{"id":137356,"date":"2026-05-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-201715"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:00:00","slug":"poll-pictonico-is-out-now-what-are-your-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/28\/poll-pictonico-is-out-now-what-are-your-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Pictonico Is Out Now, What Are Your First Impressions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/818e8603d7ae4\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/818e8603d7ae4\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"818e8603d7ae4\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pictonico\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/818e8603d7ae4\/pictonico.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/818e8603d7ae4\/pictonico.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Pictonico\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s latest surprise app, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/pictonico\">Pictonico!<\/a>, is now live on iOS and Android, and we&#8217;d wager that a few of you have already dived in to see what this silly little picture game is all about.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a vague <strong>WarioWare<\/strong> energy to Pictonico, which sees you putting your photos through a series of surreal minigames as quickly as you can. These minigames might task you with making a face eat a kebab, lick a lolly pop, or get its hair nice and lathered up, and you&#8217;ve got to do it all before the timer runs out.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re only playing the free demo, that&#8217;s as far as the minigame selection goes (yep, just the three), but there are an additional 80 challenges split between two &#8216;Volume Packs&#8217; for those who want to pay extra.<\/p>\n<p>It all seems like a harmless bit of fun so far, even if the free stuff is a little more restrictive than we had initially expected. We&#8217;ll be sharing our full thoughts on the game once we&#8217;ve spent a little more time with it, but until then, we&#8217;re keen to find out what everyone makes of it so far.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Images: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>You can share your first impressions of Pictonico in the following poll, but be sure to take to the comments afterwards to add a little more detail.<\/p>\n<section id=\"poll-11905\" data-block-type=\"poll\" class=\"poll\" data-uri=\"polls\/what_do_you_make_of_pictonico_so_far\" data-id=\"11905\" data-question=\"What do you make of Pictonico! so far?\">\n<div class=\"results hidden\">\n<h3 data-toc=\"skip\">What do you make of Pictonico! so far? (377 votes)<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"poll-results many-results\">\n<li class=\"result first\"><strong class=\"answer\">I love it, it&#8217;s amazing!<\/strong><span class=\"votes\"><span title=\"35 votes (9.3%)\"><span class=\"bar accent-bg has-votes\" data-value=\"9\"><span class=\"val\">9<\/span>%<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"result\"><strong class=\"answer\">It&#8217;s pretty fun<\/strong><span class=\"votes\"><span title=\"66 votes (17.5%)\"><span class=\"bar accent-bg has-votes\" data-value=\"18\"><span class=\"val\">18<\/span>%<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"result\"><strong class=\"answer\">Eh, it&#8217;s okay<\/strong><span class=\"votes\"><span title=\"43 votes (11.4%)\"><span class=\"bar accent-bg has-votes\" data-value=\"11\"><span class=\"val\">11<\/span>%<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"result\"><strong class=\"answer\">I&#8217;m not a fan<\/strong><span class=\"votes\"><span title=\"34 votes (9%)\"><span class=\"bar accent-bg has-votes\" data-value=\"9\"><span class=\"val\">9<\/span>%<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"result\"><strong class=\"answer\">Get it off my phone, what a waste of time!<\/strong><span class=\"votes\"><span title=\"43 votes (11.4%)\"><span class=\"bar accent-bg has-votes\" data-value=\"11\"><span class=\"val\">11<\/span>%<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"result last\"><strong class=\"answer\">I still haven&#8217;t tried it out, but I love a good poll<\/strong><span class=\"votes\"><span title=\"156 votes (41.4%)\"><span class=\"bar accent-bg has-votes\" data-value=\"41\"><span class=\"val\">41<\/span>%<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-mobile\/related-articles:201351 @ 1779988229 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life Nintendo&#8217;s latest surprise app, Pictonico!, is now live on iOS and Android, and we&#8217;d wager that a few of you have already dived in to see what this silly little picture game is all about. There&#8217;s a vague WarioWare energy to Pictonico, which sees you putting your photos through a series of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}