The tools have both left and right-handed layouts thankfully, but to access all of them you have to hold down various buttons while selecting different tools and menus, and as such juggling between the tools can be a little overwhelming for beginners. There are some useful copy and paste options, including resizing and rotating. There's a large variety of pens, brushes and fill tools to work with, and you can now choose between five colors (and many more with some creative pixel blending like in the first game), and use multiple colors on each page. You could choose to draw with a secondary color besides black - either blue or red, but only one extra color per animation.įlipnote Studio 3D has a much more robust selection of tools at your disposal. You could create short flipbook-style animations using up to two overlapping layers and some basic drawing and editing tools.
The original Flipnote Studio on DSi was fun, albeit limited in its usefulness.
This is quite a parting gift to commemorate the service's closure later this year. After a sordid history regarding Japanese players' misuse of Swapnote and Flipnote Studio 3D, and the discontinuation of the StreetPass and friend list sharing of both services, it was becoming worryingly unlikely that the world beyond Japan's shores would ever be able to flip notes on their 3DS.įortunately for those in USA - sorry, PAL regions! - Club Nintendo decided to give the animation tool out to anyone who has an active account.