Pictonico camera – Nintendo’s newest WarioWare-like smartphone app, Pictonico, drops you into lightning microgames that run just a few seconds at a time—then personalizes them by pulling faces from your camera roll. It’s free to download, but the full game with 80 minigames requ
A few seconds is barely enough time to decide what you’re supposed to do—then Pictonico moves on.
The new smartphone app. built in the spirit of WarioWare. is a collection of microgames that last just a few seconds each. In each round. you play 10 of them in quick succession. typically getting just enough time to figure out what the command on screen actually means. You’re handed something simple—“chomp. ” for example—and then you have to do something absurd like grab hold of a mouth and make it chew food.
The humor is the point. You’ll be plucking hair, licking lollipops, and peeling bananas at a speed that makes it hard to laugh and react at the same time.
What makes Pictonico stand out is the twist: the microgames use photos from your camera roll to customize the experience. The game pulls faces from your images and slips them into the microgames. In practice. that means you aren’t just controlling a generic silly character—you’re watching your own photos get turned into the punchline. The result is the kind of moment that instantly pulls you closer to your screen. because it feels personal in a way you don’t expect from a game that moves this fast.
That personalization can get… uncomfortable if you don’t choose carefully. The game lets you choose which photos appear in the experience, so things don’t get uncomfortably weird. Even with that control. it still occasionally does something stranger than you’d predict—at one point. it pulled an image that wasn’t a human face. Another time. the game asked you to match an image broken up into three parts. and the photo was one the creator took while reporting on the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto.
There’s also a surreal creativity to what it pulls from your images. Faces from your photos can appear in scenarios like making a wife’s face “chomp down on kebab” with a disturbingly large mouth, or rubbing a lamp to see a buff genie version of a 10-year-old pop out.
Pictonico is a free download on both iOS and Android, but the free version only includes a demo. To play the full game—which includes 80 different minigames—you have to buy two content packs. Those packs cost $7.69 and $5.99 each.
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So it uses your camera roll… great, my photos are gonna be eaten by some Wario dude? Cool I guess.
The whole “10-year-old pop out” thing is wild to me. Like why would any app be doing that with random photos. I’m not even sure I’d trust it to not grab the wrong image tbh.
I don’t get the pricing… it’s free but then two packs for $7.69 and $5.99? That’s like $13+ for 80 minigames that last like 3 seconds each. Also it says it chooses faces from your camera roll, but doesn’t that mean it can show stuff you didn’t mean?? Like I get you can “choose photos,” but come on.
This sounds like that thing where Nintendo steals your likeness and then forces you to do chores in your phone. Maybe I’m mixing it up but the word “personalized” is always a red flag. Also “chomp kebab”??? idk man, this is gonna end up on my screen for 5 seconds and then be gone before I even know what button to press.