one of Brewster’s various coffee aromas, the Buy Animal Crossing Items quiet concierge pigeon serves the player a hot chocolate beverage before wishing them a happy holiday.

Before grabbing that sweet serving though, players could open their mailboxes to find a singular Valentine’s Day letter. Rather than receiving mail from every male or female animal in town, one villager of the opposite gender who has the highest friendship status with the player will send a Chocolate Heart item. The Chocolate Heart cannot be placed in the player’s house as a furniture item like in New Horizons, as it is meant to be eaten. Like eating fruit though, the Chocolate Heart does not provide any benefits.

In an unfortunate set of circumstances, Animal Crossing: City Folk’s true Valentine’s Day items were only distributed over Nintendo’s online WiiConnect24 service as downloadable goodies–which is no longer available through conventional means, but hey they were readily there for a select period of time! North American players were once able to receive a Cupid Bench, while LOLGA.COM Japan got the Chocolate Heart item that became a staple gift in future games. Strangely enough, South Korean players were able to obtain the first variation of the Flower Boquet.