- Game director Ryutaro Takahashi says there was some debate about adding a farting quirk Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
- Sound director Toru Minegishi says the team was “really obsessed with getting the sound just right”
- The team also experimented with all sorts of visual effects for the quirk
The Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream creators have revealed that there was a debate between the development team about whether to allow Miis to fart.
That’s according to game director Ryutaro Takahashi, in part three of a lengthy Nintendo Ask the Developer interview where he and his fellow developers discussed the game’s Little Quirks, additional personality traits that players can give their Miis to make them more unique.
“Speaking of little quirks, there was a big debate among the team about whether the Mii should be able to…break the wind,” Takahashi said.
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“Some people thought it was funny, while others thought it was a little vulgar. After talking about it, we ended up making it a little quirk. If that’s your kind of thing, you can give your Mii the trait. If not, you’re not obligated.”
Sound director Toru Minegishi said the team was “really obsessed with getting the sound just right,” and programming director Takaomi Ueno added, “We did so many recordings.”
“Tell me about it. I got comments like, ‘It’s a little too realistic for my taste,'” Minegishi said.
Takahashi went on to say that the creators also tried all sorts of visual effects for the fart quip, and for a while, the fart “looked like an explosion going off,” to which they all laughed.
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is out now on Nintendo Switch and is also playable on Nintendo Switch 2.
In the same interview, Takahashi discussed the initial idea behind the game, confirming that development started in 2017.
After he spoke with franchise producer Yoshio Sakamoto, they agreed that they had “squeezed” everything they could out of Tomodachi life on the Nintendo 3DS, and decided to make a new game.
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