Animal Crossing: New Horizonshas launched to critical acclaim, holding a 91 review average on Metacritic and standing as the highest-rated game of the year to date. However, its user review score tells a much different story at 6.5/10, as some players have started to review bombAnimal Crossing: New Horizons.
For the uninitiated,Animal Crossing: New Horizonsonly allows one island per Switch. Other players using the same Switch can still create their own character, but they will be constantly competing with their fellow players over the island’s limited resources.Local co-opalso doesn’t allow for any split-screen options, so when two people playAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsat the same time on the same Switch, they’re stuck close together. To make matters worse, only the person who founded the island can make any significant progress, so the other players have to wait for them to continue the game to have access to more features and areas on the island.
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Animal Crossingfansare understandably upset about this, and so while review bombing a game with 0/10 is still not necessarily “fair,” this situation is a little easier to understand than other instances of review-bombing over the years. Some of the negative reviews on Metacritic, of which there are currently 258 and growing, are from parents who bought the game for their kids, and how only having one island has caused some headaches.
Basically, the only way forAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsplayers in the same household can each have their own island and a proper experience with the game is by owning multiple Switch consoles. It’s an unfortunate situation for those who purchased a Nintendo Switch for the family to share instead of giving everyone in the house their own individual console, and sadly, it’s not something that’s likely to be changed in a patch or future updates.
In fact,Animal Crossing: New Horizonsplayers may be waiting a long time foranyupdates to the game, let alone one that addresses the 1 island restriction. It’s been confirmed that the coronavirus pandemic could causeAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsupdates to be delayed, so those playing the game should keep that in mind.
While it seems unlikely that Nintendo will change theAnimal Crossing: New Horizons1 island limit, perhaps the company will keep these complaints in mind for the next game in the series, whenever that may be.
Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis out now, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
