Animal Crossing: New Horizons Review Bombed For Save File Limitations

<p>Animal Crossing&colon; New Horizons has been the subject of praise for its simple yet effective gameplay by other reviewers&period; However&comma; lately&comma; the game&&num;8217&semi;s also drawn some ire from fans due to some limitations with various factors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>These factors include some limited multiplayer features&period; However&comma; a more extreme concern comes from how it handles multiple users on a single console&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The feedback regarding these concerns has caused Animal Crossing to be review bombed by its player base&period; But why&quest; That&&num;8217&semi;s what we&&num;8217&semi;re going to find out today&comma; but first let&&num;8217&semi;s take a look at the multiplayer features of the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-155920" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;03&sol;27140437&sol;animal-crossing-new-horizons-screenshot-na-website-explore-polevaulting-790x444-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Animal Crossing New Horizons Review Bombed" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Multiplayer Aspects of New Horizons<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Animal Crossing&colon; New Horizons has three forms of multiplayer&comma; local couch play &lpar;with two to four players&rpar;&comma; local wireless&comma; and online wireless &lpar;both of which allow eight players&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Couch co-op is exactly what it is&comma; four players on one console&period; Everyone playing can run around and collect resources for the island&period; However&comma; only player 1 can access inventory and related features&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Players can quickly change this with a shake of the Joy-Con&period; In doing this&comma; another player gains the ability to access inventory and resources&period; Kind of weird&comma; but that&&num;8217&semi;s okay to an extent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The player can use a feature known as Dodo Airlines to visit other players&&num;8217&semi; islands &lpar;after building it first&rpar;&period; Players can also invite other players to their Island if they&&num;8217&semi;re on the player&&num;8217&semi;s Friend List&&num;8230&semi; sort of&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a long process&comma; but it does exist&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another concern comes into play when multiple people share the game on a single console&period; The island in question&&num;8217&semi;s first user is the &&num;8220&semi;island representative&&num;8221&semi;&period; This situation leads to a host of other problems that we&&num;8217&semi;ll get into right now&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Same-Console User Features Are Really Bad<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>It gets worse for players on the same console&period; Picture this&semi; two siblings share the console&comma; and want to have their own experiences with the newest Animal Crossing title&period; The sibling who first played will be the original Island Representative&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Island Representative has access to all of the game&&num;8217&semi;s features&comma; as expected&period; However&comma; user two has very limited features&period; They can&&num;8217&semi;t advance their own version of the story&comma; build buildings&comma; or do anything really&period; Resources are not duplicated between users&comma; making gathering items a real problem for the second user&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Further still&comma; a thread on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;resetera&period;com&sol;threads&sol;important-warning-about-animal-crossing-nintendo-please-fix-this&period;176793&sol;">ResetEra<&sol;a> details some of the other same-console limitations to the island for other users&period; Missing prompts&comma; limited resources&comma; and even Tom Nook telling the second user to get the first is a big problem&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The absolute worst part about these same-console features is that there&&num;8217&semi;s no way around it&period; The only workaround is getting an entirely new console and copy of New Horizons&period; In of itself&comma; this is a rather extreme workaround&comma; especially with Switch consoles being in high demand&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What do you think about Animal Crossing&colon; New Horizons being review bombed as of late&quest; Do you think it&&num;8217&semi;s a warranted response&quest; What do you think Nintendo can do to fix the problem&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>If you liked our coverage here&comma; be sure to read more about the game&&num;8217&semi;s new special events <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;animal-crossing-new-horizons-gets-special-event-updates&sol;">here<&sol;a><&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;