Reviews > Crayola Treasure Adventures
(DS) Hands-On Preview
June 29, 2007
I used to get DOWN with coloring when I was a little kid, so I imagine this game will pretty much rock for the intended demographic. If you ask some of the other journalists in attendance on Thursday, they might even tell you that I was a bit more captivated than a 23 year-old man should've been with a Nintendo DS game about coloring.
In Crayola Treasure Adventures, all of the colors are being stolen and it's up to the player, alongside Tip (a crayon-man), to embark on an adventure to restore them. Tasks include coloring, drawing, connect-the-dots, jigsaw-puzzles, etc. - all handled with the DS stylus. As players progress, more colors are restored to their virtual crayon box. They're are the real deal, too, with Crayola's famous color names slapped on the wrappers.
As for the coloring action, it's pretty basic. Once the stylus touches down on a particular portion of the picture, the color is restricted to that area - so no messy coloring outside the lines. There are a few tools, such as the eraser, to help if you screw up, but noting very elaborate. Colors don't mix, which is actually sortof accurate when one thinks about the way crayons work in real life. The color kinda just sits on top of everything else, or blurs into a muddy pile of wax. Well, Crayola Treasure Adventures doesn't do all that, but it doesn't make green out of blue and yellow, either.
Crayola Treasure Adventures will be a DS-only release, and will retail for $19.99 when it is released this fall.
*Eddie R Inzauto - Senior Editor, GameWad.com
