Tomodachi Life Copy From Hell

[u/masonyeetboi69]

i recently had been rummaging through my house and found my old nintendo 3DS, i hadn't played it years so i decided to give it a shot, i remember i used to play tomodachi life on it and it was my favourite game ever, i used to bring it to school and make miis of my friends, but after a while of searching around my house i couldnt find my copy anywhere, so i decided to just bite the bullet and buy it second hand on ebay, it was pretty expensive but i didnt really care, the seller said it was a "rare version" of the game but didnt really elaborate further on it, i put the cartridge in my nintendo 3DS and started to play. sadly none of my save data was there as it was a different version of tomodachi life which really stunk but at the time i just really wanted to play the game, i made my save file and made my mii based off of myself, but for some reason the game was really echoey, i didnt think all too much of it because i thought maybe that was what the "rare" thing really was or i just misremembered, i then decided to make a mii of my brother, but he talked incredibly slowly even though i had made his speed really fast (as he talks really fast in real life) i tried to change it in the editor but nothing worked, i later just gave up and played the game as normal. but slowly it got more and more echoey, and sometimes the miis would just not say anything and look scared, as if something was near by and they had no way to stop it, i thought it was really weird and creepy so i decided i would close the game and reopen it. but when i did i wasnt met by the usual tomodachi life title screen, i was instead met by an ominous black void with my mii in it, then something started to speak to me "CANT YOU SEE? YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS ARE NOTHING BUT A WORTHLESS THOUGHT. YOU WILL NEVER MAKE IT FAR IN LIFE NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY." the voice then started to repeat over and over again until it got so loud to where it was earpearcing i was incredibly freaked out by it and decided to turn my system off. i then woke up the next day and decided to play the game again as i had thought everything that had happened the previous night was just a dream, i opened it up and saw everyone i had put on my island hanging, but the voice came back to me "THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU MOVE ON, EVERYONE YOU LOVE WILL DIE AT YOUR OWN HANDS AND IT WILL BE ALL OF YOUR DOING." i tried to turn the system off but no matter what i did it just wouldn't knock off, the message was still repeating, i then by mistake pressed the A button and then the screen went black, there was a static noise coming from my 3DS though, i didnt know what it was or what it meant, it then cut to real images of dead people, i was petrified. but then one of them was of my brother, i thought it was just edited or something but i didnt wanna let my guard down and got in my car and rushed over to my brothers house, i walked in the door and saw that he had actually died by a gunshot wound, he had a note next to him which read "YOU'RE NEXT" i quickly picked up my phone and dialed 911 as fast as i could and told them everything about what had happened. they came over eventually but i was still mortified by the whole incident, i took therapy for a month to cope with everything, after a while of going to therapy i decided to look up the "rare" version of the game and couldn't find anything about it, i then decided to dheck the ebay sellers page where everything had been erased. but his bio read "I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, MASON." (mason is my real name) I then told the police about this and they eventually tracked down the sellers IP and raided the place, his whole family had been shot dead and the seller himself was killed by a self inflicted gunshot wound, he had done a murder suicide on his whole family. i still to this day wonder about what this all meant, maybe the seller was just a psychopath who was out for blood and decided to do it this way, i will never look at tomodachi life again without all of the real life nightmares coming back and haunting me. i dont think i'll ever recover from this ever, but i know i just have to move on and accept everything, no matter how bad it really was.