{"id":14964,"date":"2016-05-11T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14964"},"modified":"2016-04-16T00:25:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T00:25:20","slug":"miitomo-ios-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/11\/miitomo-ios-google-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Miitomo (iOS, Google Play)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MIITOMO_BOX\"<\/a>For as long as most gamers can remember, Nintendo has been a first party developer, only making games for their consoles and nobody else\u2019s. That\u2019s why Miitomo is such a historical event for them because it\u2019s their first stab at mobile software. And it\u2019s also the first time they\u2019ve made a game on something else besides their own consoles since they ported their arcade classics like Donkey Kong and Popeye to everything under the sun back in the Atari and Colecovision days.\u00a0 So since it\u2019s so significant (and free-to-play), I decided to review Miitomo here at GamerDad!\u00a0 (reviewed on iPad here)<\/p>\n

Miitomo is pretty much just a reworked, scaled down version of Tomodatchi Life<\/strong><\/a> on the 3DS. In that game, you made a Mii of yourself and either put in your friends\u2019 Mii characters or made your own and had them all live in an apartment on an island and interacted with each other in funny ways. \u00a0For instance, when I played, I brought in a Mii that looked like Princess Zelda, and my Mii and Zelda ended up getting married and even having a baby.\u00a0 I named him Zelda Jr.\u00a0 So yeah, pretty silly stuff.\u00a0 Miitomo reminds me of that game, just scaled down and reworked a bit.<\/p>\n

The first thing you do after downloading Miitomo is make your Mii character. You can do this like how you can on the Wii U or 3DS.\u00a0 You can make it manually or take a picture and have the game approximate for you.\u00a0 Or you can link the game to your Nintendo account and have it use that Mii, which is what I did.\u00a0 Like Tomodatchi Life, Miitomo uses a similar speech software that makes your Mii character speak what you type.\u00a0 Then your Mii will hang out in his or her little room and you can do a few things with it.<\/p>\n

You can dress up your Mii in various outfits that you can buy in an in-game store. You get coins in the game by doing various things, and you can spend them at the shop for clothes.\u00a0 Or you can use real money to buy more coins, but it\u2019s pretty easy to get coins anyway, unless you just buy tons of outfits.\u00a0 You can also earn game tickets you can use to play a Pachinko style game to get even rarer clothes, outfits, and accessories.<\/p>\n

The other main thing you do in Miitomo is interact with friends. You can link Miitomo to social media like Facebook or Twitter to add your friends to it who are playing, or you can add them via face-to-face mode, which I haven\u2019t tried yet.\u00a0 Then either the game or your friends will ask and prompt questions for you to answer and share.\u00a0 These questions run the gamut of general topics like what your favorite movie, game, or food is, to more personal queries like what kind of person you look for in a relationship.\u00a0 You can read your friend\u2019s answers and give them hearts (similar to \u2018likes\u2019), and post comments.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s pretty much all there is to Miitomo. There are a couple of other little things you can do with it, but that\u2019s pretty much the main gist of the application.\u00a0 I probably wouldn\u2019t have even downloaded it myself, but you can do things in the game that link to your My Nintendo account, which is the new rewards program Nintendo is using to replace Club Nintendo.\u00a0 By doing things in Miitomo, buying Nintendo games digitally, and other online activities, you can earn coins that you can use to redeem rewards.\u00a0 All of these are for downloaded games and items only.\u00a0 I can understand why Nintendo would want to do everything online now, since it gives them more control and keeps people from taking advantage of it, and I imagine mailing out physical rewards was a logistics nightmare.\u00a0 With that said, I still think My Nintendo won\u2019t be as cool as Club Nintendo was, but at least Nintendo is doing SOMETHING to reward customers.\u00a0 I\u2019ve already redeemed points to download a My Nintendo exclusive game: a Picross game featuring Zelda characters, which I\u2019ll review next time on this site.<\/p>\n

So yeah, that\u2019s Miitomo in a nutshell. While I don\u2019t really give it much praise, I sure do make an effort to play it everyday, if only for a few minutes and then I only do it to get more My Nintendo points.\u00a0 Plus it\u2019s also significant in that it\u2019s the only mobile game I\u2019ve EVER linked to my Facebook account.\u00a0 Luckily they don\u2019t bombard your Facebook with posts and emails or anything like that.\u00a0 For the most part, Miitomo is easy to use and inviting, like many of Nintendo\u2019s other casual games that use Mii characters.\u00a0 If you\u2019re interested, you can download it for free on most mobile devices.\u00a0 You might even see me on there!<\/p>\n

\"MIITOMO_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nintendo\u2019s games are known for being mostly family friendly, and Miitomo looks that way on the surface. But in my opinion, I wouldn\u2019t let a kid download this game unless they\u2019re old enough to use Facebook and other social media.\u00a0 You can accept friend invites from not only your Facebook friends, but friends of their Facebook friends, so you could potentially have people on your Miitomo list that you don\u2019t really even know.\u00a0 You are also free to type in anything you like, even curse words that your Mii character will read out loud, as well as other inappropriate things.\u00a0 You can report any bad behavior to Nintendo, but I don\u2019t know what they do with it as I don\u2019t have that problem.\u00a0 But then, I\u2019m an adult and can handle those things myself.<\/p>\n

Just to give you an example, one of the questions I got asked in Miitomo was what is the first thing I think of when I hear the word \u2018ninja.\u2019 I put down \u201cTaki,\u201d a female ninja character from the popular Soul Calibur series of fighting games.\u00a0 Well, all the comments from my friends for this answer had to do with Taki\u2019s rather large breasts in the game.\u00a0 So yeah, definitely something to keep supervised if you let your kids play it.\u00a0 Plus there are in-game purchases, too.\u00a0 I may be a little overprotective, and your mileage may vary, but I probably wouldn\u2019t let kids play this game unless they were an older, mature teen and up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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