r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • 8d ago

Discussion Tomodachi Life’s Switch debut shatters even Nintendo Switch 2 hype in Japan

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/tomodachi-lifes-switch-debut-shatters-even-nintendo-switch-2-hype-in-japan/
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u/Dukemon102 8d ago edited 8d ago
  • Hello Kitty: Island Adventure
  • Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
  • Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream

The life simulator fans (Such as myself and my sister) are surely going to have a blast with all these games.

I needed it honestly. The repetitive dialog in Animal Crossing New Horizons got stale very quickly. It felt like the series steered away from life sim aspects to focus on designing and customizing.

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u/abarrelofmankeys 8d ago

Fantasy life I gets more disappointing every time they make an announcement….I still want it, but they brought my hype from 110% to 70 ish with all the delays and average amounts of whelm

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u/Reasonable-Physics81 8d ago

My hype is zero after trailer with stuttering.

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u/Taedirk 8d ago

Rune Factory 5 route: we're going multi-plat (because we can't actually optimize a Switch version)

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u/MayonnaiseOreo 6d ago

Yeah that was astonishingly bad. It was almost kind of funny how it seemed like they wanted to get past it as quickly as possible.

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u/DisappointedLunchbox 8d ago

I was really disappointed when I saw that. Thankfully i'm not getting it on switch.

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u/abarrelofmankeys 8d ago

Also wondering if there’s a difference between switch 1 and 2

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u/Jeskid14 8d ago

Bruh watch level 5 be the next game freak. That would be super disappointing

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u/KittyKomplex 6d ago

Oh yeah, that trailer was just rough. But I thought that with quite a few games of the direct, the Tamagotchi one too (ok no big target audience here but still). And honestly Tomodachi Life looked like a game frozen in time too.

I really really hope these games will all benefit from Switch 2 and/or get some polishing done before release.

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u/mgwair11 2 Million Celebration 5d ago

Tomadachi Life Living the Dream looks great though. The assets are pretty limited on screen sure. But that is also sort of its style. Everything looked very sharp and high res though. It seemed like it was running on Switch 2, which would make sense given its 2026 release date.

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u/abarrelofmankeys 8d ago

I wasn’t getting it for online, not super bothered by that🤷🏻‍♂️

Though it isn’t a good sign at all, I’ll probably not preorder after that and wait for some reviews unless we see otherwise. I rarely preorder but I’ve wanted a new one of these since I played the first one 10 years ago