With the last hit release of Tomodachi Life, from 2013 to 2014, – now over a decade ago – a new and improved version was scheduled to release on April 16, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. Some of the new major features available are face painting, allowing the player to customize your Mii’s face however they like and the no filter feature, and it allows the player to have control over the topics the Miis converse about.

The demo version, available to download for free, includes a preview of these new aspects of the game. Along with the previously mentioned face painting feature, you can also customize pets or even coffee art. In the demo version it mentions that in the retail version of the game, six or more Miis are ideal, but only three are allowed in the demo. Compared to the first version of the game, this version lets you preselect the relationships between the Miis on your island. 

A few other additions to this gamemode are warm fuzzies. You can get these by doing tasks given by your Miis. You can use these warm fuzzies when you unlock the wishing fountain. At the wishing fountain you can use the warm fuzzies to make “wishes”. These wishes include items that you can give to one of your Miis when they level up, as well as behavioral quirks. In the demo version the fountain limits you to just two wishes.

At some point during the demo a Mii will have an emotion bubble, if you interact with it a new building will appear, the Where & Wear. At this building you are able to spend money you get from interacting with your Miis to buy clothes for your Mii. But there’s a dark side to this. Once you press the emotion bubble and go to the Where & Wear store, your Miis’ will be unable to go outside their home and interact with the other Miis, effectively finishing the demo.

When the Miis are stuck inside their home, the regular interactions are replaced with them promoting the retail version of the game. People who have played the demo and reached this point are irritated about it. Some make videos about it saying that it’ll “lobotomize” your Mii due to the limited interactions with it, sometimes calling the building “LobotoMii”. In order to let your Miis go outside again and interact with each other, you have to wait for the game to be officially released to be then purchased in the Nintendo eshop. If the game was not purchased, it is possible for your Miis to never interact with each other again until the game is bought.

Though the demo limits the use of Miis communicating with each other, people are loving this new updated version of Tomodachi Life. With all of these new features of this game, it retails for $59.99 in the Nintendo eShop to play.