Animal Crossing's Heart Crystals Reveal An ACNH Problem

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Many Animal Crossing: New Horizons players likely ended June by putting a pocketful of unspent Heart Crystals into storage along with a variety of other seasonally-inert event-related items, revealing an area in which ACNH doesn't use its content to its full potential. Island denizens obtain Heart Crystals from Wedding Season, a reoccurring ACNH event that takes place every June. But Wedding Season isn't the game's only annual event with unique currency, and while event items may be a sensible concept in theory, how easy they are to accumulate without purpose calls their implementation into question.

Heart Crystals are already limited in their usefulness. Animal Crossing's alpaca couple Reese and Cyrus give them as rewards in New Horizons for the player coordinating and taking photos for their anniversary. In turn, the player can exchange them with the couple for wedding and romance-themed items like wedding cakes, bouquets, reception tables, and pastel chapel décor. While the items are cutely-designed, their aesthetic specificity restricts their usability as decorations. Even for completionists, it's easy to earn over ten Heart Crystals a day, and Cyrus gives some of the more expensive items as freebies and only requires Heart Crystals for extras.

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But outside of June, Heart Crystals aren't redeemable, and therefore they functionally can't do anything but take up a player's inventory or storage slots. And they're not the only event item in Animal Crossing: New Horizons that invites this criticism. Nook's Cranny sells candy throughout October that plays a role in ACNH's Halloween event but is otherwise a regular food item, and it's easy for