“Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream” is a video game where you can create original characters or characters based off of real people called ‘Miis’ that interact with each other on an island that you design. It was released as a demo on the Nintendo Switch on March 25 and the full version released on April 16. The original version “Tomodachi Life” was originally released on April 18, 2013 in Japan. It was later released to other countries in 2014 and received lots of attention. The new version differs in how much freedom players have to freely customize their island and Miis. Sophomore Kris Cabo has bought the new version and has experimented with the face paint feature that allows players to freely draw on their Mii’s face.

“I really like the face paint feature. I feel like it adds a lot more customization than the original game had. I also really liked the island customization, you can terraform and it’s really nice,” Cabo said.

Terraforming is when you change the layout of the island. The customizable Miis can also make friends with any other Mii on the island, and players can control who the Miis interact with.

“My favorite feature is that they can be friends with anybody ever, all the time,” freshman Aniston Jones said.

Though the game has gotten a lot of positive reviews, there’s still a couple things that the developers could’ve done better.

“I don’t like how limited the interactions are. Even though I’ve been playing the game for a good while now, I feel like it takes time to get any good interactions, and it feels a little planned at some points, but I do enjoy it,” Cabo said.

Sophomore Sydney Harwell also believes that the game could have more variety.

“My least favorite feature is how limited the colors are in the customization section for a Mii, especially when it comes to skin and hair colors,” Harwell said.