Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a single-player slice of life adventure game that follows the journey of anthropomorphic dog Isabella. The game begins with a middle-aged Isabella being taken into police custody following a DWI. She is informed by an officer that this is her third offense, and she is eligible for a prison sentence. While taking blood tests, a lab technician notices an abnormality and sends the blood sample to a local hospital for testing. Isabella is diagnosed with fourth stage Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In her desperation, Isabella attempts to reconnect with her children. Her son, Alexander, refuses to speak to her. He is the mayor of a small town in New England, and his mother’s frequent legal troubles have often caused his political career major backlash. Isabella has a difficult time tracking down her daughter from behind bars, but eventually learns she has moved to the Southwest and works with her husband aiding Native American NGOs. Her daughter also refuses to speak with her, resenting her for allowing her father to abandon the family when she was six. Isabella’s lymphoma grows worse, and she begins chemotherapy. Isabella is sentence to one year in prison. As she grows frailer and frailer, she spends her nights crying and thinking about the harm she had caused her children. Finally, the doctors tell Isabella that her lymphoma has gone into remission. As her sentence draws nearer to the end, Isabella reflects on the life she wants to live going forward. She swears off alcohol, and partying, and all her other vices. As she walks out the prison gates, she is hit by a drunk driver and instantly killed. No one shows up at her funeral, and she is buried in silence. One man watches from afar. That night he sits down by Isabella’s grave and weeps. He is Doge, Isabella’s ex-husband. He regrets leaving her and the children, but he knows nothing can be done. He spends the night by her graveside, and when dawn arrives he walks away into the rising sun. Onto a new horizon.