Unless you don't have a way to play 3DS games, or for some reason you don't already have the sequel, there's not much of a reason to be playing this game because Tomodachi Life improves on Collection in nearly every aspect. If you're playing the (unfinished) fan translation, you might get a somewhat fun experience with this game, but that's only if you can tolerate the grating TTS voice spelling out English letters and also knowing a little bit of Japanese.
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fan translations come thru yet again
This game is crackin, weirdly feels similar to Nintendogs but I think it was developed internally by Nintendo as well at the time which makes sense. Packs a fair bit of content, but I think it really could've used more locations on the island and things to do with the Miis. Aside from the gender issues which still hasn't been fixed in sequels, it's a lovely title that's thoroughly relaxing, charming and funny still. Can't recommend enough.
fan translations come thru yet again
This game is crackin, weirdly feels similar to Nintendogs but I think it was developed internally by Nintendo as well at the time which makes sense. Packs a fair bit of content, but I think it really could've used more locations on the island and things to do with the Miis. Aside from the gender issues which still hasn't been fixed in sequels, it's a lovely title that's thoroughly relaxing, charming and funny still. Can't recommend enough.
admittedly, I'm writing this review looking back on Tomodachi Collection - if I got this game before Life, I would likely have a very different opinion. that being said... the game is quite limited and a bit frustrating to really play after a while. there's just not too much of interest here outside of the novelty of playing with Miis on your DS Lite. I wouldn't really bother with this if you have access to Tomodachi Life on 3DS
I got the English translation and it's fun for a bit, I do find it funny that I can place Mr Beast in a Nursery room and Andrew Tate in prison. And seeing Ice Spice playing the Wii and calling me the n-word, Mr Beast and Ice Spice having a baby was funny too. But the game gets a bit boring and there is a sequel (Tomodachi Life) that's fully in English and has more content + better graphics.
i think it's really interesting that this has its own built-in mii maker, presumably one of the only examples of miis on the ds. i mostly just played this because i couldn't emulate a 3ds on my shitty laptop, so i threw a translation patch at this and gave it a go. it's cool but barebones, and it barely counts as a proper 'game'. it's more of just an experience that you watch and laugh at sometimes, and that's fine. the 3ds sequel is straight-up just better though, so don't bother with this except as a historical/novel thing.