Scribblenauts [DS]

[Spatial]

Just tried that, it doesn't work. But I do follow your logic and it's fair point.

[Lebowski]

That level where you have to get rid of the rats, I ran about picked up the rats and cooked them in the oven, they turned into rat kebabs and the chef ate them! Play this game doing the most strange things you can think off and it's great.

The biggest problem This game has Is not the dictonary or the controlls it's that items don't do what they do in real life, and what it boils down to is there's a cheap way to do things and a predetermined way to do things. If you try anything to creative it just dosent work. you try 15 diffrent ideas non of them work and then you resort to jetpack, box, gun scubagear

[EvilBoris]

I think it is just the way the game registers food as being 'done' I drew some roast beef and it didn't unlock the starite until it had gone in the oven.

[endo]

well i think it goes airport plane skydive = land on starit
HAPPY GAMING !!!
ps or any way you see fit airport helicopter winch ???
open your mind
or airport plane skydive bouncy castle handglide heard more imaginative you are means more points or even airport ballooning crossbow shoot fall on tree which sounds funny
i guess this game is the glass half full or half empty

Anyone tried writing 'airport'- what happens?

Reading the reviews, lots of them say things like 'the main game basically gets boring fairly fast but it's very entertaining to make Cthlulu fight zombies, or make werewolves fight vampires' etc. Is that the case- is it more fun just pissing around with the dictionary than tackling the challenges the game presents? The mechanic example above just gets me wondering. It's all well and good saying every noun is in the game and everything behaves/interacts exactly as you would expect, but something apparently basic like a mechanic fixing a car doesn't work? WTF is that about?

Dunno- I'm weighing up whether to buy this or not. If it's just a matter of the only fun to be had is testing out what words the devs put in and making x monster fight god or whatever, I might not bother- doesn't really sound like a game to me. What do y'all reckon- a worthy purchase, or what?

[Spatial]

The problem with X fights Y is that it's almost always the same outcome.

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Pirate

Vs

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Ninja

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Pirate

usually always wins

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God

Vs

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Devil

-

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God

always wins.

There are some neat touches to certain unusual words like

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dropping a meteor from height, creating a time machine, typing in `Maxwell`, using a zombie to create a zombie outbreak

but I can't see the amusement from that lasting long.

The puzzles should be where it's at but I'm just not feeling the due to the lack of interaction and the problems that causes.

[Magnakai]

I just did the last level of Ancient

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where you have to kill the dragon and get the king back to the castle. What it doesn't tell you is that nobody can die, apart from the dragon. So you end up having to distract the stupid knight with a princess (masterstroke on my part, if I do say so myself), sprinkle snow on the fire, shoot the dragon with a rocket launcher, tie the king riding on a sheep to an anvil so he doesn't run into the lava, fly over him with a helicopter, tie him to the helicopter, release him from the anvil, and drop him off over the castle and the blissfully unaware knight.

Quite a bloody palava.

[Lebowski]

I just did the last level of Ancient

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where you have to kill the dragon and get the king back to the castle. What it doesn't tell you is that nobody can die, apart from the dragon. So you end up having to distract the stupid knight with a princess (masterstroke on my part, if I do say so myself), sprinkle snow on the fire, shoot the dragon with a rocket launcher, tie the king riding on a sheep to an anvil so he doesn't run into the lava, fly over him with a helicopter, tie him to the helicopter, release him from the anvil, and drop him off over the castle and the blissfully unaware knight.

Quite a bloody palava.

i found on that one that

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road glue road saves a lot of time as you can use it get across to the dragon to press the switch and to let the king cross the gap at the top

[Magnakai]

i found on that one that

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road glue road saves a lot of time as you can use it get across to the dragon to press the switch and to let the king cross the gap at the top

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ROAD! ROAD!!! I never thought of road! Genius! I'd been using telephone poles for the big gaps so far, but that's much better! Anyone disappointed by how poxy a bridge is? Very unimpressive. Laser sword to the face! Good thing I'm a ninja. Pow!

Incidentally, my proudest Scribblenauts moment is

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in the bull in a china shop level, I didn't move a music. I just placed an atom bomb right next to where I was standing. The screen faded to white, played the Level Win sound, and I found Ninja Maxwell holding a star. Win!

Incidentally, I found an easter egg in one of the first levels. Just summon a

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teleporter, and you'll meet the developers! Personally, I was hoping to get across a gap, but I ended up resorting to a spaceship. Oh, how I slum it in the name of progress...

[Lebowski]

Oops Ignore me

[merf]

I was one of the early sceptics on this and have to confess they've done a much better job with the word set than I expected in terms of having most things in there.

It falls down in some sense with a new variant on the 'uncanny valley', once we can summon an item we then expect it to have all the key real world properties we associate with it, it becomes obvious pretty quickly that many objects don't and then it gets frustrating (the mechanic issue, I tried a Pied Piper on a rat level to no good effect etc).

The real nail in the coffin though is the controls, they are simply broken, for a game claiming to target casuals and the Nintendo new audience thats unforgiveable.

I predicted a 5/10 for this when announced, personally now I'd stick it up a little and give it a 6, there is fun in there and I'll admit great scope for a decent sequel on a more powerful machine if the game is given to better devs. As it is its a deeply flawed experience that gives glimpses of what it could have been.

[toythatkills]

SPOILER]Pirate[/SPOILER] Vs

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Ninja

-

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Pirate

usually always wins

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God

Vs

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Devil

-

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God

always wins.

Give them different weapons or something

[EvilBoris]

I had a priest with a gun kill god.

[Spatial]

Can you give God a weapon? I haven't tried that.

[toythatkills]

I had a priest with a gun kill god.

My girlfriend killed a nun by

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chasing her with a cutlass onto a cleverly angled trampoline, which bounced her onto a waiting fire.

[Spatial]

So a heathen loves God or a Deity, but add Ra or Anubis in and it runs away

And Medusa is brilliant. Especially when you

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plonk a mirror in front of it which turns it to stone and you can then use the head to petrify people