Drawn®: The Painted Tower

I discovered this game so many years ago through Big Fish Games. I'd have to say, the design and storyline for this game is amazing. I love the art style and the way the puzzles interact with the surrounding. Music is beautifully soothing. No regrets getting this game. I only wish that there would be more of this series

Небольшой квест с интерфейсом hidden objects-игр, но без HOG-сцен. Создаёт мрачное настроение, поэтому не рекомендую.

“The Painted Tower” (actually the first part in the “Drawn” series) is a lovely puzzle-adventure with a grimdark fairy-tale feel. It takes place inside a cursed tower, with paintings that lead to other worlds, and your goal is to get to the very top and save the princess (who has a unique talent to create living things from drawings) from an evil king. Graphics are well made, and the music is good to listen to; voice acting is few but technically well done. Puzzles are not too difficult, so even the beginners should have no trouble with them. Gameplay is relatively short, but at least with diverse achievements there is some replayability. Overall a good adventure which I can recommend.

Iris is a little girl who has the ability to make her drawings come to life (sort of like Simon and his chalk drawings, but this game is a lot more elaborate). She is living in an oppressed and evil kingdom, whose king would like nothing more than having Iris’s powers for himself. Her family sends her into exile to protect her. She goes into hiding in a tower she has constructed in her drawings, making even more paintings in the tower to hide in as well. There you are tasked with finding her in the labyrinth of mazes and gorgeous paintings to save her before the king finds her. From the first title screen, Drawn: The Painted Tower was nothing but beautiful, sad, and absorbing, with a lovely soundtrack to match.

I had heard lots of good about this game and I really looked forward to playing it. However, I ended up being somewhat disappointed. The Painted Tower looks very pretty and its soundtrack is beautiful too. And the idea of going through different paintings is cool. Unfortunately this is all the nice stuff I can say. I love puzzle games and hidden object games but when it comes to mechanics Painted Tower simply doesn't work. Most of the puzzles have a weird video game logic that makes them somewhat frustrating to solve and solving them doesn't feel very rewarding. Most of the puzzles cannot be solved quickly by realizing a cool logic behind them. The player must usually try different combinations via trial and error and finally end up to the correct solution. How come identical window glass pieces don't fit into each other's places for example? Another issue is that the art style with very little contrast in details makes it very hard to notice small things from the environment.

[quote] You can find the full review [url=https://youtu.be/IAqM7yBsVXQ?t=142]here[/url] and you can follow our curator page [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35757962/]here[/url][/quote] Beautiful scenes, interesting story, however, couple of the puzzles aren't intuitive and there is no hint option. Lots of backtracking with no map to warp back to, and pixel hunting. This was the first kind of hidden object game i played back in the day, so i wanted to see how it stood up. Some bits were great, but there are glaring problems which make the pacing of the game really annoying. However i would recommend as it still has some charm to it, and i liked the premise.