Tomodachi Life

Tomodachi Life is a life simulation game developed by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. It is a sequel to the Japan-exclusive Nintendo DS game, Tomodachi Collection. It was released on April 18, 2013 in Japan and June 6, 2014 in the US and Europe.

Why It's a Wonderful Life

 * 1) It's a decent improvement to the previous game, Tomodachi Collection.
 * 2) The game works in a similar concept to The Sims, which you can create your own Miis and interact with them and watch them interact with each other so much that they can start dating, get married, have kids, break up/divorce, etc.
 * 3) *Though unlike The Sims, it works in a different way where your Miis have problems and you have to help them with those problems.
 * 4) You are able to make your own QR codes for you Miis, which helpful if you want send/recieve Miis from other players of the game.
 * 5) Using StreetPass, if you walk past somebody and that other person has tomodachi life, you can get special edition clothes and food.
 * 6) You can level up Miis and give them rewards, like a gift, a catchphrase and even a song to sing.
 * 7) *Speaking of which, you can create your own songs in the game and write your own lyrics.
 * 8) The minigames, whilst simplistic, are quite fun to play, and most of them are different and unique from each other, including Wrestling, Cards, Mii Facts, Zoom, Pixel and Shadow quizzes, etc.
 * 9) When your Miis get feelings for someone, you can give them a huge chunk of options to how you want them to share their feelings, including acting cute, traditional, romantic, desperate, or even giving your own piece of dialogue. You can also choose the location to where you want them to confess their love.
 * 10) Miis can have certain reactions to what you give them to eat, as they can hate it so much they dramatically get down on the floor, or even turn gray and melt into the ground and end up biting themselves when they revive. They can also love it so much their face turns into the mouth-open, showing teeth happy face regardless of whether or not they have it, or even fly all the way up to space and make a robotic sound (which is presumably "Yum!").
 * 11) You can get the Miis to say phrases that can be whatever you want (except for profanity).
 * 12) You can also get them to go on dates (only if they are dating though) that can be in any location and you can also give them gifts which they will play with in specific locations.
 * 13) You can give them some awesome interiors, such as the sea, a soccer field, a "real" room, a prison cell (great for your least favourite Mii), a fast food room, a cinema, the sky, etc.
 * 14) You can also give them humorous clothes and hats, such as a hamster costume or a hot-dog costume.
 * 15) *You can even give make of the male miis wear female outfits, which is humorous, similar to Animal Crossing.
 * 16) The Miis sometimes say some funny quotes such as:
 * 17) "Don't stare at me like that."
 * 18) "Was I really dreaming?"

Bad Qualities

 * 1) You can't give your Miis different sexualities, for example, it is not possible to have homosexual relationships with the Miis or to make your Miis transgender, which actually gained lots of controversy to the point where Nintendo had to apologise for it.
 * 2) *In fact, in the Japanese version, you can even make the kids and adults date, which is pedophilia.
 * 3) *The lack of same-sex relationships in the game can be bypassed by making a female Mii with a masculine appearance, and vise versa. However, pronouns will not match.
 * 4) As mentioned earlier, most of the minigames are a bit simplistic, and some can be rather annoying too:
 * 5) *Cards is a bad minigame because it's purely based on luck, since there isn't really any easy method of trying to pick the right card. The expression of the mii's face might hint on which card to choose, but sometimes, their expressions can even lead to you picking the wrong card.
 * 6) *Shadow Quiz can be annoying at times, most notably when it chooses a food that has a plate on it, making the pick a complete guess on what it's supposed to be.
 * 7) *Catch is a pretty annoying minigame too, because it involves you having to catch an item that the Mii will drop, but sometimes they will trick you, including them falsely dropping the item with it stuck to a string, or them just taking too long to start dropping it.
 * 8) Whilst the NTSC example songs are okay, they are generally weaker compared to the PAL versions of the songs.
 * 9) It is not possible to include profanity in the NTSC version (it is in the PAL version though, however much more inappropriate swear words are not allowed) while it can be justifiable as Tomodachi Life is supposed to be a children's game, it is kind of unfair since the game doesn't really involve online play (aside from the StreetPass).
 * 10) *Though, you can spell words that sound similar to swear words.
 * 11) *Also in the NTSC version, you can't even use the word "screw" which is not even a swear word (however, it can mean the same thing as "fuck" so it is somewhat understandable).
 * 12) You can only have one island per save file, which can be quite annoying if you want to create multiple island with different Miis in them.
 * 13) Fighting: The mechanic in particular is extremely frustrating and annoying for players, since it happens almost everyday when you play the game, forcing you to calm down your Mii and to watch them apologise.
 * 14) *What's worse is that sometimes, the other Mii will refuse to forgive your Mii, causing them to get sad.
 * 15) *One thing that makes it even worse is that Miis can sometimes have massive fights which will make them so mad that neither will apologise, forcing you to visit another Mii who will try to fix the relationship between the two of them.
 * 16) **Though rarely, sometimes it won't work and they will never apologise and forgive each other.
 * 17) It is not possible to change accents for your Miis, so if you are playing the PAL/NTSC version and you want to have an Australian/British/American/etc. sounding Mii, you can't.
 * 18) Lack of customization of the apartments.
 * 19) Because the gameplay is completely random on which events happen, there are very limited things that you can do for the players in the game, by the time you have played the game for 30 minutes, you have practically done everything.

Reception
Tomodachi Life received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences alike, which received praise for it's weird humour and relaxing gameplay, but some have also criticised it for it's simplicity. It currently holds a 71 out of 100 critic score and a 7.6 user score on Metacritic, indicating generally positive reviews.