Summary

Drawn to Life allows you to let your imaginations run free with its concept of allowing you to draw and colour in various objects found in the game.

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Before you play, you firstly need to draw and colour yourself. You can choose different templates or draw yourself by your own. You are able to draw objects such as clouds, sleds, a submarine, glider, wings, ice cubes, etc. There is always something new to draw in each level.

The drawing/colouring interface has various colours available for you to select, stamps to use, change the drawing point larger/smaller, fill option, eraser, can zoom in/out, etc.

The game revolves around a book of life which was taken by Wilfre from the village some time ago. With the book of life in Wilfre’s possession, Wilfre creates dark monsters which eventually rule over the village. The village is now deserted, taken over by darkness and it’s up to you to restore the village locals and collect the pages torn from the book of life.

Whilst in a level your character can jump, slide, shoot snowballs acorns, ground pound and eventually fly when you draw yourself wings. In each level there is black shadow on some houses, on the floor, on lamp posts, etc. If you are hit too much times by the enemies you start losing your clothes and eventually lose a life.

As you progress through each level, there are 3 villagers to rescue, 4 pages of the book of life to find and some secrets. Once you’ve completed a level, you return to the village to view the people return at which point there are small quests in the town to do before the next level, for example, clearing shadow clouds so that the villages you rescued can return to their homes/workplaces, planting trees, investigating a crime, having a snowball fight with the villagers, etc.

You are able to purchase the extra features you have collected in each level by visiting one of the shops in the village. The features include more colours, patterns and stamps for when you are drawing, music and games and different abilities for your character.

The only faults I can find is the explanation of your movement, such as when learning to ground pound you aren’t told that you need to hold the A button while pressing down or when learning how to fly you aren’t told that if you press A you can fly up.
The other slight issue I had is that in the village no menu would appear if you wanted to say quit the game.

If you like drawing, colouring and some game play then this game will suit you as you get to see your creations in the game. In one level you draw a rocket and then you use that rocket to fly and shoot down enemies. It’s been one of those games which I can’t really find many faults with.