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NintendoWare Weekly: Freakyforms
The eShop quiets down after last week's bounty, with one sort of new eShop game of note. Freakyforms, the game about building weird monsters and taking them on little adventures, has been upgraded for retail release as Freakyforms Deluxe ... and that retail release will also be available on eShop on November 5.Meanwhile, if you remain unconvinced about Style Savvy: Trendsetters, Nintendo has released another demo. And if you have yet to pick up the great Fractured Soul, you can see some new footage on the eShop.
Freakyforms comes alive on 3DS next week
The 3DS has been out since March, and the eShop has been running since June. So it's pretty noteworthy that Nintendo's first original game for the service will be released in November. The kid-friendly Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive! is designed to allow players to build the weird-ass creature of their dreams, and then use said weirdo in an adventure, exploring its new environment, finding food, collecting coins for new items, and even gaining the ability to redraw stuff in the environment. It'll hit the North American 3DS eShop November 10, for $6.99.
Rolling Western, more 3DS download games dated
If you've been waiting to try out Picture Lives, the build-it-yourself 3DS platform adventure thing I called "E3's weirdest game," you'll be able to do so in November. Nintendo announced the release window for the downloadable game -- now called Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive! -- today as part of its 3DS info dump. That game will be $6.99 upon release. The Rolling Western, the action-tower-defense game about an armadillo cowboy, is now Dillon's Rolling Western, and it's coming in Q1 of next year. Pushmo is a new puzzle game that just came out in Japan, developed by Intelligent Systems, about pushing and pulling blocks in and out of the screen to solve puzzles. That's coming to North America in December. Finally, Swapnote is a messaging service that allows you to draw 3D messages, with pictures and sounds, and send them over the internet or StreetPass. Nintendo's going to regret allowing you to send filth directly to neighboring 3DS systems when this comes out for free in December. You can see footage of all four of these releases in the new Nintendo Direct video. That's a new thing Nintendo is trying -- a video in which the company just tells people about new announcements.
Picture Lives is E3's weirdest game
Sure I played some good games at E3 -- whatever. Good games come out all the time. What I want from the show is to be surprised, preferably by something that doesn't make any damn sense and is hilarious. Nintendo filled that hole in my heart with the single unreleased 3DS eShop game it was showing: Picture Lives. Okay, so here's the concept of Picture Lives. You build a creature using shape tools -- resizable circles, rectangles, etc. Then you attach legs, mouth(s), eyes, basically anywhere. I decided that I would try to place the legs and eyes several away from the body. The game totally let me! So I was walking around as a green dome with a few misshapen legs and eyes floating nearby. I named it "frrrrrr." And he speaks like a squeaky-voiced robot, according to the settings I gave it. I saw other customization options for extra parts and moving things around, but I was eager to get this hot rod on the road. The "road" is a hilly green landscape that you navigate by dragging the stylus in the direction you want your godforsaken shape monster to lope in. To jump, you pull down on an icon on the touchscreen (the action is on the top screen) and let go to sling your adorable hellspawn into the air. Using these controls, you ... well, I only played it for a few minutes, but you pick up presents from a lion and deliver them to a bird. So, just in that first bit, it appears to be like Animal Crossing, but side-scrolling, and with your own hideous freak in the place of a little horned boy. So, uh, yeah! I don't know if it's going to be a good game, but I know I'm going to keep talking about it whenever people ask me what I saw at E3, because it's freaky. Check out the trailer after the break.%Gallery-125697%
