E3 2011: Picture Lives, possibly the weirdest game at E3

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E3 2011: Picture Lives, possibly the weirdest game at E3

There were lots of great looking games at E3 with cutting edge graphics, but a much simpler, and much more bizarre game is Picture Lives for the 3DS. It’s a strange looking thing, where you create creatures out of basic shapes and set them in motion in the world to do… things. I don’t know. But it looks interesting.

Okay, so here’s the concept of Picture Lives. You build a creature using shape tools — resizable circles, rectangles, etc. Then you attach legs, mouth(s), eyes, basically anywhere. I decided that I would try to place the legs and eyes several away from the body. The game totally let me! So I was walking around as a green dome with a few misshapen legs and eyes floating nearby. I named it “frrrrrr.” And he speaks like a squeaky-voiced robot, according to the settings I gave it. I saw other customization options for extra parts and moving things around, but I was eager to get this hot rod on the road.

The “road” is a hilly green landscape that you navigate by dragging the stylus in the direction you want your godforsaken shape monster to lope in. To jump, you pull down on an icon on the touchscreen (the action is on the top screen) and let go to sling your adorable hellspawn into the air. Using these controls, you … well, I only played it for a few minutes, but you pick up presents from a lion and deliver them to a bird. So, just in that first bit, it appears to be like Animal Crossing, but side-scrolling, and with your own hideous freak in the place of a little horned boy.

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