Quick dribble on Scribblenauts

So, for those of you that DON'T know, today was the release of Scribblenauts, which I picked up at midnight (this morning) so I could play it after school at this ridiculously long math competition I went to. I'm not sure why I go to the damn things anymore because I pretty much just suck and blow at it and I do enough of that at Burger King. But anyways, the game!

It's fun trying to come up with stuff to imput into the opening screen. The opening screen gives you a taste of the rest of the game by letting you input items and having them appear onscreen. That alone is enough to keep you occupied for a little bit, but eventually you want to get to the actual game, right?

Well, they put you through a tutorial, which is pretty much useless because everyone's figured out how to do everything they'll need to in the game by this point. It's a little redundant but soon you're into the first couple of levels!

Maybe my vocabulary of nouns is just limited, but I feel like some of the restrictions they put on the game hurts it in some way. It IS supposed to be a puzzle game, but why the hell can't I just summon a "GIANT ENEMY CRAB" to kill everything? For example, one of the missions you have to keep ants from getting to a sandwich without hurting them because then you'll piss off the hippy off to your right.

...I'm sorry, what was that? So I don't PISS OFF A HIPPY? Some of the things they limit you in are ridiculous. Why can't I wake up a kid by having a siren poke him a few times? Chef wants a hot meal? FLAMETHROWER TO THE FA--oh, you really meant food. It really kills the buzz of being able to summon GOD on everyone that happens to get on your bad side.

Oh, did I mention? God is a little kinda Roman-esque guy with long white hair and a kinda short beard. But he's pretty cool because I like to summon him on whatever needs to die in the stage and he never dies. He's GOD right? Although sometimes I use the Grim Reaper for the same purpose.

In addition, there's a par for how many items you used in the stage and a timer on how fast. How many "Ollars" you earn is determined by those two things and a vague "Style" rating. But I can't help but feel the par restricts you too. Hell, you're ALREADY restricted by only being able to have so many items on the screen at once! Why the hell are you throwing a par in there too? Trying to make things more challenging? Well, it's not like every stage can be solved by summoning a "GIANT ENEMY CRAB" (sadly). I'm still trying to figure out how to make myself intangible.

But I'm still having fun with it, despite all of that. There are a lot of times where I wished my problems could have been solved by simply summoning a "GIANT ENEMY CRAB" (such as the level where you had to steal a Starite without harming the cops involved). However, the use of some objects being able to be tied to others is interesting, and it's great you can summon a hell of a lot of stuff. Now if only most of it were actually useful.

If you're wondering what [noun] does, go get the game and look it up yourself. Jeez, what do I look like, your own personal reference guide?

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No really, there's nothing else h-- Oh fine.

So when I went to Gamestop this morning to get my reserved copy of Scribblenauts, it came with this rooster hat that looks just fantastic - it's the same one that the main character, Maxwell, has. So, one of the guys working the store, being the dork he was, wanted to get a picture with a buncha people wearing the hats and holding the games. So, he got us all together in the picture and, well...

The bloke that came up with the idea is in the center, I'm off to the right for those of you that care. We all look like dorks and the guy on the right didn't want to cooperate but we got him to anyways SO HA. And apparently, this is getting sent in to the Gamestop website, even though I doubt it'll be posted on it or anything.

Really, that's all.

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Alright it's a puzzle solving game but dammit I want to summon more GIANT ENEMY CRABS.

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