Funny Tattoo Shop 2

Buzzing starts almost immediately, because a customer is already seated with a bare arm out and a rough idea of what they want. Funny Tattoo Shop 2 opens with a choice of body part, arm, back, ankle, before handing over a stencil to trace. Press the gun down and a thin outline appears first, wobbly if the hand moves too fast, steady if it doesn't.

The wall of stencils covers skulls, roses, anchors, hearts, script banners and a few cartoon animals, sorted into rows a customer points at on the way in. Ink comes in black plus a handful of colors, red, green, blue, for shading over the outline once it's dry. Designs can sit side by side on the same arm, but colors don't blend into each other the way layers stack in other games.

The joke in this makeover game is the client's face, wincing, flinching, occasionally yelping, every time the gun buzzes near a ticklish spot, which turns a simple ink job into something closer to a mini performance. A session ends with the finished tattoo shown off next to the client's reaction, good or bad, before the next customer sits down.

Line the stencil up before the gun ever touches skin, since a crooked outline stays crooked through every shading pass after it. Wipe between colors so ink doesn't smear into the wrong section, and slow down near the edges where the outline is thinnest. A steady hand near the wrist and elbow, the spots the game flags as sensitive, keeps the client from yelping through the whole session.