Animal Crossing: New Horizons just wrapped up its Toy Day event, which is the last major event in the game before the start of the new year. With Animal Crossing: New Horizons nearing its 1 year anniversary and having already gone through most major holidays, many expected Toy Day to be the last major new event in the game. However, Nintendo has confirmed that there are more big updates planned for Animal Crossing: New Horizons in 2021, and one has to imagine that this could very well include an event themed after Valentine’s Day.
Since Animal Crossing: New Horizons originally launched in March of 2020, it came out a month after Valentine’s Day took place. This coming February 14 will mark the first Valentine’s Day when Animal Crossing: New Horizons was out, and so it stands to reason that Nintendo may take advantage of the opportunity to launch another event in the game. If Nintendo does decide to host an Animal Crossing: New Horizons Valentine’s Day event, there are many different ways it can make the event one to remember.
Based on what Nintendo has done with past Animal Crossing Valentine’s Day events, here is what we want to see from Animal Crossing: New Horizons‘ Valentine’s Day event (assuming it happens at all, that is).
One of the main aspects of Valentine’s Day is giving out cards, candy, and gifts to significant others and friends, so it’s quite likely something similar will happen in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Perhaps players will be able to purchase special Valentine’s Day postcards from the Animal Crossing: New Horizons airport, which they can then send to other players as well as their villagers. Alternatively, maybe Animal Crossing: New Horizons players will have to hand-deliver their gifts, similarly to what happened with the Toy Day event.
Once Valentine’s Day arrives, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players will likely get gifts in return as well. In past Animal Crossing games, the gifts and cards were often limited to villagers of the opposite sex of the player, but perhaps this year can be a bit more lenient. Maybe Animal Crossing: New Horizons players can look forward to getting gifts from all of their villagers, regardless of their sex, this coming Valentine’s Day.
Past Animal Crossing Valentine’s Day events saw the quality of the gift players received vary depending on their relationship with the villager in question. This could be brought back, encouraging players to treat their villagers well and build their relationships if they want to get the highest-quality gifts possible.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons uses its big updates to bring back NPCs from past games, with Toy Day bringing back Jingle the reindeer, for example. There hasn’t been an NPC themed after Valentine’s Day in previous Animal Crossing video games, so maybe Animal Crossing: New Horizons will introduce a brand new NPC for the holiday. Then again, it could capitalize on the festivities by bringing back some NPCs that have at least been somewhat involved in Valentine’s Day in games past, even if they weren’t exclusively themed for it.
One NPC Animal Crossing: New Horizons could bring back for Valentine’s Day is Pete the pelican. Pete has long been the mailman for Animal Crossing games, appearing in the original all the way through New Leaf on the 3DS. For one reason or another, Pete has been left out of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but he has played a key role in past Valentine’s Day events, being the one to deliver the cards and gifts to everyone.
Another NPC that has played a big role in previous Animal Crossing Valentine’s Day events but is not themed after the holiday is Brewster. Animal Crossing fans have been asking for Brewster and his coffee shop to be added to New Horizons for some time now, but he has yet to make his debut. In both Animal Crossing: City Folk and Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Brewster served players hot chocolate on Valentine’s Day instead of the usual coffee.
While it remains to be seen which NPCs will be used in Animal Crossing: New Horizons‘ possible Valentine’s Day event, it’s almost a certainty that the holiday will see new items added to the game for players to collect. Similarly to how there were plenty of Animal Crossing Christmas items available in New Horizons, it’s quite likely that there will be Valentine’s Day-themed furniture as well.
It’s possible that Animal Crossing: New Horizons will have new DIY recipes that players will have to complete to build the Valentine’s Day furniture in the game. Alternatively, maybe the Valentine’s Day furniture and items will primarily be purchased from Nook’s Cranny or earned by completing event-related tasks. Whatever the case may be, Animal Crossing: New Horizons events always deliver new items, and so fans of the game will likely have that to look forward to at the very least.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is out now, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
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