Drawn to Life - 5TH Cell - DS

[Yegolev]

The concept with Drawn to Life is that you draw your little guy and use him to save the fictional world.  This may or may not sound like fun to you, but I submit that it is a tissue-thin veneer over a crap game.

The game is formula Japanese RPG, for the most part.  There is a village in trouble, surrounded by darkness.  Boo hoo and whatnot, but you as The Creator will save the day with your crude simulacrum.  There is a lot of talking before you draw the hero.  I spent more time doing this than anything else, except perhaps reading predictable exposition.  You have a set of templates or you can draw your own, using a set of boxes to see where the joints of the sprite are.  This is about as fun as playing with MS Paint.

Once you have your avatar, you trot around the village a bit before going to find a missing family.  What happens here is the game turns into a side-scrolling 2D platformer.  The drawing gimmick comes back in that you get to draw things in the environment, but they still behave the same way even if they are invisible.  You hop around the levels, either jumping on enemies or shooting them with your snowball gun (which you drew), collecting coins and finding other collectible bits of trash.  You know, the same thing we have been doing in platformers for twenty years.  Not fun, especially when I have half a dozen other 2D platformers that are incredibly good.
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Stay Away

[schild]

This game got middling reviews and I think scored in most part due to the "charm." It is kinda a cute game.

I played it a good deal. But I can't help but draw a penis and giggle in this sort of thing. Poor Magical Pengel.

Needless to say, I wanted to like this more, or rather, play it more. But there's a certain amount of tedium to making my own content. And for whatever reason, this season I really couldn't be asked to do that.

[Yegolev]

I've been requested to "edit for clarity", so how does that work here?  Edit the post as normal, or something wacky?

[schild]

Nah, just make another post (in this thread).

[Yegolev]

Once you have your avatar, you trot around the village a bit before going to find a missing family.  What happens here is the game turns into a side-scrolling 2D platformer.  The drawing gimmick comes back in that you get to draw things in the environment, but they still behave the same way even if they are invisible.

To clarify this bit, I'll use the example of drawing a platform.  These are invisible until you do, and I suppose if you want to give yourself some sort of challenge, you can leave them blank or draw just the corners, or better yet draw fake corners.  Or you can just use the fill tool to make it into a visual representation of what it really is: a boring rectangle.

[Trippy]

I thought f13omatic could update posts.

[schild]

It can, but there's no reason to edit the post if it's More information. I think.

[Samwise]

Once you have your avatar, you trot around the village a bit before going to find a missing family.  What happens here is the game turns into a side-scrolling 2D platformer.  The drawing gimmick comes back in that you get to draw things in the environment, but they still behave the same way even if they are invisible.

To clarify this bit, I'll use the example of drawing a platform.  These are invisible until you do, and I suppose if you want to give yourself some sort of challenge, you can leave them blank or draw just the corners, or better yet draw fake corners.  Or you can just use the fill tool to make it into a visual representation of what it really is: a boring rectangle.

That sounds like a turd sandwich.  They should have ripped off Kirby's Canvas Curse for that bit.

[Phildo]

Wasn't this also the premise of Graffiti Kingdom?

[schild]

Yea, Magical Pengel is the sequel to Graffiti Kingdom.

[Yegolev]

You could draw a turd sandwich for the platforms, if you like.  Or perhaps veiny cocks.  I'd still say Stay Away.