![]() Your entire goal is to help rebuild the Book Of Life in order to vanquish the world of its terrors and also repopulate the village, and so you must gather up pages and break Raposas loose from cages in each level. First is the overhead map of the village, where storyline segments take place and you help out the inhabitants of the town (named 'Manchester' in our game, to celebrate the best city ever, of course), but the main bulk is in the platforming levels. What of the actual gameplay, though? Well, it's segmented into a couple of parts. While you start off drawing your hero alone, as the game goes on you draw bunches of things, from your character's simple projectile weapon (which changes to match in with the separate worlds' settings) to the stars in the night-sky. If you're not very good at drawing and don't fancy lurching through the game with something that looks like it was peeled from the bottom of your shoe, you can select a built-in template character to play as. It more than gets the job done and allows you to make whatever monstrosities you want, and even provides a handy help function for those who don't know which tools do what. You can put a grid up so that you can create your hero pixel-by-pixel, or you can do it entirely freely you can zoom in to add extra detail you can stamp on different things like glasses you can use patterns, and change colour palettes. Don't be fooled by our artistic 'skill' – the drawing tool is robust and detailed enough for you to draw just about who you want to a fair degree of detail. ![]() We're above that, of course, and so for the purposes of this review we have been going through the game with our beloved Rodge, a simplistic blue beast with teeth stained the colour of sunshine, a heart of pure gold and stumpy little legs which make him float about a minuscule amount off the ground rather than walk, who you can see above. Finally, after much procrastination, The Creator answers the few remaining Raposas' pleas and makes a hero to save them all out of abandoned mannequin – who, appropriately, you have to draw and name before continuing.Īs you might imagine, the creation factor lends itself to replayability as you try out different characters and objects, and also inevitably will probably lead to vulgarities amongst some players. During all of this, The Creator has been a bit of a git and just watched as his loyal subjects abandon their village and become prisoners to a world of shadow. Creating a shadowy army and overtaking the land, he also thought it'd be jolly to rip up the Book Of Life itself, stealing the very sun from the sky and plunging the land into darkness. ![]() Then, as always, somebody had to come along and muck it all up for everybody else in this case, an irksome little oik of a Raposa, Wilfre, who decided one day that letting The Creator do the creating wasn't quite enough and wanted to do it himself. The story goes that you originally created the entire world with a magical tome known as the Book Of Life, watching carefully over the Raposas as they went about their lives. ![]() Your role as the player is that of The Creator, a figure of God-like proportions to the tiny little cat/Pokemon/rabbit-like Raposas who inhabit the game. While it features the signs of a traditional platforming game – lots of jumping, check, collecting-a-plenty, check – it sets itself aside from the norm by allowing players to create their own main character, their own platforms to leap upon, their own vehicles and weaponry to use. See, Drawn To Life is a platformer with a difference. We've been looking forward to Drawn To Life since it was first announced, and when we finally managed to get it in our felt tip-covered hands we could hardly contain our excitement. ![]()
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