- Game director Ryutaro Takahashi says there was some debate about adding a farting quirk to Tomodachi Life: living the dream
- Sound director Toru Minegishi said the team was “really obsessed with getting the sound perfect.”
- The team also experimented with all sorts of visual effects for this oddity.
THE Tomodachi Life: living the dream the creators revealed that there was a debate among the development team about whether they should allow Miis to fart.
That’s according to game director Ryutaro Takahashi, in the third part of a lengthy Nintendo Ask the Developer interview, where he and his fellow developers discussed the game’s little quirks, the extra personality traits players can give their Miis to make them more unique.
“Speaking of little quirks, there was a big debate within the team about whether Mii should be able to… break the wind,” Takahashi said.
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“Some people found this hilarious, while others found it a bit vulgar. After discussing it, we ended up making it a little quirk. If that’s your type of thing, you can grant your Mii this trait. Otherwise, you’re under no obligation.”
Sound director Toru Minegishi said the team was “really obsessed with getting the sound perfect”, with programming director Takaomi Ueno adding: “We did so many takes”.
“Tell me about it. I’ve gotten comments like, ‘That’s a little too realistic for my liking,'” Minegishi said.
Takahashi continued by saying that the creators also tried all sorts of visual effects for the fart’s weirdness and that for a while, “the fart looked like an explosion”, which they all laughed about.
Tomodachi Life: living the dream is now available on Nintendo Switch, and it’s also playable on Nintendo Switch 2.
In the same interview, Takahashi discussed the initial idea behind the game, confirming that development began in 2017.
After speaking with franchise producer Yoshio Sakamoto, they agreed that they “pulled” everything they could from Tomodachi’s life on the Nintendo 3DS and decided to create a new game.
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