Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is very good

I played a ton of the new Tomodachi Life over the last few days. It's extremely impressive! If you like procgen storytelling, or if you know what "story sifting" is, or if you like thinking about the design of The Sims but haven't played it in a while, you might get a lot out of Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream. I unreservedly recommend it. The game asks you to manage a town full of simulated people. It feels like managing a toybox full of chaotic action figures. You design them using the Mii character template common in a lot of other Nintendo games. Miis are easy to design and the toolset has a high expressive ceiling, so you can make fairly recognizable copies of famous people and fictional characters. My town currently contains Ms Marple, Stephen King, Lydia Tar, Zohran Mamdani, Gollum, Nein Nunb, Sun Tzu, and Ripley from Alien. The game actually encourages you to fill your town your characters based on real people, celebrities, and fictional characters. The game is best when it's…