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Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter

Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter is a 2D platform video game developed by 5th Cell and published by THQ for the Nintendo DS, released in October 2009 in all regions except Japan. It is a sequel to the original…

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Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter is an adventure developed by 5th Cell, released 8 October 2009 on Nintendo DS.

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What Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter is

Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter is an adventure game developed by 5th Cell and released in 2009. It was published by THQ. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game begins with a surreal sequence, wherein an unknown party asks the player “What do you remember about that day?” The player is given several dialogue choices that build a cohesive description of "that day", though at this time, the player is not aware of the event's importance (or even occurrence). Before the game properly begins, the player is asked to draw an image depicting this mysterious scene, introducing them to the game's core "draw" functionality. Following this is an animation sequence wherein one of the characters from the previous game, Heather, recovers from a nightmare. She is shown to possess a red-colored jewel pendant. In the same sequence, Heather is abducted by a…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter launched on 8 October 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Bayonetta and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Bayonetta, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat.

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When did Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter come out?
Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter was released on 8 October 2009 for Nintendo DS.

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