Animal Crossing’s Next Game Needs One Simple Change To Make Island Design More Fun

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improved on the decorative elements of the franchise, allowing players more freedom than ever to make their island getaways their own in appearances. With the introduction of terraforming, thousands of furniture pieces, large house upgrades, paths, inclines and more, there are endless possibilities for designing and building in the game than ever before. Becoming the most decorating-oriented game in the series, may not have included some key NPCs or older gameplay elements from gems like, but it expands the franchise in new and unseen ways.

While allowing the player a lot of expansive creativity, is still limited in a number of ways, particularly given that it isn't trying to purely be a game based around design and decor. Making pathways with custom designs became one of the most popular but frustrating features included, sinceplayers are given a limited number of design slots and paths that can take around nine slots each. The placing of every individual path also proved tedious, forcing people into slower ways to play, taking away from the overall pleasure of the game.

Everything about path-making is rather frustrating for the player, perhaps included in the game without much thought into the true potential it had for players to create unique designs. With people designing their own paths or flooring that take up multiple design slots, players often need to one-by-one hand place tiles onto the ground, a slow and tedious experience all around. The in-game painting, while not as complex, does also allow players to smooth over corners and round edges too, requiring even more clicks from the player to customize after placing.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons isn't the perfect Animal Crossing game, but something that builds on its strengths might be able to take the crown.

That's not the only annoyance of laying paths in either, as removing paths means players must either kick them out square by square or remove them individually in island designer — or even by accident