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‘Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream’ on Nintendo Switch<\/span><\/p>\n Nintendo<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Nintendo has created something special with <\/span>Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream<\/em>, allowing players a staggering amount of freedom and customization, sparking an explosion of memes. <\/span><\/p>\n The latest life sim for the Nintendo Switch, Tomodachi Life <\/em>sees players manage their own island, along with a population of fully customizable Miis, with their own personalities, wants, needs and ever-shifting relationships.<\/p>\n The game contains familiar elements from The Sims<\/em> and Animal Crossing<\/em>, but with a much larger focus on creative tinkering\u2014it\u2019s a true sandbox game, expanding far beyond the limits of the original 3DS version.<\/p>\n Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream <\/em>lets gamers create exactly the kind of Mii they want, but it also allows players to draw their own objects and place them inside the game.<\/p>\n Players can also draw characters’ faces to replicate pop culture icons.<\/p>\n The creative tools ignited a surge of memes, all created inside Tomodachi Life<\/em>, and even sparking memes specific to the game.<\/p>\n It\u2019s become a trend for players to recreate cigarettes, often boxes of Marlboro Reds, inside of Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.<\/em><\/p>\n The meme was sparked on launch day after Redditor Spirited_Gene_2633<\/a> posted the first pack of cigarettes, taking care to categorize the object as a \u201csweet treat\u201d that tastes \u201cawful.\u201d<\/p>\n Players really embraced the idea of filling cutesy Tomodachi <\/em>islands with smoky lung-busters. Soon, they began gifting cigarettes to their Mii children, creating cigarette cakes and even building houses<\/a> that resemble boxes of Marboros.<\/p>\n Gamers are figuring out how to stretch the tools of Tomodachi Life<\/em> even further, creating large structures using custom cubes.<\/p>\n Players are living vicariously through their Miis, gifting them copies of Heated Rivalry <\/em>and recreating scenes from Challengers<\/em> for their island inhabitants to watch (there seems to be a theme emerging here). <\/p>\n With hyper-detailed pixel art, player\u2019s creations have become increasingly unhinged.<\/p>\n One Tomodachi<\/em> user recreated Death Note<\/em>, but with a romantic twist, shifting the dynamic between Ryuk and Light Yagami.<\/p>\n Players are using the game to reference old memes and create new ones, with internet classics resurrected into increasingly unhinged forms\u2014the game even brought back \u201cThanks, Obama<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Tomodachi Life <\/em>is proving as malleable as a social media platform, as subject to Kirkification<\/a> as any other part of the internet, alongside references to Ea Nasir and his shoddy copper<\/a>.<\/p>\n There\u2019s always something new to discover amongst the game\u2019s bewildering detritus of pop culture and irony poisoning\u2014Jennifer Coolidge drinking Hennessy<\/a>, or a love triangle with Walter White<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream <\/em>offers players a place where they can fully express themselves, and it immediately came to resemble the weirdest parts of the internet.<\/p>\nWhat Is ‘Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream\u2019?<\/h2>\n
Tomodachi Players Love Cigarettes<\/h2>\n
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