![]() Connecting online gives you other people’s creations from Mii Central, an online collection of people’s Miis from all over the world. If you don’t like who shows up in your game, you can always change them from the menu. It could be friends, celebrities, other video game characters, or your own original creations. You pick out the main character, the main villain, your party members, and the townspeople, so whoever appears in your game is entirely up to you. In Miitopia, you select most of the characters making an appearance in the game. As a result, the story isn’t anything special in fact, it’s very generic. It does this a couple of times, but I never got the sense that trying to parody standard RPGs was the main goal. Besides the whole “saving people’s faces” premise, this is a fairly basic story for just about any RPG, and I was hoping the game would poke fun at that. Along the way, the divine power sends you teammates to help you save the denizens of Miitopia. You, as an ordinary citizen, are chosen by a divine power to fight the Dark Lord and rescue those unfortunate faceless victims. The story of the game is about a Dark Lord that comes by and steals people’s faces. ![]() ![]() Interestingly, in an ironic twist, Miitopia is the very thing it’s trying to parody. The story is meant to be taken seriously and there are not enough ridiculous situations in the plot for it to be that humourous. As for being a parody of RPGs, Miitopia doesn’t quite reach that point. While the Miis do get into some funny situations, like one party member falling down a hole with the other party members telling them to meet up at the inn later, characters working out in sync with each other, or constant asking to see if anyone farted while walking out in the field, there weren’t any of the laugh out loud moments that I had while playing Tomodachi Life. When I first tried the game, I was hoping to have the Miis’ signature humour alongside a parody RPG. So, I was excited when I heard the announcement about Miitopia last year. ![]() The wacky humour of the Miis would fit right into a parody of the genre. It was a fun distraction, and part of me wished an RPG involving the Miis would become an actual game because of it. You had multiple paths to take through the dungeon and items to help out the characters. This was an RPG made in the traditional style in which you fought random things like hamburgers, soft drinks, and other such items. Three years ago, when I played Tomodachi Life, there was a minigame that you could play between (I believe) 6 and 7 PM each day. ![]()
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