Topic: Freakyforms Hits the 3DS Store Next Week

[NWR_Josh]

With Nintendo's eShop being around since June, it's good to see an original game come to its shelves. 

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/28319

Freakyforms will be released on November 10 on Nintendo 3DS eShop. It will be Nintendo's first original game for the 3DS Shop since its release in June.

In this new game, originally called Picture Lives!, game players are given the opportunity to create creatures that are able to explore their environments. These creatures can also eat, open treasure chests, and lay eggs among other things. Once players unlock the ability they can even redesign parts of the world their creations inhabit.

Freakyforms is already out in Japan. It's due out in Europe around the same time.

[Ceric]

Day one Purchase for Crimm.

[leahsdad]

This sounds totally like the kind of app/game that I will never play/use, but I'll download anyway for when my 5 year old wants to mess around with my 3DS (with 3D off, of course).  In fact, if they really want to start marketing the 3DS to kids, this is the kind of software they should include as a bundle, a'la the pre-installed Brainage on DSI's and DSIXL's.

[Kikori]

Have a look at
http://www16.atwiki.jp/kuri_toy/pages/70.html Super Mario Characters
http://www16.atwiki.jp/kuri_toy/pages/65.html Zelda Characters
to see how ridiculous this game is.

[Fatty The Hutt]

Have a look at
http://www16.atwiki.jp/kuri_toy/pages/70.html Super Mario Characters
http://www16.atwiki.jp/kuri_toy/pages/65.html Zelda Characters
to see how ridiculous this game is.

Those links are amazing! (pardon the pun)
And I see they all have QR codes. So, you can scan those and use them in your game? That's very cool.
I am looking forward to this game. Maybe someone will start a thread for NWR Forum creations to share?

[LittleIrves]

This game sounds awesome and wacky and totally odd. At first the 7 bucks price tag seems steep, but that's just Apple's race-to-the-bottom app store price war doing the talking. The crazy Mario/Link, um, links above show the deep potential for this kind of DIY game. But I'm a bit confused...  do you just make the character and then they roam freely? Or you do you directly control them? Seems a bit thin if all you do is populate the world and watch what happens. But maybe that's the point, to see what randomness unfold? Either way, I'm in. Hope there's a market for this, since to me it's way more interesting than half the popular genres out there right now.

[Fatty The Hutt]

@LittleIrves: Looks like you control your creature using the touch sceeen. See a video of Crimm playing the game at E3 2011 (called Picture Lives at that time):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Efi1XBKHWUc#!

[NWR_Neal]

$7 is high, but I'm an eShop whore.

On a brief side note, if it weren't for the slow trickle of games, I would have ignored Pyramids. I'm glad I didn't. That game us very good.

[Kikori]

Every single creature has their own voice and trademark phrase that you can determine.
@Fatty_The_Hutt
Exactly. You can control characters with the touch screen.
There are some platforming elements; for example, when your playing character passed with another, s/he asks you to challenge something like item collection, egestion after eating foods (seriously), etc.

[ejamer]

Maybe this will be cooler than it looks? 


More likely I'm just not the right audience. Forgive me for not being excited.