Headscratchers / Miitopia

• After you save the two elder Fab Fairy Sisters, they elect to remove the seal on the door to the east so that you can go after the Dark Lord. It turns out the Dark Lord was waiting for this opportunity and proceeds to overrun the fairy village and steal faces at will, and the eldest sister blames herself for falling into a trap. Just one question. If that barrier truly was keeping the Dark Lord out, how were the two sisters kidnapped and rendered faceless at all? The three of them had put up the barrier together, and faceless people can't do things in general, so the barrier must have been put up before their abduction. So that means... his monsters attacked the village when they weren't able to do so? Also, since you didn't have to get past any barriers to get to the village from the west, and the Dark Lord had clearly been visiting the kingdoms you came from, how did the door keep him out at all?
  • Presumably, the door keeps the Dark Lord out of the village itself, rather than simply anything past the door. It's possible that the monsters got to them when they weren't in the Retreat too, as they have infested literally the rest of the forest. It wouldn't be surprising if they went out to try to get rid of the monsters and simply got overwhelmed.
  • It's also possible that the Dark Lord hid some of his minions in the village prior to the attack, the Smileshrooms being the most likely candidate. They would have paralyzed the other citizens with their laughter move, then capture the two sisters.
• Why would the Great Sage throw themselves between the hero and the Dark Curse? No matter how powerful the protagonist Mii is at that point, it would stand to reason that the Great Sage is more powerful. Letting them be possessed and then using their immense power to drive out the curse would seem better and more logical than giving the curse a source of even greater power.
  • The Sage had, like, two seconds to think. Most likely, they just saw a threat to the protagonist's safety and felt the need to protect them.
• How did the Great Sage come to know about the Dark Curse’s backstory? All the Ex-Dark Lord could tell you after being possessed was that it was focused on hatred and malice, but the Great Sage was able to exposition its entire backstory.
  • Given the kind of power the Great Sage has shown in the past prior to that moment, they probably had the ability to read the mind of The Dark Curse, gaining enough knowledge to inform the adventurers so that could make a decision as to whether they wanted to kill it or not.
  • Or maybe they connected the dots themselves? The Great Sage strikes me as scholarly, they could have learn of a Mii that seems to vanished without a trace, and after becoming possessed realized that this was them.
• The Guardian Spirit claims that after the game, everybody's faces will be returned... but they weren't, as the game actually has quite a highly developed post-game. Not only that, but when Travelers' faces are stolen... by who? The Dark Curse has been dealt with by that point.
  • The jury seems to be out on whether the postgame you get to explore is actually a postgame. While there is new material to experience, all of the characters still act like the world is still in peril, there are still monsters with people's faces running about, and you can still find the Darkest Lord in the Otherworld, waiting for the final battle. If you disregard the single appearance of the Reborn Mii in New Lumos, there's hardly any evidence at all that the Playable Epilogue is actually that.
  • Perhaps someone else is using the powers now instead? This might sound like a Head Canon, but what if another Mii obtained the powers of the Dark Lord and it corrupted their spirit? That would makes an interesting Sequel Hook.
• Why are Miis able to be ambushed by monsters when they go on Outings but not when they go to the shop?
  • Because the Inn possibly has a shop built into it.

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