Drawn®: The Painted Tower

Does this game have its charms? Yes, its façade is beautiful, but that does not outweigh the many problems with the game’s construction. I have played many puzzle games and most have a beautiful exterior. It is generally the story’s depth, the game’s mechanics, and the variety of engaging puzzles that make for a fun puzzle adventure. This game lacked quality in all of the above. Problems: (The Story): This story’s depth runs about as deep as a 3 year old child’s written work. Harsh, but true. The only creativity or beauty seen in this game is visual; that would be fine if this were a pretty painting being sold for 10 dollars and not a puzzle adventure game. You would be better off grabbing a snack and a movie at your local cinema than playing through this. That would cost the same time and money as Drawn: the Painted Tower, but at least you would have more to say about it than “It’s pretty”. (Mechanics): As other negative reviewers have said, the game crashes frequently. Also, when you use hints, they come in order of steps needing to be accomplished within a given room. So, if you are at a loss at the end of a room and need a hint, you will have to go through all of the room’s hints to get to the one you are after. (Puzzles): I don’t know about you, but for me, variety is key in a puzzle game. The variety in Drawn was not so great, but the main problem with some of Drawn’s puzzles is that there are no instructions. So when you do get excited about a hard looking puzzle, your excitement is likely to fade by the time you figure out what exactly you are supposed to do. (In short) Having no instructions was okay a lot of the time, but it was frustrating when a clever looking puzzle was not intuitive. (Conclusion): Drawn: The Painted Tower is a picture book game for toddlers that frequently crashes, has disappointing puzzles, and will last about as long as a lord of the rings movie.

I ran into a glitch in the game and it would not allow me to progress.

打开谜画之塔的方法（英文是机翻的）The method to open the Tower of Enigmas (The English is machine-translated.) 谜画之塔1： ①在文件资源管理器“此电脑”中搜索Big Fish Games ②找到“GameSettings.ini”，打开，并将其中的Fullscreen=0改成Fullscreen=1 ③在设置中将分辨率调至1024×768 谜画之塔2： 将分辨率调至1280×800即可 谜画之塔3： ①在控制面板里，找到语言有关的设置选项 ②在语言和区域中把“非unicode程序的语言”改成英文 ③打开游戏会询问你是否同意它更改系统设置，选同意，游戏会自动调节分辨率 题外话：当初在小学玩了网上的资源一直念念不忘，现在上大学了来补车票，重玩一遍，但是发现根本打不开正版游戏，也是花了很长时间才收集到打开的方式（很像女巫制作魔药，一步都不能错），虽然现在没什么人玩了，但是如果有想入坑的新人朋友，希望可以帮助到大家，谜画之塔三部曲是很好的游戏！ Drawn 1: ①Search for "Big Fish Games" in the "This PC" section of File Explorer. ② Find "GameSettings.ini", open it, and change Fullscreen=0 to Fullscreen=1 in it ③In the settings, adjust the resolution to 1024×768. Drawn 2: Set the resolution to 1280×800 and it will be fine. Drawn 3: ①In the control panel, find the settings option related to language. ② In the Language and Region settings, change "Language for non-Unicode programs" to English ③When you open the game, it will ask if you agree to let it change system settings. Select "Agree", and the game will automatically adjust the resolution. By the way, I was always nostalgic about the online resources I played in primary school. Now that I'm in college, I'm catching up and replaying it. However, I found that I couldn't open the official version of the game at all. It took me a long time to figure out the way to open it (it's like a witch making a potion, every step has to be correct). Although not many people play it now, if there are any new friends who want to get into it, I hope I can help. The Tower of Mysteries trilogy is a great game!

Good: -Nice artwork -Well done, appropriate music -Smooth, cartoon-like animations Bad: -Often have to find the magic pixel that is clickable to interact with something -Puzzle minigames have no instructions, and often there are no indicators what you are supposed to do. Combine this with sometimes having to hunt for the right pixels to click, and you may spend some time frustrated before you finally are able to get started -A lot of backtracking (no map that teleports you as in other hidden objects), and back tracking causes a short loading animation each time. -No hidden object scenes. You find some objects to use elsewhere and solve puzzle minigames, so this is borderline whether it is a hidden object. It's more "adventure-lite". The game is close to a middling ~ rather than an up/down, but I found myself frustrated too often to recommend it.

I don't know if anyone still plays this game but I recently played and finished it. It's one of the best puzzle adventure games I've ever played and I always have trouble finding ones I like. They're either too hard, too boring, super quick etc.. Anyways I highly recommend. - Although since it's and older game it can be glitchy. Not the actual gameplay for me but the cutscenes were actually really glitchy and on the sequel I actually had to quit the game because it kept crashing.

I played this game when it first came out 15 years ago at another site. I remember that it had been hugely popular back then but had forgotten so many of the details. I was very happy to see that it plays fine on Windows 10 and had no problems at all. A very unique puzzle game that is delightful with a large variety of puzzles, some harder than others. This is the first of three in the series and is continued in the next two "Drawn" games. The art style and music are so well done creating an immersive environment. A truly charming and innovative game, even years later. Highly recommended!

The graphics are beautiful and the story and gimmick is quite nice, however it suffers from performance problems: loading screens for every other room, very unpleasant when you have to back track, AND it sometimes glitches, the screen starts jumping randomly from the game to the desktop, cannot be killed with the process manager, you just have to restart the game. It has already happened twice in less than two hours of game.

Really gorgeous and imaginative

Much too short, and too easy. The only times it was hard was because of bad mechanics and/or no explanations of what to do. Also, he story, while cute, did not really make much sense. You are helping a girl, but who are you? Why can't she do anything herself? Why is she on top of the tower? And the ending was just bad. Only buy if you really like puzzles, and if this game happens to be on sale. I bought it during a 65 % sale, and beat it in just one evening. Or better yet, buy "Riven, Sequel to Myst" instead.

This game is often overlooked, and overall it's fairly short. But quite well done, reasonable puzzles, and definitely worth playing if you're a point-and-click adventure fan. Not incredibly tons to say, other than wishing there was more to it all. Recommended overall :)!