This review contains spoilers
Miitopia is easily the most fun I've had binging a game over a long trip up at a family member's house. The gameplay is simple, yet fun, and the sound design--I cannot praise the sound design enough! Literally all of the tracks here are a pleasure to listen to, whether it be town music, character music, or whatever else the game throws at you, and it only gets better the longer you go on. The story is basic but wonderfully fun, and it keeps you going all the way to the very end and keeps you guessing!
However, that's where my praise for the game ends. Which is rather substantial, don't get me wrong! But wow, this game has a LOT of flaws under the surface. For starters, the only character you can play is yourself; everyone else is controlled by the AI, and the AI in this game is...somewhat intelligent, but also prone to doing very stupid things, and all of this could've been solved easily by making everyone controllable. Where it gets to the point of intolerability in particular is when characters can start to get sick later on in the game, and your main Mii is ALSO in the pool of characters who can get sick. Essentially, at that point, the only thing you can do is watch the game play itself, and that's what inevitably made me not complete this game.
It's still a good, fun game overall, but my suggestion? Stop after you beat the final boss. It'll save you a LOT of headache.
However, that's where my praise for the game ends. Which is rather substantial, don't get me wrong! But wow, this game has a LOT of flaws under the surface. For starters, the only character you can play is yourself; everyone else is controlled by the AI, and the AI in this game is...somewhat intelligent, but also prone to doing very stupid things, and all of this could've been solved easily by making everyone controllable. Where it gets to the point of intolerability in particular is when characters can start to get sick later on in the game, and your main Mii is ALSO in the pool of characters who can get sick. Essentially, at that point, the only thing you can do is watch the game play itself, and that's what inevitably made me not complete this game.
It's still a good, fun game overall, but my suggestion? Stop after you beat the final boss. It'll save you a LOT of headache.
better than expected but not a spectacular game, definitely way longer than it should be. it's a lot of fun, but i think it'd be best if we got a new tomodachi game with a miitopia sequel set in it as a whole other gamemode. this isn't really enough to be worth $40 and something like tomodachi collection/life is not either, so a marriage between the two would be awesome
Well, I think, I THINK that um. STICKER STAR WAS BETTER. this is just a "flick on auto-battle and pray" like game. Sure you can control the action; OF ONE PARTY MEMBER. AND LATE GAME WHEN YOUR GUY ISNT WITH THE OTHER GROUP, THEN ITS NO CHARACTERS CONTROLLABLE. Serious flaw in design, can't believe it was outclassed by stickers.
The first half of this game is really cool. Takes a bit from Tomodachi Life and turns it into a decently fun, if a bit barebones, RPG adventure where the cast is either your miis or random miis from other people. Its pretty sick. However there is a major turning point in the story, and the gameplay follows and its just not as fun, mainly because there stops being towns populated by random folk and the gameplay gets more static. However, its not too bad and overall Miitopia is still agreat time with like the dopest soundtrack ever like holy shit.