How to play Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream for beginners

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream brings a familiar but “upgraded” breeze of nostalgia for all life simulation game fans. Here it is How to play Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream for beginners.

Tomodachi Life has become a beloved classic since 2014 when the second installment was released on Nintendo 3DS. Since then, fans have been waiting for a new and improved adventure. And Living the Dream has done that, bringing new upgrades, superior to the original in every aspect.

The result is one of the most quirky cozy games ever, with wonderfully funny scenes, unique character creation and enough creativity to please even the most imaginative players, even if it feels repetitive at times. Living the Dream combines quirky chaos with (almost) unlimited creativity. You can design an island of your dreams, while an extensive character creation system lets you create eerie versions of many cursed film and TV stars.

The guide below covers what you need to know to fully experience Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.

How to create a Mii in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream

Creating a Mii is the foundation of everything, and Nintendo has given you two ways to do it.

Regime Get Help – Get help will guide you through answering a questionnaire about your face shape, hairstyle, eyes, and other features, then create a Mii based on your answers. If the results don’t match your expectations, you can choose other alternative faces instead of having to start over. This is faster and works quite well for redoing.

Regime From Scratch – From scratch giving you direct control over every individual characteristic. Face shape, eyebrows, ear size, hair color, it’s all possible. There’s also a “Draw Face” tool that lets you add patterns or draw custom features directly using a pixel art interface with optional touch controls. This is how you create truly strange characters.

In addition to the face, you will set height, weight, and name. The Tomodachi Life game’s text-to-speech system will read your Mii’s name out loud, so if you don’t write your name in the usual way, you can enter your own phonetic transcription to keep the name displayed while ensuring correct pronunciation.

Establish Mii’s personality

Personality is what makes the process of creating a Mii character so interesting. Five sliders will determine your Mii character’s behavioral tendencies:

Each slider operates on an 8-point scale, and the combination of all five will determine which of 16 different personality types your Mii receives. According to the Tomodachi Life Wiki on Fandom, these personality types directly influence how Miis behave, interact with others, and react to different situations throughout the game.

You can also set gender (including gender non-binary), dating preferences, date of birth, and voice. The voice editor allows you to adjust pitch, speed, depth, and style of expression. No matter what you do, the voice will always sound a bit robotic, and honestly, that’s part of the charm. The deadpan expression makes dramatic moments like love confessions significantly funnier.

Finally, you can specify family relationships before placing your Mii on the island. This is important if you want some characters to start with pre-existing relationships, such as siblings or parent and child, instead of meeting as strangers.

How Mii relationships work

Initially, the Miis were all strangers to each other. The quickest way to introduce two Miis is to place the two characters next to each other. From there, you can observe their relationship through two separate arrows that show each Mii’s feelings for the other Mii. This mechanism is designed to be asymmetric: Mii A can love Mii B very much but Mii B does not have the same feelings.

As the relationship develops, each Mii will interact with each other without your intervention. They will chat, eat and spend time together. Thought bubbles appear above Miis’ heads in different shades to signal the type of help they need:

• Indicates a romantic situation
• Signals the need for items (food, objects, etc.)
• Other interactions

Responding to these prompts will earn you money to spend in the island’s shops, and your Miis’ happiness will increase over time. Each happy milestone allows you to give that Mii a gift or a new personality trait.

Should I play the free version of Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream first?

The answer is yes. The Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream – Welcome Version demo is now available on the Nintendo eShop for free, and importantly, your progress will carry over to the full version. Any Mii characters created, any relationships you build, any progress made on the island in the demo are carried over directly when you purchase the full version.

Additionally, completing the demo will unlock the Mii character’s hamster outfit as an exclusive reward in the full version.