Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Players Are Already Demonstrating Why Nintendo's Strict Image-Sharing Rules Exist

A Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream demo has been out since yesterday, complete with a robust new character creator and tons of customization and user input features not present in the last game.

Which has, uh, pretty quickly made it apparent why Nintendo put heavier restrictions than usual on media sharing from this game specifically.

Because, well, they're already making Miis say and do things that would be wildly inappropriate for sharing through official Nintendo channels.

This has upset fans of Tomodachi Life, who say that this is killing one of the core joys of this series, which is sharing extremely silly emergent moments with friends.

And they're correct: Tomodachi Life is basically all about setting up a bunch of strange characters, seeing what happens when you toss them together in weird situations, and then sharing the results.

We've also recently learned that Nintendo allows you to freely draw whatever you want on the faces of Miis, and while most people will likely use that to make like, cat people or something, it's almost certain there will be a small handful of users who draw stuff that Nintendo does not want to be hosting on its app.

Someone asked me to post his full face, so here.

Springtrap.
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u/Lepitorus in
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Given all this, I can see why Nintendo doesn't want to be a middle man for these sorts of posts.

It still feels like a futile effort, in that the people who make this sort of content almost certainly do so with the intent of sharing it and already have made preparations to do so easily.

It sucks that the possibility of this sort of thing has reduced our ability to see silly images of Reggie Fils-Aime asking Dragon Ball's Piccolo if he likes potatoes, or whatever else these guys get up to.

But so goes the world, I suppose.

This game is just as hilarious as I remember it being
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u/romulus531 in
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