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Yesterday was the Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Direct, and if you haven’t seen it, it’s worth watching the full live stream for the funny romantic drama going on throughout.

In short, the new Tomodachi Life game looks fantastic.

When we talked about this on Wednesday, I mentioned wanting to see confirmation that romance is still in, lots of customization options, and wacky random events.

I basically got everything I wanted.

The showcase began with a look at Mii customization, and it looks like it will be better than ever. On top of the physical customization, you can also set each Mii’s dating preferences to show which, if any, genders they want to date. So not only is romance in, but that’s just about the best way to handle it!

It also showed silly conversations, news broadcasts as absurd as I’d hoped for, and “quirks” that make Miis’ behavior a little more unique. Up to 8 Miis can live together in a big house, too!

You can customize the island, and the variety of designs they showed is incredible. Speaking of designs, it seems you can draw on just about anything to customize it further.

A few things are still unclear, like if Miis can still meet on their own, or if you have to introduce them to each other (although I’d assume they can), and if certain features like the Concert Hall are returning. A lot of fans are concerned about the Concert Hall since it wasn’t in the showcase, but on the other hand, I’m sure they didn’t show everything.

Only one negative thing came out of this presentation, and that’s the image-sharing restrictions. It sounds like you’ll be restricted on how you can share images from the game (probably due to that “draw any design you want” feature), which is a shame for a game basically made for sharing insane screenshots. The Japanese website, when translated, says these restrictions are on transferring images to smartphones and posting to social media, so hopefully that means we’ll still be able to take screenshots and share them by uploading them to a computer.

Anyway, that’s the one shadow on an otherwise stellar presentation. Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream sounds like everything I hoped for from a Tomodachi Life sequel, and I can’t wait!

What did you think of the Tomodachi Life Direct?

Nintendo has announced a special Direct about Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream for January 29!

It will start at 6 AM PT / 9 AM ET and last 20 minutes.

Since Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is one of my most-anticipated games of 2026, you can imagine how thrilled I was to see the news.

I didn’t think it was a big enough game to get its own focused Direct, so I’m happy to be wrong.

There’s still a lot we don’t know about this upcoming Tomodachi Life sequel. Even though it’s had two trailers so far, neither showed too much about the game’s features. Twenty minutes of new information sounds like exactly what we need.

Some fans have predicted they’ll remove romance and only have a friendship system, which I hope isn’t true, because watching Miis end up in strange and unexpected relationships was a lot of fun. So I hope they confirm romance, along with other things I want to see, like a wide range of customization options and lots of random events. Overall I just hope it’s as wacky and bizarre as the 3DS game was.

Since it’s due out this spring, it seems likely that we’ll get a release date, too.

If Living the Dream is as crazy as Tomodachi Life on the 3DS was, it’ll be a rare time when I’m tempted to buy a digital copy over physical, so I could more easily play it a little here and there while also playing other games. But we’ll see.

What are you hoping to see at the Tomodachi Life Direct?

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