{"id":75761,"date":"2026-04-17T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75761"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:39:58","slug":"psa-you-definitely-dont-want-to-time-travel-in-tomodachi-life-living-the-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75761","title":{"rendered":"PSA: You Definitely Don&#8217;t Want To Time Travel In Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on my experience, the Venn diagram of people who are currently playing Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream and people who poured countless hours into Animal Crossing: New Horizons is pretty much a circle. We life-sim fans, after all, have a type. However, don&#8217;t expect all of the tricks you used to progress in Animal Crossing to work in Nintendo&#8217;s most recent simulation game. In fact, one of the most popular methods of leveling up your island, time traveling, actually does more harm than good.<\/p>\n<p>Time traveling, in this instance, refers to when players go into their Switch&#8217;s system settings and adjust their clock forward (or backwards) in time. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, this was a great way to refresh store offerings, skip construction times, or play the Stalk Market. Most recently, Switch players implemented this tactic in Pokemon Pokopia, using it to once again bypass construction or jump to a time of day in which a certain Pokemon is more likely to appear.<\/p>\n<p>However, Nintendo has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomodachiplaza\/status\/2044756676922737118?s=46\">officially warned<\/a> players this does not work in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. Rather than reaping financial rewards or progressing relationships, players who time travel will face a bevy of annoying consequences. After changing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on my experience, the Venn diagram of people who are currently playing Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream and people who poured countless hours into Animal Crossing: New Horizons is pretty much a circle. We life-sim fans, after all, have a type. However, don&#8217;t expect all of the tricks you used to progress in Animal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":75763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75764,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75761\/revisions\/75764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}