Reviewers Liked
- Refreshing and innovative gameplay. Fun puzzles
Reviewers Didn't Like
- The controls will put your furniture on the endangered species list
Max & the Magic Marker
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Max & the Magic Marker, from Press Play, drops us gently into a platforming world drawn directly from a child's imagination. After receiving a strange delivery of a very special marker, young Max begins blissfully (and ignorantly) coloring as many...
By Gaming Nexus onEvery so often there comes a game that seems so child-like in its essence, it’s almost as if you are reliving your childhood. Max & The Magic Marker is just such a game. Developed by Press Play, the player is put in control of Max, a young boy...
By GameZone onMany a gamer born in the eighties has a soft spot for platform games. A fat plumber in an overall has taught us the ways of life through jumping pits and stepping on enemies to reach further levels. In my circle of friends, we used Super Mario Bros....
By Hooked Gamers onMax and the Magic Marker offers an innovative gaming experience with multiple brain-teasing platform puzzles, but this game challenges a player's patience more than their brains, the controls are fickle and gameplay is repetitive. Meghan Watt...
By PC Advisor onYou’d think more people did art in school judging by the popularity of physics-based drawing games, a genre to which Max & the Magic Marker is the latest entrant. Surprisingly, this one is probably the best of the lot. While it doesn’t...
By Games Radar onMax & the Magic Marker is an entertaining if short addition to the growing library of drawing games on the market. The visual style and nice mix of platforming and drawing are sure to help it stand out, but the game doesn't match the depth of some...
By IGN Gear onMit Max and the Magic Marker bringt The Games Company zum Vorteilspreis eine bunte Mischung aus Jump’n’Run und kniffeligen Rätselspaß auf den Markt. Die Aufgabenstellungen sind teilweise recht kniffelig und derjenige, der jeden...
By OnlineWelten
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Als der kleine Rotschopf Max eines Tages einen magischen Filzstift erhält, malt er sich seine eigene kleine Fantasiewelt. Allerdings formt er sich auch gleich einen lila Bösewicht mit, der aussieht, als käme er direkt von einem...
By I Am Gamer
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Das Spiel ist nicht sehr umfangreich - wurde aber gut umgesetzt und ist preislich ein Schnäppchen. Die Steuerung reagiert sehr sensibel, ist aber dennoch schnell beherrschbar. Die Grafiken sind außerdem mit viel Liebe zum Detail gezeichnet und...
By Digitale-Generation
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sorgt mit seinem unterhaltsamen Leveldesign und den pfiffigen Einsatzmöglichkeiten des Zauberstifts für Spaß bei experimentierfreudigen großen und kleinen Hüpfern, hätte aber gern etwas umfangreicher sein dürfen. Auch...
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