To adventure, you pick spots on a map, travel to them on rails (i.e. I just finished a quest that was given to me by a Minion, and I just accepted one from a Mayor Baymax. To give you an example: my party currently features Hatsune Miku, Iron Man, Gandalf the Grey and Rin Tohsaka on a quest to defeat the Dark Lord Ghostface (from the Scream films). The customisation system is really quite deep and it’s easy to make passable abstrations of a massive range of characters and personalities. Anyhow, tou create your own Mii hero, and then start populating the world, including the townsfolk and party allies, using Miis that you either create, or grab from other players online. Miis, as in “the amusing little avatars from the Wii and 3DS era that Nintendo has since abandoned.” This release on Switch is odd if for no other reason that Miis aren’t really a thing anymore. Let’s see if I can explain this in a single paragraph without making your head spin: In Miitopia you go on a very traditional JRPG adventure (to defeat a Dark Lord, no less), using Miis. It’s just as well that the whole game is also a delight to play. Miitopia is Nintendo at its most surreal. A friend or family member, should they walk into the room, are likely to say “what the hell is that?” and they’re not likely to be any less confused once you explain to them that it’s a turn-based JRPG about creating and collecting faces. The experience that you’re having with it is only ever going to make sense to you. The best way to think of Miitopia is as a silly little playground, and that it’s a very personal playground.

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