I did not expect this game to get a demo, but I was incredibly delighted ignoring that now the wait feels so much harder…
Regardless, I wanted to talk about experiences with the demo. As always, you can watch the video on my Youtube as well:
Importing my Mii was pretty simple, thankfully, since I’ve had my Mii attached to the console for ages… Unfortunately, that is not the case with every other Mii and not having a proper way to transfer Miis to the Nintendo Switch (both 1 and 2) has been something that has annoyed me for ages. I don’t know why they didn’t add another Mii Plaza thing. I still genuinely think there was a way to do StreetPass for the Switch too with the option to bring the console with you or some kind of peripheral instead.
Either way, Miis got fairly shafted with the Nintendo Switch and despite Tomodachi Life’s return, they didn’t really prepare anything for the 100+ Miis I’m now going to have to remake. Of course, it’s possible there just are less ways in the demo and maybe the full version will surprise me (I already pre-ordered it), but my hopes are pretty low.
While my disappointment is clear with all the Miis I’ll have to remake (that said, I’d be editing a bunch of them with the new customization options, but it’d be nice to have their base looks down over nothing), I was so happy with many of the new customization options such as finally having a long wavy ponytail. Sure, I wish it was a bit wider (If you have thick curly/wavy hair, it rarely is that thin and usually spreads out quite a bit), but I’m just so happy to have another ponytail option especially when we can pick different bangs as well. It was also sweet getting so many messages from people happy for me who know how long I’ve wanted better ponytails T~T <3
Doing the personality is still one of the hardest parts for me as I never feel 100% sure with most of the choices. I wish there were simpler ways to do it, or you could actually pick the personality and description and have it set and adjusted from there. That said, I am a perfectionist, so I suppose it fits. That said, I suppose I struggle with the voice too.
With my Mii and everything all set (which took about 10 minutes), she was obviously hungry and thankfully, Fresh Kingdom Food Mart officially opened so we could buy some food. Of course, since my Mii is the only one in town, well, she’s also the one working there. Maybe you should have just grabbed some food, Mii… Regardless, we were given $200 so I did buy one of each food item for now. As per usual, I just try to go in order as I like to try and figure out all their favorites even though it’s quite a slow process.
Now that Mii!Jennifer was all fed and happy, the first part of the tutorial was done. And she was so happy, she had to leave her house to yell a title drop.
The game then zoomed out to show the map which uh, still isn’t particularly impressive, but we had a very cute logo where our Mii then popped out and with the Island name.
After heading back in, you’re essentially in charge for what to do next. There were also additional tips as we went through such as getting our first level up rewards. One thing that was pretty frustrating is that a lot of the options were actually locked in the demo. Considering how much is limited in the demo already (I’ll talk more about it later), I wish they let us pick whichever. It essentially meant I had to give my Mii something maybe I didn’t think worked as well because I had to pick something at the moment and what I wanted to was locked.
Regardless, with her leveled up and a jar full of warm fuzzies, the fountain opened! This is where you can kind of level up the town and earn more things as well for like gifts and stuff you can give your Mii. Like with the level-up gifts, most things are not possible to give in the demo for some reason so I actually only opened 1/2 of my gifts so I could save the other for the full release.
With that on hold, I decided to make my next Mii– the only other one in the same order as my original playthrough, A Mii of my husband. It’s interesting to think how we were recently engaged when the game came out on the 3DS in North America. Unfortunately, this is where things got more difficult as he has his own Switch so his Mii is not on this system so I had to just do my best based off his Mii on my 3DS. I don’t know how accurate the personality they gave him really is (I don’t think I’d ever use “cheerful or innocent” to describe him– those tend to be used more for me, especially the latter) so I may adjust his personality in the future. In the same sense, they had my Reserved be described as “Aloof” which is very much not me, but much more him and that is the only part I would say is off with my own Mii’s personality.
Going through them all, I think my Mii is a mix of Softie, Perfectionist, and Thinker while I would say he’s a mix of Hot-Blooded and Intoverted Observer with maybe a bit of Headstrong Maverick. Part of the issue is the word choices as well– like I would say “Easy-going” fits my husband more than “Considerate”– not to say he can’t be considerate, but it’s not the word that would immediately come to mind nor would most of the traits which is part of why I think I’ll end up switching him.
Regardless, his Mii has been made and it was time for our Miis to meet. He should be a bit taller or I should be a bit shorter probably, but as these are kind of chibi-ish anyway, I suppose the height shouldn’t be fully accurate. I love that they give us a height chart with the various Miis when making them which does help, but I wish we could also have some measurements too.
After making Zero, I realized I forgot to give my own Mii ears (in my defense, it’s a new option) so I quickly edited her and then they had a lovely discussion to talk about playing games. It went well.
There was then a new news report about the fact that a new Mii had moved on and it said that the clothing store would open when a third Mii moves in. Really wanting to change their outfits as I kind of hate the default outfits and my husband has never worn yellow in the entire time I’ve known him, I quickly decided on who to make as our third… Considering I knew we could only three total Miis, I wanted to pick a Mii that would essentially be by themselves and not be paired up with another character or part of a group and quickly came to the perfect pick– our very own site mascot and part-time Vtuber, Mizuki Sakura. Like with Miinifer, I do wish the ponytail was spread a bit more, but I’m thrilled to have these different ponytails regardless. As a bonus for this post, I actually tried using face paint to get her bangs a bit closer. I’m not sure if I did a good job or not, but I tried my best.
I’m still not sure if I picked the best hair color option for her– it’s like everything was slightly too dull or too dark or just not really the right shade and I wish I could’ve had full range of colors to get closer to her hair color. Either way, I’m mostly pretty happy to her.
Unfortunately, if there is one thing I sort of regret, it was rushing to make more Miis since the Demo ended so quickly after making the third one. I suppose I could’ve held off giving the outfit out maybe? But I just wanted to change their clothes so badly and I didn’t expect it to just hard end there. Similarly, I probably could have waited on buying 2 more of each food as they would now be permanently available…
The problem is that once you give clothes out, you get hit with a hard wall where you no longer can earn happiness (so no way to level) or money which… really sucks. There is so much locked down and I don’t even mind the lack of happiness, but giving us so many things to buy and locking the ability to earn money is cruel to begin with, but you actually get one more day of store stocks and I had no money to spend and there was cute things and I’m so sad.
I’m hoping maybe if I open the game before it launches, it’ll still have the current stuff in the shop maybe. We’ll have to see though… Regardless, even if I got no happiness, I still gave all the Miis their outfits.
The main thing now is I’ve been trying to decide which Miis will be brought over from the 3DS game. While I know “Everyone” has been a popular request, we don’t know how many Miis will be possible to have in the game. I’ve heard some say higher than the initial 100 in the 3DS and I’ve also heard some say lower.
Obviously, if it’s lower, it is literally impossible to bring over every Mii and we already introduced a brand-new Mii to the Island. So, I’ve done my best to make a list and organize it by Miis I definitely want to have back, ones people have specifically requested back, ones I’m mixed on if I want back or not (usually due to being attached to ones I definitely want to bring back or I feel like will work well with the expanded Mii customization), and ones I think will likely not return unless specifically asked for or there is a lot more space.
I also have Miis that were not kept around in the apartments and/or brand-new Mii ideas I think could be fun to add. I’ll be keeping these lists secret for now as a surprise, but if there are Miis you really want to see return, requesting them specifically does help! I probably won’t actually show myself making most of the Miis as well also to keep some surprises when they show up, but here’s hoping we’ll be able to have a lot of fun no matter how many Miis we can have. Currently, about 65 or 66 are stated as definite of the 100, but there are a lot I’d still like to…
Finally, I don’t know how often I will make these type of playthrough posts for the new Tomodachi Life game, so I apologize in advance if you’re looking forward to those, but I’ll do my best!
