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Nintendo DS "Drawn to Life"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was a Christmas gift for my 8 year old grandson. He loves to draw so this was a perfect addition to his Nintendo DS games. I rated this product based on what my grandson told me. AWESOME!

Creative Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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!

Lotsa Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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.

good game, good graphics

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

this is a good game compared to some I've played. you get to draw one the main page and that's really cool. you get to draw your "hero" and get to play him through levels. you get to destroy the bad guy, but slowly. the graphics are good, the story is good and easy to follow and you get to interact with the characters. it is a little difficult but thats all that's bad with the game.

Fun for mom too!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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.

Haven't made it past level one yet, but it's really fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Bought this as a Christmas gift for my son, but the whole family likes to play it. Actually, this game is the reason we bought the Nintendo DS. Haven't made it past level one yet, but it's really fun! What's unique about it is you can either draw the main character or choose a pre-drawn character. You also get to draw the main guy's props like clouds, goo & snowball guns.

Cute but Unoriginal.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

STORY-

The Raposa, a bunch of fuzzy storybook creatures, are having their world destroyed before their very eyes. A Raposa turned evil named Wilfre is out to turn everything to shadow and take over. Mari, a young girl, begs for help from the Creator, the person who designed everything in their world. The Creator was said to have abandoned the Raposa long ago, but he finally responds to Mari's desperate plea and agrees to design a hero made from a mannequin to save the storybook. It is explained that you must collect pages from the Book of Life to restore the world to its former beauty. Henceforth, you control the hero who must rescue the Raposa from evil.

BATTLE SYSTEM-

This game is a typical sidescroller, and you have only a few simple attacks to get through these levels. Jumping will be your most effective tool throughout the game, and although you get customizable weapons which shoot objects, you will resort to bashing enemies on the head most of the time. There are several bosses scattered throughout the realms that you must defeat to progress. While these fights are varied enough, the normal enemies you will encounter are less than endearing. It can seem almost too easy to kill yourself at first, either by running out of ammo in a tight spot or by getting eaten alive by shadowy bats and fish. Despite the hardships new players may encounter, this game soon turns into a standard action adventure that won't challenge the mind or the fingers.

GAMEPLAY-

Drawn to Life, as the name implies, centers around the `drawing' aspect of the game. There are several times throughout each level where you will have to use your painting skills to get through. In fact, the game basically kicks off by having you design your very own hero to save the world. This may sound appealing at first, but the drawing system is more like MS Paint than Photoshop. You can choose from premade creations, but stubborn artists (like me) may attempt to make their own. This will usually result in an odd-looking thing which doesn't come close to what you had in mind originally. Players hoping to have a fantastic hero like the one on the cover of the box may be sorely disappointed (there are, as a matter of fact, people who design amazingly detailed Samus or Mega Man sprites, but anything that takes for than ten minutes to design is out of the question for me). You can edit your character at any time by tapping on Creation Hall, but any improvements made will most likely be minimal. Your character isn't on the same level as the Raposa sprites running around, making you feel as though you're a kindergartner on finger painting day. The designers seemed to have recognized this, since most of the things you will end up `drawing' throughout the levels are premade templates that can be filled in with the paint bucket tool. Don't get me wrong; if I had drawn a whale it would have been hideous...but it would have been my whale. The Raposa village aside, the levels are fairly generic platforming territory. There's not much to be said here that hasn't been said before. You can use various customizable tools to work your way through the levels, such as wings, a diving suit and the different modifications of your original gun. The customization of these items make the game fun and good for a laugh or two when observing your crudely drawn clouds, gusts of wind or flowers. The object of the game is to collect all the pages of the Book of Life and to bring back the Raposa village. In each level there are four fragments of a page that must be collected to advance. Other things to `collect' include lost Raposa, secrets (which give you new patterns, sounds or abilities) and shadow percentage, which shows how much darkness you've removed from a level. Unfortunately, this game becomes repetitive after a few levels, and a pattern can begin to be seen. Enter a level, collect templates, exit level, fix something and then continue doing this till the end of Drawn to Life. At its heart, Drawn to Life is an average platformer with a few extra tidbits thrown in there to make it enjoyable. I must admit, it's gratifying to see my own hero (dubbed `Mac') jumping, swimming and snowboarding his way through the varied worlds.

VISUALS, CHARACTERS, and CHARM-

The graphics in this game don't exactly fail to impress, but they don't boggle the mind like the cutscenes Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings either. All things considered, Drawn to Life feels like a game that could have been produced on the GBA were it not for the `drawing' aspect of the game. It's entirely possible that this game was simply an excuse to show off the touch screen's capabilities. The colors are often bright and vivid, and the Raposa are adorable little furry creatures. The style of this game seems to appeal more to smaller children who adore cute things. As mentioned before, the character YOU design will most likely not be `cute' by anyone's standard but your own. Most heroes that are drawn from scratch tend to have some messy edges, sloppy coloring and undistinguishable features. The characters of the story are varied, and although you only start out with Mari, Jowee and the mayor in your town, you will gain more and more as you advance through the levels. It's fun to see the different Raposa you've picked up throughout the worlds, since each one has their own unique personality. Despite this, the characters are fairly 2-D in more than one way. Most are quite predictable and some you will rarely talk to at all. To be fair, you grow to love the weird little furballs throughout the course of the story, and although the plot is clichéd, the execution of it is a bit better.

OVERALL-

Drawn to Life is a generally average game with shiny packaging and emphasis on `drawing'. If you were expecting to whip up fantastic creations at a whim, you'll be disappointed with the lopsided creatures you design yourself. A tired, overused story and fairly unoriginal characters don't help this game's plight. All in all, you've got yourself a decent platformer-sidescroller with some creativity and customization thrown into the mix. It's enjoyable, but brings little to the table that hasn't been seen before. Try borrowing from a friend before purchasing.

the perfect gift

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

1st let me start by saying i bought a nintendo d.s. for my 7 year old for xmas this year and several different games. i bought the d.s. for him cuz hie 2 older brothers have had a p.s.p for 2 years now and i saw how much my 7 year old wanted 1 of his own he could take and carry around with him, anyway this was the best thing i could have got him this year and the game drawn to life is so attacking for him he plays that thing from the time her wakes up to the time he goes to bed even his bog brother has stop playing his p.s.p to watch him play.

My Favorite Game Yet !!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been an avid game player since my children were small and we adventured thru the worlds of Mario. I was never as good as my boys but I had lots of fun and I still love Mario. But this game is THE BEST because I can create the things that are used in the game. "I" am the creator! And it's not too hard for a "Mom" like me. I just love this game!

My daughter loves this game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My daughter is an avid video gamer and she loves this game. Not only does she enjoy the actual game itself, she just loves drawing the pictures to go along with the game. The drawings can be as simple or as complex as you want to make them and then are incorporated into the game. She often returns to previous drawings and tries to outdo her last one. Her six year old brother sometimes plays the game and draws pictures. He's not interested in the actual playing of the game at all but is content to just make up characters. I think this would be a great game for all levels of gamers.

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