Look, I have friends (no, really!) But I got my copy of Miitopia—Nintendo's new, Mii-centric RPG alongside a brand new Nintendo 2DS, so, playing it, the new system was entirely devoid of any Miis. I even needed to make a Mii (Nintendo's term for custom-made personal avatars) for myself (Miiself?) in order to play the game.Miitopia is fun and zippy—a light action-RPG that stars, ostensibly, all of your friends as they exist in the Mii-verse. You are a little adventurer wandering about the land, until a massive, evil monster (The Dark Lord) comes to town and steals everyone's face. You heard that right. Steals everyone's face.Those faces then get grafted onto monsters that you need to fight, in relatively swift turn-based battles. What you do in battle depends on your job. Close to the outset, you choose your job class—standard fare like knight and wizard are joined by chef and pop star—which determines what kinds of abilities you'll have (magic, healing, damage dealing, etc.)It's all fun and breezy and relatively standard. The twist is in the Miis—it's supposed to be hilarious that, say, your buddy shows up as the face of the big bad, your brother is the poor guy who gets his face stolen, or your girlfriend's Mii shows up as a party member. It's funny because it's people you know (or streetpassed with) in familiar (or… awesomely weird) JRPG roles.
But it's MUCH FUNNIER if you, say, just got a new system and have no friends whatsoever in there. So I had to create every single Mii I encountered from scratch. I started out trying to make things kind of quirky at first: the wildest eyebrows the sliders would allow, the weirdest hair placements, etc. Like a lonely child, I populated this world with odd people and excellent faces. If I wasn't going to get to play with my friends' avatars, goddamnit, I was going to have some fun with this.I guess the real lesson here is that you can have some fun by yourself in Miitopia, even with the loneliest system in existence. The New 2DS XL is fantastic, by the way. I'll have to actually go and get some street passes before I dip back into the game.
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