In the games, the player creates creatures known as "Formees" out of various shapes, bits and bobs. The player is then encouraged to explore the game's worlds completing tasks for other non-playable characters.
Despite receiving mixed reviews, the game apparently did well enough that it earned a retail sequel entitled Freakyforms Deluxe: Your Creations, Alive!
, with the addition of dungeons, which involves the king getting kidnapped and your Formee has to rescue him from various boss Formees.
Tropes in this game include:
- Ascended Extra: Scout, a character who only gave the tutorial in the original version of the game becomes the final boss of the Meadow dungeon in Freakyforms Deluxe.
- Anti Poop-Socking: It does it in two ways: the Nintendo standard "let's take a break" message after playing for a while, and the Formee Hearts. You start with five hearts, and you use one every time you make a new creature- if you run out, you can't make any more until they regenerate, which takes time. While you can still go ahead and play the exploration and scenery creation parts of the game, accessing new areas of the map requires you to make more creatures and thus wait for hearts to regenerate.
- Eyeless Face: Although the formee editor forces you to add a mouth, there's nothing stopping you from skipping the eyes.
- Wacky Sound Effect: When formees walk, their footsteps make a variety of sounds, dependent on the leg type. This includes synth sounds, trumpeting, and exaggerated hoof-clopping.
- Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: The deluxe version of the game has a sort of an optional side-mode where you explore dungeons, trying to rescue some guy named King Roy. When you reach the boss of a dungeon, the boss proclaims that he's not there.
