The Sloptimate Wifeform

But the new tomodachi life is kinda boring.

I think that there’s certainly some areas that this game does great. I love how the miis are fully customizable (looks, gender, sexuality, expression, personality, family relationships, etc.). It’s a huge bonus from the previous game and I love it! But I also miss the chaotic whimsy of the original.

Here’s what I want back:

- The music hall

- The relationship forecast

- Wacky Questions

- Judgement Bay

- The ability to raise your miis’ children

- All of the original level up items (and honestly the addition of a lot more level up items)

- The gift items

And there’s probably some stuff I forgot.

Tomodachi Life 2 Living the dream is a much anticipated game. So, much bigger was the disappointment. But what exactly makes this game a disappointment?

1. the Baby-Montage

This is definitely the biggest disappointment. In the 3DS version babies grew over 5 days and you had the option to interact with them due minigames over every stage of them growing up.

Now in Living the dream, you dont have any of that anymore. You only get a LAZY 2 Minute Montage.

1- you can only Name the child

2- erase the Make-Up if you dont like it

3- watch the boring montage video

4- suddenly the baby is grown and you can choose to have it move to the island or send it to nowhere

5- + if the suddenly adult Mii moves on the island its literally 0 years old despite being a fckn grown up. Like make the mii 18 or 21 atleast.

and thats all. Its a lazy montage, and it keeps on repeating. You could save yourself the waste of time and just literally create a mii and add Parental relations.

AND!!!

If the Mii Child lives on your island, parents literally have NO UNIQUE interaction but instead talk with their kids as if they are random strangers or friends.

2. ISLAND CREATION

in this game, you can literally create every aspect of your island. and still, its not enough.

In the 3DS game, you had different levels. And although, you couldnt customize anything yourself, nobody still complained about it. Now you can create the island yourself. But you have limited items to decorate the space, no levels and no different house options. You can draw different Houses but they‘re BLURRY, and dont have an exterior facade, makin them completely flat and unfitting to normal buildings.

and some people aren‘t artistic to draw mii‘s or houses - and thats completely fine. but it doesn‘t change anything about the fact, that Nintendo leaves you to do the whole work. And for a 60 dollar game, its absolutely ridiculous that you have to do everything.

3. MINIGAMES and INTERACTION HOUSES

i mean… WE DONT HAVE A CONCERT HALL WTF

we only have a well with no particular interactions but sleep and chatting, a ferrywheel, a restaurant and small items like benches. But no

-Music Hall

-City Hall

-no Tower (+ Question „Who‘d rather..?“ Game)

-no beach mini game (this or that..?)

-no board with different rankings

-no Love/Friendship test

-no actual Amusement Park (Rollercoaster, Carussell)

And heres the thing: a sequel usually HAS to contain things that already existed in the prequel, because the game objectively would be worse already if certain aspects arent included anymore. and the game, pretty much is loveless.

4. HOBBY ITEMS

short point, but there arent enough different hobby items in my opinion. theres not enough variation and for a sequel, you‘d assume that logically, they‘d add more gifts. but no, They dont.

Also its just boring how this game offers not enough buildings. Im honestly surprised, they didnt cut out the ferry wheel.. but still, the island has no personality - no matter how differently you decorate and style it.

5. BEFRIENDING SEQUENCES

in tomodachi 3DS, of course befriending sequences were limited. The game already Contained different features and you wouldnt mind the repetitive befriending animations. but in Living the dream, its literally the most bland, boring and most annoying aspect. The sequences are pretty limited and i think for a 2026 Videogame, that costs 60 dollars and that definitely looked promising and promised alot for the gamers, its literally just a huge disappointment, how they cut out on different befriending sequences and interactions. It just really aint it and makes people skip the whole befriending or meeting sequence because its repetitive and offers nothing interesting.

6. THE WISHING SYSTEM

what seemed like an immensily great implantation, turned out to be another disappointment real quick. After unlocking every wishing well item, you literally start hording wishes almost automatically that can only be spend on Tour-Tickets. And let me tell you something, as a 3DS Tomodachi Player. Although it was pretty difficult to ever redeem Travel Tickets, it was yet always thrilling when you‘d finally get one. and these tickets would actually increase a relationship of mii‘s. Now, you throw around tickets like they dont mean much and guess what, they really dont. the tickets dont change anything for the better.

but heres what confuses me the most about the wishing well system.

Some categories are shown as „complete“ while others like the renovation- and island design centre and the island builder are just grey-ed out. As if something follows soon. But nothing does. As i said you can just spend it on travel tickets and nothing more. And these Tickets are annoying by now.

7. MARRIED MII‘s and MOVING TOGETHER

Like in the original game for the 3DS, in living the dream, mii‘s can marry and move together. But you dont have to be married anymore to move together. Friends can also now share a space together. this feature could be considered as cool but it isnt. It really isnt.

Married mii‘s share the same housing kind as friends who live together. Seperate rooms (wtf they‘re literally married?!) and the absolutely same setup. Also married mii‘s often suggest to move in with a friend which is super weird and absolutely not realistic.

Married mii‘s should have UNIQUE housings, and share ONE bedroom. They literally missed on the opportunity for a childrens bedroom by the way.

I dont get why its impossible for nintendo to do that, when you can literally tend to a mii‘s problem by grabbing it, and putting it in a random mii‘s house. Like, wtf?! Why make this possible, but not THAT.

Also as i mentioned before, sometimes married mii‘s suddenly suggest to move out or with somebody else. Which is super weird.

CONCLUSIO:

Although you could definitely say, that this game is fun, it yet is pretty repetitive and boring after one day of playing it.

The Interactions between mii‘s are always the same and cause people to skip conversations and befriending sequences because its boring and pretty much a waste of time. The whole Family setup is unnecessary, now that married mii‘s dont necessarily live together in a Unique House anymore. And Babies? Absolutely the biggest waste of time, since they aren‘t babies but just a repetitive montage that, after 2 minutes result in a grown child thats ready to move out.

At the end, you could really just say, that the game leaves you alone with every customization option. You‘re not limited in your creativity and yet, you completely ARE limited in your creativity. You can design the looks of the island and houses but you will still find yourself to be mildly annoyed, since there arent enough exterior items and not enough housing styles to make a truly unique island with charm and personality.

Nintendo lets you pay 60 dollars just for you to sit on your shit and because shitty pokemon games lowered our standards, we‘re completely fine with it. Im honestly surprised that we didnt have to code the game by ourselves. and in my opinion, it’s absolutely not worth 60 $.

ALSO my mii got with together Leon Kennedy the other day and A.M. from IHNMAIMS joined the island after I spent too many hours working on him. AS I WAS WRITING THIS, THEY WENT ON A DATE HGFGFF