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Ben: 8
Drawn has beautiful artwork, graphics, and animation, rivaling or surpassing many mainstream commercial titles. It’s classic point-and-click adventure format doesn’t have many surprises, but a lack of innovation is more than made up for with wonderfully creative worlds. There aren’t many challenging puzzles in the first hour of the game (dumbed down even more by a overly-generous and way-too-tempting hint system), which unfortunately waters down another triumph of the game; the narrative is expertly told, and really makes the player feel like the mysterious Princess Iris’s life is in there hands. It’s just a shame that there isn’t more challenge in the mission at hand.

Zak: 8
Drawn: The Painted Tower (available from Big Fish Games) is a good adventure game. The gameplay, like other casual adventure games, is pretty basic. The player has to collect, combine and use items to solve puzzles. The story involves rescuing a girl from the top of tower, by working through various puzzles and worlds within paintings. There are heaps of mini-puzzles that take the player through the dark world of the Painted Tower. The greatest feature of the game has to be the great artwork, voice over work and music. On all accounts, the game was a good time.

Peter: 6
Drawn: The Painted Tower is an uneven point-and-click adventure game buoyed by wonderful art direction and strong voice work. You enter a tower and are charged with finding a girl by her previous caretaker. The girl can turn her paintings into real worlds, so half the quests take place inside children’s paintings. This premise is cool, but the game doesn’t follow through; you’ll stumble over unclear objectives and an unwieldy inventory. The game gives out hints and lets you skip puzzles, but those challenges should be fun in and of themselves, not something to get through to see more of the game.

Andrew: 6
Drawn: The Painted Tower is the next in a long lineage of assembly line adventure games produced by Big Fish Games. This title is very similar to many of these other titles, and the gameplay mechanics haven’t changed a bit. You travel through a mysterious place trying to solve mysteries and unlock doors. It’s pretty standard stuff. The art style is pretty great though, and it’s definitely pleasing to the eyes. Give this a try if you like the adventure genre, but don’t expect to be surprised in the least.

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