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Much like WarioWare<\/em>, Pictonico<\/em> (which, I admit, I\u2019m not entirely sure how to pronounce) is a collection of microgames that last just a few seconds each. In each round, you play 10 of these in quick succession, and usually you have just enough time to figure out what you actually need to do before moving on to the next thing. You\u2019re given a simple command like, say, \u201cchomp,\u201d and then you have to do something like grab hold of a mouth and make it chew some food. The games are all very silly in often hilarious ways, so you\u2019ll be plucking hair, licking lollipops, and peeling bananas as quickly as you can.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The twist in Pictonico<\/em> is that the games all use photos on your camera roll to customize the experience. The game pulls faces from photos and slips them into the microgames, so I found myself making my wife chomp down on kebab with a disturbingly large mouth, or rubbing a lamp to see a buff genie version of my 10-year-old pop out. As an example, here is me as a ballerina waiting to get their photo taken:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The game lets you choose which photos you want to appear in the game so things don\u2019t get uncomfortably weird, and it does occasionally pull things that aren\u2019t human faces. At one point I had to match up an image that had been broken up into three parts, and it was a photo I had taken during my time reporting on the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto<\/a>. Pictonico<\/em> is a free download on both iOS<\/a> and Android<\/a>, but that only gets you access to a demo version; to play the full thing, which includes 80 different minigames, you have to buy two content packs priced at $7.69 and $5.99 each.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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