Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Review

Tomodachi Life, Living the Dream came out on Thursday.  After 12 years of waiting since the last Tomodachi Life, it's finally here.  I got it on launch day.  And I've played it and watched others play it.  I'm really glad they made it compatible with the Switch 1, because skipping over a whole console would have been pretty mean.  It's probably the last Switch game I'm going to be concerned with, though.

The Mii Creator is very robust, easily double the amount of features the basic Mii creator has, including more noses, eyes, ears, and the introduction of face paint, which people are using for all sorts of cool effects.  In addition, all the base hairs are improved, so imported Miis from your system look nicer too.

Once you have a few Miis, gameplay is surprisingly cozy and cute.  Animations are adorable, interactions are sweet, most Miis get along very well...  It's definitely less chaotic than it's predecessor, which some people like and others don't.  I'm actually okay with it, because I don't want bad things happening to my precious little Miis.

Hello Kitty Island News, and my plans regarding...

Welp, news came out today.  The City Town DLC is gonna be 25$.  That's more than I'm willing to pay, but the base game has gone on sale a few times, so I'm sure the DLC will go on sale too.  I would have bought it in an instant if it was 15$ like Wheatflour Wonderland was, but this price hike is a little to much for me.  

Also, they're gonna start adding paid cosmetic packs this summer.  This isn't surprising, but I'm still disappointed.  When getting cosmetics and furniture is the core gameplay loop, having some for sale is definitely pay to win.  I don't know if I will quit the game entirely, but I will be very reluctant to pay for future content from here on out.

I'm not mad, just disappointed. 

2026 Steam Spring Sale Recap

The Steam Spring Sale ends today, and I thought it'd be fun to recap what I bought and downloaded.  This sale, I was super cheap, and only sprung for cheap, silly games.

Hello Kitty Island: City Town Hype

I still play Hello Kitty Island, every day.  I still have loads of quests to do, because  I'm lazy and just login for the login rewards, do the holiday event, and leave.  I know, I need to fucking play the game.  I also need more ADHD meds.  We'll see what happens first.

Anyways, they finally announced the release date for their next DLC, City Town.  Surprisingly, it's the same day as the Tomodachi Life release.  This seems on purpose, since there will be a good bit of overlap between each game's player base.  There both kinda cozy games, targeting Switch players.   I'm prolly gonna get both, to be honest, but I might wait a while to get City Town, since I still haven't finished base game or Wheatflour Wonderland.  Yeah, I have a lot to get through, so we'll see.  City Town DLC drops on April 16.

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream DEMO

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is a game coming out next month that I've wanted for a decade.  It's predecessor, Tomodachi Life on 3DS was loads of fun, but it's biggest setback was inability to make gay couples and queer characters.  Living the dream remedies that with 3 gender options, and romantic orientation options to include any arrangement of those 3 genders.  The 3 genders are male, female, and nonbinary.  Sure, it's not perfect, but it's a huge upgrade from just male and female and all forced to be straight!  My OCs are all gay or bi, and I'm fucking nonbinary, so yay, all good changes for me.

2026 Media Goals update 1

I set some really lofty goals for this year, media wise.  I wanted to finish and review 1 book, 1 vn, and 1 cartridge game each month.  So far, every review I've posted this year is media I already played or read and finished last year or earlier.  I have a crazy amount of goals this year, between my writing, my art, my dolls, and my backlog, but I don't think I should give up just yet.

His Primal Kiss by Kota Quinn

His Primal Kiss is book 2 in the Monster Match series that I started last year.  I know they look like women on the cover art, but the two main characters are both male.  They're just really pretty for an orc and a human.

Maddox is an orc tattoo artist who specializes in magic, healing tattoos.  He gets a lot of old people as customers.  He went to open up shop in the human world because something (I can't remember what) told him his soul mate would be a human so he thought his chances of meeting a human soulmate would be best in the human world.  Very logical, I appreciate that.

Dani is a pretty guy with a supernatural stalker, so he hires the orc to be his bodyguard at first, and then they start dating.  Fake dating?  Then real dating.  The story isn't what I'm here for, let's be honest.  I just want to watch them be cute and kiss and yeah.

Not as strong as the first one in the series, but it's fiiine.  I enjoyed it.  Oh, and the supernatural stalker situation gets resolved and everybody gets a happy ending.  I probably could've skipped this one, but then I wouldn't have met the main character for the next book!