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Freakyforms Hits the 3DS Store Next Week

by Josh Max - November 3, 2011, 8:07 am EDT
Total comments: 9 Source: (Press Release)

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

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.

Nintendo 3DS Owners Bring Their Creatures to Life with Freakyforms

      Halloween is over, but there’s still plenty of time to bring inanimate objects to life. A creative new portable game from Nintendo lets players colorize their worlds in their own personal palettes and bring to life bizarre and bubbly creatures of every conceivable crazy incarnation. Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive!, a downloadable game for the Nintendo 3DS system, gives you that chance and even lets you swap your creatures with other creators.

Using the stylus on the touch screen, players build their own custom creatures, called “formees.” No drawing skills are needed, so players of all ages can give it a try. Young players can make their creatures from simple geometric shapes, while players with more artistic abilities can challenge themselves to create more intricate and detailed creatures. Then they can customize the color and the look, and add eyes and a mouth. Players can even add wings to make their creatures fly or giant bouncy legs to make them hop along. The creative combinations are endless.

Once the formee is assembled, it comes to life and is able to explore its environment. As players use their characters to investigate their world, their formees munch on food and lay eggs that can be broken open to collect coins for buying items or parts. Players can even open a treasure box and unlock the ability to redesign elements in the game world. Don’t like puffy, white clouds? Make them purple with pink polka-dots or black and spiky.

The more pictures that a player makes, the larger the game world grows and the more areas there are to explore. Players will also accumulate more shapes and formee parts to make even more interesting characters. For example, wings, wheels and engines can be unlocked, along with fun accessories like hats and ties.

Formees can explore beyond the world that players create. People who activate the StreetPass feature can also wirelessly swap characters with other players. Additionally, players can make a QR code of their creatures and trade or collect them with others.

Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive! launches in the Nintendo eShop on Nov. 10 and will sell for $6.99 in the United States. For more information about the game, visit http://freakyforms.nintendo.com.

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Talkback

CericNovember 03, 2011

Day one Purchase for Crimm.

leahsdadNovember 03, 2011

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.

KikoriMinoru Yamaizumi, Japan CorrespondentNovember 03, 2011

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 HuttNovember 03, 2011

Quote from: 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.

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?

LittleIrvesNovember 03, 2011

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 HuttNovember 04, 2011

@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#!

$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.

KikoriMinoru Yamaizumi, Japan CorrespondentNovember 04, 2011


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.

ejamerNovember 04, 2011


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


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

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