Tomodachi life deluxe

General Information
Tomodachi life deluxe is the third game in the Tomodachi Series, along Tomodachi collection (only released in japan) and Tomodachi life. Tomodachi life deluxe started development in late May after the team who created the Miitopia port onto the nintendo switch was completed. The game was teased on January 6th 2022, then was officially announced on February 9th. Pre-orders were available on February 19th. On March 5th the Tomodachi life deluxe demo was released for public. It would then be released on the Nintendo Switch on April 12th, 2022. Though many believed it was the sequel to the hit-tomodachi life video game, it is actually the third game in the Tomodachi series.

Tomodachi life deluxe was extremely based on the previous game, Tomodachi life, keeping almost the same graphics, design, logo/font (s), gameplay, voice box, story, and the general video game concept. Many consider this game as just an extension, an add on to Tomodachi life due to how similar they truly are. The game has quite a bunch of new features added that improved Mii's relationships, general behavior, customization, added online features, among other things. The game was highly praised on trustable review sites such as gamespot and IGN, though the game did end up in a few controversies. The game was able to sell over 7 million copies and was gifted "best life simulation video game: 2022" at game awards.

The game later added multiple extension packs and DLC (downloadable content) due to how surprisingly successful the game was by finical and feedback point of views. The first one was adding baby Mii's, Children Mii's, and Teen Mii's (you could do this in the previous tomodachi installment as well as just in the game before the free expansion pack was released, but it was unable to give needed traits to those stages in life) into the game without requiring a married Mii couple to have a baby and therefore it is able to experience these traits in each stage of childhood. The game has numerous expansion packs and DLC, but there are too many to list.

Music & Sound effects
The music in Tomodachi life deluxe are all new created music intended for the new video game purposed, due to how many players are more nostalgic or just generally prefer the soundtrack in either Tomodachi life or Tomodachi collection music, their is a special mode you can toggle on to list to previous music in the right place. Of course, they are new music needed in both games, so the music team created high quality remakes of each tomodachi life/collection, then used that style of music to create new soundtracks. It was extra work for the team, but because of that feature, many long time players of the tomodachi series praised this feature. They also decided to make it available for players to listen to a library of all the Tomodachi collection, life, and deluxe music in Town hall. They even made it possible to change a certain song to another song when it players (ex: the tomodachi life day map song changed to the tomodachi life night map song)

The sound effects used in tomodachi life deluxe are re-used from tomodachi life. Due to new features, new sound effected were created to fit the needs of the new available features, the team behind the sound effects created it trying to mimic Tomodachi life's general theme/vibe, they kept that in mind during the whole sound effect library. What I mean by sound effects Include taping, typing, writing, clicking, pressing, mashing, and a whole bunch of other sound effects.

The Mii's voice box, which is the voice that is pre-made and customizable the Mii's use and talk with to communicate pre-determined dialogue, had to be changed to meet up with the Director's needs and requirements. The voice box was changed to make more voices able to included as well as minor tweaks the general system. Pronunciation was changed to work better depending on your country and language, it made it a lot easier to create lines, first names, last names, nick names, and other custom dialogue the player can create/edit.

Due to the new weather and season features, The sound team on Tomodachi life deluxe went out into nature and recorded dozens of uniquely sounding footage of drizzles, light rain, standard sounding rain, heavy rain, thunderstorms, wind, light snow, heavy snow, blizzards, icy rain, frost/sleet, fog, sunshine, and more. Remember, they also had to record this footage at morning, day, afternoon, evening, and night. Tomodachi life deluxe was delayed (not public information yet, but it did take longer to create and manage sound effects than expected, so it did take longer than intended) due to the large amount of required sound effected needed during devolvement.