Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Was in Development for 9 Years

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Was in Development for 9 Years

From GameRant (Written by Katie Schutze) on | OpenCritic

Ahead of its April 16th release, a developer interview for Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream revealed a lot about the quirky life simulator, including how long it took to make. The Nintendo Switch game will be the first new Tomodachi Life title in over a decade, following Tomodachi Life on the Nintendo 3DS. Like its predecessors on the Nintendo DS and 3DS, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is a life simulator game where the player watches over an island of Mii characters of their own creation. While the player creates the Miis and can dress them up, Miis have a level of autonomy that can send the player’s plans hilariously off the rails.

While the series’ first game, Tomodachi Collection on the Nintendo DS, was never released outside of Japan, the 3DS entry Tomodachi Life has sold over 6 million copies worldwide. According to Nintendo's released sales numbers, this makes it one of the best-selling 3DS games of all time — and many fans would argue, one of the best 3DS games in general. Fans wondered for over 10 years why Nintendo never made a third game, so the announcement of Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream was...