Anyone ever play Graffiti Kingdom (PS2)?

[SuperPhillip]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_Kingdom

It was an action-platformer where you drew your own character/monster, collected other monsters to play as, and fight enemies and bosses while exploring multiple levels. Very fun, underrated game. Music composed by Yasunori Mitsuda of Chrono fame.

[Finfreeze]

Yeah, I have played it. It's a decent game, but I kinda wished that it had more emphasis on drawing to deal with the task at hand. Like say, creating a boat or sub to deal with a vast ocean, a fat creature to push down a switch, or a monster with big arms to carry a boulder. As it is, it's just a typical platformer with a doodle function.

I have/had a lot of fun creating characters and marveling at others' works, but in the end there is very little game to play. I wonder...what doodles you have made? Myself, I tend to favor simplicity and original characters, although I made a pretty close likeness of Chuck Norris from Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos. I find that, when viewing some of the Japanese works, sometimes putting too much effort into details creates a sloppy and jumbled look. 'Course, too much simplicity can create an incomplete look, and since my favorite clothes (big straw hats and robes) are nigh-impossible to create in this game, it sometimes becomes hard to make a truly "finished" design.

You can check here for my older creations:
http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q128/Finfreeze/Graffiti%20Kingdom/
http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q128/Finfreeze/Magic%20Pengel/

As you can probably tell, faces are my biggest problem, more so in Graffiti Kingdom than Magic Pengel (as the latter is a a lot more accurate with the pattern tool, and the way the models are rendered makes modest mistakes look OK all things considered).

I certainly wish that the game was a bit more popular outside Japan, as I love to see others' creations. If you know how to work the system, you can create amazing designs.

[Dark Fact]

One of my friends in my anime club has this game and some of the creatures he created for it were incredible! He even made a dead on Trogdor the Burninator to use in the game...fire breath and all! :cool:

The art system in this game is very good! Strongly recommended if you can look past the kiddie graphics. ;)