Bill Trinen talks more about Tomodachi Life’s localization changes
Nintendo is changing Tomodachi Life for its western release. There aren’t many drastic overhauls, but there are some modifications in place to better suit the game’s new audience.
As for what’s changed, Nintendo of America’s Bill Trinen told GameSpot:
“The core structure of Tomodachi Life is as it existed in the original Japanese version.”
“What they’re doing is they’re going in and they’re finding those places where they can change some of those moments that exist in there or help create some new unexpected moments that might be more relatable for a US audience. One good example is that, in the US version, instead of having sing-offs, there are rap battles. Where you have the characters going back and forth trying to defeat one another in a rap battle. You may see some video of Reggie and Mr. Iwata going at it sometime soon.
“There was also a sumo game in the original Japanese Tomodachi Life, and while sumo is vaguely familiar to people here in North America, they don’t quite understand the rules or the mechanics behind it. So that was changed into a North American equivalent of a football game where you’ve got two big blockers who are going at each other and trying to knock one another off balance.”
