Tomodachi Life

Tomodachi Life is Nintendo's take on The Sims, except with Miis. The game was initially released in Japan in 2013 as a sequel to the game Tomodachi Collection, which, let's be real, you have never heard about that game until when Tomodachi Life was released. In 2014, the game would later be released in North America, Europe, and Australia. It also had a Korean version which nobody cares about unless you know Korean or you are in South Korea. The word "tomodachi" means friend in Japanese, so basically, you're playing a game called Friend Life.
You begin by setting up the time and date. Once that's all set up, you come across an empty island in which you can name the island however you like as long as it fits a character limit. Once you're done, the apartment building is already built apparently, so you would need to create your first islander to enter the apartment building. You can do so by creating a Mii from scratch, transferring other Miis from other 3DS systems, QR codes or importing it from Mii Maker. The first problem that you solve is to give your Mii a food, in which the food shop would open up.
While people praise it for how funny the game is, it's not perfect, as the minigames can bore people out and it's not possible to have same-sex relationships, unless you somehow mess with the genders a bit.
== Gameplay ==
The gameplay is a combination of Animal Crossing, The Sims, other Mii games, and recreational drugs. Asides from solving Miis problems, you also have to help the Miis make friends with other Miis, stop fights, get a boyfriend/girlfriend for them, or the worst possible thing possible, play with them. But then again, that's the only way to get other treasures, in which you can exchange to the pawn shop to get more money. There is no main objective in the game, unless you count the credits in which the child Mii grows up. You can also get money by solving problems. That's just basically what Tomodachi Life is, and it can get old pretty fast.
== Locations ==
=== Mii Apartments ===
This is where the game primarily takes place in. You solve problems, which have to do with either buying something, helping a Mii sneeze, getting a special someone, helping them out with making a new Mii friend, forcing you to give a certain amount of money, giving them a phrase, giving them a certain good (which is mostly giving them medicines most of the time because Miis are bad at managing their health) and more. When the Mii is not in the apartment, the Mii is either at another Mii's apartment, somewhere else other than the apartment, working in one of the stores in the island or going to their house, and apparently they have two household properties there because rent doesn't exist in the island.
=== Food Mart ===
This is where you buy food for the Miis. It is the first shop you unlock after starting the game. Each food is sorted into a category, which is either a main dish, a side dish, a dessert or a drink. Each Mii has their opinions on each food, and in rare cases you may have managed to unlock their all time foods if you are lucky enough. If the Mii likes the food so much, they will blast into space and pretend to be a rocket. If the Mii likes the food but not as much as their super-all time favorite food, they will dance in a frenzy. On the opposite side, if they eat their least favorite food of all time, they will choke themselves. But if you give them their super least favorite food of all time, they will melt themselves. If you give them their super least favorite food three days in a row, you have killed that Mii and you can't play as them anymore.
=== Town Hall ===
This is where you can create more Miis to your island. You can also view the list of Miis that are in the island. However, deleting Miis comes at a price. You will need exactly $21 to delete that Mii, for some reason. There is a popular tactic amongst players to time travel, but the game will not allow you to get more donations if you do so, so it comes at a risk. Otherwise, unless you've reached the Mii limit (which is 100, by the way), you can still create more Miis or if you're lazy enough, you can scan QR codes.
=== Beach ===
This is where Miis can play there. It is the only few places that do not get their own Mii News newsflash. The only thing you can do there is Judgement Bay, which is a debate-like activity where you can ask Miis what they prefer. You can write this out, visually make up the answers, it's all up to you. Even if it's vague enough, each Mii is seen as a stickman running towards what you wrote.
=== Fountain ===
Your look-alike asks you if you want to donate to the island, so you accept it. Anyways, there are activities in the fountain. The first activity, Morning Market, has a Mii selling a random food item, claiming it's the best. The irony is if the seller eats the food that's being sold and they don't like it. The second activity is a rap battle in which Miis say a random line and they have to rhyme it with another line, which isn't usually how rap battles work. Last, if you have the European, Japanese or Korean versions, there is an exclusive activity called Word Chain in which Miis try to say a word that ends in a letter of that word.
=== Clothing Store ===
As the name suggests, it is a store where you can buy clothes for the Miis, There is a seasonal section in which clothing is rotated every season or so. Each clothing item is separated into 5 different categories, that being clothes for men, women, both genders, clothes that you would wear to work depending on the occupation and costumes. For some reasons, male Miis don't like it when you make them wear girly clothes and female Miis don't like it when you make them wear manly clothes.
=== Mii Homes ===
If two Miis get married, they get to live in their own home. But for some reason, they still get to keep their apartment. Since housing bills don't exist, this means that the couple can still live in their apartment. The child can get their own apartment if the player chooses to, unless their island is filled up. Presumably in a future Tomodachi Life game they would move out of their apartments so that other Miis can live in the apartment building, but this isn't the case.
=== Amusement Park ===
It is one of three locations in Leisure Island, which totally exists as part of your island. The first activity is a magic show in which you need to use your hands to slice open the Mii's body. The second activity is Tomodachi Quest, in which four random Miis battle against foods and treasures, the final boss being a really expensive item. Depending on the personality given, you don't need to actually choose classes, as the game does that for you. The possible glasses are Fighter, which your Mii has strong punch and kick attacks, Warrior, which gives your Mii a sword and has a special attack, Mage, in which the Mii has a magic wand that spews fire and Healer, in which the Mii has a scepter that heals the Mii with the lowest health, which is either them or any other Mii that is in your party. It can be played only once per day. The third activity, Night Market, is basically gacha. You get a bag that has three items, which can be a treasure, a clothing item, a food or an interior. You can only get one bag once per day.
=== Cafe ===
It is another location in Leisure Island. There is an activity that involves a conversation with one gender, either being boys only or girls only. If there is a Mii that is sad, there is a hidden activity called "Pity Party" in which others try to cheer up the sad Mii but with no success. The only way to make a Mii happy again is to give things that they like and give them more goods. Other than that, it is one of the six locations a Mii can confess their love in.
=== Hats ===
For some reason, Nintendo decided to make a separate hat store. It's basically similar to the clothing store. It even has its own minigame in which you have to guess the headwear based on its silhouette, but it's easy anyways. The hats are separated into three categories. The categories being hats that cover your head, hats that partially cover your hair, and hair accessories, but the hair accessories are mostly for female Miis.
=== Campground ===
This is blatantly the most impossible location you'll ever get, now that Spotpass has shut down. Also, does anyone bring their 3DS outside anymore? Unless you use a cheating system, this is something you will never get in your island. But if you somehow manage to get it, you basically take care of the campers like you do with your own Miis. You can also give them gifts as well. There's even bugs in the camp.
=== Port ===
To unlock this location, you will need to activate Streetpass. Given the fact that almost no one uses their 3DS outside nowadays, it's almost impossible to send your traveler Mii off. Hopefully with a bit of luck you get items from other islands. If you bring your 3DS on a vacation, there is a high chance more Miis would be sent off, unless your vacation is in an area where no one uses a 3DS.
=== Park ===
Another one of the locations in Leisure Island, it has the most activities of all the locations in Leisure Island. The first activity has a random Mii selling a random clothing item. Similar to the Morning Market in the fountain, it is ironic if the Mii selling it doesn't like wearing what they've sold. The second activity has Miis doing a barbecue. However, there's smoke that can burn the Mii. If you do not blow the 3DS' microphone, the Mii would burn themselves. In the third activity, you play Ultimate frisbee with two random Miis, and they will get pissed if the frisbee does not get passed onto them for so long. The final activity uses the 3DS' camera system to take pictures of your face.
=== Photo Studio ===
Players mostly use this to take a picture of all the Miis in the island. That's just the use for the photo studio. Also, the outfits for the child Miis are something you can't get in the clothing store. It means that it's just exclusive to the photo studio. Bummer.
=== Pawn Shop ===
If you're low on cash, you can sell treasures into the pawn shop. You cannot sell special treasures, such as a golden spoon that you get when you fed your Miis 1,000 times. This is the only shop that basically gives you money. Even then, Miis can still have their own treasures. There's not a lot to say about it.
=== Interiors ===
Miis are apparently too lazy to decorate their own apartment. This is why the interior shop was created. As expected, most of the interiors are valued at over $100 or more. If you give a Mii a certain interior that they dislike, such as the interior that looks like a jail cell, their happiness will go down. So, don't give them any interior that is less than $50.
=== Concert Hall ===
This is conisdered by players to be the best location out of all the locations you can go to. However, the only time you can make your Mii sing something is that if you give them a song when levelling up, in which there are 8 genres to choose from. In the Japanese version, you can give them pre-written words. You can make them sing alone, or form a band with other Miis that have the same genre as them. You can change the lyrics, but you can't change the instrumental. Most players have put swear words onto the lyrics, but if you don't want the filter nagging you every time, try using an emulator.
=== Import Wear ===
You basically get gifts from other islands. However, it is also impossible to get the store unless you get something from another island, or you get something from Nintendo. Given the fact that Nintendo stopped using Spotpass, the only possible thing you can do is to get something from another island. The last item Nintendo gave to all players were Japanese school girl uniforms. Thankfully, none of the import wear items count towards the collection.
=== Plane ===
Also known as Nintendo 3DS Image Share. Basically, you can share images taken within the game. Because you can't share images in the 3DS anymore as of 2022, it is not possible to do this anymore. Unlocking this location is pointless.
=== Mii News ===
Depending on the background music, this would be the subject of the island's news. If you get a news flash, which can get annoying, it's basically mostly things you've unlocked and achievements. There are two newscasts at 7AM and 7PM everyday. If the Mii's birthday is today, there would be a birthday celebration live at the island's hotel (which is not something you see in the game, apparently), and Miis would sing Happy Birthday (but that song's not copyrighted anymore, so why would they be singing it with ditties in the Western versions while the Japanese version has the entire lyrics translated?). If the look-alike's birthday is today, somehow, you get a birthday cake at the apartment building. The random newscasts can go from serious to bat fuck insane, which are the exact three words to describe this game.
=== Observation Tower ===
You have to give a gift to a Mii to unlock it, but if you want to give a gift to a Mii, in which they can hold 8 at a time for some reason, you have to level them up. There is an activity that you can play all the time like Judgement Bay on the beach. It's called Quirky Questions. A random Mii, along with six other Miis, will answer something that you have put a question for, Mad Libs style. You can also let the game fill it out for you if you run out of ideas.
=== Compability Tester ===
Want to know why your Mii got rejected? The compability tester will help. Apparently, according to the newsflash that is related to the location, it's all pseudoscience. But you should rely on it. If you also want to wonder why the Mii only hung out with the other Mii, meaning that a relationship isn't happening, this will help too. That way you know the appropriate answer once the Mii in question wants to know why.
=== Rankings Board ===
These don't affect anything. There are ten rankings that you can unlock. The first one, the vitality ranking is based on the food that the Miis ate. The second one, the popularity ranking, shows the Miis in order based on how many people they've interacted with. The third one, the boy charm ranking shows the order of male Miis that are likely to get a girlfriend from most to least. This is the same for the girl charm ranking, which shows the order of female Miis that are likely to get a boyfriend. The fifth ranking, the pampered ranking, is basically how many problems you've solved for a Mii. The sixth ranking, the friendship ranking tests which pair are likely to be friends. The romance ranking is similar to the friendship ranking except it's with couples, even couples that don't exist. The next two rankings, the island and traveler ranking, are hard to get. The island ranking ranks islands that a traveler will likely visit based on their quality of life and the traveler ranking shows the order of travelers. You will need Streetpass for these rankings. The last ranking, the splurge ranking, is basically how much you've spent on a Mii.
== Minigames ==
Your Miis will sometimes nag you to play with them, which can get annoying. Sure, it is an opportunity to get extra money and to take a break from problem solving, but you end up wasting your time playing with them instead of solving problems.
=== Cards ===
You basically play Old Maid and get the card that matches whatever's in your hand. If you pick the correct card, you make a pair and you win. If you pick the wrong card, the cards are shuffled and you have to trick the Mii into swiping the joker card up. If you swipe the wrong card, you lose. The cards you're trying to get are a pair of diamonds. However, in the European version, you are trying to get a pair of kings and trying to avoid the hearts card.
=== Catch ===
The Mii will drop a random treasure and you will try to catch it. Like Cards, it is practically a luck-game and determines whether or not you will win. In this case, sometimes you are unable to catch it, even if it's close to the hand. Any treasure that is small will lessen your chances of winning. So, hope for the Mii dropping a bigger treasure than that.
=== Zoom Quiz ===
You will be presented with three options on what object zoomed in might be. It can be a food item or a treasure. If you looked up all the images at the Tomodachi Life Wiki, then it's pretty easy to win this. Sometimes, it's just a white screen for some reason. This is the Mii's way of tricking you.
=== Football ===
This is the first minigame that you play with your Miis. You will need to tap the lower half of the 3DS multiple times to achieve this, being that the Mii is being pushed out of the ring or knocked out as a result of all the tapping. While the rules are the same in all versions, the graphics are different depending where on the region. In the American version, it is football-themed, in which your lookalike and the Mii you're against are dressed up as football players. In the European version, they're dressed up as wrestlers. In the Japanese version, both of them are dressed up as sumo fighters, and in the Korean version, they simply wear their regular clothes. Asides from that, you might not be playing Football and are instead playing Wrestling, Sumo, or Shoving, which the latter is the more appropriate title for the minigame.
=== Mii Facts ===
It is a true or false quiz that needs you to remember all of your Miis information. If you don't remember, you're likely going to lose. You are quizzed on their relationships (which can be easy) to their personalities (which can be hard). The difficulty depends on if you know that Mii well enough or not. Basically, you have to remember every single Mii on your island.
=== Shadow Quiz ===
Similar to the zoom quiz, you'll know better if you know every treasure and food item visually. A true Tomodachi Life fan will know this by heart.
=== Double Food & Treasure Shadow Quiz ===
Like the quiz above, you will also know better if you know every treasure and food item visually. However, this time, a combination of both foods, both treasures or a food and treasure are combined together. You will need to input two answers, with one of the answers being wrong. Some shadow combinations can be pretty questionable even for a game that's rated E for Everyone. Sometimes, there are two foods that have plates in it and you might be confused.
=== Headwear Shadow Quiz ===
You thought there was going to be a clothing shadow quiz? Well, apparently, there isn't. You basically have to answer three questions about what headwear is being shown as a silhouette. This can be easy like the other quizzes about items. Out of all the quizzes, this quiz is likely to be easy. Also, there's no headwear pixel quiz for some reason.
=== Mii Shadow Quiz ===
If you know all your Miis enough, this is likely going to be easy for you. You will have to guess the Mii based on their full body silhouette. If you make a Mii that is visually identical to another Mii, you are fucked. So don't do that.
=== Food & Treasure Pixel Quiz ===
You are quizzed on what food or treasure is hidden in the pixels. They decrease in resolution as the quiz progresses. So if you know all of them, this should've been easy for you.
=== Mii Pixel Quiz ===
The only time the head moves is during the first question and that's it. The second question, it is still. The final question is basically part of the image. This one seems to be "challenging" than the Food & Treasure Pixel Quiz. Then again, it is easy if you know all of your Miis' heads.
=== Match ===
You have five attempts to match all six pairs. If you have a good memory, you are likely to win in this case.
=== Versus Match ===
You are against the Mii. You are given a choice whether to go first or to go second. If the Mii knows the location of an object, they will instantly get it. This is the only minigame to end in a draw if possible. Maybe if Nintendo could've added other minigames like Tic Tac Toe, that would've been fun.
== See also ==
* Life
* Drugs
* Help me
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