As life goes on and events like Summertime, Halloween, Autumn, and Christmas go by, Nintendo is quick to develop their own version of those occasions.

Animal Crossing New Horizon hasn’t even been met with it’s one year anniversary, yet every seasonal or celebratory update is a big deal. Especially if you take into consideration the different design change and it’s response. According to spy.com New Horizon is favorable by most people, so one can imagine that effect of each update.

Valentine’s Day is coming up on Sunday February 14th and of course there are changes to go along with it. Along with the design of the winter season (see picture to the right) with includes snow on the ground, trees, and houses, movable snowballs (if you’re lucky to see this) being pushed dung beetles which are a collectible bug able to be caught in December-February, the snowballs can be directed to create a snowball. However be careful because you have to be very precise to be correct. On certain days there is snow coming from the sky not causing any change on the ground but a color saturation in the game. The Christmasy lights on the trees disappeared in January so the snow is only change standing from the Christmas season.

With every update there certain items that are collectable for that season. For Valentine’s Day aka Festivale or in Japanese カーニバル ( Kānibaru) which translates to carnival.

Some of the items include:

-Festivale Lamp-an object about the size of half of a player it has a few strips of wood holding a purple to white gradient candle extending into a bouquet of light pink, magenta, and yellow feathers.

-Festivale Drum-a bit bigger than the Fesitvale Lamp, it’s a thin pink drum with a painted pattern similar to a cheetah print except with magenta and purple flowers. Like most drums it has metal horizontal stripes and a white top. Near the top there is a yellow braid around the drum holding purple, magenta, and light pink feathers.

-Festivale Garlande-it appears to look like a two banners than garland. The banners are on one short birch pole each with purple string tying each banner to the pole. This reaches up a bit over the players head. Each banner has flags with a white ball on every other flag. The pieces have a mix of white, purple, pink, light pink, magenta, and light pink in a seemingly random order. These two pieces joined together at a middle, taller birch pole (forming almost a triangle) with the top lined with string carrying one light pink, one magenta, and one purple feather.

-Festivale Balloon Lamp-this balloon is held up by small, gray square block most likely made of metal with a string extending up the size of about two players. At about half of that size three feathers poke out from it’s string. Comparable to most of the furniture sequence the hue of the feathers are purple, magenta, and light pink. Now the most expected part of this fixture, the balloon, it has the patterning of a beach ball with three different color variations:purple, light pink, and that same flower pattern as the Festivale Drum. The Balloon has three sets of these colors with the only exception of light pink on the top. There isn’t a pattern with this either.

Other items are available in the Seasonal section of the Nook Shopping App, like all items they have a range on when one can buy it. The list involves a pink heart shaped box with a blue bow with unseeable chocolates with the name Chocolate Heart. Also a Heart-Shaped Bouquet with ten flowers with a purple and pinkish hue. Holding them is a purple covering tied in a bow to look like a heart. Bellow that is a gray stand.

The Day of Festivale isn’t the only thing happening in the recent times of Animal Crossing. Another event is the Lunar New Year which celebrates the first new moon of traditional calendars in eastern Asia. Be prepared for that as your scroll through articles on the Charlie Streets Times!