Miitopia (NSP, XCI) ROM + v1.0.3 Update

Miitopia is a 2016 role-playing video game by Nintendo originally for the Nintendo 3DS. The 3DS version was released in Japan in 2016 and worldwide the following year, with a remastered version being released for the Nintendo Switch in 2021. The game features customizable Mii characters in a turn-based battle system, following the story of a group of heroes battling a character known as the Dark Lord who is stealing the faces of Miitopia’s residents.

The game received mixed reviews, with critics praising its creative life simulation elements and humor while criticizing its combat system and repetitiveness.  Join your family and friends for a side-splitting adventure! Enlist your loved ones, be it friends, family, or anyone you desire, in an uproarious quest to defeat the nefarious Dark Lord, who has a peculiar penchant for pilfering faces!

Craft and personalize your Mii characters, assign them unique roles and witness their lively personalities spring to life. Prepare for laughter as your closest comrade and cherished grandmother form an unlikely alliance, embarking on an extraordinary fantasy adventure that will leave you in awe! Delight in an array of exciting new features, including an adorable equine companion, a variety of wigs and makeup options, and more, all available on the Nintendo Switch system. Let the fun-filled escapades be.

The latest iteration of Miitopia made its way to the Nintendo Switch in May 2021. Like its predecessor on other mobile platforms, the Switch version is a comedy adventure that allows you to create your own, adorable Mii characters. You customize your Mii characters with an expanded number of traits, limited mostly by your imagination! Make them look like your friends and family members — or celebrities or monsters of your design.

GAMEPLAY

Miitopia is a role-playing video game with life simulation elements, starting with standard character classes or “jobs” such as warriors and mages; as the game progresses, more classes appear. Playable characters are created with Mii avatars and have certain personality traits that influence their combat role. Similarly to Tomodachi Life, the relationships between Miis outside of combat affect the game: for example, Miis not getting along with one another can make combat more difficult.

Miitopia supports the ability to import Miis and their trait settings from Tomodachi Life, as well as from players’ friend lists. The game supports Nintendo’s line of Amiibo figures, which allow players to use unique cosmetics on their Miis. The Nintendo Switch remaster introduces a new makeup and wig feature that allows players to further customize their in-game characters, including options not available on the console’s Mii Maker application. The Switch remaster also adds a horse that can help in combat, outings that let characters gain relationship experience points, and a secret final dungeon after the Tower of Dread called the Tower of Despair.

PLOT

The game begins with the main protagonist, a Mii of the player’s choice, arriving in Greenhorn Town, which is soon attacked by the main antagonist, the Dark Lord, who wields the ability to steal faces from Miis and use them to control peaceful creatures, turning the creatures into monsters. The protagonist chooses a character class and is sent on a journey to stop the Dark Lord. Along their journey, the player creates more companions, meets the Great Sage, and reaches Greenhorn castle, continuing the quest after the Dark Lord steals the faces of the King and the Princess.

Afterward, the team enters the kingdom of Neksdor, only to be attacked by the Dark Lord, who steals the protagonist’s companions and renders the protagonist without a class. After the guardian provides the hero with new powers, they head out through Neksdor, meeting three new companions and the Genie of the Lamp. The team continues to the Realm of the Fey, where the Dark Lord attacks again, stealing the hero’s companions and their character class again, prompting the guardian to provide a new group of character classes.

The hero is tasked with saving the three Fab Fairies of the Realm, who provide the team with the way to the Dark Lord’s castle in Karkaton. Before they can open the door, the Fab Fairies have their faces stolen by the Dark Lord. After retrieving their faces, the Fab Fairies open the door to Karkaton, and the team heads out. Upon arrival, the Dark Lord attacks again, stealing the new companions, but failing to steal the hero’s powers. The hero is tasked with saving all of their friends, with some help from the Great Sage.

The team fights the Dark Lord, and upon defeating them, the heroes discover that the Dark Lord is a common Mii possessed by a wisp known as the Dark Curse. Enraged, the Dark Curse tries to possess the player’s Mii, until the Great Sage intervenes and becomes possessed instead, becoming the Darker Lord. The hero and their team track down the Darker Lord through the lands of Powdered Peaks, Peculia, and Nimbus, before reaching the Darker Lord’s Domain in The Sky Scraper, fighting previous bosses along the way. Upon reaching the top of The Sky Scraper, the heroes go to the Otherworld for the showdown against the Darker Lord.

The hero and their team are then prompted to split up to fight the Darker Lord. Afterward, the Darker Lord steals the faces of six heroes, evolving into the Darkest Lord for the fight with the last four members. After the Darkest Lord is defeated, the Great Sage is free. The Sage quickly traps the Dark Curse, and explains its history to the hero: it was once a normal Mii, rejected due to having a boring face, which they then decide to get rid of, and they faded away into a soul of hatred, malice, and evil, which became the Dark Curse.

The hero is allowed to either destroy the Dark Curse or provide them with a new face and body. If the hero provides the Dark Curse with a new life, the Great Sage takes the Curse and travels with them to have them atone for their mistakes while the team is praised for saving Miitopia. If the hero decides to destroy the Dark Curse, they use their divine power to destroy the Dark Curse, in which they are also praised for saving Miitopia.