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Miitopia
Cast your friends, family or anyone you choose in a hilarious adventure to bring down the face-stealing Dark Lord. Create and customize Mii characters of anyone you like—from your favorite celebrities to your dreaded math teacher—and assign them roles or personality traits in the fantasy adventure of a lifetime. With expanded customization in Miito...
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Miitopia Reviews
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Miitopia is a simple RPG with a few very unmodern character-creating mechanics. Whether you are charmed by Miis or not is certainly your own prerogative, but the gameplay itself is perfect for beginner RPG players with its focus on relationships between your party members. Longtime RPG players may find a good time in its relative simplicity.
Miitopia, Nintendo’s Mii-centric RPG adventure, has landed on Nintendo Switch, and I’ve spent the past week and change diving into it to see everything it had
It’s refreshing to play a game so carefree and quirky as Miitopia that also allows you to customise the experience for whatever level of wackiness you need in your life.
We’re used to seeing ports on the Nintendo Switch. Many games - especially those from the Wii U generation - have graced the hybrid console for another run. M
Goofy Mii characters created by fans usually appear as an afterthought dotted around random big name Nintendo titles. Miitopia aims to change this by putting the little guys in the spotlight within their own RPG adventure.
From the outside, Miitopia may just look like yet another Mii game that is trying to cash in on the success of the Wii generation. But buried within that exterior that's reminiscent of a bygone era is a fun little romp of an RPG.
If you're looking for an RPG with a hard-hitting story and heavy depth in combat, Miitopia is not what you're looking for. Everything about this game feels simplistic, from the combat, to the dialogue, and all through the story twists. That doesn't mean Miitopia isn't a good time, though. I still enjoyed my time with Miitopia, mostly because of the blend of pen-and-paper storytelling with Sims-style character building.
Miitopia begins with the evil Dark Lord stealing almost everyone’s face and transferring these stolen faces to his army of evil minions. The story follows a cycle of entering a town or kingdom, Mii citizens losing their faces, then hunting down the minions wearing the Mii faces. You’ll meet different characters, most of which you can cast, but ultimately the story doesn’t deviate too much. There’s a silliness to the story that helps fend off some of the boredom, and I can appreciate the need for a simpler story to appeal to a larger audience, but I still couldn’t help but find myself growing w...
If you asked me what games in Nintendo’s backlog are begging for a Switch port, I wouldn’t even clock 2017’s Miitopia. The game serves as a very basic RPG adventure where players control a party of Miis, which are those little Nintendo custom avatars you first created all the way back on the Wii (a function scarcely used on the Switch). I honestly couldn’t think of a weaker fit for a Switch port. Just who was asking for a port of this random, average 3DS game? Certainly not me.
Miitopia is certainly unique in its execution, but the core RPG framework for the title is far from innovative. In that regard, the it's one of the more accessible turn-based role-playing games currently available on the Nintendo 3DS, and this is made even better by the often-bizarre blank canvas that users have at their disposal.
Miitopia’s great character creation is wasted on a shallow, repetitive RPG experience.
Nintendo is good at finding ways to keep its Miis relevant. What started out as a personal novelty for Wii Sports has evolved into much more. With the Nintendo 3DS, Miis became a representation of ourselves for the system’s street pass function, wherein we got to play a series of silly games with the Miis we met on our travels. Then Nintendo created its definitive game for the Miis, Tomadachi Life. In this game you simply lived out a fictional life with your friends. It was simple but appealed to a decent audience. Now there is Miitopia, an RPG that expresses a deeper use for Miis as a whole.