Nintendo’s latest WarioWare is a strange app for smartphones

Like a lot WarioWare, Pictonico (which, I admit, I’m not quite sure how to pronounce) is a collection of mini-games that each last only a few seconds. In each round, you play 10 of them in quick succession, and you usually have enough time to actually figure out what you need to do before moving on to the next thing. You are given a simple command, such as “chomp,” and then have to do something like hold it in your mouth and make it chew some food. The games are all very silly in often hilarious ways, so you’ll be pulling hair, licking lollipops and peeling bananas as fast as you can.

Volatility in Pictonico is that all games use the photos in your camera roll to customize the experience. The game pulls faces from photos and inserts them into mini-games, so I found myself making my wife eat a kebab with an annoyingly large mouth, or rubbing a lamp to see the orange genie version of my 10-year-old son. For example, here I am as a ballerina waiting to have her photo taken:

The game lets you choose which images you want to appear in the game so things don’t get uncomfortably weird, and it also occasionally pulls in objects that aren’t human faces. At one point, I had to match a photo that was split into three parts, and this was a photo I took While I cover the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto. Pictonico It is a free download on Both iOS and Androidbut this only gives you access to the trial version; To play the full game, which includes 80 different minigames, you must purchase two content packs priced at $7.69 and $5.99 each.