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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
Fun game with tonsa new innovations
This game, to put it bluntly, is a combination of Mario, Animal Crossing, and a coloring book. This is the coloring book part. It is really fun because you get to draw your own hero and a lot of times in your adventure draw like a cloud to get across a gap. you get to draw with pixel-by-pixel drawing if you want and if you do you can just use a template or make your...
Published on October 19, 2007 by S. Lindgren
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45 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
Mario w/ user-defined sprites
What you draw simply fills in templates already in the world. You don't draw enough to really set the flavor of the setting, and all the drawing is simply filling in blanks in the background.
It's fun to draw your hero, and the drawing app is great (I sometimes put in the game just to doodle), but the gameplay itself is a disappointingly linear jump and...
Published on October 5, 2007 by T. Brzinski
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45 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
Mario w/ user-defined sprites, October 5, 2007
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This review is from: Drawn to Life (Video Game)
What you draw simply fills in templates already in the world. You don't draw enough to really set the flavor of the setting, and all the drawing is simply filling in blanks in the background.
It's fun to draw your hero, and the drawing app is great (I sometimes put in the game just to doodle), but the gameplay itself is a disappointingly linear jump and smash, and your works of art do nothing to affect the game world.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
Fun game with tonsa new innovations, October 19, 2007
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This review is from: Drawn to Life (Video Game)
This game, to put it bluntly, is a combination of Mario, Animal Crossing, and a coloring book. This is the coloring book part. It is really fun because you get to draw your own hero and a lot of times in your adventure draw like a cloud to get across a gap. you get to draw with pixel-by-pixel drawing if you want and if you do you can just use a template or make your own which is quite hard in the scope of things. This is wher the Mario part comes in. You have to go in to 4 separate gates which represent 4 different realms. You go through side scrolling adventures which are excruciatingly long. You run, jump and ground pound just like in mario. Fun sidecrolling with boss battles at the end of every realm. This is the animal crossing part. You also can monitor the population of your town. You have to draw certain things like a nice sign for a restaurant and the town crop. Every time you complete a level you will have rescued 3 people, which will get added to your population. Overall this is one AWESOME game. I recommend it to anyone that likes mario and stuff like that.
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41 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
Equal Parts Animal Crossing and Magic Pengel With A Touch Of Mario, September 13, 2007
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You play the game as "The Creator" and it is your job to save a small village of people/creatures/things by drawing the pizzazz back in to their little world which has become dark and gloomy and rescuing the townsfolk. Well this sounds kind of cool doesn't it? Too bad it's really not.
The game opens up with the pages of a book that apparently has been destroyed by one of the villagers who has gone evil. You are prompted to draw a few things, and I'm not sure what bearing they have on the gameplay yet, and then you are thrown in to a little Animal Crossing like world that is gloomy and fenced off with patches of dark fog. They talk about some nonsense for a while and eventually you get around to drawing a "hero" which you can pretty much do anything with. You're given a certain space built up of smaller regions that you can neither draw outside of or leave an individual region blank. This is to assure that your hero has 2 "legs", 2 "hands", a "head", and so forth. Naturally you can give them round stubs for hands and pineapples for legs if you wanted to but certain bits have to be there. There are also predrawn templates you can simply alter to your tastes or use them as they are. All in all I would say the drawing tools are simple but effective. You can zoom in/out, use a fill tool, there's a couple of different pencil widths, and there's a stamping tool. For the stamps and templates you only start with a given number and the rest must be unlocked. Once done, you may alter your hero whenever you see fit so don't worry about it too much.
So you've got your hero and you may now be saying to yourself, "Well he/she/it certainly is ugly" and you'd be right. Your drawn hero only has the 2D view and kind of flails around. This makes for a poor contrast to the rest of the game sprites since they all have a back, front, and side view. Whatever though, it works, it's just not pretty. With your hero you can now move on in to the saving of townsfolk and the recovery of the pages from the book of life. You enter in to side scrolling platform levels with your hero and there's really nothing new here. You jump on enemies to kill them, you can slide down hills to kill them, you collect coins for spending later in town, and you bounce around like this achieving various goals. There's really no additional flare to what it basically Mario 3 with the exception that every so often you are asked to use your drawing skills to move on. For example you may have to draw clouds that you can jump on. You also get various weapons which you are allowed to design yourself but I still found myself jumping on enemies more often than not even with weapons. The mechanics are a little wonky, your character seems to skate around and something about the feel of the movement is just slightly awkward.
Ultimately though this game boils down to being a mediocre game in all respects with drawing as a distraction. You could spend plenty of time making things look cool and pretty but every second you're drawing you're not really playing the game. If you wanted to draw like this you could simply hop on MS Paint and play Animal Crossing or Mario when you're done with that. I would call this game a "pass" unless you're hard up for a new DS game.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
This game is awesome!, September 18, 2007
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This is a great game! You can draw your own character and parts of the levels. The Drawing Tool is in depth, you can zoom in and edit each pixel, flood fill, lock colors and choose from a bunch of different stamps and patterns... I've been playing this game for awhile and still haven't unlocked everything!!! It has a cool story and interesting characters, and the music is amazing!
I'd recommend Drawn to Life for anyone who likes to doodle or draw, or anyone interested in a fun side scroller. It's not perfect (Sometimes the levels / village feel too long) but it has a ton of replayability due to all the stuff you can draw.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Fun for mom too!!, December 30, 2007
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I've been playing my daughters Drawn To Life game and find it to be so much fun...alot like a mario game where you get to go to the different worlds and collect things except it is so cool that you get to draw your character as well as other items...like your shooter, elevator thingies, wings and much more. I have to say the game play is very very simple...advanced gamers will prob not find it very challenging in that regard...but I love it...I dont have patience for hard games...and the drawing part is too much fun.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
SO much fun!!!, October 8, 2007
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If you are looking for a game thats fun and interactive you have to buy this game!Its like a mario game almost. you can draw your own hero.their are pre made heros if you cant draw one the way you want.the book of life is the main point,you have to find all the pieces to unlock new levels.rescue the towns people,name your town!bring your town from a dark dengy place to the happyest place you'v ever seen!its a good game BUY IT and you won't be sorry!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
An Awesome Platformer Where YOU Design the Platforms!, January 30, 2008
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"Drawn to Life" is really, in essence, three games seamlessly united into one: lightweight RPG, slick side-scrolling platformer, and art/drawing program. If you enjoy these elements, even to a slight extent, you will enjoy the experience of "Drawn to Life."
There is some sketchy theology involved. The game begins by asking you to draw a globe, some trees, and some creatures. It then brands you "the Creator". Turns out you created a whole world and then abandoned it. Then, one day, a funny little creature called a raposa (the main species of inhabitants of your world) prays to the Creator, and you answer.
The two most distinct types of game play are the RPG and the platforming elements. The RPG first has you design up to three "heroes" as the Creator. From then on, you play both the role of Creator and hero as you interact with the raposas in a small village and "create" elements of their life as needed.
The platforming element takes over when your hero travels through different doors to action areas such as a snowy mountain and a sandy beach. Here, your hero proceeds in classic side-scrolling style, defeating enemies with a non-lethal gun that fires projectiles like snow ball and acorns or simply by crushing them with his or her butt, leaping across platforms, and collecting coins and hidden items.
The most unique feature of the game, and the element that is incorporated into both of the distinct gaming experiences, is the drawing feature. If you can handle Microsoft Paint, you can handle this. The DS makes excellent use of the stylus to draw several of the game's interactive elements. This starts with the design of the various heroes, all painted over a manikin to provide the movement structure, and all treated as one by the raposas. If you're not feeling creative, the game provides patterns that can be altered or simply "brought to life." If you're feeling creative. Throughout the game, you'll also be asked to draw several pieces of the town the RPG is set in. Throughout the platforming worlds, you will draw your guns, along with several vehicles. Also, you will get to draw several unique platforms, all which behave differently. For an example, you get to design stars that must be jumped on while twinkling and bits of debris that are caught in the gusts of winds that blow you across chasms. These elements, which you draw, blend surprisingly well with the rest of the environments you interact with, and there's a certain thrill involved in riding your own creations.
The stylus is also well utilized in other aspects of the game, such as opening doors during the platforming levels and moving objects during the RPG. And your drawing also come into play in unique ways, such as your heroes head becoming the icon for lives remaining during side-scrolling and also the 1ups that can be collected.
Hazy theology aside, "Drawn to Life" is a fun game that nurtures creativity, and if you own a Nintendo DS, you have no excuse not to own this awesome game.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
cool, November 3, 2007
A Kid's Review
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This game is fun. Only thing is the hero that you draw runs around in 2D. It's an easy to use paint kit with an eraser and different levels of paint brush sizes. Probably for 10 year olds and up, I'm 12. Over all it's a great game.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Creative Fun, February 27, 2008
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I thought this game was original in it's format and fun. Alittle too easy for adults with gaming experience but that didn't keep me from enjoying it! I think this game would be great for 7- 14 yr. olds!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Lotsa Fun, April 27, 2008
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This game has been a lot of fun for my 10 year old son. It gives him a chance to customize his characters and items used in the game. Level of game play is good. Has had to have me beat the bosses, but other than that difficulty is appropriate for this age level. Wonderful game.
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