Those relationships, along with the vast number of outfits, room designs and meals that circulate onto store shelves every day, make Tomodachi Life feel like a game that could be endlessly playable. You can establish the familial connections of your own Mii, ensuring that, for example, your sister doesn't develop a crush on you beyond that, it's a free-for-all.Īs disquieting as that may be, the wide variety of interactions you'll witness between your characters are endlessly entertaining. Not a single one of my imported Miis matched up with their real-life counterparts, turning my copy of Tomodachi Life into a kind of bizarre swinger's party.
More than once, my brother's real-life wife attempted to set him up with one of my friends. I suppose that's the nature of love, but I cannot stress the frequency with which my islanders became infatuated with, essentially, the wrong people. The latter is a bizarre occurrence - the game not only disappointingly prohibits any same-sex match-ups, it also doesn't let you dictate who develops feelings for whom. With a button press, you can capture those moments to an SD card, and share them with those real-world acquaintances assuming they can take a joke.įriendships will form between unexpected neighbors, which could eventually blossom into romantic relationships.
Similarly, it was fascinating watching them develop into their antitheses - a real-life party animal became a brooding lone wolf, while the shyest person I've ever met somehow became the island's de facto social chair. It was weirdly thrilling watching my friends' Miis serendipitously develop traits they possess in real life. There's also something kind of magical about its single-player social game structure. The Miis who inhabit your island, either imported from the 3DS' Mii Maker app or created from scratch, will pursue relationships and form behaviors with little input from the player. Tomodachi Life doesn't fall neatly into the life simulation genre, as titles like Animal Crossing or The Sims give you much more agency over the actions of your characters. It's not just the situations your Miis will find themselves in - daily rap battles, ensemble musical theater performances, occult worship of inanimate objects - it's the very structure of Tomodachi Life that's perplexing, and not always in a good way.
And if you take one thing away from this review, let it be this: Tomodachi Life is, hands down, one of the most bizarre games ever released. Exerting virtual control over your real-life friends can be a joyous thing, especially when the scenarios you're forcing them into are utterly bizarre. There's a strange kind of power in games like that like XCOM, with its nameable soldiers, or The Sims' customizable families.
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