GamesRadar gave the game 4 out of 5 stars, praising its weird humor and relaxing gameplay, whilst criticising the minigames for being too simple. IGN gave the game a score of 8.4, calling it 'a surprisingly funny and rewarding experience.' Polygon gave Tomodachi Life a 7.5 out of 10, praising its likeability despite certain aspects being repetitive.
It holds an average of 72% and 71/100 on review aggregate sites GameRankings and Metacritic, respectively.
Tomodachi Life has received positive reviews. The company later apologised and stated that if they were to create a third game in the series they would 'strive to design a gameplay experience from the ground up that is more inclusive, and better represents all players.' Reception Despite various campaigns from users, Nintendo stated that it would not be possible to add same-sex relationships to the game, as they 'never intended to make any form of social commentary with the launch of the game', and because it would require significant development alterations which would not be able to be released as a post-game patch.
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This was refuted by Nintendo in a statement made April 2014, explaining that same-sex relationships were never possible, and that the patch in fact fixed a different issue.
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Nintendo stated, 'The ability for same-sex relationships to occur in the game was not part of the original game that launched in Japan, and that game is made up of the same code that was used to localise it for other regions outside Japan.' In May 2013, it was widely reported that a bug in the original Japanese version of the game, which enabled same-sex relationships, was patched by Nintendo. Following the announcement of a worldwide release, controversy arose concerning the impossibility of same-sex relationships.