Trying to place Public Works in this game is a real drag.
'It's too close to the railway'
'It's too close to the cliff'
'It's too close to something'
'Something'? What the hell does Isabelle even mean by 'something' anyway? Can't she be more specific?
She keeps talking about needing 2 spaced to the left, 3 spaces to the right, 6,984 spaces to the back, but none of it means anything. The spaces aren't visible to the player. I know what one space should constitute based on how much ground flowers and other smaller objects take up, but because of the curved nature of the ground in Animal Crossing and because I sometimes want to place projects in areas of the village where there is nothing around for context, it can sometimes be very difficult to judge distance; especially when you can't actually see the Public Work you're trying to place (it's dumb that the game only shows you what the project looks like once you've found a spot that it can occupy).
What the game should do is let the player select a general area within which they wish to place the project, then bring up a colour-coded grid to let the player know where they can and can't place something.