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Tomodachi Life (JP), known in South Korea as Friend Gathering Apartment, is a Nintendo 3DS game and sequel to the Japan-only hit Tomodachi Collection. Tomodachi Life was released on April 18, 2013 in Japan and on June 6th, 2014 outside Asia. In this game, you create Miis and set them on to their new life. They do a massive variety of activities including, befriending, fighting, dating and even marriage that leads to a child. The characters do this actions with very little to no input from the player.
Gameplay[]
Tomodachi Life allows players to let their Miis live on a island. You can pick the personalities of your Mii, voice, accent, etc. The Miis players make can become friends, get married, and more. New to the game is StreetPass feature, where the children of other islands' Miis can stay at the island's Camping Site, returning to their parents to visit via SpotPass with information and souvenirs from their travels. SpotPass is also used to receive special clothing from Nintendo at Import Wear.
Following the discontinuation of SpotPass on April 4, 2024, all SpotPass features were shut down as well.
Personalities[]
- Easygoing Softie
- Easygoing Buddy
- Easygoing Dreamer
- Easygoing Optimist
- Independent Thinker
- Independent Artist
- Independent Free Spirit
- Independent Lone Wolf
- Outgoing Entertainer
- Outgoing Leader
- Outgoing Charmer
- Outgoing Trendsetter
- Confident Adventurer
- Confident Go-Getter
- Confident Braniac
- Confident Designer
- Soft
- Smiley
- Gentle
- Mellow
- Bashful
- Sharp
- Quiet
- Careful
- Shiny
- Intense
- Noisy
- Flare
- Alert
- Active
- Candid
- Drastic
Locations[]
- Clothing
- Pawn Shop
- Hats
- Supermarket
- Import Wear
- Fountain
- Mii Apartments
- Concert Hall
- Beach
- Rankings Board
- Town Hall
- Interiors
- Observation Tower
- Mii Homes
- Campsite
- Compatibility Tester
- Photo Studio
- Nintendo 3DS Image Share
- Café
- Amusement Park
- Mii News
- Park
Items[]
- Age-o-matic
- AR camera
- Bath set
- Cold medicine
- Disposable camera
- Fan
- Frying pan
- Hair-color spray
- Hypnotizer
- Kaleidoscope
- Kid-o-matic
- Mobile
- Music box
- Sewing machine
- Slide puzzle
- Stomach medicine
- Swing
- Travel ticket
Level-Up Gifts[]
- Ballet manual
- Baseball bat
- Beauty kit
- Book
- Bubble blower
- CD
- Cell phone
- Fishing pole
- Golf club
- Guitar
- Hula-dancing manual
- Kite
- Laptop
- Maracas
- Metal detector
- Mirror
- Nintendo 3DS XL
- Punching bag
- Rent-a-cat coupon/Cat voucher
- Rent-a-dog coupon/Dog voucher
- Scale
- Skateboard
- Soccer ball
- Study kit
- Tennis racket
- Treadmill
- Wii U
- Yoga manual
Interiors[]
- Antique
- Arabian
- Arcade
- Art gallery
- Bathhouse (Western Only)
- Bicycle
- Boy's
- Campfire
- Cartoon
- Cave
- Checkered
- Children's
- Cinema
- Classroom (Western Only)
- Colorful
- Country
- Crystal
- Disco
- Dressing
- Elegant
- Empty
- English garden
- European
- Exotic
- Fairy-tale castle
- Family
- Fast food
- Fifties Japanese
- Floral
- Flower meadow
- Fluffy
- Galactic
- Gamer
- Garage
- Girl's
- Golden
- Gothic
- Halloween
- Hobby
- Holiday
- Horror
- Hospital
- Humble
- Ice
- Industrial
- Jail cell
- Japanese bathhouse (Japanese Only)
- Japanese classroom (Japanese Only)
- Japanese garden
- Kitchen
- Laboratory
- Lady jet-setter
- Library
- Locker
- Log cabin
- Mask
- Meadow
- Medieval european
- Mid century modern
- Modern Asian
- Monochrome
- Music
- Mystery
- Natural wood
- Nouveau riche
- Office
- Pet cage
- Photo-realistic
- Pirate ship
- Plant
- Polka-dot
- Prehistoric
- Pumpkin patch
- Purple walls
- Rain
- Relaxing
- Ring
- Rock club
- Roman
- Scandinavian
- Seabed
- Secret base
- Sky
- Skyscraper
- Soccer stadium
- Space station
- Sparkle
- Spring
- Steampunk
- Street
- Sweets
- Tiled
- Traditional Japanese
- Train
- Training
- Tropical beach
- Tropical resort
- Versatiles
- Wedding
- Winter
- Wizard
- Yellow
Treasures[]
- Abacus
- Acorn
- Ammonite fossil
- Antique clock
- Backpack
- Balloon
- Bamboo box
- Barbel
- Basketball
- Beads
- Bell
- Binoculars
- Bojobo dolls
- Bonsai tree
- Bouquet
- Bowling ball
- Box of matches
- Box of tissues
- Brass key
- Broom
- Cane
- Carnation
- Chattery teeth
- Chess piece
- Chopsticks holder
- Clay figure
- Clothespin
- Collar
- Comb
- Compass
- Conch
- Copper coin
- Coral
- Cork stopper
- Cowbell
- CRT television
- Crystal
- Cuckoo clock
- Cup and ball
- Daruma doll
- Daruma stack game
- Desert sand
- Diamond
- Diary
- Die
- Disco ball
- Disposable diaper
- Domino
- Door handle
- Dowsing rods
- Engagement ring
- Expensive-looking vase
- Fancy soap
- Faucet
- Finger trap
- Flashlight
- Foam hand
- Folding fan
- Footbag
- Fountain pen
- Four-leaf clover
- Game & Watch
- Gameboy
- Glass ornament
- Glass slipper
- Globe
- Gold bar
- Gold coin
- Gold earrings
- Historical bust
- Home-run ball
- Hotel toiletries
- Hula girl
- Inner tube
- Jewelry box
- Jump rope
- Kangaroo warning sign
- Kneaded eraser
- Krama scarf
- Lantern
- Leather gloves
- Lipstick
- Loofah
- Luck charm
- Lucky cat
- Lump of coal
- Magnifying glass
- Mahjong piece
- Manhole cover
- Marble
- Marionette
- Martian rock
- Metal spatula
- Microchip
- Mosquito coil
- Mug
- Nail clippers
- NES
- Nintendo DS card
- Nutcracker
- Origami crane
- Packet of tissues
- Paint bucket
- Pan flute
- Pearl necklace
- Pebble
- Perfume
- Phonograph
- Piece of Berlin Wall
- Pinecone
- Plastic trophy
- Plush panda
- Pocket watch
- Potty
- R.O.B.
- Receipt
- Red thread
- Rocking horse
- Rose
- Rubber ducky
- Ruby pendent
- Russian dolls
- Scented candle
- Scourer
- Screw
- Seashell
- Security camera
- Shell necklace
- Silver bracelet
- Skeleton key chain
- Smelly sock
- Snow globe
- Solar panel
- Spinning top
- Spinning toy
- Squirt gun
- Stethoscope
- Sunset key chain
- Super scope
- Swimming certificate
- Takoyaki maker
- Tanuki figure
- Tape player
- Teapot
- Teddy bear
- Toilet paper
- Toothbrush
- Totem pole
- Toy robot
- Tulip
- Virtual Boy
- Vuvuzela
- Wet towel
- Whiteboard eraser
- Whoopee cushion
- Wind chime
- Wooden bear statue
- Wooden spoon
- Golden spoon
- Family album
- Bronze trophy
- Silver trophy
- Gold trophy
- Platinum trophy
Reception[]
In Famitsu magazine, the game was awarded 36/40 from the four reviewers (9/9/9/9). The western critics were not as nice with the game getting a 72 on Metacritic and a 73.24% on Game Rankings, they criticized the game due to the minigames being too simple and the lack of same-sex couples.
The game has sold tremendously well in Japan, about 404,858 units in its first week and 1.82 million with 1,580,067 at retail by the end of 2013. In America, the game sold 175 thousand in its first month. In France, the game has sold over 400 thousand as of December 2014. In Germany, the game surpassed 200 thousand as of the end of November 2014. The game is also doing well elsewhere in Europe, being near the top of weekly charts for the majority of the summer and early Fall. The game sold about 1.27 million for the first half of 2014 fiscal year, most of that being from the West. By November, the game has sold over 1 million copies in Europe alone.
3DS eShop Description[]
What happens when friends, family, and celebrities become Mii™ characters and live on an island? Tomodachi Life—that's what—and it's exactly the type of crazy that memories are made of! Give Mii characters items, voices, and personalities, then watch as they rap, rock, eat donuts, fall in love, get denied, and have little Mii babies. Wait...WHAT?!
Create Mii characters, customize their voice and personality, dress them up, and decorate their apartments. Then watch as they come to life! They hang out, play concerts, engage in rap battles, hook up matchmaker-style, and even partake in cool games like Tomodachi Quest, a mni-RPG adventure. And when something really epic happens, take a picture and share it over Nintendo Image Share. Or, send a baby Mii on a journey into your friend's game with the StreetPass™ feature. Expect the unexpected because your Tomodachi Life is about to begin!
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- A stage based on Tomodachi Life appears in the 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U.
- Miitomo, a social networking mobile app for iOS and Android devices, was released in March 2016. The app was created by the same core team who developed Tomodachi Life, and features very similar ideas.
- When a boat arrives at your port, there is a chance the game will lag, causing the boat to leave without taking a traveler.
- In Japan, selling over 400,000 copies and increasing 3DS sales by over double the week before release at 57,089.
- The original Tomodachi Collection never got a Western localization. Apparently, a big reason for this was that they couldn't get the text-to-speech to work right for English and other languages.
- Some who don't play the game think that you can give tissues, one of the many Vendor Trash items in the game, to sad Miis so that they feel better. In reality, Miis can only receive tissues (along with any other piece of Vendor Trash) if you tell a Mii who's in love to give them as a present when asking another Mii out, otherwise their only purpose is to be sold.
- In the Japanese version of Tomodachi Life, it was possible for two Miis, one a child and the other an adult, to fall in love and, through the use of an Age-o-matic on the child, marry and have children. In the international versions of the game, this feature was altered so that only Miis of the same age group (child and adult) can fall in love.
- When a Mii gets a letter from someone asking them to go to the roof, one of the things that the Mii in disguise says is "Our Princess is in another castle.", a clear reference to Super Mario Bros.
- Despite the game involving romance and dating, Mii couples never kiss or hug, likely due to the target audience.
- After the controversy involving the inability to have same gender relationships in "Tomodachi Life", Nintendo later responded by saying that if the game were to get a sequel, same-sex relationships will most likely be included.
- As Miis are able to play a Wii U, sounds from the Wii U games Nintendo Land and Game & Wario can be heard.
- In the Japanese version of Tomodachi Life, between 8:00 pm and 12:00 pm, a married couple can sometimes be seen taking a bath together in their bathroom, sometimes with their child. Due to controversy, the scene was removed from all localized versions of the game; this particular scene is replaced with a single Mii in the shower with their foggy silhouette visible through the shower door.
- In the original Japanese release, the daily donations are collected in a wooden box, whereas in the western versions they're collected in a silver piggy bank.
- In the Japanese release there is an event that can be seen at the Fountain called "Shiritori", in which a category will be chosen at the beginning of the game, such as general word association or food association. Two Miis will then come up with words which begins with the final kana of the previous word, and if either Mii repeats a word that has already been said, they will automatically lose. The North American version of the game replaces this event with one called "Rap Battle", in which two Miis try to insult each other in rhymes until one of them cannot come up with a rhyme. The European versions not only contain the "Rap Battle" event, but also an English version of the "Shiritori" event called " Word Chain", where instead of coming up with words that begins with the final kana of the previous word, two Miis have to come up with words that begin with the letter that the previous word ended with.
- The Plane (Nintendo 3DS Image Share) and the Observation Tower were created exclusively for the International release of the game, with the Observation Tower serving the role originally used by the Mii Apartments rooftop in the Japanese release.
- While birthdays can be celebrated and the Miis sing "Happy Birthday To You" to whoever is having their birthday, the lyrics were changed to have it scatted (except the "Dear [Mii's name]" part), due to the game being released when the song was still under copyright.
- The shop keepers that run the various shops have different appearances depending on the regional version of the game. The Japanese version of the game features shop keepers with Kabuki stage hand (Kuroko) masks, in the American version they have wooden block heads, in the European versions they have robot heads, and in the Korean version they are wearing a yellow racing helmet.
- The music that plays in the Cafe area are the songs that Miis can learn in the Japan-only Nintendo DS installment "Tomodachi Collection". In the Japanese version of the game, lyrics (taken directly from "Tomodachi Collection") can be heard during each song. In the international versions of the game, the instrumentals for each song were kept, but lyrics were removed.
- Before the game was released internationally, many international players thought that a patch in the Japanese version fixed a glitch that had unintentionally made gay marriages possible for Miis, causing fans to complain about this feature being removed, while in actuality, Nintendo was simply fixing a data transfer issue that corrupted save data and prevented people from progressing after they transferred Mii characters from the Japan-only Nintendo DS installment Tomodachi Collection.
- Gay marriages are able to be performed in Tomodachi Life, due to the ability to create Miis that have the appearance of Miis of the opposite gender. While many have complained of the inability to have same gender relationships in Tomodachi Life, Nintendo has refrained from including the feature, explaining that the game is not to be looked at as though it is a "simulation" of real life.
- In the Japanese version of the game, there are only 6 genres of music that Miis can sing: Rock & Roll, Pop, Enka (Japanese traditional song), Opera, Heavy Metal and Rap. The International versions of the game removed the Enka genre while and adding 3 more: Ballad, Techno, and Musical.
- Nintendo made a commercial using Tomodachi Life's Concert Hall feature to celebrate the announcement of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask coming to the 3DS.
External links[]
- Tomodachi Life at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Tomodachi Life at GameFAQs
- Official Site - Tomodachi Life for Nintendo 3DS & 2DS
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