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    Drawn: The Painted Tower

    Game » consists of 1 releases. Released Sep 04, 2009

    An adventure/puzzle game from Big Fish Games.

    ravenhoe's Drawn: The Painted Tower (PC) review

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    Gorgeous casual puzzle game

    Out of all the hidden object / puzzle games I have played, both online and offline, Drawn: The Painted Tower is definitely the most gorgeous looking. The player is send on a 'mission' to rescue a young girl from the top of a tower. The young posses magic powers (creating world by drawing pictures to be precise) and is sought after by a bunch of grim and gloomy dudes. On your way to the top, you discover some of the girl's family history, solving puzzles and indulging in the amazing visuals of this game.

    Don't be fooled when I speak of story here because all in all, the game only includes a few sentences, sketching out a generic and somewhat random fantasy struggle between good and evil (The Griffin and the Dragon) and the whole game, including the different rooms and stages, does not make a good job when it comes to creating a coherent world. The fact that the game send you into paintings (a neat idea), which are little mini-puzzle stages also causes the game to loose a lot of its dark momentum and you find yourself on a sunny farm here and in a witch doctor's hut there. All well and good and typical for the Hidden Object genre, but it prevents you from feeling any sort of progression as neither the height of the tower or the tone, that is, the urgency of the situation are communicated through the visual stages in the game.

    As I said, the game looks great but it can be misleading when you look at the screenshots and videos. There are not many animations and the game and most of the games graphics are static, with a few slides, zooms, shining objects, things burning etc., but full-on animations like you might expect from an adventure game. The game stays true to the room-to-room formula, yet, that being said, with a little imagination, it is easy to get drawn into the wonderful illustrations, some of which remind me of Tim Burton film. The soundtrack is nice and unobtrusive but still creates an aura of magical realism.

    The puzzles in the game range from too easy, over just right too a bit too hard, and given the fact that the game has a hint system and you can even skip the puzzles, everyone should be happy. The hidden object aspect of the game is really light and you hardly ever miss an object, so I would say this is more of a puzzle game than a hidden object game and reminds me of classic titles such as The Castle of Dr. Brain.

    The game is a bit short, but for that price, that is probably what you would expect from a casual Big Fish game. I took me about 2 hours to get through it, but it was very fun, relaxing and I enjoyed the setting.

    One of the better, if not one of the best and best looking hidden object / casual puzzlers out there.

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