What Killed Drawn to Life?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
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Today, we look at the sister series of Scribblenauts, Drawn to Life, spanning 5 games from 2007 to 2020. Since its unsuccessful revival, it's been entirely missing again- considering this game was prominent in the childhood of so many on their DS- how did we get here?
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Outro theme by @superpixeltea
Base profile picture drawn by turboemmy
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0:00 - Intro + Drawn to Life (DS)
23:32 - Drawn to Life: Spongebob Squarepants Edition (DS)
36:44 - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (Wii)
49:06 - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (DS)
1:01:41 - Ending of Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (DS)
1:07:00 - The Dark Age
1:08:43 - Drawn to Life: Two Realms (Nintendo Switch, iOS, PC)
1:22:31 - Well, what was it?
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Edited, Directed, Written and Created by JeffCompass
Additional Footage from @NinjastarCompass
Support/Help from Ninjastar, @GregCubed and @Kardino
Research help from:
@GuyThatExists
And SbevesGreatUncle, wapopedia.com, drawntolife.wiki, and the Drawn to Life Discord.
80s Theme:
Music provided by Stock Music Links (stockmusiclinks.com)
Licensed under CC BY 4.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Shoutouts to Guilty M, AzizArchives, Cinemassacre, Jukatox, and many others for additional footage.
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Drawn to Life is a major reason why I love writing stories in the first place. The series was my first exposure into a kind of story that was genuinely gripping, charming, and surprisingly emotional. I like coming up with characters, their personalities, and their dynamics with each other thanks to the games and I’m so happy people still remember them as fondly as I do.
I was defiantly a car crash kid. I will never forget the impact of that ending. Absolute Gut punch. But it was worth it for the story and them memory.
i beat the second game on the collection when i was younger and even the censored version of the ending still broke me, and was probably the first time i actually felt something tied to a fictional character on that level i cant imagine what it was like for the other people that witnessed the original version in real time
Lots and lots of tears :P
Yeah, I remember the ending of the second game being Mike falling from a tree. Hearing that the original had scenes of them in a car crash hit me like a truck
Fun fact about the first game(SPOILERS):
After the cutscene where Wilfre kills The Mayor if you quit the level you can go where he was attacked and he looks like he still breathing but you can't do anything
Ik right? I did that too two years ago.
that pissed me off i tried going to mari to tell her the mayor was dying but still alive but couldnt do shit
Isnt that kinda creepy then that the supposed "Hero" left the Mayor for dead knowing he was still hanging on
I saw that too, actually I think I left the level to investigate that area where he fell, but there was nothing I could do.
I remember crying tears of absolute joy when I heard the announcement of a new entry.
The ending of “the next chapter” really got to me as seeing how everyone basically was Thanos Snapped. And I was so excited to see what would happen next.
Now that we got a horrible low effort new entry on switch, the series will have forever ended on a sour note.
It’s very sad :(
i wouldn't say it was low-effort, i think 505 games just had no faith in the franchise and gave digital continue barely any resources
The Impact this franchise had on my childhood is undeniable. I remember spending hours grinding for coins and lives in banya fields, memorizing cheat codes, and finding glitches that could get me through levels faster. Every time I played, I learned something new. Like how I fell through a pit right before phase two of Wilfre and soft-locked my game. That was a fun reset.
The Next Chapter is weird for me tho. I just could not stand the ending as a kid. I definitely appreciate it more now. My biggest praise for it has always been the soundtrack. And because of them I got more into story driven franchises.
I’m so glad you covered the franchise. When I saw you were working on this video, I was ecstatic. Can’t wait to see what other games you cover!
My pleasure, I love making these videos!
The ending of the second one is quite funny looking back, because in the 2000s many urban legends where about shows and videogames with a ending where the protagonist was in a coma all this time. And turns out it does happen in Drawn to Life of all things.
6:37 Basically he's disobeyed you (the creator) and doodled in the book of life thinking he can do better, his creations came out as twisted shadow creatures and then out of spite tore out the pages and scattered them to the wind,
he was promptly exiled. as you would expect.
This is definitely the kind of game franchise I’d been all over as a kid.
god, i remember being REALLY excited for two realms when it was initially leaked, as well as sitting in a call in a DtL server upon release. i hate to see one of my favorite series's last entry be... that THING.
22:00 He probably has an extra page of the book of life hidden away somewhere, which is how all the shadow wasn't completely vanished when you restored the book, he probably finally gotten good at the whole drawing thing and made that monstrosity with the last inch of space on the page...
You know, this explains Wilfre's wasteland in the next game...
Perhaps even Aldark from the final title...
I remember having so much trouble with the final Wilfre fight as a kid, even coming back to the game recently it was still tough. Drawn to Life to me feels like a mixture of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, and Scribblenauts. You have the platforming and creativity of scribblenauts, and the storytelling and music direction of PMD. The ending lyrics will always get a tear out of me, much like "Don't Ever Forget" does from Explorers. And don't even bet me started on the ending of chapter 2, my brain was not ready for that.
I like how you said drawn to life had mini games for world building and then said "newer games dont do this" and then showed pokemon scarlet and violet which is actually a game with really good world building minigames
Okay after fully finishing the video I am thoroughly upset that I played the Wii version as a kid. I'm an absolute sucker for emotional gut punches like that, and now I really want to know what I would've thought about that ending as a kid. Either way I think I'm gonna playthrough the two DS games really soon now. Excellent video!
Thank you!!!! Hope you enjoy the games :)
Spongebob Drawn To Life is my only exposure to this series, and I love that game. It's so fun.
Please play the two original games
1:06:39 That's the ending me and my brother got to see... The whole Raposa disappearing suddenly thing was still insanely tragic for me though...
Drawn to life...
Pokemon mystery dungeon...
Klonoa...
Digimon hacker's memory(rated t for teen but still based on a kids franchise)...
I love kids games with surprisingly depressing stories. Gotta be one of my favorite genders.
55:55 One thing about the blob is it's odd shape lets you cheese otherwise difficult jumps by squishing onto the edge and mashing jump.
Easily one of the most underrated youtubers at this moment. So much effort, care and a good balance of seriousness en humor. Love these retrospectives!
Thank you so much for the kind words that means a lot to me!!
Underrated channel af
Thank you :)
1:09:59 My guess is the villagers and the hero were all fake, but the creator himself was not, he recreated the world from his imagination, perhaps even taking the Raposa themselves and giving them physical form, thus allowing them to exist.
This is a great video but 12:58 hurts me inside because that bush there contains ammo if you ground pound it. It took me a few playthroughs to figure that one out, too.
EDIT: 21:24 Oh I know about this!! I've spent an unhealthy amount of time looking into this game's code. There IS a 4-4 in the game's code, but it's almost the same as 4-5, with the exception of the second screen being longer at the start.
This was an amazing video! Beautiful analysis of the entire series, and I'm so glad you took the time to make this video so in depth! Immediate subscription, and I can't wait to see what else you end up making!
Hey Jeff, thanks for getting me through my hospital stay with this vid. Wasnt coherent enough to comment till now but it definitely helped. :)
I’m really glad I could help, and I wish you a steady recovery!!!
Besides Pokemon Diamond, Drawn To Life was the game I wanted really badly once I got a Nintendo DS. It lived up to my hype once I was able to play and beat it, and the story is one of the reasons why I love stories in games and writing stories so much!
Drawn to Life is also the only franchise I have completely collected (unless if some of the games I own are one-offs, lol) but my Next Chapter version has the tree ending instead of the car crash. Sometimes I wish I could time travel and see the look on my face when I realized there was a darker and canon ending...
This is an amazing (and hilarious) retrospective, thank you for taking the time to make it!
Even if we don't get a game after Two Realms, I'm just happy the franchise exists and is still talked about to this day.
32:10 I've actually swallowed rat poison and I can vouch that that's STILL a large margin over the top!
Dope retrospective man! The amount of work you've put into this really shows, and you've done an amazing job! Subscribed, and looking forward to more content from you!
Thank you very much ^_^
not sure if anyone mentioned it, but you do have a secondary attack underwater, the slide
you can buy it once you have the token, you can slide mid swim onto enemies and i believe the boss too
this is also very good for countering the attack of the final boss
Thank you so much for covering Drawn to Life! I wish the 2 ds games got the attention they deserve, THEY’RE SO GOOD
i haven't thought about these games in forever
48:00 That "tiny Wilfe" isn't even wilfree actually, it's a crude imitation of the puppet hero you play as.
honestly thought i made this series up in my mind having last played it 10+ years ago and never hearing a soul mention it since then
DTL speedrunner ToolAssistedTAS here (guy who found the pause glitch in TNC ds) We actually managed to interview Jerimiah, and David Franco (Sound lead) for the DTL games and its sad to see what happened to the games. Edit: just got to the interview section of the video and that was us!
Edit again: i was the guy who actually got the interview set up by asking them.
It was an amazing resource for research, really appreciated it :)
@@JeffCompass I'm glad it was used if you have any more questions let us know
@@JeffCompass forgot to mention this but i was the one who reached out to them for the interviews!
you've got my subscription, amazing video about an icon of my childhood that's gone unnoticed for a very long time
This was one of those games I played as a kid that just hit me hard. I was so invested I remember playing it multiple times just cause how much I enjoy it. I'm glad it was part of my childhood and I feel like it was necessary for growing up. Also this explains so much cause i played both versions and was confused why the ending changed.
Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter was utter peak I forgot how good it was. Played it around 5-7 according to it's release date, I have not felt the vibes of something like what that game emitted I think ever since, whoever did the soundtrack too, man. Yeah I actually think what the DS and so had to offer actually had better experiences then nowadays, not just on nostalgia, I mean there were still B grade studios making unique projects like 5th cell.
That Robot boss literally stumped me for months though what a pisslord.
A childhood friend of mine who I played a lot of DS games with didn't let me play his copy of Drawn to Life.
Now I know what it's about! Cool
Hi Rasmus
Oh hi Jeff
1:18:53 They could've even released an incredibly tiny game and released a bunch of DLCs, that way it makes more money AND it's good *_AND_* they can even have the time to ensure it doesn't implode while exploding.
drawn to life was my childhood, thank you for shedding light onto these underated games
My pleasure!
The original Drawn to Life series on the DS was my childhood. I remember the game fondly, and it gives me so much nostalgia when I see/hear anything of it. It does pain me a bit that Scribblenauts got the better deal in the end, but both game series have their strengths
As many problems as Two Realms may have (or moreso definitely does), I am happy that they actually went through the effort to continue the story in some regard and actually go off of the original ending while still trying to tie together loose ends, and you typically would not expect a product like the one that was delivered to actually take such things in consideration. It's like, if this is the end of the series, we still have two good games and something akin to a happy ending to the story. And if we do get another game, maybe we could see the series truly evolve instead of devolve (and I do think Two Realms wouldn't be all too bad as a canon mobile spinoff in that regard).
35:10 Doodle Squidward, he just kinda scurried off grumbling grumpily after Patrick drew him, he was never a threat in the original series, this however is hilarious.
1:06:47 Car Crash, my young self wasn't prepared for that ending.
51:00 I really wish they at least did that for the collection game...
I'm so glad that you made a video of this cuz I thought this game was a forgotten game but now it's brought back so thank you for that.
I noticed the texture glitch too, this game IS BROKEN
good job on the video, definitely your best one yet! Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much!!!! :)
10:06 They DEFINITELY could've chosen better textured for the wood, *_like the actual wood beams on the buildings everywhere._*
I never got their choice of colour, they could've at least gone without the eyes....
Drawn to life is one of the very first games I played on ds it holds a special place in my heart
I loved this series so damn much, and I still do. It's sad to see the most recent game be so bad, but I'm glad that the franchise at least isn't dead.
There is one objectively great thing about two realms. On the soundtrack they included an uncompressed version of Real Life. Don’t know if it actually appears in game because I don’t think I can stand the pain of finish it, but still.
1:17:54 Unfortunately even if they wanted to give refunds, I'm sure at that point they wanted to, they couldn't, they were literally going under. They threw a damaged leaking crate of cargo to shore from a sinking ship so to speak.
Thank you so much for going in-depth about one of my favorite game series' ever
52:56 Salem is named after thise iconic witch trials.
I was trying so very hard not to compare you to Scott the Woz as having inspiration from another creator while having your own identity is valid but then you freaking BRING UP THE THERAPIST GUY LMAO
Yeah, I remember the weirdly dark ending of the DS version. Surprised how many people didn’t know about this ending
1:08:14 Wait what, so the game's UI is unchanged, but the buttons are rearranged to match the Xbox layout, but the colors arranged as if the Nintendo layout had the Xbox colors, I'm... I can't even
Amazing video I absolutely love the drawn to life series
37:20 I feel like the timeline entirely split then re-converged with those two, and I'm guess where you're going with this too.
1:12:18 He was also Satan-coded and doing some The Adventures in Odyssey stuff.
1:12:25 No, he's Satan's terrible accountant.
Its so funny to me that i look at my reccomended and see a drawn to life video and realise it was about an hour ago.
I think this is one of my favorite franchise ever, the second one being my favorite, and the last one being my least favorite. great stories and nice character, the second game's ending song souding way too sad.
thank you for making your video sire
My pleasure!!!
by second game i meant the next chapter on the ds, i havent played the wii version, but it does sound like a wii u version would be better with the gamepad
I'm still upset on how terrible Two Realms was. It's one of the worst games I've played as well. I wish the series wouldn't end there, but it's pretty much over.
I play the Wii version and it was my childhood so I love it.
If the villain of the first two games was trying to keep Mike in a coma and the villain from Two Realms is trying to make Mike forget about the Raposa, are you playing as like his therapist now trying to help him overcome his trauma or what
this man really got sponsored by a whole ass college
1:19:24 That would've even been less paid sprite work right there and resources that could've gone into making it good.
Oh my god this was absolutely fantastic, I had high expectations fot it, but this video blew me away!!! Absolutely worth the wait.
Random thoughts:
It's amazing that you covered every game so well!!! I was scared of it being centered around The Next Chapter DS ending, but I was happy to be proven wrong.
I was going to share the video in the Drawn to Life Discord to help a bit but I saw that you had already done it.
I didn't found the hidden flower, but I loved the Chandelure at 21:05 and the Tentacool at 51:54.
For The Next Cahpter Wii, I used the premade drawing templates that the game offers. It defeats the purpose, but drawing with the Wiimote sucks anyway and it looks way better than stamps.
Oh, and I also got stuck in the sky level. :-(
The final boss is not a revived Wilfre, it's "Giant Scribble Monster", created by Circi in a failed attempt to bring back Wilfre.
The Scott the Woz therapist cameo was cool since I can see that get some inspiration from him.
Didn't you find it weird that Galileo is missing from The Next Chapter DS? I am Spanish, and on the Spanish version of The Next Chapter, Samuel is named Galileo instead of Samuel.
Yeah, Two Realms is an irredeemable piece of garbage.
The touch controls were added through a later update, they didn't work when I played it. Maybe that's why they failed you at first. Not that there is any point in drawing in this game anyway.
The speed boost melons in the overworld are bonkers, and I DID think the core gameplay was horrible.
Wilfre IS in Two Realms. He is the hooded Raposa from 1:22:58, and a cliffhanger to a sequel that won't ever exist.
Oh, and quick heads up, you misspelled Two Realms as Twin Realms in the video chapters.
THAK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!!!
My pleasure to make it! I’m glad you enjoyed!!!
The bats are A BIG PAIN even worse with the fight with Deadwood, the most hardest fight in my opinion.
The flower was the friends we made along the way
Wow, I wasn't expecting to be as engaged in this video as I was. I was more a Scribblenauts person, but I have previously played DTL The Next Chapter (DS), and I really liked it. I ought to play through the first game sometime, but I'm not really sure I'd go beyond that. I hope that someday, DTL can come back as good as it once was, although I'm not hopeful, considering 5th Cell is gone. Good video though; thanks for reminding me of this game!
Also, yeah, TNC's ending hit hard. I don't think I really got to understand it when I first played considering I was young and also hadn't played the first game, but I'm sure if I had played DTL1 and were a bit older when I played TNC, it would have hit harder.
8:35 That might also be another limitation thing, I'm not certain so don't quote me on this and I'm no DS or any hardware technician, but I think the DS has a colour limit, a very high one, but a limit nonetheless, and they give you a LOT of colours.
37:53 From a lore standpoint, yes it's the next chapter chapters 2 and 3, from a marketing standpoint...
what the F---- were they thinking?
im unfortunately a tree household, i had no idea there was a car crash ending till I looked up the end song on youtube as a child
I was a tree ending household, because I got the collections game for the DS, and it honestly was more confusing than it was tragic. The lessened impact made it so far lessened that I had an entirely different takeaway to the ending. I ended up thinking that the drawn to life world was just an imaginary world Mike and his sister made up and just, abandoned because they were growing up and out of the imaginative phase of childhood. Granted that interpretation was horrendously incorrect, it still gave me an emotional gut punch.
This video deserves WAY more views.
Oh man this series. I remember getting the first game for my birthday the year it released, and I had absolutely no clue what to expect. I quickly became attached to the villagers and their story, and I found myself getting emotional from a game for the first time with that ending song montage with Mari and Jowee. It easily had become my favorite game at that time, even if technically it wasn't the most innovative I had played up to that point. I remember deeply hoping for a sequel, though I figured an obscure little title like this would never get one.
When the sequel did finally get announced and I played through it, I did indeed get emotional, but not in the way that the game expected me to be. The grand plot twist of the events of the two games being a coma dream of what was previously a joke character infuriated me, it felt like everything I had done and the care I invested into the various villagers was for nothing. It felt like a betrayal, and it actually caused me to quit videogames altogether for a while. At that point I was afraid to get invested into anything new out of the fear that it would end in the same sort of twist.
I know a lot of people have a good deal of love for how emotional the ending of the Next Chapter is, but for me it only caused me to develop an eternal distaste for the "it was all a dream" trope in stories.
All that said, great video! Glad to see creators on TH-cam talk about underrated titles like this.
Thank you for this, not gonna lie... a nice deep dive into an awesome childhood memory. Thanks, man. ❤
Glad you enjoyed!
There are so many cutesy indie games these days with dark themes that the next chapter fits right in with them
Drawn to life needs more attention towarfs their ds entries tbh. As you say they aren't masterpieces but deserve the respect for their ambitions.
Also shoutout to the time i talked about the plot of DTL the next chapter in my english oral exam without name dropping it and getting an 8 lol.
Full Circle, from scribblenauts, to drawn to life!
59:58 Baki Baaah as in a sheep sound and kai, like that bug god guy from Dragonball. Baki.
Also that's the name of the species, not the captain himself, I honestly have no idea how he's a ghostly pirate captain whos such a giant threat when prior they were just typical pest creatures, not sapient beings capable of conscious thought and planning.
My first game was the next chapter. That game was fun. Even as a kid I don't remember having issues with it
I remember getting the next chapter on the ds way back when released in 2009 from my local mall the ending gives me nightmares for a long time when i was in the elementary school.
8:28 ikr especially with the fact it's probably possible to put more than 25 colors on the charactdr
I had drawn to life when I was younger and I never got far enough to even see the cars crash seen I also couldn’t read so knowing how it ended I’m in a state of shock
12:35 BRO I JUST GOT THIS GAME AND I WAS LIKE WTF I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT THOUGHT THAT!
What’s the second song?
@@Gloomdrake Just look it up
Great video!
I still have the OG Game it's the reason why I love writing comics and fiction stories
20:56 Ah, I see your the role of a Zeus-like deity.
Minus the constant lightning smiting.
21:00 Welcome Ba- ohok.
I was obsessed with this game. The art was so pretty. The music. The character. The story omg.
Damn I’m sad I didn’t get to play more impactful games like this when I was younger. I can appreciate it now but I didn’t get to experience it younger and have nostalgia for it.
Amazing video Jeff
Hi Leanne thank you!!!!! :)
1:10:45 No need to sugarcoat, everyone already knows the harsh truth.
1:12:40 My guess is he's the REAL drawn to life version of the devil, Wilfree is merely Mike's interpretation, with the Raposa being how he views the angels, Wilfre being one that rebeled and paid the ultimate price, now this is the real battle...
and of course because the franchise was dieing anyway, it's way more washed up than Mike's imaginary hypothesizing of how this showdown would go.
Edit: I say showdown forgetting the lack there of.
I liked when Ds games had sounds for when you opened and closed the system and drawn to life had the best one ever
Ah, my favourite corporate combination "Here is an IP that we own. Audience is kind of niche. Let's make a rushed game and get rid of the defining features. Nobody wanted to buy it, guess the playerbase moved on."
My lecturer actually explained this to me with a friend of his who got EA'd (by EA) A lot of game publishers are geared in ways that only let them see payouts over a certain size. Niche games that make a small, stable profit are generally treated as a waste of resources. Through the eyes of the bean counters, game studios working on niche games is manpower that isn't being dedicated to the biggest games, where the same amount of labour can create exponentially more revenue.
Aun no termino el video, estoy en la primera parte pero ya me esta gustando mucho jajaja
Excelente contenido! me encanta tu humor y personalidad, deberias tener mas vistas!
Y me hace excesivamente feliz ver un video de más de una hora hablando de una de mis sagas favoritas.
Thank you :)
I still stand that my favourite game is Drawn To Life: The Next Chapter. The story hit me somewhere that I think no other game will ever hit me. Some games came close like Omori. But that ending and everything surrounding it. Maybe because of nostalgia aswell I still really like the gameplay, but still I love what was said about the game. Amazing content.
My favorite game...
The best game...
I haven't found a game that I liked more YET. and I'm even counting mods of games in this list at this point!
I’m glad Two Realms exists regardless of its quality because the Next Chapter’s ending was way too bleak to feel satisfying