When I was around eight years old, I had an ant farm that I kept in my room. Unlike standard ant farms, where ants could burrow into layers of dirt and hide from whatever wide-eyed child had put them there, mine was filled with a transparent blue gel that served as both the material the ants dug through and the food they ate. Best of all, the gel let me keep tabs on my ants wherever they went, no matter how far they tunneled. Now that I think about it, it was pretty cruel to keep those poor ants in such a small piece of plastic, force them to eat synthetic food, and make them dig tunnels through a material they couldn’t even hide in. But it did make me appreciate a lost art: putting a bunch of little guys in a self-contained world and watching them do whatever they want. The Tomodachi Life series is exactly that: a life sim series in which you fill an island with Miis, sit back, and watch from the sidelines as they make friends, fall in love, and even have babies.…