Nintendo's Pictonico! Is A Chaotic And Unexpectedly Good Time

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It’s like WarioWare, but you and all the people you love are the main characters.

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I'll admit that I was a bit put off when I learned that Nintendo's new WarioWare-like mobile game, Pictonico!, would need to use pictures from my phone's gallery. I'm pretty selective when it comes to giving apps access to my photos, and the idea of a game possibly being filled with pictures of my own face just didn't really appeal to me. But weird little games are kind of my thing here, and if Pictonico! is anything, it's weird. So, I gave it a go — and to my surprise, it won me over pretty fast.

While Pictonico!is free to download, the game itself is not actually free beyond the short demo it offers. Once you complete that, you have to purchase game packs (or volumes, as Nintendo is calling them)....

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