Tomodachi Life is a weird game, with quirky interactions between player-created Miis being the main appeal. The game serves as some sort of exhibit for the player to observe. Maybe you'll feed someone potato chips and watch them melt, or look at the park at the wrong time and see Hatsune Miku brutally attacking another inhabitant with the baseball bat you just gifted her. These absurd situations is what makes the game fun, but the lack of player activity really makes it feel more of a passive experience rather than an interactive one. The mechanics at play don't provoke the player to stay, and eventually the funny payoff doesn't warrant the chores necessary to reach it. However, the game play loop encourages returning in the long run, and I'm looking forward to checking on my islanders again sometime in the near future, just as I have for years now. Tomodachi Life is a unique step, and its one I don't see Nintendo making again anytime soon.

Also the soundtrack is criminally underrated, we need to talk about it more.

When I was younger, I was always a little annoyed with games that only had one save file because I hated resetting my games. Something about the idea of having to erase all that progress if I wanted to play the game again felt like a waste. One game I never had a problem resetting though was Tomodachi Life. After maxing out the Mii count on my first island, I found there wasn't much left to do, so I reset it, and a suddenly my whole perspective had shifted.

A common criticism I see of this game nowadays is that it lacks content, which I suppose is true but is something I never considered myself, because to me it felt like with a new set of Miis, the possibilities were endless. Tomodachi Life is a weird game, and seeing the different people and characters represented by these Miis doing these weird things was and still is endlessly entertaining to me. As a result, this one has become a personal all-timer.