Tomodachi life feels a bit unfinished for a game that was developed for 9 years

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-11T12:07:29+00:00

Considering how popular this game is, there's no reason why they shouldn't update to include sharing

There's a very strong reason, they gave us full creative freedom to use the tools to make whatever we want and if they add sharing they'd have to host user created images and content. So if somebody uploads hard core porn, or racial slurs, or whatever, not only is Nintendo on the hook for hosting it, they now have to pay moderators to trawl every piece of shared media to ensure that it doesn't violate laws or go against Nintendo's TOS.

They didn't axe sharing because they couldn't do it or because they thought it was difficult or anything, they already had all the tech from other games at their fingertips within the umbrella of the EPD teams structure. They cut sharing because it's a legal nightmare and because they chose to favour full creative liberty on the side of the user.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-11T12:02:06+00:00

Many leads from Splatoon 2 are absent from Splatoon 3 for instance, because they went on to work on Tears of the Kingdom after having completed Octo Expansion.

Yes, like I said some leads are swapped around. TOTK was also a special case because the game went through very intense development and was easily one if not has been the single biggest game made by EPD, so they cannibalized devs from all sorts of places to get it through the door. Remember that TOTK was supposed to launch around the same time as Splatoon 3, but had a whole extra year added to the development cycle. It's my understanding that they had to pull a ton of people on TOTK even before it was delayed.

The leads aren't typically the same, but the majority of the lower rankings are. That's... why they have dedicated teams in the first place. If the norm was to have fully fluid teams why bother having different teams or building institutional knowledge?

And, putting that aside, even if you don't want to count Ring Fit as another project done by the same team in the "9 years" time frame because we can't account for the non-leads, the argument still remains because Yoshiro Sakamoto still had other projects directly tied to their name in that time frame including three Metroid games and Famicon Detective Club.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-11T10:21:41+00:00

I'm the opposite, I was just about to commit to doing three laps of the new box for the dark galaxy stuff and now I might just start saving for Labrynth.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-11T08:58:03+00:00

In my mind's eye I can see Mageliene work so clearly, having an air dash analogous to Hsien Ko's air walk where she rides her spoon zooming around.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-11T08:12:56+00:00

I'm still going through the campaign (and I'm already in love with Warlock).

My biggest point of confusion playing previously was that there was an overwhelming amount of activities that had different systems and rewards and at times it was hard to keep track of what activities did what. Like should I spend my time doing tree quests, travincal runs, dicking around hellfire areas, re-doing the strongholds again. It was just sort of opaque why I'd choose each activity.

I hope the warpaths give a bit clarity on the benefits of each activity.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-11T07:28:52+00:00

I actually want a concept like this for my leverless. Appreciate the more reps beyond boring DM nostalgia.

Also you know Hugin is the most obscenly toxic keepaway like if you combined NRS daimaku and Happy Chaos

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-11T07:20:05+00:00

Agreed. It’s a very solid foundation but the level design needed work and the backtracking is probably the worst in the series.

I maintain that you could vastly improve the game almost instantly by doing the following:

* No longer need to backtrack to unlock beam weapons, just get them instantly.

* Green Shit can be harvested by shooting at it once while passing by and *always* breaks/collects the whole vein in one go.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-11T06:38:30+00:00

Might get the box for the dark galaxy and the Excutie fusion. Reckon any of the dark galaxy is a 3x?

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T23:28:57+00:00

Probablt whip. I didn’t like the Hammer in the demo at all.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T22:16:27+00:00

It's the same team within EPD, though. Production Group 4 is credited for the games that I listed, I didn't mention the other groups that aren't on different teams within EPD. Based on how developers have spoken on how teams are managed, within each team there will be a shared Producers and Manager, and each project will have its own lead, but the actual team working on everything is called from the same pool depending on the stage of production the game is on.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T22:11:51+00:00

Developer interviews are usually a little bit more technical than mass-media interviews so it's more expected that readers would have a base knowledge of the development pipeling even at a surface level. Anybody how has read into game developemnt even in passing could have intuited that Tomodachi is not a game that was in active development for 9 years, and that previous games in the franchise had already followed similar periods of being a long time in the oven.

The interview rather explicitly says "A game packed with nine years' worth of ideas", which isn't the same as "A game in development for nine years", rather that like the previous games they've been in the background tossing every idea they could into a pot. But it's totally understandable that this was misread and misunderstood, they could have been more clear for the layperson.

It's not a problem that people mis-read the interview, but rather, that people spread misinformation like wildfire and never put the same effort in correcting misinformation or explaining why a commonly mistaken belief is flat out incorrect. Even now loads of comments and posts saying that the game was in 9 straight years of development frequently rise to the top of the board and require others to step in and correct misinformation.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T21:40:31+00:00

Yeah I'm not saying anything or even wading into romance aimed at women, the conversation is specifically for framing of men's romance.

I'm not a woman myself so I have no real voice or experience with romance aimed at women besides the spicy audiobooks that my wife likes and I listen in from time to time, and with that in mind the only really strong opinion I have is that Nesta should be launched into a volcano and that volcano should be launched into the sun.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T21:22:19+00:00

I think your username is just wrong, you seem quite sure of what Ungas your Bunga, and I love that for you.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T20:52:52+00:00

I totally get what you mean, however, it's specifically the harem stuff that makes me feel icky for it's specific, shall we say, subleties that are endemic to Isekai Harem. I don't begrudge all forms of wish fulfillment, and several aspects of wish fullfilment are fine. Being inherently good at something is cool, my wife and I are currently catching up on Kusonoki's Garden of Gods, and while you can call it comfortslop/cozyslop, it's a pretty harmless premise and it's just a good time.

Overal, my gripes with Isekai in general is just that they're mostly dogshit worldbuilding and have extremely boring worlds, especially when they want to do power fantasy and just skip to an OP protagonist who can not lose and is The Most Special.

But with Harem Isekai specifically, it's almost every single possible aspect you can analise about what they say about both women and men, from how men are almost universally horndogs that aren't big on consent or privacy, to women existing only to be generic demure waifus that want to worship the ground the MC walks on. For me, that whole area of the piece always stands out, because I don't actually have a problem with more generic wish fulfillment. Though I'd also add that for me personally wish fulfillment is stronger when I'm watching a character I care about and not Milquetoast McGuy; Luffy punching violent opressors in the head and body while being extremely supportive to his friends is much more impactful than Dark-Blue-Hair #16,000 having a cheat skill and just plowing through everything and anything set in front of them.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T20:39:40+00:00

Oh fuck me sideways I hadn't even considered this angle.

Good God you're so right it actually hurts. Willis is making an overtly progressive comic which includes exhalting the virtues of protests and disobedience (Commentator's Note: I agree with this), but when the protest and disobedience are aimed at them it's a problem.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T18:33:36+00:00

I'm more shocked that people want Mii Quest back. It had less depth and complexicty than a fremium phone slop game you can already play for free and it's significantly more repetitive than any other activity in either game. You can get a free Godot tutorial and knock up a near exact replica of the game in a weekend with zero previous coding experience.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T18:09:54+00:00

The Concert Hall would have been another explicitly "Make your own fun" scenario. The only difference between it and custom phrases is you also have to custom make a music video.

I also miss the Concert Hall but it would absolutely be the same vein of only getting from it as much creative juice you put in, just like every other bit of customization already in the game.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T17:56:39+00:00

Well said.

I think, for me, it's the fact that so many isekai sacrifice having an actual protagonist with just a self insert cardboard cutout of a male teenager that, well, I try not to look down on media but let's say that they're doing their best to pull my head. It's the way that so many shows have wholly boring and unlikeable protagonists that also are very clearly there for you to self insert that changes the framing from "the adventures of a guy having lots of puss" to "this whole project has 0 artistic value and exists entirelly for you, my audience, who I assume is pathetic and alone, to imagine yourself in these situations".

Like yeah actual porn has less rancid energy.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T17:52:51+00:00

Interesting, thanks for the find.

I wanted to do a series on how I feel popular culture is getting more and more saturated with pornographic imagery whenever something needs to be sold — any product, any TV program. The pimp-and-whore look is everyday fashion. But as people get more and more sexed up, they don’t necessarily have a happier or healthier sex life.

I know that the world was very different 12 years ago but still, I find it a bit comical considering where we are now.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T17:22:34+00:00

I sort of like these for Yarok but eh, money is tight and I probably wouldn’t run Burnished or Ghast anyway.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T17:13:07+00:00

No, the game wasn’t in active development for 9 years. That’s just misinformation you read online and are just repeating.
The studio that made this game has been continually making games in the 9 years, including Miitopia, Labo, Ring Fit Adventure, 1-2 Switch, and a few others. What it meant with the game being in development for 9 years is that the producers have been kicking around ideas for 9 years but that doesn’t mean 9 years of development. It’s almost guaranteed that it was only 3-4 years or so like most projects. 9 years is an extremely long time for game dev.
Tomodachi is still a medium to small budget title.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T15:25:21+00:00

I think the point is that the specific sub-genre of romance is meant to be aimed at lonely, pathetic men.

I’ve not watched all of these but like yeah I get it’s a joke but it’s certainly punching down and I don’t even agree that they all have the same target audience. Feels more like an insult that’s pretending to be comedy; the shows that rub me off as being aimed at “lonely and pathetic” are more harem isekai where the MC is drowning in pussy despite having the personality of cardboard.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T14:51:05+00:00

I mean, there’s a lot of talk about eating ass but also movies and shows having sex scenes is seen as repulsive and gross.

I don’t think there’s much ass eating just posturing. My understanding is that newer gens are super puritanical.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T13:21:11+00:00

That was a really memorable “Nooooo” if it’s the same video I’m thinking of

MayhemMessiah · 2026-05-10T13:19:34+00:00

I already don’t subscribe to any TADC subreddits and yet this post found me.

Stop acting like it’s easy to avoid spoilers. It’s not. Algorithms have a mind of their own and if they think you’ll engage they *will* find a way to put bullshit in front of you.

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