Can you time travel in Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream?

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Time travel in many games is a common tactic, jumping forward in time to skip build times and other such delays. If you are wondering if this is possible in Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream, then the answer is a little more complicated than you might first think.

Can you time travel in Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream?

While you can, technically, time travel in Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream, the current common consensus is that it is not worth doing and likely leads to more headaches than it solves. While in a game like Pokémon Pokopia, time travel allowed you to skip annoying things like build timers, there are some built-in features to Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream that stop it from being a valid solution to the issue you may be trying to solve.

If you time travel by resetting your system time in Tomodachi Life, then you will end up facing a roughly 24-hour refresh of shop timers, and it doesn't impact things like Mii hunger levels, so you can't just cram food into a Mii to speed-run happiness. Basically, there is essentially zero advantage to time travel in the game, so doing it is considered a bad idea.

The game has been designed in almost every way to be played in bursts, not to have players sit there for hours and grind through things, so keep that in mind. 

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