Tomodachi Age
Tomodachi Life is a weird little game from Nintendo for the 3DS, and it’s in every way the Nintendo-fication of the Sims, with a splash of enhanced Tamagachi action thrown into the mix. Everyone lives in a big apartment complex but has their own rooms, though they can freely travel between anyone’s rooms that they presumably have permission from the owner to enter. So with these rooms, all of the needs to tend to for these li’l guys happens on an individual basis with a stomach meter, happiness meter, etc. It is fun to watch and see what they do with their little lives, seeing what clothes they prefer to wear out of all the ones they’ve given you, trying to figure out the favorite foods from the gigantic library of feeding items, and they play with little toys and it’s all just a bunch of cute fun, really.
Don’t expect any kind of Animal Crossing sort of experience here: While you’re certainly going to have fun buying room interiors and clothes and whatnot, you don’t do odd jobs and social quests. You just fulfil needs and wants and sooth feuds and help your Miis find love.
Streetpassing can be a lot of fun. Once Miis produce offspring, you can have them live a life on the island or exist as a traveler, endlessly bouncing around other people’s 3DS’ until they Streetpass onto another system. Also clothes and stuff.
Anyway, there’s a lot of fun little moments that happen when you play and I’ve taken a lot of pictures. So I hope you enjoy the rest of the week’s Tomodachi Age offerings. If you like them, we’ll keep doing them! If it turns out that only I think they’re funny, then I’ll be satisfied with giving it a shot. Come back for more tomorrow!
Change of pace! Nice!
WTF is this… I don’t even…
Panel 2 has hit critical loaf.
That is an excellent Frigg.
I prefer Meatloaf.
Maximum loaf?
I approve. :3
Now my stupid brain can’t stop drawing paralels between the VR tubes/Virtualboy experiments, Ferris/Gunpei Yokoi’s unexpected and untimely demise, and these two games.
Well, better not to think much about it, or next time I try to change a flat tire a musclebound, Brooklyn-accented italian guy might appear out of nowhere with a lug wrench offering help and asking questions.
I don’t really like it, but I’m willing to wait and see if the quality gets any better (read: more the style I like).
I’ll be sitting this one out. Mii characters are a particular kind of awful that I can’t bear to look at. You other folks have fun with ’em, though.
This is just wrong. You guys nailed it tho. Yeaa, I could live with this kind of high weirdness evry Sunday between Ax an adventurer and Monday surprise.
I can see throwing one of these in a month on a weekend as a change of pace, but 2-3 in a row is going to get old rather quickly.
I could see throwing these in a fire… :/
TOMODACHI… ARRRGH! My youngest son is posessed with the stuff. Wish he would use headphones more often, the music makes you go spare after a while. Add toons talking like robots (without the emotion chip) and irritating sound-effects….you get the picture.
If you ever see it, BURN it with fire before it gets your offspring.
And drive a wooden stake through it.
Just to make sure.
That’s his way of asking for some really nice headphones.
I don’t… see a relation to the World story of Guilded Age
as a one-time thing okay, guess I don’t get the humor…
It’s going over my head too. I’ve heard of the Sims but have not familiarity. I don’t even have name recognition with Tamagachi. When I want to spend time fulfilling needs of, there’s always my dog. Maybe people playing this game would enjoy volunteering at the local animal shelter?
With that said, I’m too deeply invested in the story to be run off by the occasional page I can’t relate to. ‘Tis a tale well told; well enough that despite the genre, no gaming experience is required to enjoy the heck out of it.
Oh, and I much prefer Saturday’s ‘Ask an Adventurer’ comic relief.
Agreed, “Ask an Adventurer” is, while breaking the fourth wall, set within the world, and directly relates to the characters, and is an ingenious way to answer questions that arise from reading the comic.
This was funny even though I really rather dislike Miis (I dislike that they’ll be in the new SSB, too!)
Considering how long it took me to realize this was a joke page and not an ad or a hack attempt, I’m giving this filler page two thumbs down.
I had no idea what this was until I saw the comment line. I’ll be tuning out until we resume standard programming. This doesn’t make sense to me although the avatars are kind of amusing.
While I’m not into this sort of thing I’ve been on the internal network long enough to infer these sorts of references even if I’m not intimately familiar.
It’s not something I’m really excited for but I’d probably feel compelled to take a look anyway. AaA was supposed to be a limited run and if this is what you want to use as weekend filler post, or in addition to, AaA I don’t mind.
Yeah, … no.
I guess you had to be there…?
This is a bit bizarre to someone unfamiliar with Tomodachi, but I don’t mind this wacky diversion for two very important reasons: 1) it offers a little bit of insight into the minds behind Guilded Age, which is neat, and 2) I’m just a regular reader of the comic and not in any way financially responsible for ensuring that it interests/amuses me, so my commentary is superfluous.
It’s good to see the GA creators having fun. :)
These are funny. You should continue with em.
Sorry, not really feeling this. Also, who is “T”?
T as in Campbell.
If you still don’t get it, look up where it says “Written by” at the top of the page :P
No. Please, just… No.
Keep going. Ignore the haters, this is awesome.
I don’t hate it, but I have no reference points and so I don’t get it. Based on other comments, apparently it’s a hoot IF you know what’s going on. I have no objection to the occasional experiment, and creators can do as they wish. I’m going to treat is as a ‘Guest Artist Week’; it isn’t to my tastes, but it isn’t going to last long.
Time for the mightiest of heroes to join the Peacemakers:
http://i.imgur.com/OKEbXFJ.png
I’ve seen this sort of thing before but the only time I get into this or animal crossing versions is if I really know the creator well or if there is some real spiritual connection between what the little guys are pictured doing and the material they are parodying. But I guess that answer would be true of a huge swath of stuff.
“E-Merl!!! What the freak? Where the heck did your stinking portal take us?!?! We’ve got cultists to fight!”
“What are you asking me for? The sky elves said this bangle would only open a portal to their city!”
“Well, somebody’s got some ‘splaining to do! … In a minute… This is actually kinda fun.”