tomodachi life
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Weed And Nintendo Taught Me A Valuable Lesson About Parenting
11I imagine that parents get struck with a revelation in the process of rearing a child that helps them appreciate the enormity of the task before them. I say “imagine” because I’ve never had a child. At least, a real one. But I was struck by that revelation recently thanks to a small, weird Nintendo…
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Nintendo Keeps Guilt-Tripping Me For Not Playing Its Games
It’s hard to keep up with sim games. All those little virtual pets demand your attention constantly, crying out from behind the screen to make sure you know they’re hungry or tired or lonely or bored or whatever.
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Tomodachi Life: The Kotaku Review
How do I describe Tomodachi Life? I’ll start with the name. “Tomodachi” (友達) is the Japanese word for “Friend”, so the title of Nintendo’s new 3DS sim game translates literally to “friend life”. That’s a bumbling phrase. But it helps illustrate why I’ve had such a hard time explaining the game’s appeal to friends and…
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How I Made A Nintendo Game A Little Bit Gayer
One of the first things that you’re told in Tomodachi Life, Nintendo’s newest life-sim for the 3DS, is that characters in the game can have babies. Specifically, it will take your first imported Mii, and it will show them holding a baby with a faceless person of the opposite gender.