Is this love or just friendship? That’s up to you, though it’s all love hearts and dancing.

They can even fall out, bickering and fighting with one another instead of enemies. This unlocks new support moves to assist one another. Send them on outings to coffee shops, karaoke and the like and you’ll boost them further. The more your Mii battle together, the more their relationships develop. What makes this so goofy is the relationship system. Creating Mii versions of friends and watching them skip along on their adventure, screaming personalised war cries in battle, and complaining about wanting a dog, needing cuddles or starving adds a tonne of personality to an already charming game. The banter between teammates is ridiculously funny. Mii are used for every character, from your teammates in battle to the NPCs in every town you visit. The designs of the Mii have been expanded they now include hair and makeup for some truly bizarre creations. Now the game has been released on Switch, bringing the RPG to a much wider audience. The Mii characters were first introduced on the Wii as avatars, but the 2017 release of Miitopia on the 3DS saw them – and you – become the stars of their own game. Miitopia might be a shallow RPG with an amusingly clichéd story, but the use of Mii elevates the game into a whole new realm of absurd campy silliness – and queerness, if you want. Miitopia allows you to create your own Mii for every character in the game and truly personalise your own epic and colourful quest. Thankfully any progress carries over into the main game, so any designs won’t be wasted.

It’s not really a problem, but it does take the management out of your hands, and could lead to frustration, especially for micro-managers and RPG veterans.Even before the release of Miitopia on Switch, fans went wild with the character creation tools in the demo version. Luckily, my group’s healer (my wife) heals when I need her to, and my black mage (my cat) will cast powerful spells when we’re up against a tough enemy. You have certain actions you can perform to try and manipulate your partners to work with you, but for the most part, it’s a free-for-all out there. Players fully control the main character, and the AI controls your partners. It’s simplistic, for sure, but that also makes it accessible to younger audiences, which could make Miitopia a gateway game to bigger, more advanced RPGs on the Switch.Ĭombat is turn-based, but even it’s been simplified. The gameplay adheres to a certain formula, as you select the area to explore, and then your characters walk on rails holding conversations until you come up to a monster to battle, treasure to uncover, or eventually an inn at the end to regroup, restock, and refresh yourself before the next leg of the journey.

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