mantis would only really target birds within there weight class, like hummingbirds, most larger birds are simply do big for a mantis to actually win against. Blathers, being roughly the size of a human of ambiguous age, is several orders of magnitude larger then what a mantis could actually kill and eat.
I MEAN. If I heard of a bug that eats humans, but only small humans, I'd still be pretty freaked out even if I DID like bugs. I figure Blathers was in the same wheelhouse!
"Animal Crossing RPGMaker Horror Game" >> so there truly *is* nothing sacred EDIT: still cute! The art is lovely and very much in-keeping with the style of the series. Also being Blathers is suffering -- poor birb.
“Oh wow, to have go through that every night with his bug phobia . I really feel bad for poor Blathers,” She says as she plays Animal Crossing and collects more tarantulas. What an adorably horrific game! We know Blathers will leave a delightful review! 🤣
so does this take place during new leaf or horizons? the layout of the intro is more of horizons. while the interior design of the big rooms is more of new leaf.
New Horizons! The main room was cut down so I wouldn't have to sprite /everything/, but I like to think Blathers doesn't even see most of the pretty, fantastical museum when he's putting away bugs-- it all kind of blurs together for him. He wants out of there as soon as possible.
@@jaspers6723 Awesome game mate, it's really cute and well done! I never really expected an ACNH horror game, but I'm really glad you did it this well! Also, it's not too over the top for a horror game, which is pretty good in my opinion to as the more subtle horror seems better.
Butterflies are known for something called "mud-puddling" which explains the whole dipping their feet in the blood (cause they taste with their feet). They do it cause it's nutritious and even go for human sweat at times
I love blathers... when I donate stuff to him I always listen to everything he says even though I don’t want to I just don’t like seeing him sad. But when it comes to bugs I tell him I don’t want to hear any facts because I know talking about bugs makes him so uncomfortable
Awe. I was so convinced there would be secrets to unlock because of all the extra sprite files with weapons and monsters in the game files, but it looks like just a whole heap of unused and unrelated content, possibly that came with RPGMaker.
_Why is it always spiders?_ Sure the praying mantis was talked about as being a villain, so are many beetles, other weird wasps. But when something is chasing you down - it's always a spider. This was kinda cute along with your voicing of Blathers. But I don't think ants are actually predators of snails... *EDIT* I said this last bit backwards - I meant snails are not predators of ants!!
well, tarantulas are known to sometimes eat small birds :') also, the game didn't say that ants are predators of snails, it said that snails are predators of ants. though there are some crazy ant species that fight absolutely everything.
@@FuckTheTH-camUsernameChange Thank you for pointing out my error and I corrected my comment - I misspoke. I meant that I doubted snails are predators of ants. Since ants use beautiful teamwork, they would easily be able to overpower a snail. I wish they actually would overpower snails really... I have lots of ants because I have peonies. But they seem to peacefully co-exist with the snails & slugs I hate which eat my plants, especially vegetables. In my ongoing battle to get rid of the snails/slugs, I finally found ground up oyster shells to be most helpful. Gardening is a fun way to experience the pains of the House that Jack Built for attracting natural predators for pests and then having to deal with an overabundance of predators lol.
@@NaturalFlirtGamer Ants ARE actually predators of snails. From what I know, a colony of ants can destroy a snail farm in a very short time. It can be very problematic. A snail can eat ants, mostly dead though, and would be overpowered easily by a group of ants.
@@konoikurozora5851 Oh, for snail farms I'll be there are a lot of natural predators, including ants! Everything can be a benefit in one way and a pest in another. 🐌🐜
I love how it had dialogue for Celeste(sorry if I spelt her name wrong)Blather’s sister (it was probably Celeste because it was about the night sky and how she’s not there often)
Things like this are reasons why I Wouldn't survive a day in the animal crossing world, especially in the situation blathers is in since I have a phobia of bugs like him.
you'd think that blathers would acknowledge that hes a descendant of dinosaurs. also, butterflies are known to drink blood, and since they taste with their feet... oh, theyre dead. well. thats more disappointing than what i had in mind
I guess that to be fair, there actually are images and videos online showing praying mantises eating birds. I found that once when I was pretty young, when doing a paper on them for school. Saw one eat a humming bird.
It definitely has potential. I mean maybe I dont see the scariness of it since I love bugs but it could use more me mechanics to the game other than 1 short scene of running from a tarantula.
Blathers honestly has PTSD, none of this makes sense. How the hell did the tiny little bugs, lock a damn door. How were they strong enough, to break through a glass cage, and not get hurt at all in the process, And it makes zero sense on a small bug, to be able to even hurt a bird. They cannot eat them, they cannot hurt them, Blathers should only be afraid of them because they are "Gross" like most people. All of this is in his mind and none of this is real.
How the hell are the villagers, including Blathers, animals while fish remain how we see them? It's a game about a talking owl, why are we trying to make them realistic? Also, it is fucking PTSD driven phobia from a mantis egg hatching and the young swarming him when he was a kid
I have a hoard-like fence of bugs (to sell to Flick later) surrounding the entrance of the museum as revenge for Blather’s little “sea butterfly” stunt
Wait, I don't get it. Was this just all in blather's head? I'm confused, can someone explain it for me? Edit: Also, I thought this was gonna be way more dark as in blather was gonna take your organs and skeleton as "donations."
I'm certain most of this was just in his head. Specifically the blood on the walls and bugs chasing him. Being anxious about that stuff can cause the feeling of being chased, maybe.
He has a fear of insects, according to the canon, when he was younger a mantis egg sack ruptured in his desk and swarmed him. So yeaaaaaaah, he does not likes his job
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Blathers is afraid of bugs because he found a mantis egg sack and it ruptured in his desk and swarmed him
What the FUCK
The game ironically ties in lore in a clever way.
Wha-THAT'S CANON?!
@@azulizachan7595 ye, I beleive he or his sister explains it at some point
Yep. That story is mentioned in _Animal Crossing: City Folk_ when you donate a mantis. In _Animal Crossing: Wild World_ , he mentions he once opened a library book and maggots fell out. (He also mentions being afraid of cockroaches, but he doesn't give a story for that one.)
It's SUPER wild to see someone I'm subbed to LP something I made. Thanks so much!
Jaspers you made that!!!! Good job!!!
Very nice game, I loved it
This is a pretty cool game! Hope to see more stuff from you
its such a nice game! hats off to you!!
This is truly wonderful. I had always hoped for an animal crossing horror game! You did an amazing job blending animal crossing with horror; you used lore that I wasn't even aware of, made the museum at night a surprisingly spooky place, and kept Blathers perfectly in character! The ending is sweet, and I can honestly believe this is what Blathers's nights are like when he has to put away bugs. I hope to see more from you one day!
I thought they were going to donate a villager skeleton or something. But I guess for Blathers true horror is anything to do with bugs.
NULEXER PORTROPER well the fossils ARE usually dinosaurs and dinos are also animals so.. probably
I thought the bugs would appear as giant horrifying monsters
@@MONNSTROSITY omg I never thought of it that way, thats so disturbing. Never looking at animal crossing the same again.
@@SleepyLittleFrogOnARock ... You DO know that we keep dead, mummified human corpses in museums right?
Same
Except I expected a literal corpse
This all could have been avoided if we just gave him fish.
As soon as I read this a Disney+ ad came on with Dory from Finding Nemo
@@aniahliepard hmmm
But fr I laughed when I read that
Makes me think of all the people who collected bugs until Blather’s opened the museum. Stacks and stacks of bugs sudden shoved at him in one day.
Pandora Vex NGL I did this to him.
oops- i always did get a little guilty afterwards, lmao.
i did this but after donating one bug i felt bad and did mostly fish. the rest were fossils
@@chandranapier2259 i think he will go to a mental hospotal after all the trauma you caused him
im very guilty of this haha
For a horror game, this is pretty light on the horror. But for Blathers, this is basically a nightmare. Though I don't mind the more light horror. I'm not the fondest of the "make cute thing overly disturbing" approach, so this is nice. The art is also pleasant to look at too. And that ending is really cute. D'aw, Celeste is looking out for her brother.
I think most of his game is just in Blathers' head, considering the fact that part of this ties into the reason he fears bugs in the first place (the grasshopper). Most as in pretty much all the blood and bugs breaking out. Blathers probably just freaked out upon finishing his job. ...Maybe he should get another curator to help him with the bugs...
In wild world, celeste used to help him. Its a shame she doesn't anymore :(
Petition for Blathers to hire Flick
@@lemonsouda Flick would be Blathers’ worst nightmare man. With Flick saying stuff like “may you find your path to infestation”, I mean….
@'Cello Larsson or something along the lines of "May bugs fill your heart." in his letters after ordering a bug model from him lol 😂.
@@SOMESVNNYDAY true!
As someone who has never played an Animal Crossing game, this matches the hatred for bugs that I've seen people claim Blathers has.
as someone who has played one
its pretty accurate-
as someone who only has New Horizons it is very accurate
I have New Leaf and New Horizons. It's pretty accurate...
he freaks out ANY time I give him a bug
As someone who has played city folk, and new horizons, I can confirm this is accurate
You know what would be more scary? If there was an animal crossing game that was first person and your goal was to catch all the tarantulas around your island.
So basically tarantula island
*cries in also hating tarantulas*
At night...
Also in VR
NO
NOT VR
I love how all the horror comes from Blathers head cause he's scared of bugs and everything is fine in reality
This is pretty cool since I've heard before that Blathers had a bad experience with mantises when he was a kid that scarred him for life, so seeing a fan made game about that concept is awesome!
Time to sit through 10 sets of dialogue to donate something.
I feel you, deeply.
Pressing b repeatedly speeds it up
can't you skip it
elliot rat you can speed it up, but it’s still p long
@@stwabewwwy you can say you're busy
To be fair, a mantis would only really target birds within there weight class, like hummingbirds, most larger birds are simply do big for a mantis to actually win against. Blathers, being roughly the size of a human of ambiguous age, is several orders of magnitude larger then what a mantis could actually kill and eat.
Yes, but he still has to worry about Psycho Mantis
@ManlyBadassHero
How could I forget about that. Then yes he should indeed be afraid!
I MEAN. If I heard of a bug that eats humans, but only small humans, I'd still be pretty freaked out even if I DID like bugs. I figure Blathers was in the same wheelhouse!
You forget how big a mantis is in the game... last time I checked the abdomen is about the same size as your arm 😰
"Hey, Blathers, you look tired, want me to go put the bugs where they need to be for you?"
The biggest mistake someone will ever say.
"Animal Crossing RPGMaker Horror Game"
>> so there truly *is* nothing sacred
EDIT: still cute! The art is lovely and very much in-keeping with the style of the series. Also being Blathers is suffering -- poor birb.
I can see why in Pocket Camp why Blathers became a Map adventure guy. His getaway from the bugs.
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Me: Mom can we stop and get Animal Crossing for the switch?
Mom: We have Animal Crossing at home.
Animal Crossing at home:
Can we talk about how there's still an angry tarantula running around the museum
4:25
i went to search this as soon as it showed up, but yeah that trivia is true,mostly hummingbirds but yeah
As an Animal Crossing lover, I am both terrified and excited about this video.
Edit: nooo! I love Blathers! I’m gonna be so sad :(
Nothing too bad happens to Blathers, thankfully. Until he has to face that tarantula again...
Omg, now I can relate to all of my friends playing Animal Crossing
“Yeah so....Wait, you cant play as a bird?”
“Oh wow, to have go through that every night with his bug phobia . I really feel bad for poor Blathers,”
She says as she plays Animal Crossing and collects more tarantulas. What an adorably horrific game! We know Blathers will leave a delightful review! 🤣
To be fair u only need to donate one tarantula to the museum lol
There's a conspiracy to get me to buy animal crossing and all of my favorite youtubers are in on it.
It's working.
You could always get an older version for much cheaper then New Horizon (depeanding on which systems you have of course). : )
I never knew I wanted a game in which you play as Blathers, but here it is.
so does this take place during new leaf or horizons? the layout of the intro is more of horizons. while the interior design of the big rooms is more of new leaf.
Horizons with a cut down main room so they don't have to map work a bunch of multi tier'd rivers and bridges.
Princess of Trash It looks like a combination of both. The room with the tarantula looked like the one in Horizons?
New Horizons! The main room was cut down so I wouldn't have to sprite /everything/, but I like to think Blathers doesn't even see most of the pretty, fantastical museum when he's putting away bugs-- it all kind of blurs together for him. He wants out of there as soon as possible.
@@jaspers6723 ooh! You're the person who made this game? Thanks for contributing to the library of animal crossing horror! Much appreciated ♥️✨
@@jaspers6723 Awesome game mate, it's really cute and well done! I never really expected an ACNH horror game, but I'm really glad you did it this well! Also, it's not too over the top for a horror game, which is pretty good in my opinion to as the more subtle horror seems better.
This is absolutely great because it ends up quite wholesome but lets you experience a little of life in Blathers' shoes 😊
"The mantis will target fully grown birds"
And Blathers is an owl :D
Butterflies are known for something called "mud-puddling" which explains the whole dipping their feet in the blood (cause they taste with their feet). They do it cause it's nutritious and even go for human sweat at times
Correct me if wrong but he talked nicely about the kaleidoscope butterfly
i think he also likes the madagascan sun moth
@@cezlock8209 i thought he said it was the most disgusting bug but i guess im wrong
And bees. :)
egg egg egg egg
I recall he said its bc the wings look like the images you see on a kaleidoscope. He was a bit nonchalant about it too.
He’s pretty chill about honeybees too
I love blathers... when I donate stuff to him I always listen to everything he says even though I don’t want to I just don’t like seeing him sad. But when it comes to bugs I tell him I don’t want to hear any facts because I know talking about bugs makes him so uncomfortable
that's the cutest shit I've seen all day 🥹
0:39 "Ho ho ho"
(Me who plays animal crossing)
Me : "wait that's not right..."
N.R.G he’s an owl dammit! 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
@@dOlli3cOutur3 that's what I meant lol. He's making santa claus sounds.
dOlli3cOutur3 lmao yeah, he says hoot hoot, not ho ho ho.
Holy... I think Manly’s voice is a perfect fit for this Blathers.
SAME!
Me: **decides I have had enough animal crossing for the day and hops on youtube**
._.
Damn I can't see Blathers the same way anymore. Thank you for taking care of the museum 😭
I was fully expecting to see a shot of the museum on fire after blathers had gotten out 😂
Awe. I was so convinced there would be secrets to unlock because of all the extra sprite files with weapons and monsters in the game files, but it looks like just a whole heap of unused and unrelated content, possibly that came with RPGMaker.
Yeah, I tried getting rid of 'em but it broke the installer. I'll probably try cutting down the unneeded assets some time later!
@@jaspers6723 Oh, wow! Hi, Jaspers! Thank you for the fun game.
“Mom can I have animal crossing?”
“We have animal crossing at home”
Animal crossing at home:
I'd take it
TIL preying mantises actually do attack birds. It seems to be mostly hummingbirds, so they so they certainly do attack birds.
aww celeste making a cameo :D
Makes you think about animal crossing differently honestly
_Why is it always spiders?_
Sure the praying mantis was talked about as being a villain, so are many beetles, other weird wasps. But when something is chasing you down - it's always a spider.
This was kinda cute along with your voicing of Blathers. But I don't think ants are actually predators of snails...
*EDIT* I said this last bit backwards - I meant snails are not predators of ants!!
well, tarantulas are known to sometimes eat small birds :') also, the game didn't say that ants are predators of snails, it said that snails are predators of ants. though there are some crazy ant species that fight absolutely everything.
@@FuckTheTH-camUsernameChange Thank you for pointing out my error and I corrected my comment - I misspoke. I meant that I doubted snails are predators of ants.
Since ants use beautiful teamwork, they would easily be able to overpower a snail. I wish they actually would overpower snails really... I have lots of ants because I have peonies. But they seem to peacefully co-exist with the snails & slugs I hate which eat my plants, especially vegetables. In my ongoing battle to get rid of the snails/slugs, I finally found ground up oyster shells to be most helpful.
Gardening is a fun way to experience the pains of the House that Jack Built for attracting natural predators for pests and then having to deal with an overabundance of predators lol.
@@NaturalFlirtGamer Ants ARE actually predators of snails. From what I know, a colony of ants can destroy a snail farm in a very short time. It can be very problematic.
A snail can eat ants, mostly dead though, and would be overpowered easily by a group of ants.
@@konoikurozora5851 Oh, for snail farms I'll be there are a lot of natural predators, including ants! Everything can be a benefit in one way and a pest in another. 🐌🐜
The reason it was tarantulas is because in Animal Crossing the Tarantulas chase you and I am forever terrified of them.
Hey blathers hold this tarantula and tell me about it....
**tarantula info**
i didnt catch that, tell me it again
It was a little spooky pretty cute liked the art.
I *L O V E* your Blathers voice!! It's perfect!
I love how it had dialogue for Celeste(sorry if I spelt her name wrong)Blather’s sister (it was probably Celeste because it was about the night sky and how she’s not there often)
Things like this are reasons why I Wouldn't survive a day in the animal crossing world, especially in the situation blathers is in since I have a phobia of bugs like him.
Liked just for the wholesome Celeste bit at the end
This isn't the voice I expected for Blathers but it's good
Thanks Manly
Bruh, I'd kill to see Manly play New Horizons
ur voice tho omggg it’s so hard for me to watch ur videos on high volume without embarrassing myself
what about just hiring flick for the bug section,
he would truely love it lol
I would love a DLC that had Flick working the Bug exhibit and CJ working the fish exhibit.
Idk if this sounds weird, but your voice sounds SO soothing.I love it.
Why do I get the feeling that he’s gonna get a villager’s skull..? (Not the human, the animal villagers.)
you'd think that blathers would acknowledge that hes a descendant of dinosaurs.
also, butterflies are known to drink blood, and since they taste with their feet...
oh, theyre dead. well. thats more disappointing than what i had in mind
I guess that to be fair, there actually are images and videos online showing praying mantises eating birds. I found that once when I was pretty young, when doing a paper on them for school. Saw one eat a humming bird.
15:55 i’m sorry but I can’t imagine blathers saying “Where the dickens” 😹
Poor Blathers, he is always waken up at the morning. He gets NO sleep
Oh, poor bby birb boi Blathers...
Oh poor blathers. I kinda liked this short lil game. I'd totally love to visit manlys island XD
I remember I threw hands with a praying mantis once....
Manly voicing Blathers lol
Little fun fact:
If you show off a bug near Blathers, he’ll do the sweating emote for a bit.
(I might edit this later)
I live for Celeste being wholesome at the end (Celeste is Blathers sister BTW)
I just imagine, of all birds, an owl being afraid of these bugs hahaha
Tbh I still see this game as wholesome-
It is... technically.
To give it some credit, while the big concept is funny. I love how serious it takes itself about the phobia of bugs.
I love your voice so much, you don't really sound like a hero but more like the type of villain everyone likes
Manly: reads the ending
Me: Aw that's cute. now that I like
Hearing New Leaf SFX just brings me old times.
As someone who doesn't know a thing about Animal Crossing, this is _interesting_ .
oh m,y GOD the way he walks is BEYOND ADORABLE
You know, I'd actually love to see manly play Animal Crossing for a video or even a stream. It would be nice.
Me too
OH BLATHERS MY BEAUTIFUL FRIEND LEMME TALK TO YOU ABOUT BUGS
started watching this while donating a violin beetle to blathers
ah man, after 5 years i found again your channel! I used to be 11 when watching your horror rpg gameplays :')
It definitely has potential.
I mean maybe I dont see the scariness of it since I love bugs but it could use more me mechanics to the game other than 1 short scene of running from a tarantula.
13:00 tbh I don't think they would mind, if given the chance butterflies will drink blood so they'd prolly lick it off lol
I liked how they changed the footsteps sound.
Blathers honestly has PTSD, none of this makes sense. How the hell did the tiny little bugs, lock a damn door. How were they strong enough, to break through a glass cage, and not get hurt at all in the process, And it makes zero sense on a small bug, to be able to even hurt a bird. They cannot eat them, they cannot hurt them, Blathers should only be afraid of them because they are "Gross" like most people. All of this is in his mind and none of this is real.
There are bird eating spiders in Africa, and Australia IIRC.
u mad bout a frikin game?
LloydFucker25 theres bird eater tarantulas hahshsjdh so theres one danger
How the hell are the villagers, including Blathers, animals while fish remain how we see them?
It's a game about a talking owl, why are we trying to make them realistic?
Also, it is fucking PTSD driven phobia from a mantis egg hatching and the young swarming him when he was a kid
... or it can be the typical paranoia with such a debilitating fear.
i’m betting one day blathers is going to be tired of the bugs and eat them like a actual owl would.
I love how manly got the good ending one minute in by just not donating
_Don't Bug Blathers!_ 🐛
Okay this is creepy and l'm currently playing this.
My boy Blathers doesn’t deserve this torment :(
I have been trying to expand my museum in new leaf so this is weird timing.
*hands u a tarantula*
I have a hoard-like fence of bugs (to sell to Flick later) surrounding the entrance of the museum as revenge for Blather’s little “sea butterfly” stunt
Wait, I don't get it. Was this just all in blather's head? I'm confused, can someone explain it for me?
Edit: Also, I thought this was gonna be way more dark as in blather was gonna take your organs and skeleton as "donations."
I'm certain most of this was just in his head. Specifically the blood on the walls and bugs chasing him. Being anxious about that stuff can cause the feeling of being chased, maybe.
He has a fear of insects, according to the canon, when he was younger a mantis egg sack ruptured in his desk and swarmed him. So yeaaaaaaah, he does not likes his job
oh no poor Blathers
IS THIS WHAT HE DOES TO MY BUTTERFLIES? BLATHERS. BRO.
Welp thanks to this my bug exhibit is *never* getting finished
New Horizons is the first AC I've ever played. And I gotta admit, that Musume is most certainly one I'd love to go see in real life. ^^
You forgot to include blathers getting eaten
*No bulli Bathers*
2:36
*OH NO NOT THE FLY!!!!*
😨😰😱
the sound that plays when you get an item is the same of the sirius attack from witch's heart, what the heck
"Empty like my soul 😔" iconic 😁🖐
Get him some bug spray right now
We now need another animal crossing horror games