r/tomodachilife 21d ago

Other Rant/Critique Megathread

75 Upvotes

Any discussion regarding rants, complaints, or criticism on the game should be posted here.
Any posts made after this post that fall into rant/critique will be removed.


r/tomodachilife Apr 18 '26

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream I made a free tool to help with pixel art: meet Living the Grid

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20.6k Upvotes

I really wanted to get into pixel art in the game but didn't find satisfactory tools to help, so I made my own :) https://living-the-grid.gozapp.dev https://living-the-grid.com

website is 100% free to use, no ads, no tracking.

It uses the game's built-in colour palette by default, easy to find, or pick "auto" to extract colours from your image. click a colour and it highlights every cell using it on the preview. There's also a paint-by-numbers option. You can select the brush size for the pixel / detail density.

let me know what you think! with your feedback I can keep improving it and adding options. hope you like it :)

UPDATE v1.6: different canvas are finally here! Proper sizes for books, house interiors, video games, etc… New Resize and frame tool so you place your image exactly how you want. Tweaks to HSB + more accurate Game palette. A whole bunch of other fixes. Coming up next: clothes, Mii faces and buildings! This one will be harder to get right so bear with me.

UPDATE v1.3: Add a lot more image options like rotating, flip, brightness and saturation sliders which should hopefully address most of colouring options. Add keyboard shortcuts with the ability to exclude individual colours. More fixes and most importantly: confettis when you download!

UPDATE v1.1: Thanks all for your amazing feedback! I've now properly implemented the 'pixel perfect' brush sizes with a new brush type option. I improved the transparent background look. Hopefully fixed the 1px image sizing issue. I also added a paint by number download option. I hope you like it!


r/tomodachilife 11h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream what did i just interrupt.. NSFW

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1.4k Upvotes

r/tomodachilife 3h ago

Meme Of COURSE they slipped that in there

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296 Upvotes

Maybe it's just, like... a general pricing. but ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? that's a hilarious coinkydink either way


r/tomodachilife 7h ago

Mii Creations Nobody can outKirk me

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671 Upvotes

r/tomodachilife 5h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream This game needs an Update or else it will die.

309 Upvotes

Not much else to add tbh. Theres a lot of lack of content. And with my 50 wishes it took 2 minutes to have all the new items. Its bland. No weather, no babies, no actual couple stuff, lack of decoration and landscaping, nothing to do at the beach, nothing to watch that casually happens.


r/tomodachilife 12h ago

Question Who was your first married couple?

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966 Upvotes

Squidward and Twilight were my first to get married


r/tomodachilife 16h ago

Palette House Creations Best Shirts So Far (With Originals)

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1.9k Upvotes

Which is your favorite?


r/tomodachilife 10h ago

Meme Shadow Quiz minigame be like…

555 Upvotes

I swear, stuff on plates is annoying in shadow quizzes


r/tomodachilife 21h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream Imagine Falling Down And Having Your Wife Emote On You 😭

4.0k Upvotes

r/tomodachilife 5h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream stonk

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178 Upvotes

r/tomodachilife 16h ago

Meme Whoa

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1.0k Upvotes

r/tomodachilife 10h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream Happy Pride Month

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320 Upvotes

I just realized I could make flags in this game lol. Happy Pride!

Gonna add more later!!


r/tomodachilife 13h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream All Relationship Arrows (Template / Resource)

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536 Upvotes

I couldn't find these anywhere and Lord knows I'm not about to try to screenshot them all so I re-made all relationship arrows to use for my OC reference sheets. Thought I might as well post them in case anyone else is on the lookout for them, feel free to use these however you want.

Second image has all of them (at least to my knowledge.) From row to row they are:

  • Acquaintances
  • Friends
  • Crushes
  • Sweethearts
  • Spouses
  • Family
  • Fighting
  • Ex-spouses/sweethearts
  • Ex-friends
  • Four custom bubbles, thought I might as well add them

I hope these are helpful for anyone :> Would love to see what they're used for if they're ever used!

[Edit: Formatting. I've also noticed the little outline mistakes, fixed version is posted in the comments.)


r/tomodachilife 1d ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream this is what the fashionista quirk was made for

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4.4k Upvotes

there will never be a repeated outfit


r/tomodachilife 3h ago

Mii Creations Does anyone else struggle to integrate general character designs into Miis?

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I really can’t put my finger on it. These few Miis are of my most recent batch, and I really can’t resonate with them at all simply for how uncanny they look.

My issue is, I’ve tried so hard to be accurate with their designs that they no longer look like actual Miis. I haven’t yet, but I fear that if I finish the Cowboy Bepop lineup, I’ll lose my interest in them, and they’ll end up becoming dead space on my island.

On an additional note, I’ve found that after a while, replicating accurate Miis gets boringly repetitive. And without any personal touches, the Miis start to feel bland, too. Because at the end of the day, I’m really just copying art. And there’s no satisfaction in creating something that isn’t my own blood, sweat, and tears. Is this a common issue?

I’ll have to take a break from replication for a while, and focus on making Miis from scratch. Maybe on a separate island altogether.

That said, I’m still really happy with how my Misa design turned out! ❤️❤️


r/tomodachilife 14h ago

Mii Creations Which characters from your childhood cartoon is on your island rn? Mine is Tom and Jerry ☆

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575 Upvotes

Excuse me for the photos dump, I'm a bit excited to show them off (*^▽^)/★*☆♪


r/tomodachilife 9h ago

Tomodachi Life - 3DS Do you miss interacting with mii babies? 👶

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236 Upvotes

In my opinion I believe it’s sad Nintendo didn’t add it like they did on the 3Ds but I do agree with the rest of the community hopefully add baby items and essential along with the pets where they are fully functional


r/tomodachilife 15h ago

Meme Bear with me

545 Upvotes

r/tomodachilife 21h ago

Meme Rude waiters. 1 Star.

1.3k Upvotes

Original clip by ”professor_linder” on TikTok. All credit goes to him.


r/tomodachilife 18h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream Yet another reason why this game should be $30-40 and not $60

671 Upvotes

I know this isn't the biggest deal but this feels like the cherry on top of my frustration with the lack of content in this game.

Today I opened up the game and I'm sure we all saw the new stuff for the game being the summer season. I got excited and I thought I'd see like 20 new rooms, 20 new outdoor items, and least like 5 new island builder floors. Heck, I even expected maybe some new quirks and travel locations.

Less than 10 new features. What.

I mean I'm not surprised at this point, but come on. I think I got lucky with that some of the outdoor items (I have one mii that is a character that loves sunflowers). But still - 6 outdoor items?? Are you serious??

The cherry on top of this cherry is that I realized today that if you get more than one quirk in the same category, there isn't a randomizer that allows for the chance of either quirk happening. Instead, whichever one the mii got most recently is the one that is selected. So for example, if you get the "eats with gusto" quirk and then also get the "eats cutely" quirk, then its just gonna show only the eats cutely quirk unless you change it manually. And you can't select both!

I'm so frustrated that I can't do basic things to make them more realistic. I don't understand why the devs didnt pour their heart and soul into customization when they already messed up by not adding nearly enough randomized events and dialogue.

I know this reddit has probably gone over this issue over and over but I just needed a place to vent cause I can't believe I paid 60 dollars for this.


r/tomodachilife 15h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream If I continue to keep building this way, do you reckon I’ll end up reaching the item limit before being able to decorate my whole island?

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351 Upvotes

If so, how can I still make my island look visually appealing while removing items?


r/tomodachilife 10h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream Michael's getting annoyed

116 Upvotes

I just found this set-up amusing. Michael Myers, who was already sad over something, was just trying to watch a cooking show and Sadako (from Ring) and Hinako (from Silent Hill f) were behind him shaking maracas. I had to capture it in gif form.


r/tomodachilife 5h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream Small details I like about the game Spoiler

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When bringing a mii to a group to talk to someone and the conversation ends, the group rearranges their spots to include the mii you brought over to sit with them. I find it really cute.

Miis, if they have a Switch, will play the same game together even if you gifted them different games.

Miis that are strangers will still play chase with each other which is a good opportunity to grab one and make them interact. Same with a mii chasing another stranger mii that's just walking.

Short miis need a platform on their seat when eating at Tomoria. Very cute.

A mii that is acquaintances with another mii but haven't interacted in a while will ask you about them. (Happened to me recently and I completely forgot they interacted once.)


r/tomodachilife 7h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream I just added Mario to my island. Fresh out of the womb and he asks me this

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66 Upvotes