This does eventually become tiresomely formulaic. There you can manage your teammates, eat food, go on outings and more. There are some changes as the game progresses to switch things up, but the basic structure remains the same: select a spot from the Mario -esque overworld, run automatically through the level with the same lines of dialogue, battle enemies, and end up at the inn. It’s all so simple, though, that it hardly matters. Your teammates will instead decide on their own moves, taking out a much-needed element of strategy.

In battle, you’ll only ever control your own Mii. What’s a little disappointing is how hands-off Miitopia is. Battles are turn-based, selecting attacks from a menu food collected from battles is used to update stats and a job system gives each member of your party a role in battle – from warrior and mage, to flower, princess or pop star, each with their own cute weaponry and quirky animations. Either way, through the comical dialogue and eccentric animations, this campy cartoon adventure is super queer and often scarily true to life – depending on your friends, of course.īeneath all the customisations are light RPG mechanics. Is this love or just friendship? That’s up to you, though it’s all love hearts and dancing. They can even fall out, bickering and fighting with one another instead of enemies. This unlocks new support moves to assist one another. Send them on outings to coffee shops, karaoke and the like and you’ll boost them further. The more your Mii battle together, the more their relationships develop. What makes this so goofy is the relationship system. Creating Mii versions of friends and watching them skip along on their adventure, screaming personalised war cries in battle, and complaining about wanting a dog, needing cuddles or starving adds a tonne of personality to an already charming game. The banter between teammates is ridiculously funny. Mii are used for every character, from your teammates in battle to the NPCs in every town you visit. The designs of the Mii have been expanded they now include hair and makeup for some truly bizarre creations. Now the game has been released on Switch, bringing the RPG to a much wider audience.

The Mii characters were first introduced on the Wii as avatars, but the 2017 release of Miitopia on the 3DS saw them – and you – become the stars of their own game. Miitopia might be a shallow RPG with an amusingly clichéd story, but the use of Mii elevates the game into a whole new realm of absurd campy silliness – and queerness, if you want. Miitopia allows you to create your own Mii for every character in the game and truly personalise your own epic and colourful quest. Thankfully any progress carries over into the main game, so any designs won’t be wasted. Even before the release of Miitopia on Switch, fans went wild with the character creation tools in the demo version.

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