Nintendo’s taken its first tentative steps into the world of mobile apps and gaming with the release of Miitomo in Europe, North America and Australia today – it’s already been out in Japan for a little while – with a cute little social game based around interacting with your friends’ Mii.
You can get it now for iOS and Android, setting up a new Mii or importing one from an existing Nintendo account, and then start chatting to and answering the many questions of friends that you connect to through Facebook and Twitter or face to face. There’s also a little Miitomo Drop minigame, in which you can win different clothes and accessories, in addition to being able to buy things from the shop with coins earnt in game.
And that’s really all there is to it, but from playing around with it, it feels surprisingly easy to lose time to it. You can visit all of your friends’ characters, answer their questions, view your friends’ answers, and on and on. There’s already a bunch of the posed Miifotos popping up in my Twitter feed!
Miitomo also hooks into the new My Nintendo rewards scheme, which has replaced the different regional systems that were shut down last year. You earn three separate kinds of reward currency, with Miitomo points for completing missions and daily activities in the app, platinum points for things like signing into the Wii U and 3DS eShop each day, and finally gold points for buying things in the eShop.
There’s then different rewards to claim with each currency. Currently, there’s a Mario suit and game tickets for the Miitomo Drop minigame that can be bought with Miitomo points, while platinum points get you discounts on certain games in the eShop, unless you’ve saved up the 1000 for Legend of Zelda Picross or WarioWare: Touched for 3DS. Gold coins can also get you discount codes, albeit more substantial 40-50% discounts for games like Splatoon, but you can also save up for more fgames and DLC, with Super Mario 64 or the New Super Luigi U DLC a freebie if you spend around £55 mark on the eShop.
What do you think of these two releases? Has the first few minutes with Miitomo got you hooked? Does the rewards system baffle you or do you think it’s a worthwhile scheme?
Source: Miitomo, My Nintendo
alistair6969
Some-one comment that you can petting the head of a Mii how rude is that :/