When do I draw the "refund" pic?
Pros:
Drawing your own items, platforms and characters is a very cool concept.
Cons:
The hard to handle drawing system and sucky platforming don't mix at all.
The Bottom Line:
If you are a pixel artist person, and are willing to play thought GAMING HECK!!! Pick up Drawn to Life.
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Author's Review
Overview: Draw in items using pre sliced boxes for a 2D platformer.
I think the biggest flaw with this game is it relies on you to make the game fun.
Gameplay:
The game starts off letting you draw-in your VERY OWN HERO!! using a color pallet and some MS paint like tools, you begin to pixel paint your design into a box shaped with joints and areas for arms, legs, and the head.The drawbacks of this game start here. For thoes familiar with MS paint, you will be looking at a downgraded version of that. The difficulty of drawing a good looking character with only pixels is very tough and discouraging to anyone with high hopes for cool self-drawn characters. When you fail terribly to draw a character that looks better then the pre set models, im sure you might just settle for one. It took me about three seconds to draw a stick figure and be happy with it. And two hours to make a really good one with shading. If you arn't frustrate already, when you embark on your quest, you will see just how AWEOSOME your drawing looks compared to the games artistic background. The style shock is tremndious when you see your creature walking about the vivid pixel backgrounds. But that just starts things off!!
When you hit your first level, you must draw in the platform items,like clouds, boats, moving platforms, and some personal items (guns, and wings ect) as you progress through the game. The failure of this is, you can just run though the game pasting colors for your items. And there are no rewards for making cool platforms other then simply getting to use them.
The only thing you do in this game besides draw in stuff is play horribly orchestrated platformer levels with mind numbingly simple controls. The break down of this is, run, walk, jump, punch, shoot blaster, slide, and ride on stuff. BARE MINIMUN GAMEPLAY!!!! The responsiveness is also questionable, a slight time delay on your gun fire, jumping and running make it feel awkward to control your character through out the entire game.
The levels play out in a scavenger hunt like manner. You have to rescue 3 villagers, find 4 (large floating) pages, and scratch out 100% of the black goop (using the stylus) before you can finish the level entirely. I honestly think this is more of a chore then fun. The levels are very simplistic in design.The 2D layout has you just jumping around looking for items. Enemies hinder you only if you bother to confront them, if you do happen to bump into them, they chip away form your heros paint job until you run out of paint. I can't express this enough, Very simply levels with no real challenge to them. Its all to easy to find everything on your first try, adding in badly drawn art and collecting the pages and villagers quickly and return to the town. Having lives and health is a joke when they place so many hearts ( regain paint) in each level.
Graphics:
Some nice pixel art all the way though the game.
sound:
The sound is cheesy and dull, you could play the game with the sound off and still feel the same.
Story line:
Its bad, a small village of creatures summon the "creator" *you* to save them from a corrupted village member and his terrible black goopy stuff covering the town and ruining their lives.