For the past few weeks, myself and many others have been playing the latest addition to the Animal Crossing series, New Horizons, on the Nintendo Switch during our time of isolation. And compared to previous entries, New Horizons has improved many aspects and features that the past games have lacked in (customizable player options, placing furniture outdoors, moving shops and villager homes, the museum layout, climbing cliff sides, terraforming, and so on). However, in my most recent playthrough, I stumbled across an issue that nearly ruined the whole game for me; THE 8 PLACEMENT LIMIT OF BRIDGES & INCLINES. In a game that encourages creativity and lets players make as many cliff sides and rivers as they want, why on earth would you incorporate a limiter to structures that lets players climb and cross said cliffs and rivers?

I get that some players can work around this issue, but the game not telling you this while one is making an island heavily water based or cliff based for 2 weeks only to realise far in development that they can't make their dream island leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I'm fine with the limit on stuff like inventory space and islanders because they don't hinder ones creativity too drastically. But if players are willing to put in the Bells and have spaces reserved to put their bridges and inclines, they should be able to do so. If I was given the ability to make a separate hill for every house and building on my island and have a staircase for each one, I should be able to do so if I can make as many hills as I wanted in the first place. This is such an easy fix and I don't see any excuse not to remove this limiter. It's not like additional stairs and bridges makes the game run slower or ruins any core features of the game so I really don't see the purpose for what an 8 placement limit does.

"But in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, they had a limit for bridges too and it was MUCH smaller than 8." You know what else was in New Leaf? Unchangeable character models, unmovable villager houses, unclimbable cliffs, and definitely no terraforming. It's great that things have improved for the better in New Horizons. So I don't understand why they can't go the extra mile to change something so pointless that greatly reduces a player's options for what they can and can't do with their fully customizable island. And again, it's even more insulting knowing how potentially easy it is to fix this dilemma by either increasing the number or by removing the limit altogether in an update. The fact that Nintendo has been frequently updating the game for several weeks and are listening to player complaints is fantastic. So what I'm hoping with this petition is that we can make a good enough uproar to have this ridiculous limit feature removed. Animal Crossing: New Horizons claims to have the goal of letting players customize their islands to their hearts content. And if that's the case, I don't see how a bridge and incline limiter promotes that. I've seen plenty of cases involving others getting upset over this too. So if you're one of those people, let your voice be heard and let Nintendo know you're frustrated about this easy-to-fix issue like I am.