Animal Crossing: New Horizons Gets Limited In-Game Event In Japan

Cool they're still doing something with it, though even if it's a sign of things to come I don't think I'm ever going to play it again. I got pretty into New Horizons for a long time, stuck with it for over a year and finished all of the museum except the paintings, but eventually I just ran out of things to do, and the DLC only managed to get me back for like two days before I stopped bothering again. Really kind of feel like I've bought my last Animal Crossing because sooner or later they all just end up abandoned.

Wait, I already have those Valentine's gift from normal gameplay.

can i also hijack this article to talk about NH in general. i think its an overall great game once you look past literally the worst update cycle a nintendo games ever had, but i do agree its a lot easier to burnout on compared to NL

for perspective i got around 1000 hours in NL in the span of 5 years, and got 1000 hours into NH in 2 years. but i dont think NH will last me as long as 5 years. i believe cause decorating is much more fast paced, but theres not a lot to do once youre done decorating

to me it comes down to the fact that NH introduce a couple big features (terraforming, improved decorating, more items, QOL changes) but removed a lot of little things because of that (no minigames, less npcs, less buildings, less holidays, missing item sets). its a "complete" game that feels like its missing a lot still

my realistic hope for switch 2 is they make NH deluxe and add back a ton of missing features from past games, plus some new stuff. cause if we dont get NH deluxe i genuinely believe we wont get a new AC game until 2030 or something lol

I can't believe it's been almost five years since New Horizons came out. It still feels pretty new and fresh to me. Unlike New Leaf, which felt stale and played out at this point.

We are finally getting new Anima Crossing content and it isn’t even available outside of Japan. Hopefully this is announced for the rest of the world later

@LavaTwilight
So far from my collection, I got 3 different color variant of Valentine heart rose bouquet and Valentine chocolate box from purchasing the Special event item from Nook catalogue during February.

It's really sad they dropped the ball so terribly with New Horizon's.

It's almost unbecoming of Nintendo.... when we had New Leaf on the 3DS.

Nintendo literally and utterly ignored the Animal Crossing fanbase.
The paid DLC was just the standalone Home Designer game slapped onto New Horizon's, without actually adding any of the highly requested missing features from previous games.

This paid Home Designer DLC was just sleezy cash grab by Nintendo to try justify the new Expansion Tier in Nintendo Online subscription.

@Jeronan "Nintendo literally and utterly ignored the Animal Crossing fanbase"

Yeah the team went off to work on Splatoon 3. I hope they give the animals more character in the next game too. I remember the GameCube animals were hilarious, some of them were so horrible and would literally call you fat and ugly etc!

Looks like a chibi version of the proposal scene from Ray and Wings in Infinity Nikki. Which might explain why Infinity Nikki isn’t on Switch.

I’m genuinely curious if Switch 2 gets all the big gatcha games or not. I feel like it would seriously damper PS5 enthusiasm in Japan if it did.

And here I am still waiting on even bigger storage space.

...I'm an item hoarder, alright? >.>;

Well, lucky them

@Jeronan I’m still torn between whether New Horizons was better than New Leaf. Both have several strengths and weaknesses.

@Jeronan Hm... I thought that the DLC was great. Adding the HHD feature as a DLC add-on was a fantastic addition, and, in addition, the update came with a whopping new 1000 items, along with new and old villagers.

As someone who has played and loved the series since the GCN version, I'm aware that some things are missing, such as some staple NPCs didn't return, and that was disappointing for sure, as was the lack of upgrades for the Nooklings' shop. But I'm struggling to think how that was a major letdown in the grand scheme of things.