Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 10 Features Fans Are BEGGING For

After achieving a 3-star rating on your island, followed by a very special performance by Animal Crossing's favourite canine musician, Tom Nook will bestow the Island Designer app on the player. Players can now terraform cliffs, rivers, and waterfalls on their island.

The freedom to make the island your own is incredible, and there's lots of room to be creative as you want. Your island vision is difficult to achieve, however, once realising how clunky New Horizons' terraforming tools are.

While the clean-up part of the app lets the player clear huge swathes of land from a birds-eye view, terraforming your island involves painstakingly shovelling every tile you want to change separately. Making a path from Nook's Stop to the Residents Service forces the player to infuriatingly place a piece of path one by one.

And text-boxes make an unwelcome return as players are reminded constantly that the Island Designer isn't as open-ended as first imagined. Do you want to clear that cliff? You can't possibly do that when there's a red hyacinth on top! How about creating one? Sorry, that won't fly with the nearby water feature. And don't get us started on an idle villager stubbornly sitting in the way of where you're paving.

The Island Designer has its fair share of issues, which is a shame when the feature itself is so tantalising.