Animal Crossing: New local multiplayer challenges that hinder progress

What Crossing the Animals: New Horizons announced its feature set in February, fans were delighted to find that up to eight residents could copy each game. However, it seems that the progress of the allotted island is for everyone but the first player.

While the second characters are created, it is only the first resident to visit the island – the primary account holder – who has full access to the full set of the game.

Anger is currently pouring into MetaCritic, where fans sign in to "update-the-bomb" the game. The user-generated score is currently 6.8 feet away, compared to more than 9 from critics. More than 160 bad reviews was written at the time of publishing, and many of them were marked as 0.

Some of the first tasks in the game require the main resident to donate five creatures to Tom Nook for reading. Until the main villain contributes these five creatures, a number of features remain closed to all other players, including the much-needed ax.

In addition, Blies and his museum will never appear again without initial contributions. This creates a situation where secondary accounts have already paid for their travel expenses and are living in smaller houses, but are still stuck on one of the first smaller islands with little else to do.

A very complete account of the problem in ResetEra forums. A Sketch member suggests that the first resident of the island is asked to help develop the island, participate in new projects, or evaluate the status of ongoing projects with Tom Nook.

Stetch writes: “Tom Nook tells other players to ask me what I need. "This is really sad and it destroys the core of what makes me want to cross Animal Crossing."

Polygon reached out to Nintendo to comment on the issue and whether it would be something to fix in the future.