{"id":22069,"date":"2022-02-23T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T00:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22069"},"modified":"2022-02-16T02:34:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T02:34:12","slug":"draw-a-stickman-epic-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/23\/draw-a-stickman-epic-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Draw a Stickman EPIC (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Have you ever wanted to create your own video game character and have it star in a game?\u00a0 Well now you can with Draw a Stickman EPIC.\u00a0 You\u2019ll draw a character and a friend for it to save, then you\u2019ll explore top down doodle filled worlds and solve puzzles and avoid obstacles by moving around and drawing things.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of Scribblenauts or Drawn to Life.\u00a0 The game has been popular enough to spawn a couple of sequels on mobile devices, and now the original game is available on most current consoles and PC, too (reviewed on Switch here).<\/p>\n

To start, you\u2019ll be prompted to draw a stickman and a friend.\u00a0 But you don\u2019t have to draw a stickman.\u00a0 I drew Kirby and Waddle Dee, and you can draw anything you want to.\u00a0 Pac-Man, Hatsune Miku, or whatever!\u00a0 Then you\u2019ll control them in small top down environments.\u00a0 The game will give them a bit of squash and stretch animations so it looks like they\u2019re walking (or at least shuffling).<\/p>\n

You can walk around with the L control stick, but you\u2019ll need to draw things to solve puzzles and bypass obstacles.\u00a0 You can draw by either aiming a cursor and pressing a button in TV mode, or by drawing on the touch screen in handheld mode.\u00a0 Both ways work fine, but drawing on the touchscreen is a tad easier.\u00a0 You\u2019ll draw by first selecting a colored pencil on the right side of the screen.\u00a0 Each one does different things when you draw with them.\u00a0 The red one makes fire, handy for lighting fuses.\u00a0 You can also draw keys for unlocking doors, axes for chopping down trees, and clouds for dispensing rain or lighting, depending on how you drew them. \u00a0But don\u2019t worry if you aren\u2019t good at drawing.\u00a0 As long as you picked the right pencil, whatever you draw will do what you wanted it to.<\/p>\n

The only problems I had with this game were that goals and objectives were sometimes a bit unclear.\u00a0 And if you get hit too many times by an enemy or obstacle and \u2018die,\u2019 you have to start the whole level over again.\u00a0 Luckily the levels are pretty short, but it was still frustrating enough to make me lose interest quicker than I wanted.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still not a bad game.<\/p>\n

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Draw a Stickman EPIC is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 If you get hit, your doodle just flashes red for a bit and yells out an \u2018argh.\u2019\u00a0 When you get hit too many times, you just get erased and must start the stage over again.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may need help with the more difficult puzzles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wanted to create your own video game character and have it star in a game?\u00a0 Well now you can with Draw a Stickman EPIC.\u00a0 You\u2019ll draw a character and a friend for it to save, then you\u2019ll explore top down doodle filled worlds and solve puzzles and avoid obstacles by moving around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22071,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22069\/revisions\/22071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}