Miitopia

 Switch
User Score
8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 102 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 77 out of 102
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 102
  3. Negative: 11 out of 102
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  1. TsukasaHiiragi
    Jun 4, 2021
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pro's

    Create/Use Mii characters for the whole story

    Con's

    Boring story with a super linear path
    Bad A.I that controls your other party members
    Very repetitive content that is repeated multiple times
    Remaster isn't worth the asking price, doesn't change/add nearly enough to justify
    Jobs are nearly identical + some job skills hurt your relationships
    USELESS personalities, with only 'cool' personality being viable

    Miitopia is basically an interactive movie that is not only slow paced, it's painful and frustrating in parts, the basic flow of the game is watch your choice of Miis follow incredibly linear paths and each time and specific points several things happen...

    1) Find a chest
    2) Enemy battle
    3) Random cut scene that usually serves no purpose
    4) Find inn, repeat until you beat the game

    The entire flow of the game is literally identical, the first chapter gets your team of 4 Miis to find the faces of the town and fight the end of chapter boss, moving into the start of chapter 2 your teammates will get captured and you get to pick 3 more Miis as you do the exact same thing you did in chapter 1.....and guess what...chapter 3 is exactly the same, only until you unlock the travelers hub do things change up...a little with some side quests, it's fairly short lived.....even the Dark Lord is recycled as you fight the Darker Dark Lord which isn't exactly difficult to beat either.

    Levelling up your characters is tedious, often serves very little purpose if you don't have the proper weapons/armor for the area, which in itself is extremely frustrating as you are at the mercy of your Miis if they actually want a weapon/armor, quite often you could be flush with gold but you're Mii's are perfectly fine with the gear they have, forcing you to either repeat the fastest maps until they decide its time for an upgrade, then throw in them buying MP candy instead to further insult you, often you are forced into using the horrendously bad mini-games of roulette in the hopes it'll finally give you some gear upgrades, often giving you useless banana instead at least, its easier to win something, the other people rock/paper/scissors which was an complete waste of tickets. The personality system is completely useless, almost all of them have aspects that actually hurt or weaken your characters and cause unnecessary resentment, 'cool' is pretty much the best one by far.

    Also as you progress through the game, more features are steadily unlocked with may or may not actually help you, you'll unlock more and more sprinkles which make the healer classes useless in middle and end game as you'll end up with literally hundreds, but the actual sprinkles which make a difference never increases like life, hyper and shield not that they are super useful and only against fiends which hit for 999 hp and always attack first....many skills are stupid as they actually often cause your teammates to get angry often causing them to quarrel which can cause issues in battle, and forces you to repair the friendship, or go through the hassle of getting the pop star job to use love and peace skill.

    The differences between the switch and 3DS honestly do not justify the price tag if I am being honest, sure you can make slightly better and more interesting characters...you get a horse that 'sometimes' will give you a powerful attack, and rarely in boss fights...in the final fight, the horse never helped once. The other difference is the outings which you can send them on a date basically to increase the relationship, most of the time you'll not really bother with them and best to save them when a relationship turns into a quarrel so you can repair the friendship fast.

    The only positive aspects are some of the potential hilarious story that can unfold if you pick/create freakish looking characters, this is literally the only reason to play this game - if you can even call playing it, as the game is extremely linear on forced rolls, you cannot directly control the other characters only your character, and the A.I is extremely bad which makes the process worse, later in the game you'll run into many situations that splits your party, or makes you temporarily lose party members and the worst is in the final phase when pretty much you'll get emergency spam as your team members get sick constantly, it's so bad it happens literally each completed route.

    By roughly chapter 2, you'll be holding B button down constantly to speed up the game because you've pretty much seen all the outcomes of the cut scenes/inn scenes/outings and the game becomes a chore to play.    … Expand
  2. Yakushi
    May 23, 2021
    4
    The game fun and all but the game too simple, you can't even control your own party members, you can't buy food in the inn, so if the enemies didn't drop food you have to go your next journey with an empty stomach.. When you enter an area your miis auto walk so you just watch as they walk until they encounter enemies or two ways so you can choose which path you want them to take.The game fun and all but the game too simple, you can't even control your own party members, you can't buy food in the inn, so if the enemies didn't drop food you have to go your next journey with an empty stomach.. When you enter an area your miis auto walk so you just watch as they walk until they encounter enemies or two ways so you can choose which path you want them to take. The only things that keep people happy about this game is the customization faces and your miis relationship, I say this game don't worth more than $30.… Expand
  3. AbslomDaak
    Jun 3, 2021
    1
    An overpriced slooooooooooooooooooooow painful chore of a game. Avoid unless by-the-numbers "whimsy" is really your thing.
  4. AloeJ
    Apr 6, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson… Expand
  5. Ebe2137
    Jun 2, 2021
    0
    No new popular miis from Switch, only old ones from 3ds, makeup dissapears during half of the animations.
  6. Scamper
    Jul 1, 2021
    4
    You basically watch the game happen and don’t really play it. Decisions aren’t critical at any point. The ending is not satisfying. There is no discovery. You’re just watching the game happen. It is silly and quirky… but largely a chore to do the same repetitive tasks to build relationships with your team members.

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#23 Most Discussed Switch Game of 2021

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Metascore
71

Mixed or average reviews - based on 60 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 60
  2. Mixed: 37 out of 60
  3. Negative: 1 out of 60
  1. Ninty Fresh Magazine
    Dec 3, 2021
    65
    While it’s fun to cast every role in your Miitopia adventure, it’s less thrilling to sit back and let this very hands-off game play itself. [Issue #4, p.57]
  2. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Oct 6, 2021
    75
    Miitopia is a fun first RPG for young kids, and while it can also be fun for adults, the game quickly gets repetitive and unrewarding. It would be better as a multiplayer game on Switch, or even an online outing that had more to do. It really defeats itself as a solo game. Its real appeal lies not in the RPG adventure itself, then, but in how wildly robust the new Mii-making interface is. Some people may want to pick up the game for that feature alone. [Issue #53 – July/August 2021, p. 73]
  3. CD-Action
    Jul 23, 2021
    70
    Compared to the original released on 3DS in 2017, the Switch version of Miitopia looks better and offers a couple of additions, but it is pretty much the same thing. I had a lot of fun with it once again and I can recommend it to anyone looking for a funny (but not necessarily hilarious) game with an extraordinarily enjoyable gameplay loop. [08/2021, p.66]
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