Tomodachi Life Player Adds a Wheelchair in the Most Creative Way

A Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream player had a creative solution for adding wheelchairs to the game. Although Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream lets players customize their Miis to look like any real person or fictional character, it doesn’t have items for people with disabilities.

Launched just last April, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has taken gamers worldwide by storm with the Miis’ silly interactions and interesting storylines. It allows players to customize their Miis based on their personal preferences or the characters they’re basing them on. The Mii Maker’s customization tools, like Face Paint, let players add so much details to Miis’ face, hair, and outfit. They can also choose to make their Miis non-binary and set their gender preference for romantic encounters. With this much creative freedom in the game, it’s no surprise that Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream sold more than 3.8 million copies globally within the first two weeks of its release.

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Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Player Creates a Wheelchair Dress

While Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has a lot of options when it comes to inclusivity in Mii Maker, it doesn’t have items and accessories that people with disabilities could add to their avatar/s. This is why Reddit user Appropriate-Heart632 created a wheelchair dress for their Mii. In a post, they shared a series of photos where a female Mii is wearing a dress with a painted-on body and wheelchair, to create the illusion that she’s sitting and moving around in a chair. They also said in a comment that the Mii is based on their friend who’s in a wheelchair, and that they wanted the avatar to really represent her.

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In the comment section, fellow Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream fans praised Appropriate-Heart632’s creativity, saying that they will consider doing the same for their own Miis. Meanwhile, some expressed their disappointment over Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream not having mobility aids despite having extensive customization options. Many fans have also brought up the lack of wheelchairs in FamiBoards forums, noting that they hope Tomodachi Life will find a way to add them in a future update.

It’s still uncertain if Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is able to immediately add mobility aids for Miis in the near future. Mostly because the developers would have to create new movement animations, which could take a significant amount of time to finish. Only time will tell if Nintendo decides to pull the trigger on adding wheelchairs and other related items to the game. For now, it seems like Nintendo devs are focused on making sure that Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is optimized and doesn’t have any game-breaking bugs.

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The success of Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is miles ahead compared to the previous game, which came out 13 years ago on the Nintendo 3DS. From players creating every Overwatch hero with Mii Maker to watching Miis fall in love and get heartbroken, the game’s popularity has skyrocketed, especially on social media. So, it will be interesting to see how Nintendo will keep fans interested for the long-term.