Friday, September 19, 2008

Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Edition

Second post today! Woot. Oh, before I go on, there's a new comic up.

Drawn to Life was a game where you could draw your own characters, weapons, and other things with the DS stylus. The premise was that there were a bunch of bunny-like people called Raposas. One Raposa, Wilfre, has stolen the Boof of Life, which their God wrote in. Everything written in it came to life. Wilfre tried to change reality as he saw fit and rule, but his creations came out black and twisted. Now, the village the Raposas inhabit is trapped in an endless winter and near empty, because everyone has left. The mayor's daughter calls out to their God (you) and asks you to send them a hero. Thus, you draw your hero to life.
It was a cute game, though it contained a badly-written tragedy in it, the storyline was good and the ending scene---unless you're a ten-year-old boy---was a tearjerker.

What does this have to with SpongeBob, you ask? A spin-off, using the original engine, was released on the fifteenth entitled Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Edition. For real. Truthfully, I don't care much for games based on cartoons. But this is interesting to me because, for one thing it's based on a game I loved. For another thing, the villain happens to be the character who is the protagonist of tons of my fan fiction: DoodleBob!
It's loosely based on the episode Frankendoodle. Basically, DoodleBob uses the pencil to draw himself a badly-drawn army, and you must save his captives. Hmm...it sounds a lot like a fan fic I wrote....
Since it's based on the episode, but promises to be nothing like it, it doesn't really have a place in the SpongeBob canon. Hey, who cares? This DoodleBob fangirl wants. that. game. It's on my birthday list. ;D

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