much like warioware, pictonico (which, I admit, I’m not entirely sure how to pronounce) is a collection of microgames that only last a few seconds. Each round, you play 10 of these in rapid succession, and usually you have enough time to figure out exactly what you need to do before moving on to the next thing. You are given a simple command, like, say, “Hurt,” and then you have to do something like grab a mouthful and make it chew some food. All of these games are often ridiculously silly, so you’ll be tearing hair, licking lollipops and peeling bananas as fast as you can.
twist in pictonico This is how all games use the photos on your camera roll to customize the experience. The game pulls faces from photos and puts them into microgames, so I found myself chowing down on a kebab with a big mouth annoying my wife, or rubbing the lamp to see a buff genie version of my 10-year-old pop out. For example, here’s me waiting to have my photo taken as a ballerina:
The game lets you choose what photos you want to show in the game so things don’t get uncomfortably weird, and it sometimes pulls out things that aren’t human faces. At one point I had to match an image that was broken into three parts, and it was a photo I took while reporting at the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto. pictonico There’s a free download on both iOS and Android, but it only gives you access to the demo version; To play the whole thing, which includes 80 different minigames, you’ll need to purchase two content packs priced at $7.69 and $5.99 each.
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