Crave Entertainment and Crayola team up to color the world in Crayola Colorful Journey for the Wii. This title plays much like the old school Lemmings game, your characters Fillup and Violet will side-scroll their way to the end of the stage blindly hoping you and your crayola crayons guild them right.

The goal of Crayola Colorful Journey is to adventure through all stages while coloring in the “white” objects and get your character (either Violet or Fillup) to the end of the stage without losing all your “chances” (this is kid-speak for losing/dying.) The Wii console is perfect for this style of coloring game as you’ll be striking lines for bridges, ramps and other crazy objects using your selection of crayons.

Some crayons will work best on water, others for large heavy ramps (subjected to the worlds gravity) while others will get you to hard to reach places. While on your adventure you’re going to want to collect crayons and pots of color to fill up your crayon reservoir. To keep the adventure a constant challenge, drawing with your crayons to fill the voided colors and make climbable objects uses “color” which must be replenished by walking over color pots.

The three levels of difficulty make Crayon Colorful Journey fun for all ages. Beginner mode is designed for ages five and older and gives new users a chance to understand the workings of the game. While Intermediate Difficulty is designed for ages seven and up and Advanced will challenge your nine-year old. The beginner mode keeps your character from jumping blindly into deep waters or falling to their demise on cliff tops while traveling at a casual pace; the other modes will require more work as your character is much like a “Lemming” in terms of command.

We started on Intermediate mode and found it extremely challenging and we’re older than a six-year old! Often times we found Fillup jumping to his death while we rushed to color bridges and stones to keep him safe. Objects that are not colored are transparent and will allow your character to walk through them; this is a very big problem when Fillup attempts to cross an un-colored bridge!

Crayola Colorful Journey can easily challenge the oldest player and give your children an outlet for creative solutions and problem solving. Stopping your character from advancing into unknown territory is as easy as building a crayola wall on both sides of them, thus giving you time to solve problems. However, it takes a quick mind and sharp whip of the Wii remote to execute perfectly. You may find your children are better at the game than you are, so be wary!

All four stages contain secondary objectives, you’ll want to collect all the crayons, color all the objects (as not all are mandatory) and color in specific objects to unlock all the “coloring pages” available in the game. As you unlock features you’ll add new pages to the coloring book which allows you and your family to virtually color a pretty coloring book in a free-form manner.

The game offers a lot of challenge to all ages while utilizing the full extent of the Wii controller for coloring objects. The secondary challenges add replayability and goal-oriented objectives to Crayola Colorful Journey. The only issue we found was the length of the stages were simply too long. With only a limited number of “chances” to complete the stage we found ourselves restarting the entire level after traveling for what seemed to be miles upon miles of adventure. The stages could have been broken into smaller bite-sized chunks with more save-points to lower the frustration level on higher difficulties.

If you find yourself browsing through the several dozen Wii games at the store and you don’t know where to start, consider Crayola Colorful Journey. This title offers something different from the piles of mini-game compilations found on the Wii today.