Using the built-in DSi camera, you take a photo of a face, being careful to place it just within the guidelines on-screen, which allows the software to manipulate the facial features by squinting the eyes, twisting the mouth, etc. Then you save it as a Faceez, and you can have up to 20 of them at any time. You can't delete them, but you can replace them if you like. You can swap facial features between your Faceez if you're curious what you might look like with your friend's nose, but it's a little creepy in practice!

You can disguise them with ears, hats, hair and other assorted accessories, but that's not the meat of the app. After saving your Faceez, your morphable face is placed inside a little oval with arms and legs that you can also animate. The animations aren't quite unlimited, but with the ability to separate arms and legs into different movements, as well as adding facial expressions, props, and altering the line quality and color, it's pretty expansive.

Unfortunately, despite what these screenshots might indicate, you can't animate more than one Faceez at a time. What you can do is place your animated Faceez into a background and take a screenshot that you can save to your DSi photo album. From there, you can upload it to Facebook or transfer to an SD card to do whatever you want with. Like illustrate an online review! There's only one built-in background, but you can use any of the photos saved to your DSi photo album or take a brand new one right at that moment. And by using screenshots with Faceez as your background, you can create a bizarre group scene.

With an app like this, it's hard not to focus on what it can't do, like animate more than one Faceez at a time, or save animations to Facebook or the SD card, but it only costs 200 Nintendo points, and what you get for a couple bucks is actually pretty fun. The first time you snap a friend's photo and show them the test animation, their reaction to seeing their face eat popcorn or brush their teeth is kind of hilarious. The facial recognition software is pretty good, and if your photo was taken just right, the morphing can be impressive. Since Faceez is just an app, I don't feel like it's appropriate to give it a number grade, but I will say that it's a really fun diversion. And since the animation is the best part, and you can't get that across in screenshots, here's a trailer for Faceez so you can see it in action: