Yesterday an uninvited guest visited my Animal Crossing: New Horizons island – and I, like many others, found him a little creepy.
This is Zipper T. Bunny, the rabbit who appears before the annual Bunny Day event to task you with collecting limitless amounts of eggs for a reward. Or is he? As the name may suggest, Zipper has a zip on his back, and despite his protestations of being a real rabbit something is definitely amiss.
“I know what you’re thinking,” Zipper tells you under his breath, after reciting some horrible lines in rhyme. “No. This is NOT a costume. And don’t you go snoopin’, got it?”
Although for many this will be their first encounter with Zipper in an Animal Crossing game, the dubious bunny has a history. He first appeared in City Folk for the Wii back in 2008, and has since appeared in New Leaf, Pocket Camp, and now New Horizons. So who is Zipper T. Bunny, really, and should we all be scared of him?