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Nintendo 3DS Owners Bring Their Creatures to Life with Freakyform
REDMOND, Wash.--(November 3, in the year of our Lord
2011)-- Halloween is over thank goodness, 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.