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Title: Freakyforms Hits the 3DS Store Next Week
Post by: NWR_Josh on November 03, 2011, 11:07:18 AM

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.

Title: Re: Freakyforms Hits the 3DS Store Next Week
Post by: Ceric on November 03, 2011, 11:11:58 AM

Day one Purchase for Crimm.

Title: Re: Freakyforms Hits the 3DS Store Next Week
Post by: leahsdad on November 03, 2011, 12:08:07 PM

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.

Title: Re: Freakyforms Hits the 3DS Store Next Week
Post by: Kikori on November 03, 2011, 01:39:22 PM

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

Title: Re: Freakyforms Hits the 3DS Store Next Week
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on November 03, 2011, 03:02:46 PM

Quote from: Kikori on November 03, 2011, 01:39:22 PM

Have a look at
http://www16.atwiki.jp/kuri_toy/pages/70.html (http://www16.atwiki.jp/kuri_toy/pages/70.html) Super Mario Characters
http://www16.atwiki.jp/kuri_toy/pages/65.html (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?

Title: Re: Freakyforms Hits the 3DS Store Next Week
Post by: LittleIrves on November 03, 2011, 10:30:48 PM

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.

Title: Re: Freakyforms Hits the 3DS Store Next Week
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on November 04, 2011, 10:04:36 AM

@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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Efi1XBKHWUc)#!

Title: Re: Freakyforms Hits the 3DS Store Next Week
Post by: NWR_Neal on November 04, 2011, 10:40:50 AM

$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.

Title: Re: Freakyforms Hits the 3DS Store Next Week
Post by: Kikori on November 04, 2011, 10:46:53 AM

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.

Title: Re: Freakyforms Hits the 3DS Store Next Week
Post by: ejamer on November 04, 2011, 11:43:02 AM

Maybe this will be cooler than it looks?  :confused;


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