Freakyforms, an original Nintendo 3DS release, hits eShop on November 10th. It appears to be the perfect game to bring out the mad scientist Picasso in you!
Design your own creature and watch it come to life? Count me in. From Warioware D.I.Y. to Spore to Rock Band 3 to Magic Pengel (trust me, it’s awesome), nothing can get me to buy a game quicker than great character creation tools.
Check out Nintendo’s site. The game’s looking stylish, fun and full of creative possibilities–as well as potential psychiatric test use! The gameplay? Looks like simple platforming with a Kirby’s Epic Yarn/Yoshi’s Story influence.
I love the AR and QR code implementation! I love that it allows you to also design the backgrounds! I love the warning of “Mild Fantasy Violence!”
I’m definitely giving this one a shot. If nothing else, it’ll help ease the remaining wait to Mario Day! How about you? Is it enough to make you part with $6.99?
Is that pengel meant to be penCil?
I would love to be excited by this, but these days $7 is a bit high for something like this. It looks and feels like a game that would work well on an iPhone.
I remember hearing good impressions from e3, but…it's still 7x too expensive.
Since they showed this in the same video as the November update, do you think they'll give us the update then as well?
@Wakko1337:
Anything's possible, but I think we would have heard something from Nintendo about it by now (I'd love to be wrong about this, though!) I'm thinking they might announce the update and the Ambassador GBA freebies at the same time.
It also turns out that Super Mario 3D Land comes with a minor firmware upgrade that adds friend list functions the first time you boot up the game. It's a very minor selling point for an already anticipated game, but since the November update will most likely include those functions, they might want to hold on releasing the free update until Mario's had at least a week on store shelves.
Except…looking at the Calendar…if they stick to Thursday releases…and they want to keep their word….that gives them this Thursday, the Thursday between Mario and Zelda, or Thanksgiving Day! No one wants to field tech calls on a holiday weekend, so I'm going to guess that the update and the free GBA games could be coming Thursday the 17th, and that guess comes with no guarantees or backup whatsoever! 🙂
Im guessing it will be around $12 here in Australia. eShop games are so expensive here. Still worth picking up though if only to encourage Nintendo to release more stuff on the shop.
Looks pretty cool, might get my girlfriend interested in the 3DS again.
I´d buy it, but I still haven´t seen any eShop cards around here in Europe…
I actually (surprise surprise) am not getting this. I actually feel kind of sorry for Nintendo at this point. They're putting out a ridiculous game like this when they could be working on something like, oh, I don't know, oh yeah – that failing system they have on the market! This feels like an iPhone game to me, and I don't like it. The company makes Mario and Zelda – gaming classics. And now, they're putting "cute" characters in a ludicrous blob of a game with an intentionally misspelled name? Unless the fabric of the universe is being distorted, I'd say Nintendo is getting desperate.
Gotta disagree with you, shayminfreak, at least in theory (since I haven't actually played it yet). This kind of "ridiculous" game is exactly the kind of inventive, creative, out-of-the-box project I like to see from the company.
Your don't like cute characters? Kirby anyone? It sounds ridiculous? Mario's an Italian plumber who falls down a pipe into a Mushroom Kingdom where he has to rescue Princess Toadstool from the clutches of a giant Turtle-Dragon thing who wants to marry her! Who'd buy that pitch, yet it's the greatest game series on Earth!
Remember, the look of the character is entirely up to your input! You can form any creature you want from the pieces and watch it come to life (or so it would appear)! Yeah, they all look like felt, but it worked for Kirby's Epic Yarn. This kind of creative fun is exactly what I love in a game: you don't sound like the sort who spends five hours designing his troupe for Rock Band 3 before even starting to play (like I did). 🙂
And the title, I'm sure, is a take on the once mega-popluar Baby Boomer toy series "Colorforms," which I grew up with. The idea of freaky colorform people running rampant in a game setting tickles me no end.
So, don't get angy: some of us Nintendo fans actually like this kind of silliness! And, believe me, if the game sucks, I will say so in the review and eat my words from this reply with ketchup and salt.
And…personally? I think the Freakyform characters shown in the promo videos look better than 75% of the most recent Pokemon. Vanillish…gad….
I wanna download that software on my 3DS but, i don't have any Funds left! It looks like AWESOMENESS!