Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is only 10 days away from making Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Pokemon Pokopia players divide up their free time even more, and there's a new trailer expanding the series' viral soap opera-like lore.
Tomodachi Life has always been unique among life sims, farming sims, cozy games, what have you, largely because of the way it fosters all sorts of ridiculous situations and drama between Miis. This latest trailer focusing on Crystal and Angie's friendship is the perfect encapsulation of that design ethos, although it's unlikely to satisfy Angie stans who've been campaigning for her redemption arc after she was rejected by Patrick in January's Nintendo Direct trailer.
In the new trailer embedded just above, we see Crystal essentially take on the role of wingman for Angie after her, as Nintendo puts it, "misadventures in romance," but Angie's romantic prospects take an even further dive when she's straight-up friend-zoned by breakout star and literal clown, Hugh Morris, on live TV with an incredibly stupid clown pun that I refuse to repeat here.
"NOT HUGH FRIENDZONING ANGIE ON LIVE TV," cries Azurebolt_Mito in the top YouTube comment on the above video.
What Hugh might not realize is that Angie has an incredibly loyal fanbase that he would be wise not to betray. Already, fans are turning on him for this indignity.
"Bro is a menace," reads one YouTube comment with 160 upvotes at the time of writing.
"Maybe hugh isn't that great of a guy after all," says another disappointed commenter.
I don't watch many soap operas, but this reminds me of the TV show Love Island. Whenever a popular couple leaves the show and then inevitably breaks up because they never liked each other in the first place, their respective fanbases split apart and then turn against each other. It seems in this scenario, Angie's fanbase is proving to be the more vocal of the two.
In the YouTube description, Nintendo leans into the soap opera-like quality of this latest Tomodachi Life drama, writing in the YouTube description: "Become the caretaker of an island full of silliness, drama, love, and other surprises in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream."
The game is out on Switch and Switch 2 on April 16.
