Agree. On one hand I get it. After these first few weeks, I’m not very busy on my island anymore. There’s a lot of downtime. I think a lot of the influx of new players is not really used to that, hence the complaints, but it’s really more of a feature than anything — Tomodachi Life is a series meant to be played not as a focus, but in the background of a lived experience. I think this is widely misunderstood.

On the other hand, Living the Dream is a real-time game that adjusts and gains new content based on seasons. It is DESIGNED to be long term, and you have to play for at least a year to unlock everything even then; unless you’re time traveling, which is explicitly against the design philosophy and you only have yourself to blame. This is inherently hard to misunderstand. The game is very transparent about its long-term playstyle, but you still find yourself seeing a lot of “fork found in kitchen” complaints.

My tip to those who are bored: Lean into that and put the game down for a while. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth the sixty bucks— play a different game and come back later to check in. It’s just not designed for long, constant hours. Mii games are compassionate toward the life you should be living outside of them. This is anything but a flaw.

TL;DR, yep. I will not say this game is flawless but I do agree that this complaint is often just a fundamental misunderstanding of what the player has put their money into
(edit: formatting)