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Ayo I just wanted to say thanks for making this video I never finished DTLTNC as a kid because I was scared of it My parents got it for me on Christmas and before making it halfway through the game I returned it to GameStop for another I've always looked back and regretted that decision but never went out of my way to learn about the rest of the story Thank you for bringing closure to a lingering thread in my life I teared up at the Real Life portion where the ending was shown The way you talked about it moved me as well That song and Wilfre's final form were familiar to me in ways I can't describe but it was so satisfying to final have a part of my life bookended in such an emotional way Thank you so much dawg And thanks to the 5thcell members responsible for such an emotional story in a kids game I just wish I was brave enough as a child to get to that ending myself Yeah that's all I got I'ma look up a playthrough of locks quest
It almost seemed to me that Jowee and Mike are the same person, Jowee being how Mike sees himself, and Mike simply being an observer, watching and going along with his own spiraling mind and imagination
The ending this franchise scarred me as a child. Im glad someone is finally making a video like this on the Drawn to Life franchise so I can finally get closure as to *why* they did that.
Drawn To Life: The Next Chapter is my favorite game of alltime. It is still one of the greatest experiances that has ever stuck with me, and changed me as a person. It was a shame what happened with Two Realms but the first two games still are very very close to my heart, and I will almost always cry if I hear Real Life or Light of My Life again.
Not me being called out for being a warrior cat girl when I was a teenager. Will it not haunt me? Is it with me until I’m ashes? Will I have to carry this into an afterlife? I’m terrified.
I remember being just passed a literal toddler, and picking out Drawn to Life thinking it was Scribblenauts. The music has always stuck with me, the mood has always stuck with me. Drawn to Life is not a happy town, they are desperate. I was like 7 years old man, I never thought about this until now. F**k
Music in order of Appearance: Book of Life - Drawn to Life Luca - Final Fantasy X GTS Theme - Pokémon Platinum File Select - Super Mario Galaxy Provincial City Roland - Trails in the Sky Please... - Drawn to Life Empty Creation Hall - Drawn to Life Drawing Theme - Drawn to Life Wilfre on the Bridge - Drawn to Life Snowy World - Drawn to Life A Freezing Breath - Scarlet Nexus Frost Man Theme - Mega Man 8 Submerged Castle - Pikmen 2 Computers - Hylics Village Theme - Drawn to Life Under the Moonlight - Drawn to Life Frostwind - Drawn to Life Space Fantasy - Super Mario Galaxy Confrontation - Tales of the Abyss Chapter I on the Ground - Drakengard Besaid Island - Final Fantasy X Chapter XIII Closing - Drakengard Main Menu Theme - Godzilla Unleashed False Hope - Drawn to Life Sadness - Sonic Adventure Final Boss - Drawn to Life The End - Drawn to Life Mari + Jowee - Drawn to Life Shurrey Hills - Tales of the Abyss Balamb Garden - Final Fantasy VIII Level 1 - SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom (GBA) Title Screen - Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Coloring - Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Ice Cap Zone Act 1 - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Bikini Bottom Day Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Village of the Dog God - Shadow Hearts Covenant Holy Orders? - Guilty Gear X2 World of Ruin - Final Fantasy VI Trouble! - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Turtle Power - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Turtle Village - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter CreationHall - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Singing Sand - Hylics 2 Jowee and Mari - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Watersong Village - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Salem - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Courtyard - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Look Ma, I Fly Now! - Hylics 2 Sad - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Light of My Life - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Graaf - Emperor of Darkness - Xenogears Lavastream Village - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Ruins - Hylics Courtney Gears Battle - Ratchet and Clank 3 Omen - Xenogears Galactic Jungle Village - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Gathering Stars in the Night Sky - Xenogears The One Who is Torn Apart - Xenogears Map Room - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter CQD Bad End - Zero Time Dilemma Locke's Theme - Final Fantasy VI Wilfre's Wasteland - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Searching the Past - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Trial End - Danganronpa V3 Memory 4 - Super Paper Mario Final Boss - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Tears of the Stars Hearts of the People - Xenogears Real Life - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Shebat, The Wind is Calling - Xenogears Window (Instrumental) - Tyler, The Creator Beyond - Yume 2kki Monochrome Memory - Under night in-Birth Alone in the World - Wild Arms Map 1 - Hylics Black Fairy - Silent Hill 2 To the Gateway - Super Mario Galaxy
Dude genuinely thank you so much for the effort put into this video essay and Ur contribution to the (slightly dying) DTL fandom. DTL (series) is one of my special interests and I was So disappointed like everyone else at the switch game- I thought it'd kill the fandom off for sure.
Its so damn wonderful to see someone do an actual retrospective of one of my favorite childhood games. Still got the physical copies of the 2 main games and that SpongeBob tie in game too. Seeing this video as of now was wonderful for the timing. Always loved the "Light of My Life" song even as a kid and well the story tying together about two siblings. Being an older brother myself I still cherish this game. Hell I'll get personal about this. I lost my sister as of the month of this comment being posted. We both love drawing and creativity. (Im persuring online art as of a few years now.) So seeing this video made me reminisce about my sister. She was young, both of us in our early 20s as of now. I won't forget her, we both were lights in our lifes. Imma grow up without her now but just means I gotta try my best for my other younger little sister and make sure I keep that bond with my youngest sister as an older brother. Love your videos man and im pretty sure this video will be one of my favs for personal reasons especially to watch this video for me and my late sister.
From a random person on the internet: My condolences and wishes of strength to you and her loved ones. May she always be present in some way to help those still here, may you find, make and share good things in your own pursuits with strength, joy and wisdom where possible, and may you meet again as this canvas of life has been fully colored, and the brushes of your soul begins a new painting in a different canvas.
I played through this game all the way through as a kid. When u mentioned how the mayor of water song ran away from her shame and wanted to die, it added a whole new layer to the ending of the game
I was the warrior cat artistic kid i made some gorgeous pixel art and used the templates+paint bucket to repaint and change the colors or edit the existing designs they could give you
The fact that the Wii one was a completely different studio explains why it was so weird, that's all I had other than the first one and second one on DS and I thought the Wii game was wack
I understand why parents would be pissed off, you said yourself in the video death is a heavy topic for kids, the end of life itself is so heavy even adults are crushed by it. That being said the ending is very beautiful and I hate that they had to change it.
I feel like the parents complaining about the ending completely missed _why_ their kids were upset, bc I feel like the alternative ending would be even more upsetting. The whole world and story actually being a coma dream is one thing - it hurts but there's a weight to it and comas are kinda mysterious so it feels like it has more meaning, but it all being a normal-ass dream from a kid with a slight concussion feels like a straight up undercutting of everything the player was emotionally put through. The former might make the kid cry, but the latter will leave them hollowed out.. and I think that might be even more traumatizing in the long term?
I think a sensible way a new Drawn to Life sequel could come and have it still be a coma is if Mike had returned to being comatose much later in his life (non-willing obviously). Prehaps Mikes life hasn't been particularly great, so he consciously embraces the coma, retreating back into the fantasy he created as a child. they twist could be how he fell into a coma again and what his current living situation is which could be foreshadowed as his current mindset reflected in this new coma world. That's at least I would have liked to seen.
It's odd but in a way I really wanted the next iteration to be in a similar vein to the game That Dragon, Cancer. Maybe not style wise necessarily, but a similar concept of coping with it all.
you don't know how happy it makes me to see this game get more recognition online! This game series has been living in my head rent free since I was a kid. It was the first thing that really got me interested in pursuing art, and it was also the first thing that really got me thinking about existence. I didn't even know there was a replacement ending until recently, so I'm glad I can count myself among the kids who got their soul destroyed by this game lmao
Man I loved the Wii version 😭was my childhood. Enjoyed the puzzles that require active drawing instead of everything just being canvases. Tho do agree it sucks as a way of drawing, but then again it also had free shape tools to help out in that respect.
wait the drawn to life series has a new game on the switch? this is the first time i heard about this also my experience with the series is that i only played the first game and man was it fun to play. I love it.
Just a fair warning. It wasn’t made by the same team as the first two games. The only returning person for the project was the composer. The fanbase agrees it was a disappointing nostalgia cash grab.
The ending to the next chapter is something i remember first seeing ironically on a car ride home with my mom deep into the night. At the time, I didn't fully understand why the cute and color characters vanished, and the real life art style made me feel.. confused. It kind of stayed that way until I got older, I was a pretty sheltered kid, I wasn't allowed to do a lot of things so I didn't really know much about the world, and some of the horrors it brings. Its something that only when I was a teenager did I begin to even comprehend, and understand as I became an adult. There is objectively no other video game that's had such a lasting impression on my mind, The game did not traumatize me as a child, but it definitely was one of my first exposures to concept of death, and acceptance.
I loved this game as a kid! I was said artsy girl you described lol nobody else I knew played it but I spent so many school nights staying up to get my drawings perfect. The ending made me cry but I must have replayed the game a couple dozen times at because I loved it so much I memorized it in its entirety.
Another deep cut topic, love the variety with your videos. So little discussion online with this one, super cool that you covered the spinoff titles also.
Wanna know the funniest thing? A rerelease of the second game tried to make the ending feel not as shocking. And it was so poorly received, this comment made by adiankeogh9994 sums it up the best: "Yeah, no. I'll take the believable comatose explanation of a fatal car crash. That one explains much more about the game and characters anyway."
I think literally drawn to life the next chapter was the first game I’ve ever played, and all I remember is it being a goofy little game where I get to draw everything and the entire story flew over my head
was not expecting to see a 3 hour video going over this series i was so surprised and happy because i kinda forgot about this game that being said i only played the next chapter but its cool to know there were more games if anything this is just a reminder for me to add some of the music to my playlist considering that was one of my favorite parts of the game other then the art
as a kid I drew some dramatic fanart of this game, since I never got past the first boss I quickly got very fanficcy with it and one of the pictures I drew was of Mari floatin all dramatically like she was ascending or something lol, her ears floating widely on each side of her head. My doctor uncle thought I'd drawn a uterus.
I’ve been waiting for a video like this for soooo long thank you so much for creating this which is a work of art itself. Drawn to Life has impacted me so much and informed just the way I’ve thought about media since I played it as a kid and really fostered my love of storytelling and games themselves and it’s so rewarding to see someone finally give it the retrospective it deserves
I know nothing on the game but a better way to tie the creator being God of the Bible, is bringing life into the player character. Instead of comparing it to making a golem. A human would have been a better comparison. As humans were breathed life into. The Greek word for spirit is pneuma meaning breath.
I know the ending to this game was changed because it was ‘too sad’ but I had one of the original copies of the game with the original ending. Just a few years prior to playing this I had been in a car crash myself. While I was fine physically, the games ending ripped open the scab that was my mental trauma from the crash. I remember crying for literal hours, and afterwards tried to forget it even existed.
Great video man I've been watching your stuff since the "Batman's Darkest Villain/Mario 64's Darkest Stage" days and I gotta say this video, the Hylics one and the Postal one have been some of my favorite content on youtube. You are an auto click if I see a new video from you I cant wait to see what you do next.
I grew up with the DS and 3DS. Great consoles. It’s unfortunate I didn’t know about Drawn to Life back then, I’ve only just learned about it within the last year or so. Very neat series! P.S. Ooh Wilfre and both final boss themes SLAP! The music as a whole is great!
@@ShinyRaichu94 that might be a bit too harsh... to Nuts & Bolts, given the sheer amount of freedom to build your vehicles, unlike the comically small number of tools in Two Realms
I grew up with these games, and I remember hating The Next Chapter's ending the first time I saw it. I was upset and confused, and honestly I just wanted Mari and Jowee to be happy. Nearly a decade later, I watched my baby brother play through both games on my old battle-worn DS and a lot of scenes hit harder. I think we cried together at both endings lol It wasn't until my brother finished Next Chapter that, I guess, I came to terms with the ending and what it meant. I'm glad this video includes Two Realms because it's usually overlooked (for good reason). Nothing more soul-crushing than sharing a franchise that's near and dear to me with a loved one, anticipating the new installment and playing it together, only to have the realization that it's actually kinda ass dawn on you. My brother wisely dropped the game but I foolishly saw it through to the end. On one hand, I was overjoyed to see Mari and Jowee get together and finally get a happy ending. Silly as it may sound, it was like a dream come true. On the other, oh my god, what a boring game. It was NOT worth it. Having mixed feelings about the ending felt like a bittersweet full-circle moment, except the bittersweetness was all one-sided on my end 💀 While I'd welcome any crumbs of content for this series, I'm also happy with leaving it as it is. It's by no means perfect, but it holds a lot of sentimental value. "The closest you'll ever get to reexperiencing childhood" is absolutely spot on, and I'm happy I was able to relive those memories while also making new ones with my little brother. ...All this to say: this was a wonderful video! Subscribed 💕
Fantastic video. However, I hate that you called me out for having you on in the background, so I ended up closing the other tab to watch this. Did not regret.
Hey man, awesome video! I haven’t played these since I was a kid so I never really noticed the religious symbolism. I really liked your comparison of the Hero to a golem in Judaism. Another thing I don’t know you mentioned was that Jowee and Mari could be stand-ins for Joseph and Mary, and the Hero they pray for is like Jesus, their own messiah.
Man, hearing about 5th Cell it's always leaves a bitter taste. I only played The Next Chapter, and even though i didn't really remembered the story the ending stuck with me for a long time. Somehow the biblical allegories flew over my head for the most part, except for the last call for God at the end. It was nice to actually learn the story now. Great vid.
Haven't watched the video yet but i'd just like to ask op how you got into my house and heard me listening to the entire Drawn to Life The Next Chapter OST literally three days ago 😐 this is literally so scary, thank u in advance for the video i Needed
I never knew there was a part 2. The ending of part 2 disappointed me a bit and made me sad, because in some sense, none of the characters truly ever existed to begin with, as the raposas, the world and everything, was just an extension and fragments of Mike's mind fighting to hold it together. I really liked the characters in part 1. Until now I thought Heather was a cyborg. The way this "part 3" undermines the og-ending of part 2 is just not okay. The whole concept of the raposa world, which was a coma dream exclusively to Mike, and the human world now suddenly being parallel worlds mirroring each other is just nonsensical to begin with. There is just no coming back from a coma-ending, if you don't perform a total reboot.
Hahaha, I never even played the second game....... But the first still managed to hit me with some strange unspoken sadness. Glad I got to see the conclusion to these games, great video man.
i remember a PQ2 themed channel that talked about theese games. i cant seem to find the channel anymore, or even remember its name. also i grew up with just the next chapter. that game is specal to me.
So, I watched this entire video, and dont get me wrong, I'm very happy that this is putting more eyes on the series, but it seems like this video was more of you explaining how your first playthrough went for these games rather than an actual retrospective. I agree with a lot of your gameplay critiques and praises, and I really like the biblical analysis of the DS games, as it is 100% what Slaczka was going for. I also really enjoy the history on 5th Cell and the focus on the time between the games, as many people tend to overlook the impact that time can have on a series. The majority of this video is great, but there's a lot of bits a pieces that I do have gripes with, and I feel like I have to point them out, if not just to get my feelings into print: Its honestly a shame that the Wii game wasnt covered in this video. I understand that the game isnt as good, but why emulate the DS games but not the Wii one? It would have fixed your gripe about motion controls and opened another hour of content for this video, as the Wii game has a very interesting development history. Slaczka didn't do much on TNC either. He focused hard on Scribblenauts, and Tringali, 5th Cells co-founder (and DigitalContinue's co-founder), took the reigns for TNC in most aspects. This isn't to say Slaczka had no involvement, just not as much as you implied he did throughout the video. Now for all the Two Realms stuff, because I honestly feel like you did your viewers a disservice during this section: It feels like you just wanted to complain about TR rather than giving it a fair chance to be itself. I understand being upset at Two Realms (I am too), especially since there's so much that isn't explained, but a lot of what you said about TR and the time leading up to it was blatantly false or flat out pessimistic simply because it wasn't the DS games. Digital Continue had pitched multiple DTL3's to 505 in the time between the iOS port and TR, and TR was just the one that got approved. The budget was small (as seen in the advertising, poor QA, and mobile-first ideals) sure, but the game is in no ways a spit in the face to TNC's ending. The coma twist is not undone, nor retconned, just reframed. Nothing about the DS games is changed for TR. Spoilers for TR: the climax of the game (as well as Mike's arc overall) revolves around Mike confronting the driver of the other car in the accident, blaming the town for not supporting him in the aftermath, and dealing with survivors guilt. Yes, the Raposa aspect of the game needed a more work and polish, but it's not necessarily a bad evolution of what TNC gave us. The Raposa plot is wrapped up, and the Human plot needs to plant its seeds. You mention the lockdown but neglect to mention how that could have impacted development time at all. Im not saying that the lockdown is confirmed to have an impact on the game, but you have all the puzzle pieces to make a very educated guess on why development was as rocky as it was, yet you don't put them together. The lack of research you did for this video shines through to people who know the series well. So many of the inaccuracies or misinformation could be fixed by referencing the wiki, and I know you know it exists because you put the Two Realms' trivia section in the video. I love the message at the end of this video, but you can't spend 15 minutes being pessimistic and turn around on a dime stating you don't want to be pessimistic. I really don't mean for this comment to be rude, but seeing a video with this much love behind come out missing so much feels like a disservice to the series and the teams who put so much time into it. I really do thank you for making this video to get more people back into the series though, and I hope the outcome of this video is more people spending more time with the classics they love and learning more about the people that gave them their favorite games.
I don't know if this is a bad idea or not, I'm not a Drawn to Life fan exactly except playing the Wii version of Next Chapter a bit. Never got passed the first world cause the game felt long and drawn out with too much time sink with the levels, but here's my own dumb proposal for Two Realms with some story stuff. What if the human and Raposa worlds didn't just exist, but rather the Raposa were inadvertently remade by Mike maybe telling people about what he saw in his coma. It sounds goofy, maybe it came to life again from it being on the minds of more people, becoming interlinked as a place of its own among Mike's hometown. How is that possible entirely, I'm not sure. Perhaps the Creator wants to try and help other people so he uses the Raposa's world as a medium of some sort. Each person could have their own Raposas that represent them somehow and like idk Wilfre sees an opportunity to corrupt things more so, acting a voice in their heads that pushes them to do bad things. This is probably an absolutely horrible idea on the story side, the Drawn to Life community is free to roast me.
All I ever played was the wii game. The whole thing feels like I really long dream i just forgot. I do remember it being sad, but not how. Later on I would become more invested in games like cave story, which took the tragedy, fun characters, and active gameplay that I got the taste of in DTL and meshed it really well. I'll absolutely be watching this video at work tomorrow to see how much I remember ^^
The ending of Next Chapter wasn't sad for me. And spoiler alert ahead: The way I interpreted it, the Raposa are a part of Mike's imagination. And while he survives, so do they. He is free to be his own Creator without the fear of fading now. And he has Jowee and Mari to base his new world on, or even remade anew as something new. They were always imaginary, they aren't truly alive, so they aren't truly dead. Its all up to Mike in the end. In Game God gave him that chance. And Wilfre was taking it away by killing him. If Mike dies, so does the Raposa. There wouldn't be a world left without his imagination. Of course its bittersweet, but a blank page is only a canvas for something new. That is what the ending felt for me. Mike is free to imagine without the danger of Wilfre limiting it. He can paint that canvas as we had through both games. The Raposa are only as dead as he imagines it.
Honestly I loved the first game but didn’t even know a sequel existed, shame the ending is coma based, that always ruins a story for me especially in such a cute fictional world with little fox people, also making the ending basically a lite version of the same due to backlash is just disappointing, either stick to your original vision of parent death or just have mike be isakai protagonist and have the world be a real fantasy world, honestly good for abandoning the coma ending
I haven't watched the video yet (at 3 min mark) but you showing the DS cover made me remember that I played the Wii version of Drawn to Life as a kid - I already wish I played the DS version now and want to go back to play the wii game. I just remembered about it when I saw the cover that I played the wii game and I remember at least loving it and being stretched to my drawing capabilities which I kind of hated too lol. (Though just looking it up, apparently I played the 2nd game???)
They could have easily said that the Reposa realm exists when Mike is asleep or in his imagination. But even if they did, what could you do with the story that beats that twist?
I remember hearing the release of Two Realms in 2020 and freaking out with the tight knit amino I was stuck with I was going to ask my parents for it at the time, but that's when I heard it was a horrible... Glitchy mess, that feels like a mobile game. So l just kind of listened to what my friends had said... The most interesting part was Mike's love of mayonnaise ice cream that I'd heard about I think one of the most horrid glitches I'd seen was a baki that if it hit you or you killed it immediately crashed the game, the sprite so glitched it had a hole in its face, like some sort of creepypasta!!! It's still one of my favorite franchises, I just pretend Two Realms doesn't exist due to... The blandness of the game
The sad thing is, as soon as you described how Two Worlds' story worked I had an idea that could justify some of it. Well, the title making any sense I mean. A small crossover. It does not need to be explicit (and most likely could not be for legal reasons) but just one that could easily taken as just an easter egg to another work of the original creators. Just making the Book of Imagination of the Raposa have a counterpart Mike found, and in it there being a small, faded signature of someone named Maxwell. And in the end put the final scene with a pencil drawing filter in that same book, now with a Mike signature.
Basically, while the original game's title meant the player's drawings helped bring Mike back to life, Mike drew the Raposa back to life... ..."in a way", that is, but it was made kinda literal because it is then implied it is the same book as the one Scribblenauts' protagonist uses to make his imagination affect the real world. Also, this justifies the story continuing after the end of their world. Not adding whatever would make the new story touch the player's hearts like the old one did.
Lock's Quest is super good, but the Steam port is a mechanical flop... As someone who's played Lock's Quest on PC (Steam and emulator), I can genuinely say its better on emulator.
Very good video, love these neich games, personally i played alot of sn and not dtl but i remember people likeing it alot, and some of my friends had fond memories after talking about this video
I'm honestly more bothered by the laziness of coma theories than the morbidness of them. I enjoy morbid theories and headcanons in children's media when they feel well thought out, like whoever made it up actually cared about the lore of the source material - and more importantly, clearly applied their morbid theories with a sense of empathy and not just shallow shock value. But alot of the time these types of theories have little to no leg to stand on, every parallel they make relying entirely on a single assumption that can be easily debunked. And almost every time it's obvious that whoever made up the theory has never actually had any experience with or done proper research on the morbid subjects they're working with. They just wanted ppl to go "woahh that's fucked up dude~" (the rugrats theory, while not a coma theory, is a stellar example of this. throwing sex workers and drugs into everything like that's the only way these families could be broken and it feels like everything the author knew about the source material came from a wikipedia page)
1:41:05 Did you know you can absorb one of the enemies to become faster/solid? I kinda found out by accident cause I had the bright idea of trying to ground pound while in slime form.
Have you heard of this old Ps2 game called the magic pengel? It's basically Pokemon except you draw all the pokemon with your controller, what if Drawn To Life had a MMO RPG like that where the "creator" decided to have all their creations battle to the death? Where you actually fight other players drawings in Pokemon style? 🤔 Just a thought but if the Ps2 managed to have drawing games released on it, I don't see why it would be impossible for them to make remakes of all the old DTL games and have them all accessible on each system, also the Wii DTL isn't bad when you compare it to the new Two Realms game, canon or not, that one was faithful to the series
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They won't go through the kids if this the one game is not is that
Ayo I just wanted to say thanks for making this video
I never finished DTLTNC as a kid because I was scared of it
My parents got it for me on Christmas and before making it halfway through the game I returned it to GameStop for another
I've always looked back and regretted that decision but never went out of my way to learn about the rest of the story
Thank you for bringing closure to a lingering thread in my life
I teared up at the Real Life portion where the ending was shown
The way you talked about it moved me as well
That song and Wilfre's final form were familiar to me in ways I can't describe but it was so satisfying to final have a part of my life bookended in such an emotional way
Thank you so much dawg
And thanks to the 5thcell members responsible for such an emotional story in a kids game
I just wish I was brave enough as a child to get to that ending myself
Yeah that's all I got
I'ma look up a playthrough of locks quest
Gotta chase the bag
It’s about time someone made a 3-hour video about Drawn To Life and not some 30 minute video about its ending!
This series has so little retrospectives on it, let alone long ones. I simply had to be the first to do it
@@heypeterRealalso, Mari is pronounced “Mar-Ee.” Like how Tiki would say Marth’s name, or how sea is kinda pronounced in Spanish.
It almost seemed to me that Jowee and Mike are the same person, Jowee being how Mike sees himself, and Mike simply being an observer, watching and going along with his own spiraling mind and imagination
The ending this franchise scarred me as a child. Im glad someone is finally making a video like this on the Drawn to Life franchise so I can finally get closure as to *why* they did that.
I feel the exact same! I went through the original and sequel BOTH as a kid and stopped at the end because I was terrified to even enter the level.
ME TOO!!!
SAME 9 year old me was not prepared for that ending
Drawn To Life: The Next Chapter is my favorite game of alltime. It is still one of the greatest experiances that has ever stuck with me, and changed me as a person. It was a shame what happened with Two Realms but the first two games still are very very close to my heart, and I will almost always cry if I hear Real Life or Light of My Life again.
Not me being called out for being a warrior cat girl when I was a teenager. Will it not haunt me? Is it with me until I’m ashes? Will I have to carry this into an afterlife? I’m terrified.
Unfortunately you'll never forget the warrior cats series
I remember being just passed a literal toddler, and picking out Drawn to Life thinking it was Scribblenauts. The music has always stuck with me, the mood has always stuck with me. Drawn to Life is not a happy town, they are desperate. I was like 7 years old man, I never thought about this until now. F**k
Music in order of Appearance:
Book of Life - Drawn to Life
Luca - Final Fantasy X
GTS Theme - Pokémon Platinum
File Select - Super Mario Galaxy
Provincial City Roland - Trails in the Sky
Please... - Drawn to Life
Empty Creation Hall - Drawn to Life
Drawing Theme - Drawn to Life
Wilfre on the Bridge - Drawn to Life
Snowy World - Drawn to Life
A Freezing Breath - Scarlet Nexus
Frost Man Theme - Mega Man 8
Submerged Castle - Pikmen 2
Computers - Hylics
Village Theme - Drawn to Life
Under the Moonlight - Drawn to Life
Frostwind - Drawn to Life
Space Fantasy - Super Mario Galaxy
Confrontation - Tales of the Abyss
Chapter I on the Ground - Drakengard
Besaid Island - Final Fantasy X
Chapter XIII Closing - Drakengard
Main Menu Theme - Godzilla Unleashed
False Hope - Drawn to Life
Sadness - Sonic Adventure
Final Boss - Drawn to Life
The End - Drawn to Life
Mari + Jowee - Drawn to Life
Shurrey Hills - Tales of the Abyss
Balamb Garden - Final Fantasy VIII
Level 1 - SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom (GBA)
Title Screen - Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants
Coloring - Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants
Ice Cap Zone Act 1 - Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Bikini Bottom Day Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants
Village of the Dog God - Shadow Hearts Covenant
Holy Orders? - Guilty Gear X2
World of Ruin - Final Fantasy VI
Trouble! - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
Turtle Power - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
Turtle Village - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
CreationHall - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
Singing Sand - Hylics 2
Jowee and Mari - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
Watersong Village - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
Salem - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
Courtyard - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
Look Ma, I Fly Now! - Hylics 2
Sad - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
Light of My Life - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
Graaf - Emperor of Darkness - Xenogears
Lavastream Village - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
Ruins - Hylics
Courtney Gears Battle - Ratchet and Clank 3
Omen - Xenogears
Galactic Jungle Village - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
Gathering Stars in the Night Sky - Xenogears
The One Who is Torn Apart - Xenogears
Map Room - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
CQD Bad End - Zero Time Dilemma
Locke's Theme - Final Fantasy VI
Wilfre's Wasteland - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
Searching the Past - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Trial End - Danganronpa V3
Memory 4 - Super Paper Mario
Final Boss - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
Tears of the Stars Hearts of the People - Xenogears
Real Life - Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
Shebat, The Wind is Calling - Xenogears
Window (Instrumental) - Tyler, The Creator
Beyond - Yume 2kki
Monochrome Memory - Under night in-Birth
Alone in the World - Wild Arms
Map 1 - Hylics
Black Fairy - Silent Hill 2
To the Gateway - Super Mario Galaxy
Dude genuinely thank you so much for the effort put into this video essay and Ur contribution to the (slightly dying) DTL fandom. DTL (series) is one of my special interests and I was So disappointed like everyone else at the switch game- I thought it'd kill the fandom off for sure.
I remember crying so hard and being so confused at the end of the second game. I loved the series so much. Thank you for talking about it
The Next Chapter's opening made me cry as an 8 year old
I remember telling my parents to take it back despite me liking the gameplay
It just scared me
3 hours documentary about a game i grew up with religiously? this is gonna be great
Its so damn wonderful to see someone do an actual retrospective of one of my favorite childhood games. Still got the physical copies of the 2 main games and that SpongeBob tie in game too.
Seeing this video as of now was wonderful for the timing. Always loved the "Light of My Life" song even as a kid and well the story tying together about two siblings. Being an older brother myself I still cherish this game.
Hell I'll get personal about this. I lost my sister as of the month of this comment being posted. We both love drawing and creativity. (Im persuring online art as of a few years now.) So seeing this video made me reminisce about my sister. She was young, both of us in our early 20s as of now. I won't forget her, we both were lights in our lifes. Imma grow up without her now but just means I gotta try my best for my other younger little sister and make sure I keep that bond with my youngest sister as an older brother.
Love your videos man and im pretty sure this video will be one of my favs for personal reasons especially to watch this video for me and my late sister.
From a random person on the internet: My condolences and wishes of strength to you and her loved ones. May she always be present in some way to help those still here, may you find, make and share good things in your own pursuits with strength, joy and wisdom where possible, and may you meet again as this canvas of life has been fully colored, and the brushes of your soul begins a new painting in a different canvas.
I played through this game all the way through as a kid. When u mentioned how the mayor of water song ran away from her shame and wanted to die, it added a whole new layer to the ending of the game
I was the warrior cat artistic kid i made some gorgeous pixel art and used the templates+paint bucket to repaint and change the colors or edit the existing designs they could give you
The fact that the Wii one was a completely different studio explains why it was so weird, that's all I had other than the first one and second one on DS and I thought the Wii game was wack
I understand why parents would be pissed off, you said yourself in the video death is a heavy topic for kids, the end of life itself is so heavy even adults are crushed by it.
That being said the ending is very beautiful and I hate that they had to change it.
EXTREMELY glad that people still remember this series even after all this time, and not just about it’s messed up ending in the sequel specifically
I feel like the parents complaining about the ending completely missed _why_ their kids were upset, bc I feel like the alternative ending would be even more upsetting.
The whole world and story actually being a coma dream is one thing - it hurts but there's a weight to it and comas are kinda mysterious so it feels like it has more meaning, but it all being a normal-ass dream from a kid with a slight concussion feels like a straight up undercutting of everything the player was emotionally put through.
The former might make the kid cry, but the latter will leave them hollowed out.. and I think that might be even more traumatizing in the long term?
Jesus christ that ending was so fucking brutal
I think a sensible way a new Drawn to Life sequel could come and have it still be a coma is if Mike had returned to being comatose much later in his life (non-willing obviously). Prehaps Mikes life hasn't been particularly great, so he consciously embraces the coma, retreating back into the fantasy he created as a child. they twist could be how he fell into a coma again and what his current living situation is which could be foreshadowed as his current mindset reflected in this new coma world. That's at least I would have liked to seen.
It's odd but in a way I really wanted the next iteration to be in a similar vein to the game That Dragon, Cancer. Maybe not style wise necessarily, but a similar concept of coping with it all.
you don't know how happy it makes me to see this game get more recognition online! This game series has been living in my head rent free since I was a kid. It was the first thing that really got me interested in pursuing art, and it was also the first thing that really got me thinking about existence. I didn't even know there was a replacement ending until recently, so I'm glad I can count myself among the kids who got their soul destroyed by this game lmao
Man I loved the Wii version 😭was my childhood. Enjoyed the puzzles that require active drawing instead of everything just being canvases. Tho do agree it sucks as a way of drawing, but then again it also had free shape tools to help out in that respect.
This game was such a large part of my early gaming experience, yet I always forget about it. Pure nostalgia for me.
1:32:00 Yes... I really miss my mother... There are reasons I sing this song to myself every now and then for years now...
I'm about halfway through and I gotta say you've done a great job going through this series that always felt underappreciated.
wait the drawn to life series has a new game on the switch? this is the first time i heard about this also my experience with the series is that i only played the first game and man was it fun to play. I love it.
Just a fair warning. It wasn’t made by the same team as the first two games. The only returning person for the project was the composer. The fanbase agrees it was a disappointing nostalgia cash grab.
The ending to the next chapter is something i remember first seeing ironically on a car ride home with my mom deep into the night. At the time, I didn't fully understand why the cute and color characters vanished, and the real life art style made me feel.. confused. It kind of stayed that way until I got older, I was a pretty sheltered kid, I wasn't allowed to do a lot of things so I didn't really know much about the world, and some of the horrors it brings. Its something that only when I was a teenager did I begin to even comprehend, and understand as I became an adult. There is objectively no other video game that's had such a lasting impression on my mind, The game did not traumatize me as a child, but it definitely was one of my first exposures to concept of death, and acceptance.
I loved this game as a kid! I was said artsy girl you described lol nobody else I knew played it but I spent so many school nights staying up to get my drawings perfect. The ending made me cry but I must have replayed the game a couple dozen times at because I loved it so much I memorized it in its entirety.
Thanks for making me emotional about a game series I've never even heard about, on a platform I've never owned.
Another deep cut topic, love the variety with your videos. So little discussion online with this one, super cool that you covered the spinoff titles also.
@@macaronimatt5531 i appreciate that. I try not to be too pigeonholed into outright horror games, but I cover a variety of games on Strange Gaming
Wanna know the funniest thing?
A rerelease of the second game tried to make the ending feel not as shocking. And it was so poorly received, this comment made by adiankeogh9994 sums it up the best:
"Yeah, no. I'll take the believable comatose explanation of a fatal car crash. That one explains much more about the game and characters anyway."
He mentions the rerelease
@@tech6hutch ah ok. Still, kinda funny that fans prefer the more shocking twist instead of the revised one.
I think literally drawn to life the next chapter was the first game I’ve ever played, and all I remember is it being a goofy little game where I get to draw everything and the entire story flew over my head
Oh no, Jowee is gonna end up like the Ralphamale, a fate worse than death.
38:54 This followed by Wilfre walking with the Squidward walking sound made me laugh 😂
God i used to love this game, im glad i wasn't the only one who was devastated at the ending. it was so beautiful
I got insane chills from him talking about the ending for the second game, I didn't expect it at all from drawn to life lol
Nah you know what, this did traumatize me because I was like oh they won't even die, they cease to exist
Damn, that ending of Next Chapter is a daring one. Especially for a kids game. Have to applaude that.
Been awaiting this since the Harvest bake sale.
was not expecting to see a 3 hour video going over this series i was so surprised and happy because i kinda forgot about this game that being said i only played the next chapter but its cool to know there were more games if anything this is just a reminder for me to add some of the music to my playlist considering that was one of my favorite parts of the game other then the art
as a kid I drew some dramatic fanart of this game, since I never got past the first boss I quickly got very fanficcy with it and one of the pictures I drew was of Mari floatin all dramatically like she was ascending or something lol, her ears floating widely on each side of her head.
My doctor uncle thought I'd drawn a uterus.
Ooh! I'm so glad to see this game being covered! It's a beloved franchise of mine
I’ve been waiting for a video like this for soooo long thank you so much for creating this which is a work of art itself. Drawn to Life has impacted me so much and informed just the way I’ve thought about media since I played it as a kid and really fostered my love of storytelling and games themselves and it’s so rewarding to see someone finally give it the retrospective it deserves
Holy shit, I completely forgot this game. The ending of the next chapter was just… wow.
i was literally rewatching your coronation day video last night and i see one about one of my favorite video games of all time ABSOLUTE PEAK
I know nothing on the game but a better way to tie the creator being God of the Bible, is bringing life into the player character. Instead of comparing it to making a golem. A human would have been a better comparison. As humans were breathed life into. The Greek word for spirit is pneuma meaning breath.
I know the ending to this game was changed because it was ‘too sad’ but I had one of the original copies of the game with the original ending. Just a few years prior to playing this I had been in a car crash myself. While I was fine physically, the games ending ripped open the scab that was my mental trauma from the crash. I remember crying for literal hours, and afterwards tried to forget it even existed.
Dude, I MISS these games! Its right there next to Scribblenauts as being some of my favorite DS games from back then.
If anybody is curious about the song that plays during the ending of drawn to life I'll leave the name
Hayley Chipman - The End
LETS GOOO I WAS WAITING FOR A NEW PETER UPLOAD!
This game fucked me up man
*edit: next chapter specifically*
I think this video rekindled my love for the series and made me question why Two Realms was made instead of rereleases
Re-releases would have been much more appreciated than the dumpster fire that is Two Realms.
Great video man I've been watching your stuff since the "Batman's Darkest Villain/Mario 64's Darkest Stage" days and I gotta say this video, the Hylics one and the Postal one have been some of my favorite content on youtube.
You are an auto click if I see a new video from you I cant wait to see what you do next.
Putting Drakengard ending E song over the fish boss fight was fitting
I grew up with the DS and 3DS. Great consoles. It’s unfortunate I didn’t know about Drawn to Life back then, I’ve only just learned about it within the last year or so. Very neat series!
P.S. Ooh Wilfre and both final boss themes SLAP! The music as a whole is great!
Drawn to Life: Two Realms is more like "Drawn to Life: Nuts & Bolts"...
@@ShinyRaichu94 that might be a bit too harsh... to Nuts & Bolts, given the sheer amount of freedom to build your vehicles, unlike the comically small number of tools in Two Realms
I grew up with these games, and I remember hating The Next Chapter's ending the first time I saw it. I was upset and confused, and honestly I just wanted Mari and Jowee to be happy. Nearly a decade later, I watched my baby brother play through both games on my old battle-worn DS and a lot of scenes hit harder. I think we cried together at both endings lol
It wasn't until my brother finished Next Chapter that, I guess, I came to terms with the ending and what it meant.
I'm glad this video includes Two Realms because it's usually overlooked (for good reason). Nothing more soul-crushing than sharing a franchise that's near and dear to me with a loved one, anticipating the new installment and playing it together, only to have the realization that it's actually kinda ass dawn on you. My brother wisely dropped the game but I foolishly saw it through to the end. On one hand, I was overjoyed to see Mari and Jowee get together and finally get a happy ending. Silly as it may sound, it was like a dream come true.
On the other, oh my god, what a boring game. It was NOT worth it.
Having mixed feelings about the ending felt like a bittersweet full-circle moment, except the bittersweetness was all one-sided on my end 💀
While I'd welcome any crumbs of content for this series, I'm also happy with leaving it as it is. It's by no means perfect, but it holds a lot of sentimental value. "The closest you'll ever get to reexperiencing childhood" is absolutely spot on, and I'm happy I was able to relive those memories while also making new ones with my little brother.
...All this to say: this was a wonderful video! Subscribed 💕
Fantastic video. However, I hate that you called me out for having you on in the background, so I ended up closing the other tab to watch this.
Did not regret.
Hey man, awesome video! I haven’t played these since I was a kid so I never really noticed the religious symbolism. I really liked your comparison of the Hero to a golem in Judaism. Another thing I don’t know you mentioned was that Jowee and Mari could be stand-ins for Joseph and Mary, and the Hero they pray for is like Jesus, their own messiah.
Dude you just unlocked a core memory for me Holy cow!
Man, hearing about 5th Cell it's always leaves a bitter taste. I only played The Next Chapter, and even though i didn't really remembered the story the ending stuck with me for a long time.
Somehow the biblical allegories flew over my head for the most part, except for the last call for God at the end.
It was nice to actually learn the story now. Great vid.
i had the second game on the ds. i couldn't tell you what the game was about because i didn't understand english but the ending movie made be cry
Haven't watched the video yet but i'd just like to ask op how you got into my house and heard me listening to the entire Drawn to Life The Next Chapter OST literally three days ago 😐 this is literally so scary, thank u in advance for the video i Needed
Woah woah woah making a retrospective of peak and nobody told me!?!?!?!?
I got and beat this game Christmas Day, I was changed
I never knew there was a part 2. The ending of part 2 disappointed me a bit and made me sad, because in some sense, none of the characters truly ever existed to begin with, as the raposas, the world and everything, was just an extension and fragments of Mike's mind fighting to hold it together. I really liked the characters in part 1. Until now I thought Heather was a cyborg. The way this "part 3" undermines the og-ending of part 2 is just not okay. The whole concept of the raposa world, which was a coma dream exclusively to Mike, and the human world now suddenly being parallel worlds mirroring each other is just nonsensical to begin with. There is just no coming back from a coma-ending, if you don't perform a total reboot.
I remember playing the next chapter while at college. The ending made me cry it was the car crash ending that the pal regions had
Man... the soundtrack for this game... enough to make a grown man cry 😢
I loved this series, glad to see a great video for it. You got a subscription
I absolutely loved this game to death, but I also remember it leaving me with a profound sadness, which feels validated by this video
Hahaha, I never even played the second game....... But the first still managed to hit me with some strange unspoken sadness. Glad I got to see the conclusion to these games, great video man.
my only complaint about it is that it’s too short.
Idk how it holds up today. but I remember really lokeing the phineas and ferb ds game
i remember a PQ2 themed channel that talked about theese games. i cant seem to find the channel anymore, or even remember its name.
also i grew up with just the next chapter. that game is specal to me.
So, I watched this entire video, and dont get me wrong, I'm very happy that this is putting more eyes on the series, but it seems like this video was more of you explaining how your first playthrough went for these games rather than an actual retrospective.
I agree with a lot of your gameplay critiques and praises, and I really like the biblical analysis of the DS games, as it is 100% what Slaczka was going for. I also really enjoy the history on 5th Cell and the focus on the time between the games, as many people tend to overlook the impact that time can have on a series. The majority of this video is great, but there's a lot of bits a pieces that I do have gripes with, and I feel like I have to point them out, if not just to get my feelings into print:
Its honestly a shame that the Wii game wasnt covered in this video. I understand that the game isnt as good, but why emulate the DS games but not the Wii one? It would have fixed your gripe about motion controls and opened another hour of content for this video, as the Wii game has a very interesting development history.
Slaczka didn't do much on TNC either. He focused hard on Scribblenauts, and Tringali, 5th Cells co-founder (and DigitalContinue's co-founder), took the reigns for TNC in most aspects. This isn't to say Slaczka had no involvement, just not as much as you implied he did throughout the video.
Now for all the Two Realms stuff, because I honestly feel like you did your viewers a disservice during this section:
It feels like you just wanted to complain about TR rather than giving it a fair chance to be itself. I understand being upset at Two Realms (I am too), especially since there's so much that isn't explained, but a lot of what you said about TR and the time leading up to it was blatantly false or flat out pessimistic simply because it wasn't the DS games.
Digital Continue had pitched multiple DTL3's to 505 in the time between the iOS port and TR, and TR was just the one that got approved. The budget was small (as seen in the advertising, poor QA, and mobile-first ideals) sure, but the game is in no ways a spit in the face to TNC's ending. The coma twist is not undone, nor retconned, just reframed. Nothing about the DS games is changed for TR.
Spoilers for TR: the climax of the game (as well as Mike's arc overall) revolves around Mike confronting the driver of the other car in the accident, blaming the town for not supporting him in the aftermath, and dealing with survivors guilt. Yes, the Raposa aspect of the game needed a more work and polish, but it's not necessarily a bad evolution of what TNC gave us. The Raposa plot is wrapped up, and the Human plot needs to plant its seeds.
You mention the lockdown but neglect to mention how that could have impacted development time at all. Im not saying that the lockdown is confirmed to have an impact on the game, but you have all the puzzle pieces to make a very educated guess on why development was as rocky as it was, yet you don't put them together.
The lack of research you did for this video shines through to people who know the series well. So many of the inaccuracies or misinformation could be fixed by referencing the wiki, and I know you know it exists because you put the Two Realms' trivia section in the video.
I love the message at the end of this video, but you can't spend 15 minutes being pessimistic and turn around on a dime stating you don't want to be pessimistic. I really don't mean for this comment to be rude, but seeing a video with this much love behind come out missing so much feels like a disservice to the series and the teams who put so much time into it.
I really do thank you for making this video to get more people back into the series though, and I hope the outcome of this video is more people spending more time with the classics they love and learning more about the people that gave them their favorite games.
I loved this game but got stuck on the first big boss dragon bc I couldn't tell if I was making any damage on it and lost my patience
I don't know if this is a bad idea or not, I'm not a Drawn to Life fan exactly except playing the Wii version of Next Chapter a bit. Never got passed the first world cause the game felt long and drawn out with too much time sink with the levels, but here's my own dumb proposal for Two Realms with some story stuff. What if the human and Raposa worlds didn't just exist, but rather the Raposa were inadvertently remade by Mike maybe telling people about what he saw in his coma. It sounds goofy, maybe it came to life again from it being on the minds of more people, becoming interlinked as a place of its own among Mike's hometown. How is that possible entirely, I'm not sure. Perhaps the Creator wants to try and help other people so he uses the Raposa's world as a medium of some sort. Each person could have their own Raposas that represent them somehow and like idk Wilfre sees an opportunity to corrupt things more so, acting a voice in their heads that pushes them to do bad things. This is probably an absolutely horrible idea on the story side, the Drawn to Life community is free to roast me.
DRAWN TO LIFE VIDEO!!! I wish people would talk about this game more.
Holy video drop. 3 hours of (most likely if not certainly) enjoyment. Love to see it
I can’t wait to watch this video when I get home from sea tomorrow
the ds had so many innovative titles that enabled creativity, there may never be another platform like it
All I ever played was the wii game. The whole thing feels like I really long dream i just forgot. I do remember it being sad, but not how. Later on I would become more invested in games like cave story, which took the tragedy, fun characters, and active gameplay that I got the taste of in DTL and meshed it really well. I'll absolutely be watching this video at work tomorrow to see how much I remember ^^
I actually have this game! I could play it again once I watch the vid.
new background vid to listen to while playing destiny
The ending of Next Chapter wasn't sad for me. And spoiler alert ahead:
The way I interpreted it, the Raposa are a part of Mike's imagination. And while he survives, so do they. He is free to be his own Creator without the fear of fading now. And he has Jowee and Mari to base his new world on, or even remade anew as something new. They were always imaginary, they aren't truly alive, so they aren't truly dead. Its all up to Mike in the end. In Game God gave him that chance. And Wilfre was taking it away by killing him. If Mike dies, so does the Raposa. There wouldn't be a world left without his imagination. Of course its bittersweet, but a blank page is only a canvas for something new. That is what the ending felt for me. Mike is free to imagine without the danger of Wilfre limiting it. He can paint that canvas as we had through both games. The Raposa are only as dead as he imagines it.
Honestly I loved the first game but didn’t even know a sequel existed, shame the ending is coma based, that always ruins a story for me especially in such a cute fictional world with little fox people, also making the ending basically a lite version of the same due to backlash is just disappointing, either stick to your original vision of parent death or just have mike be isakai protagonist and have the world be a real fantasy world, honestly good for abandoning the coma ending
I haven't watched the video yet (at 3 min mark) but you showing the DS cover made me remember that I played the Wii version of Drawn to Life as a kid - I already wish I played the DS version now and want to go back to play the wii game. I just remembered about it when I saw the cover that I played the wii game and I remember at least loving it and being stretched to my drawing capabilities which I kind of hated too lol. (Though just looking it up, apparently I played the 2nd game???)
They could have easily said that the Reposa realm exists when Mike is asleep or in his imagination. But even if they did, what could you do with the story that beats that twist?
I remember hearing the release of Two Realms in 2020 and freaking out with the tight knit amino I was stuck with
I was going to ask my parents for it at the time, but that's when I heard it was a horrible... Glitchy mess, that feels like a mobile game. So l just kind of listened to what my friends had said... The most interesting part was Mike's love of mayonnaise ice cream that I'd heard about
I think one of the most horrid glitches I'd seen was a baki that if it hit you or you killed it immediately crashed the game, the sprite so glitched it had a hole in its face, like some sort of creepypasta!!!
It's still one of my favorite franchises, I just pretend Two Realms doesn't exist due to... The blandness of the game
The sad thing is, as soon as you described how Two Worlds' story worked I had an idea that could justify some of it. Well, the title making any sense I mean.
A small crossover.
It does not need to be explicit (and most likely could not be for legal reasons) but just one that could easily taken as just an easter egg to another work of the original creators.
Just making the Book of Imagination of the Raposa have a counterpart Mike found, and in it there being a small, faded signature of someone named Maxwell.
And in the end put the final scene with a pencil drawing filter in that same book, now with a Mike signature.
Basically, while the original game's title meant the player's drawings helped bring Mike back to life, Mike drew the Raposa back to life...
..."in a way", that is, but it was made kinda literal because it is then implied it is the same book as the one Scribblenauts' protagonist uses to make his imagination affect the real world.
Also, this justifies the story continuing after the end of their world. Not adding whatever would make the new story touch the player's hearts like the old one did.
Hey Peter, thank you ❤️
Lock's Quest is super good, but the Steam port is a mechanical flop... As someone who's played Lock's Quest on PC (Steam and emulator), I can genuinely say its better on emulator.
Very good video, love these neich games, personally i played alot of sn and not dtl but i remember people likeing it alot, and some of my friends had fond memories after talking about this video
I'm honestly more bothered by the laziness of coma theories than the morbidness of them. I enjoy morbid theories and headcanons in children's media when they feel well thought out, like whoever made it up actually cared about the lore of the source material - and more importantly, clearly applied their morbid theories with a sense of empathy and not just shallow shock value.
But alot of the time these types of theories have little to no leg to stand on, every parallel they make relying entirely on a single assumption that can be easily debunked.
And almost every time it's obvious that whoever made up the theory has never actually had any experience with or done proper research on the morbid subjects they're working with. They just wanted ppl to go "woahh that's fucked up dude~"
(the rugrats theory, while not a coma theory, is a stellar example of this. throwing sex workers and drugs into everything like that's the only way these families could be broken and it feels like everything the author knew about the source material came from a wikipedia page)
Oh here I was playing 999 and golden sun
FUCK YEAH DTL VIDEO ESSAY IN 2024 WE ARE SO BACK WE ARE SO BACK
1:41:05 Did you know you can absorb one of the enemies to become faster/solid? I kinda found out by accident cause I had the bright idea of trying to ground pound while in slime form.
"a mix of primitive and advanced" bro that's solarpunk
Mike gets a baddie 51:52
“Oh no bro” - mike
Have you heard of this old Ps2 game called the magic pengel? It's basically Pokemon except you draw all the pokemon with your controller, what if Drawn To Life had a MMO RPG like that where the "creator" decided to have all their creations battle to the death? Where you actually fight other players drawings in Pokemon style? 🤔 Just a thought but if the Ps2 managed to have drawing games released on it, I don't see why it would be impossible for them to make remakes of all the old DTL games and have them all accessible on each system, also the Wii DTL isn't bad when you compare it to the new Two Realms game, canon or not, that one was faithful to the series
AHHH I LOVED THESE GAMES GONNA WATCH THIS LATER
Lmfao is that the queen beast song for the big fish fight?