Scribblenauts will bring out the worst in you

Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 03:11 AM PDT

Scribblenauts is a Nintendo DS puzzle game. In a typical level, your goal is simply to grab a star located somewhere out of reach. Your tools? Anything you want, ostensibly. You can write a word, like "gun" and the item will appear on the screen for you to use. The game itself has some flaws (here is a review) but the ability to summon items and creatures is astonishingly well done and probably worth the purchase price all by itself. It seems like they thought of everything...

• I wrote chupacabra and a little green guy with red eyes appeared. He left a dog alone, but he instantly attacked a goat I summoned. (This alone makes it game of the year.)
  
• God will kill a zombie, but a vampire will turn God into a vampire. I summoned a phaser to shoot the vampire but hit god-vampire instead; he was killed. The remaining vampire ran from my cross. 
• As the review mentions, you can summon a time machine and ride it, which takes you to a realm of knights and damsels. 
• In that medieval world, I accidentally destroyed a drawbridge with my sword. The princess on the drawbridge happened to fall in the water, so I summoned a shark to eat her. I tried summoning a school of piranhas to eat the shark, but as you can only do one at a time the shark kept eating them.
• The game knows roflcopter. It looks different than the helicopter.
  
• Try writing I win button.
• An evil clown looks like a clown but thinks evil thoughts. 
• Pirates kill ninjas.
• A succubus attacked me, but a cherub nailed her with arrows... after which she liked me. (I could use the cherub's bow to make other creatures turn good.)
  

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