Out of the biggest surprises I played from 2017, Miitopia was certainly up there.

Despite a lot of the game being automated aside from your main hero, you still have a sense of customization and planning for your party, like how you can put them alongside others for added benefits, the classes making a character be unique to one another, and help in raising their stats using the food you find during the adventure.

One major aspect that made me very happy was the overall usage of the Miis themselves. You can make any Mii in the game whatever kind of character you want, even if it's the most ridiculous thing imaginable. It adds so much charm to the story, which itself is very fun to go through, despite how its not the deepest compared to other RPGs.

But if there was anything that made me absolutely surprised was the music itself. This might be, hands down, one of the most underrated OSTs from Nintendo. The field themes and battle themes are very catchy and infectious, and huge shoutout to the final boss theme for hitting really hard.

Nowadays, I recommend playing the Switch version over the original, but I still appreciate what the original 3DS version offered. Well done.