I recently acquired the 3DS game Tomodachi Life, where miis live wacky lives on an island. So, naturally, I placed 32 ZFRP characters into a shared apartment building to watch how they live together. I've only just started, but let's take a look at who we got so far and what they've been up to!
Here's a group shot of everyone so far! In order, from bottom to top, left to right:
Erebus, Tenshi, Shimmer, Utsuho, Rebecca, Jokerton, Aiden, Sarah, Melody, Jonesy, Antoinette, Tallish, Jaxx, Sister Alice, Vina, Eddie, Janet, Leo, Edyth, Alex, Mikey, Saxton, Q, Gloria, Fumes, Viola, Garnet, Hypotenuse, Samson, Sakura Atari, Cory Baxter, and G. Nerique.
Don't worry, I've got close-ups of each one! So mouthless Edyth and barely visible Gloria aren't a problem!
So, let's go down the line and meet our characters.
EREBUS:
The night lord lives a modest life on the island, drumming up a friendship with Tallish to keep up to date on the ZFRP characters he never got to know. However, he appears to have a lot of pent-up energy, often jumping around his room like a lunatic.
TENSHI:
The resident troublemaker of sorts. Although she has yet to meet Viola, she did meet Jonesy and cause the first fight on the island. Initially unwilling to reconcile, Tenshi has recently come around and the island is at peace again!
SHIMMER:
One of the first islanders to arrive, she has a knack for appearing as a back-up dancer in group songs. She also tends to appear on the news, and has gained an appreciation for mexican cuisine.
UTSUHO:
Something strange happened with this one. Initially there were very few islanders: Jokerton, Aiden, Rebecca, Utsuho, Shimmer, and Sarah. This small knit group led to some love in the air, and before I knew it, she and Aiden were sweethearts. In Tomodachi Life you don't control your characters, simply suggest things when they seek your help. So... I can't really break them up or anything unless they ask me too. Otherwise, Utsuho is an energetic character and wants to play games all the time.
REBECCA:
Designate's old secretary character was the second to move in and is probably guilty for the Aiden/Utsuho pairing. She tried to set them up on a date, and although they agreed to just be friends at the time, they later ended up together! Rebecca is a serious no-nonsense type, but she loves advertising for new stores on the island. She also is strangely best friends with Sarah.
JOKERTON:
A Looney who only recently got his emotions, Tomodachi Life is his attempt at gaining some understanding of them. So, when his female neighbor Rebecca moved in, he was immediately in love. However, he got turned down, and was in a stark depression for quite some time. Now back to basic, Jokerton spends most of his time doing nothing of note. Incidentally, the way the game is set-up, everyone thinks the player looks like the first mii to move in, so everyone on the island calls me Jokerton's look-alike. It's annoying and grating and they should have just let you pick a separate name.
AIDEN:
The troublemaker himself, seen in Rebecca's apartment, no doubt making trouble. The little claurichaun was one of the first people to move in with an outgoing personality, so naturally he caught the eyes of other residents. His size has been a bit of an impediment, like, he can barely reach the donation station to give me money!
SARAH:
Yes, her room is made of pizza, and hot dogs, and french fries. Sarah is as friendly as you'd imagine her to be, the first to make a best friend on the island after all. She's also a pretty decent cook, making butter cookies and other deserts whenever I throw a frying pan on her floor.
MELODY:
The cute doll herself. Originally the only child on the island, she got into some Grow-Up Spray and is now 18 until the affects wear off. She is normally as small as Aiden! Melody is extremely friendly and a great singer, and whenever she's super happy, she jumps around screaming "THE BEST!" We'll see some pictures of her singing later.
JONESY:
Despite living next door to Erebus, she has yet to meet the guy, instead occupying herself with warm baths and fighting with Tenshi. She's been taking over the news lately quite a bit as well.
ANTOINETTE:
Girl always wants to play. Right here is a picture of her jumping up and down because she wants to play a game. At her next level up she'll be getting a cat, so look forward to that!
TALLISH:
The gnomish bartender in his meager apartment. Quick friends with Erebus, Tallish has yet to meet Aiden and begin the greatest rivalry in Tomodachi history. For now, he kinda just jumps around a lot.
JAXX:
You won't find this grump making a lot of friends, although he does love playing games.
SISTER ALICE:
Sister Alice is having a fashion crisis, that being that there seem to be no nun robes in the game. Constantly asking for new clothes and being generally un-Sister Alice like, I have to wonder if the island air has caused her entire emotional state to shift.
VINA:
Many people on the island get part-time jobs, but Vina gets ALL the part-time jobs. Almost anytime I go into a store she's at the counter, particularly at the restaurants. She's fun but a bit of a loner, but if there is an event going on she'll be there.
EDDIE RIGGS:
The musician in his natural habitat. Because QR codes suck, everyone calls him Riggs instead of Eddie, although Riggs could conceivably be one of those minimalistic musician names. He learned a rock and roll song before I realized he could learn metal in the game, and it turns out, the Rock and Roll is actually Elvis style Rock and Roll. You... don't want to see how that went.
JANET:
Janet Kingston is enjoying here time away from Mondor by being the most fun girl on the island. She's one of my favorite miis because she's always doing something, like riding a merri-go-round at 4 in the morning. I feel bad that her apartment is so bare, but miis level up when you make them happy, and she's always the one finding fun for herself!
LEONARDO:
Gonna take me forever to find a grey helmet for this little knight. Leo seems to spend a lot of time with Saxton Hale, no doubt trying to learn his powerful moves to better defend a certain someone... a certain someone he barely knows at the moment! Leo was once the arm-wrestling champ of the island, but Shimmer of all people dethroned him.
EDYTH:
That certain someone being Edyth! Edyth prefers being by herself, tripping in her apartment and sneezing. People drop by her apartment from time to time, but she rarely is the one to go to them. At least there is no demon in her chest!
ALEX:
Guess who also doesn't know he lives on the same island as his sweetheart? Alex is a lot like Leo, hanging out with stronger folks like Erebus when he isn't sitting in his room doing nothing. Alex works at the clothing shop now and again, barely tall enough to be noticed in his role.
MIKEY:
Guess who doesn't have a lot of friends? THIS GUY! Mikey Angstrom, although playing games all the freaking time, spends most his time at home avoiding human contact. Sometimes miis come to you with problems, like wanting new clothes or wanting you opinion on if they should make friends with someone. Mikey? He just wants me to buy him food.
SAXTON HALE:
Showing off for Leo here in his Locker Room/Apartment, Saxton Hale is a real go-getter on the island, building entire place for miis to hang out in. He does scream his name every now and then, but like Leo, he lost to Shimmer in the arm-wrestling contest because the world is insane.
Q:
Q's got a comfy life on the island, although he does like to show up for some rather physically intensive events regardless.
GLORIA:
Let me tell you about Gloria. Gloria is currently short because she found the opposite of Melody's grow-up spray. She is currently a kid because of the Kid-Again spray, and her clothes that are the closest to summoner's robes and horn I could find have made her a total hipster. She has accidentally become my favorite mii, at least according to the game. I gave her a trip to Australia, a laptop and book, and many other things because she is quite easy to pamper. You can't see her room here, but its basically a library too. She's not very expressive, but easy to please!
FUMES:
Living in a building and no green-haired Japanese girl for a hand, this is hardly the Fumes we know. He does seem to dance a lot, and he's recently gotten into singing! ...Definitely not the Fumes we know.
VIOLA:
Viola lives in a room where it's perpetually raining. She's made few friends and hasn't met Tenshi, and she seems to enjoy spending time on carnival rides alone. Maybe she's just waiting for the right person to join her...
GARNET:
Tough and always doing exercises, Garnet is always ready to play and willing to offer strange advice out of nowhere.
HYPOTENUSE:
Despite her robotic voice, Hypotenuse seems to developing emotionally on the island, far better than Jokerton at least. She'll dance by herself and play games, and she is curious about other islanders, showing unusual interest in Tallish specifically.
SAMSON:
You can't keep this Scotsman down... or in place! Samson and Saxton are naturally quick friends and can be found being awesome together. Guy enjoys his time away from working for a religious zealot.
SAKURA ATARI:
So far able to avoid her trademark bad luck by basically doing nothing, Sakura will pop up in group events to test fate, but always goes home unscathed.
CORY:
Cory may be in the house, but he's hardly shaken it up and changed, taken it all and rearranged it. In fact, the game lists him as the character I've least given attention to. Perhaps this Court of Cameos member really will be relegated to just cameos around the island.
G.NERIQUE:
Called in from work, here we see G. Nerique in his monochrome apartment. His low voice is intense, but he participates in some rather non-generic past times, like rolling around on the ground of his room.
So, that's our cast and crew! Time to show you some pics of what they've been up to!
Here's a pic from Gloria's trip to Australia. She brought along Eddie to make things fun and Jokerton I guess to teach to HAVE fun! There were some other pics, but everyone kept blinking when I took them!
Here we see Janet following her performance of a love ballad. Shimmer, Jokerton, and Aiden seem to love appearing in a lot of background dancing roles, but Viola being there was surprising for me! The song was surprisingly good, at least compared to some of the other songs written for the game.
One such song being Loving Things! Although badly written, this pop song is perfect for the pipsqueak!
Jokerton and Shimmer as background dancers again, and Eddie and surprisingly Q.... with open shirts. Uh... anyway, the song is pretty much a list of things the singer loves and how she loves loving them. A.K.A: Melody's Theme. Sarah has recently learned the song and sang a duet of it with Melody!
But we're not here to see that duet. We're here to see Fumes jamming as Sarah and Janet back him up!
With Saxton and Samson there too! If you are wondering, the song was about dogs eating dog food.
I'm not even kidding.
But now that we are done with songs... There is a love calculator on the island!
You can test how compatible two miis will be if they decide to become romantically involved!
Naturally, I started with some classic couples:
Alex and Sarah have yet to meet but they are destined for love! Unlike in RP, it is Alex who has the strong initial feelings and needs to make the first moves, but the little guy is too nervous to do anything yet!
Somehow more compatible than Saralex, Leodyth have also not yet to met and the man's feelings are stronger and he needs to make the first move! This is the last couple that went as you'd expect it to go in the love rater.
That classic RP couple, that paragon of RP relationships! ...and Erebus is in the friend zone! Maybe if I make a Delmond mii and he gets killed by a plastic toy Erebus can exit the friend zone.
Naturally I had to test these two. Gloria and Tallish are not a lost cause yet!
Hatred, just as it should be between Jaxx and Alice!
And where would we bet without one crack-ship destined to eventually become canon? Cory and Hypotenuse, a match made in heaven!
Well, that's the Tomodachi Life report for now! You likely won't see an update for a while, at least not until the first marriage! I will keep making more characters in the game too, just need to decide who! Not sure what the limit is on miis in the building!