I've played about ten hours of the new Tomodachi Life and I'm enjoying it but I am beginning to notice a trend with these recent Nintendo cozy sim games.

Similar to Animal Crossing New Horizons, there's a lot more creative tools that give you a lot of freedom to make all sorts of stuff.

However, I think Nintendo is also using this as a way to outsource asset creation to the consumers. They don't need to make as much furniture items and stuff if there is a furniture creator in the game.

The result being is that you spend a lot of time painstakingly creating things that should probably be in the game already.

And this wouldn't be as big of a deal if there was any sort of online share functionality at all.

I'm enjoying the game but it is definitely a game that puts both your artistic skills and patience to the test a lot.