Drawn To Life: The Next Chapter Review
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The story seems like it picked up after the events from the first game or probably soon after. Wilfre is back!
Somehow, he had gained the power to steal color from everything and soon, the village lost all the color and most of the villages were....TAKEN. The remaining Raposas were able to escape on the back of large turtle. From there, with the guidance of the Creator, they attempt to try to stop Wilfre from destroying their world, rescuing their friends and FINDING PIRATE COINS! GAMEPLAY
The gameplay has improved over the first game. It is not as repetitive like in the first game where in each stage, you find four pages of the torn pages from the Book of Life and rescue 3 Raposa before you can complete the level. In fact, you HAVE to find them or else you can't finish. In The Second Chapter, you have a choice of finding a coin or a Raposa (if one is present) and the game doesn't press you to finding them before completing the stage. It makes the stages less restricted but it makes me wonder if I take the time to collect everything if the ending will change...more on this later. It seems more free-flowing in a way but it is still easy to forget which stage still has a coin or Raposa without having to resort to check every stage.
CONTROL
Once again, it has improved but I still found it easy to fall into pits, lava, or green goo because the control is a lot looser compared to the first game. The boxes actually fly around when you hit them, which I find funny trying to chase them down to break (sometimes, they fly from the screen, down a ledge and ends up in the bottom of water 8D). Because the control is so lose, it is sometimes difficult to dodge enemy projectiles. It's probably better to actually kill them immediately instead of dodging their attacks.
SOUND
The sound effects were pretty good. The music, however, I felt were butchered, especially if it was music that appeared in the first game. Others, however, were improved.
CHARACTER CREATION/EDITING ARTS
Character creation is about the same like in the first game - however, I was a little disappointing because there was no color brown that was brown enough :/ The creations that are available now has no restrictions (you can have a broomstick for a rocket instead of a broomstick drawn on an outline of a rocket 8D )
FUN(?)
Overall, it's pretty fun. There is a lot of recovery items throughout the stage which is good for me since I keep making my character strip :/ There is a little challenge on switching between the different forms mid-action, especially if lava is following behind you. The difficult isn't that hard, unless you are clumsy, like me :/ Sometimes, though, I wish I was playing the first game so I can AFK in the item shop and listen to Wilfre's theme
THE ENDING SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING
My views of the ending....is that I found it....weird. I thought the ending would be in movie form and not in screenshots in between the credits. If they are coming from a fair, they must have visited the scariest fair in the middle of a desolate forest. Did they actually visit a circus instead? It kind of reminds me of Professor Screweye Eccentric Circus from We're Back: A Dinosaur story. REAL LIFE HEATHER LOOKS ALMOST LIKE HEATHER FROM SILENT HILL 3 OMG. VIDEO GAME CROSSOVER?? NO WONDER MY HERO WAS PYRAMID HEAD IN THE FIRST GAME. AND EVERYTHING IS COVERED IN BLOOD. To me, when it switched between the Raposa world and the real world, it doesn't seem to flow well together :/ I kind of wished I actually saw ANYTHING about what Wilfre, Mari and Jowee saw about what would've happened to them.
And I have to agree that this game and the first game doesn't have good connection at all. The biggest problem is with Mike's character. In the first game, he seems to be a computer programmer but in the second game, he seems like he's too young to be working at that. I could've tried to say the first game might have taken place a few years ahead of the second game but that still wouldn't make sense... .o. And even if you do find the missing Raposa throughot the game, they don't even play a role in the game...AT ALL. They only have two things to say - when you rescue them and when you talk to them again in the turtle village. I found this disappointing for some reason. Even the Raposas you meet in the other villages lack things to say. In the first game, as you progress through the game, certain events might make them say different things and each character have around three things to say when you keep chatting with them.
In the end, I expected the ending to be a lot worse but found it to be...NOT as horrible as what I was thinking in my head (proof that I can make things a lot worse that what it really is... xD ) Plus the developers copped out by having a 'it was all a dream' ending, which I personally found annoying along with 'everything is modern times outside our small village' which I hate more. I'm still checking out to see if rescuing all the Raposas and finding all the coins MIGHT change the ending. And if not, then I'll be very very sad ;o;
Wilfre supporter for the win - I cried when he died again... ;~;
Tired
The rest of the team would just be my random characters or other characters in different fandoms (a.k.a. Erm....Mario? .o. )
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This is a lot worse then when they teamed me up with Hinkell... :>
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