{"id":19969,"date":"2024-09-06T09:49:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T14:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=19969"},"modified":"2024-09-06T09:49:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T14:49:34","slug":"steph-loves-tomodachi-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2024\/09\/06\/steph-loves-tomodachi-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Steph Loves Tomodachi Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve loved Nintendo games ever since I could remember, but I\u2019m not as cool as most people who loved Nintendo as a kid, I had a 2DS instead of a 3DS because my dad thought they were cooler. Also, I was just an average enjoyer who didn\u2019t understand half of the games I played because I was too young (and wasn\u2019t conscious yet).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One game has consistently stuck with me for years, though, and that\u2019s Tomodachi Life. It was released in 2013 in Japan, then a year later in North America. Unfortunately, I was late to the party and found out about it through DanTDM\u2019s series on YouTube. By that time, I had moved to America and in the process, somehow lost half of my stuff (including my 2DS that I lowkey hated). So, I bought a brand new 3DS off of Amazon and Tomodachi Life, as well as Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I don\u2019t think I could ever recreate that excitement that little 8-year-old me had for that Amazon package. When it finally came, I tore that box open and got to work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomodachi Life is a simulation game where you make little characters then feed them, give them gifts, play games with them, and watch them creepily through their windows. Little 8-year-old me loved that apparently because slightly bigger 16-year-old me <\/span>still<\/span><\/i> loves it. I made all my best friends, family members, and whoever else I could possibly think of, and I took care of all of them like a loving mother.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you first start the game, you get the chance to make a \u201clookalike\u201d of yourself on an island you get to name. I have such distinct memories of making my lookalike and moving the mole feature to the bottom right side of my mouth and making it huge so I could see it. I would always set my height as short as it could be and make my shirt pink. When I think back on it, I miss those days like crazy, but I left my 3DS (which is the same 3DS I ordered when I was 8) at home.<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing about Tomodachi Life that I <\/span>have<\/span><\/i> to talk about is the music! I spent so many hours playing that game that I have almost every song\u2019s melody memorized. The second I hear the night theme, my mind goes back to all those times I played my 3DS past my bedtime under the covers. When I hear the apartment theme, I remember every time I would show my friends the character I made for them, and they would usually react with mixed emotions because I probably made them look really ugly.<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing that I\u2019ve been silently hoping for is a version of Tomodachi Life for the Nintendo Switch. I don\u2019t know how they would adapt it because the 3DS and the Switch are really different, but a girl can dream! I know a lot of people talk about how great it would be if Tomodachi Life came to the Switch and I\u2019ve been tricked a couple of times thinking it finally happened, which is so embarrassing.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m about to tell you a secret I haven\u2019t told anyone, but I guess I just spill all my secrets on this blog. Whenever I\u2019m feeling unmotivated to do a task, like laundry or cleaning, I just play Tomodachi Life music and pretend that I\u2019m a little islander doing my chores with my lookalike watching after me. It doesn\u2019t even have to be Tomodachi Life, sometimes I pretend to be a Sim from the Sims 4. I just realized I play pretend a lot for a 16-year-old\u2026 But try it and thank me later!<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you for reading my silly blog about the game that\u2019s been festering in my mind recently. I think I\u2019m more obsessed with it now than I have been because I forgot my 3DS at home and I can\u2019t get it for another week. Also, I haven\u2019t even thought about DanTDM in <\/span>years<\/span><\/i> until I started writing this so that was a crazy throwback.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve loved Nintendo games ever since I could remember, but I\u2019m not as cool as most people who loved Nintendo as a kid, I had a 2DS instead of a 3DS because my dad thought they were cooler. Also, I was just an average enjoyer who didn\u2019t understand half of the games I played because … Continue reading “Steph Loves Tomodachi Life”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19969"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20313,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969\/revisions\/20313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}