We get painting with a hands-on brush look at Drawn to Life’s DS sequel.
Ever wanted to be Spider-Man? We have, and then we did it. Well, technically I guess it’s not the same thing, but we did create ourselves in Drawn to Life’s upcoming sequel and then added an extra pair of arms. The team at developer 5th Cell and the guys behind the first version of the DS game are back with crazy new ways to draw your own fun.
Creativity is your primary weapon in this charming platformer from the team behind Drawn to Life.
The Nintendo DS is rife with platforming games, but not a single one is like Scribblenauts. In this game, you guide a cute kid named Maxwell throughout a world, which consists of 220 increasingly difficult levels. The one common theme that draws all of these levels together is the way that you conquer the obstacles that lie before you: think of a solution, type it out on the touch screen, and that object will appear before you, ready to be used. With tens of thousands of objects in the game, it’s awfully hard to think of something that the game doesn’t have in it (provided you’re not thinking of such an abstract concept as communism).
Who’s Making This Game: Scribblenauts is being developed by 5th Cell, a studio with a history of charming and creativity-driven DS games. The company most recently brought us Lock’s Quest, but before that it made Drawn to Life, a platformer in which you actually drew your main character. So it’s a team with a good track record for taking interesting ideas for how to use the DS touch screen and putting them into action.
Nintendo shows off a trailer of the upcoming Square Enix role-playing game for the DS.
Today at E3 2009, the president of Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aime, announced a list of role-playing games that were heading to Nintendo’s consoles. One of them was Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, a game that we’ve seen previously at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show. We had a look at a short new trailer.
We take a brief look in Bowser’s belly for Mario latest role-playing game adventure.
Mario & Luigi have teamed up for two role-playing games already in the form of cooperative adventures that forced the two brothers to string their attacks together to defeat the forces of evil. Their latest adventure is coming to the Nintendo DS and has them fighting a familiar enemy in a very odd location. Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story has the plucky duo getting inhaled by the hungry lizard and trying to find a pleasant way to extricate themselves from their mortal enemy while doing battle with an array of odd creatures crawling around his insides. This game has already been released in Japan, but it will hit Europe and North America this fall.
With a stylus in hand, we doodle our way through the colorful world of Drawn to Life the Next Chapter.
Artistic ability may not be a requirement, but it certainly would help in 5TH Cell’s follow-up to the original Drawn to Life. Like its predecessor, Drawn to Life the Next Chapter is a 2D platformer in which you come up with your own unique hero–as long as you can draw it with the stylus. At a THQ press event in Los Angeles, we used a premade lobster character, armed with a deadly-looking katana sword and a marshmallow pop gun. If it were up to us, we would have been playing as a stickman swinging a giant club.
