You don’t ever take direct control and walk around, and each location is its own sectioned off area, hurting any sense of immersion. The music is utterly forgettable and aside from the voices, the sound effects are typical Nintendo fare.Īs I said at the opening, there’s not allot of “game” to Tomodachi Life. It is a generally underwhelming visual experience but given the simplistic content it’s not that big of a deal. The graphics in Tomodachi Life are a creepy mix of cartoony Miis and low resolution photographs of food and other items, giving the game a fever dream sort of feel.
Tomodachi Life is a great mobile game in that you can fire it up during a break, help a few Miis, and log off before lunch is over. You need to feed your Miis, buy them new outfits, decorate their apartments, and oversee their relationships, but there’s no pressure like the omnipresent loan you need to pay off in Animal Crossing or death in The Sims.
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It’s actually in allot of ways like the old full motion video games from the Sega CD era in that you jump from scene to scene, looking for someone or something to interact with. The islanders patiently wait for interact and never reached the annoying passive-aggressive levels of Animal Crossing’s furry villagers.Once you get past the voices and start playing, you’ll realize you don’t really do much “playing” in Tomodachi Life. Perhaps most importantly, Tomodachi Life never levels any penalties for putting your 3DS down for too long. For such a whimsical and adorable alternate world, it’s a shame Tomodachi Life doesn’t present a more inclusive set of options that would better simulate the world we live in today. Relationships play a special role in Tomodachi Life, but it should be noted that Nintendo takes a very conservative approach to romance in that Miis are only allowed to marry members of the opposite sex. The number of available shops for food, clothing, and other recreational activities expands as more islanders are introduced and more problems get solved - a smart decision that encouraged me to build a community quickly. I never felt pressured to constantly find ways to make money, since plenty of cash gets handed out for solving Mii’s problems. It felt at its best when I would randomly check in, see what problems I could solve, and move on. The pace is much lighter than Nintendo’s Animal Crossing series, and Tomodachi Life benefits from it. One day your goals could be as simple as providing an item to relieve a bad stomach ache using the touch-screen, but other days can feel slightly more involved, like offering a suitable location for a Mii to propose to his sweetheart. I thoroughly enjoyed watching them become friends, enter relationships, and even argue with each other without being told to. They seek out sweethearts and best friends, or randomly for new clothing items or skins for their apartments. Once you’ve built up a small community of Miis, the individuals start to develop their own random needs based on their personalities. More importantly, unexpected surprises play a major role in everyday Tomodachi Life. The overall effect of Miis communicating with each other in real English language is welcome and endearing – even though they speak in flat, text-to-speech robotic voices, it adds an extra layer of context and dimension that I’ve never absorbed from listening to Simlish. And they talk! Simple greetings like “Heyo!” or video sign offs like, “You’re watching Mii News.” make the world feel more vibrant and alive. My Miis make brief appearances as news anchors and shopkeepers, pop up at community events, and participate in fun musical performances. That tool empowers me to add whomever I want to my island, be it real-life friends, celebrities, or original creations, and each has one of several personalities and dozens of possible roles to play. They’re both imported from friends via StreetPass and populated with the character creator. Nintendo Miis sit at the center of Tomodachi Life’s friendly drama. At first glance, the touch-screen interface and world seem smaller and simpler than the multi-layered complexity of The Sims, but technical limitations can’t restrain Tomodachi Life’s unique charm or its unabashedly humorous spirit. Instead, a majority of its freeform gameplay lies in observation and responding to the random needs of Miis. Sure, Miis offer to play shallow minigames from time to time, but simple memory or guessing games didn’t keep me entertained at all. Those random events may sound strange, but they also highlight this game’s true purpose: Tomodachi Life is not concerned with the typical game structure like a lengthy campaign of completing objectives and to-do lists.
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