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Scribblenauts |  | From: Warner Bros
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  175 reviews
Sales Rank: 198
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: action_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.9 x 0.6
MPN: 1000109938
Model: 883929085613
UPC: 883929085613
EAN: 0883929085613
ASIN: B002B1TDV8
Publication Date: August 31, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Play the entire game in a sandbox style right on the title screen. | | • | Innovative side scrolling action where objects spelled out to solve spatial puzzles become real and combinable in-game and can be reused. | | • | Over 30,000 items are available to help you and your imagination collect Starites. | | • | 220 levels of single player, pick-up and play fun. | | • | Share levels you create with the level editor via Nintendo DS Wi-Fi Connection. |
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Product Description
Scribblenauts DS
Amazon.com Product Description
Scribblenauts is a unique single player side-scrolling action game for the Nintendo DS that challenges players to solve spatially oriented puzzles like no game before it. In it players use an in-game notepad/keyboard, as well as the touch screen and stylus of the Nintendo DS, to conjure up solutions to the obstacles placed in the path of the game's hero. Solutions are manifested in the form of literally thousands of items--many very unexpected--that are called up and take on a life of their own, resulting in puzzle-solving that is limited only by the player's imagination. 
Get creative in collecting Starites.
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Based around 2D side-scrolling action and word play, the premise of Scribblenauts is simple; quite literally, anything you write, you can use and reuse in the game. Players use the DS' touch-screen and the in-game notepad/keyboard to help their character, Maxwell, as he moves throughout 220 increasingly difficult levels on his never-ending quest for the star-like "Starites." But it is not as easy as reaching up and plucking a Starite. Attaining them requires Maxwell to solve spatially oriented puzzles. To do this players describe objects via the notepad/keyboard, which in turn appear on the game screen and facilitate the starite making its way to Maxwell. There are literally thousands of items in the game, both utilitarian like ladders, ropes, cars and buses, to the outlandish items, such as invisibility cloaks, pirates and black holes. There are time limits on levels, as well as a limitation to the number of items that can be used per level. But regardless of these restrictions, the game is all about experimentation, imagination and endless replay value as players open their minds to the nearly limitless possibilities that are sure to make Scribblenauts unlike any side-scrolling platformer they have ever played. Key Features - Create Your Own Interactive Experience - Objects you write down in the game are only limited by your imagination.
- Everyone Can Play - Scribblenauts features all-ages pick-up-and-play fun for everyone.
- Touch-screen Controls - Easy to pick up and play on Nintendo DS. If you can tap, you can play.
- Unlimited Replay Value - Use less objects to increase your score, or experiment with different objects for endless replay value. Write anything; solve everything.
- Playground Mode - Play the entire game in a sandbox style right on the title screen.
- Create and Share - Share levels you create with the level editor via your Nintendo DS Wi-Fi Connection.
- Innovative New Title from Leading Developer - 5th Cell, the creator of the Drawn to Life franchise and Lock's Quest, has experience creating high-quality, innovative DS games.
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Spell it & use it.
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Thousands of objects.
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Object combining.
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 Like nothing else. September 18, 2009
Gavin Scott (Sunnyvale, CA United States)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Ok, I succumbed to the hype and picked it up on the way home. I haven't made it off the start screen yet (you can summon anything on the start screen and just mess around). I assume there's a game in here too, but I'm having too much fun just playing around.
I summoned a lorikeet, parakeet, and parrot, and they all look different!
I got a puma that kept trying to eat me so I got a lion tamer to keep it quiet. Then I got a saddle and put it on the lion and put the lion tamer on him and gave her a bazooka. To balance things I got an elephant and gave him a bazooka too. That didn't end well for anyone. So I got a jet pack and flew away (needed the jet pack to get over the crater).
I got a bunny. It was cute, so I got another bunny. Then suddenly somehow I had a lot more bunnies (naughty bunnies got a little too friendly I think). Fortunately the T-Rex made short work of the excess bunny population (though I think he got so stuffed he had to take a nap as a result).
Insanely great fun.
Even if the game portion has some issues with control and so forth, it's worth the $30 even just as an amazing tech demo and to mess around with. I have several DS titles that I just never got into, but in the first hour I feel like I've gotten more than my money's worth out of this one, and I really haven't even started playing yet!
Portable awesomeness.
It has indeed so far had literally everything I've asked it for. Just a stunning achievement in game development.
I would write more but I most go back and resume fooling around with the start screen some more!
P.S. Doh! The Dingo ate my Baby!
If there's a problem, yo I'll solve it! September 19, 2009
trashcanman (Hanford, CA United States)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
"Scribblenauts" is a new puzzle game for the Nintendo DS that is limited only by your own imagination. Seriously. This is a revolution in the genre tht id playable by absolutely anybody and will challenge absolutely everybody. The premise is this: you are given a task to complete which will result in you obtaining a "starite". How you complete this task is completely up to you. Anything you can think of within, you can write into the game and use as you see fit. No joke. If you think the mighty Cthuluhu will help you achieve your goal, then you can summon him. If you wish to utilize zombies, dinosaurs, a blowtorch, a UFO, and a "jerk" (who goes around hitting people) you can do that as well. If you can think it, you can write it and make it appear so long as it's not a copyrighted character or potentially offensive. The sandbox potential by itself is massive. I bought this game yesterday out of lingering curiosity after seeing it played on the popular video game show X-Play (they wrote in a dingo and had it eat a baby) and it really lives up to the hype. I planned on giving it a test run for a puzzle or two and was planning on playing some Xbox 360 or maybe writing a review. 5 hours later, my DS battery died and I was forced to stop after 4 hours and 45 minutes of thinking "Just one more. Just one more...." This is like crack in puzzle form.
Now I'm usually pretty good at staying focused on the task at hand. I'll play around a little, but for the most part, I'm all about gaining points. The idea is the solve the puzzle and get the starite in the least possible time. Each level has a "par" for the number of objects used. If you use less you get bonus points, if you use more you get less. You also get other bonuses such as not using weapons or writing in objects that you haven't used before. This encourages creative and efficient thinking rather then writing in everything under the sun. As I said, I'm pretty good at staying on track but on one occasion I needed to pas a tripwire that was dropping the starite into lava so I wrote in "teleporter". It teleported me to Mars. From there I just went nuts. Among the discoveries I made was that you can type in "otaku" and get a geek wearing a shirt with an old-school Nintendo controller on it. I wrote in "anime" and a DVD appeared. I gave it to the otaku and he seemed happy with it. The TV and DVD players didn't have anywhere to plug in , though. Then God and Satan had a little tiff. God won. I then proceeded to type "atheist" in and that guy got scared and ran screaming from our holy father. I then gave the non-believer a gun and he proceeded to run after God and shoot him with it. He got smited. Tell me that isn't awesome! Way cooler then getting a stupid star thingy.
Another puzzle included getting a girl's cat off of her roof. I wrote a dog on the roof to chase it off. the kittie didn't survive the fall, so next time I placed a ladder for it to jump too. Worked like a charm. Another featured a trapped starite buried under a large piece of steel with two baddies on top of it. I wrote in a superhero and hit the switch to unleash the villains, who were quicky smashed by the cape. I then gave the superhero a magnet and as he flew over the steel, it lifted up and away from the starite, and I got my prize. I wonder how somebody else would have solved that one. Seeing different things interact with each other is great fun. Write in a vampire and then huck some garlic at it to see it crumble to dust. Throw a chunk of silver at a werewolf and he's cured! When a zombie bites somebody, they become another member of the undead And yes, as I said, a dingo will eat your baby. The people who made this game really thought of everything. The submarine even has torpedoes. Shoot, you can even dress guys up in drag if that's your thing! And if you paint yourself into a corner, just drop an atom bomb and watch the world disappear in a flash of white. Good times.
The more points you earn in "Scribblenauts" the more you can unlock. New worlds with new puzzles, new avatars (mine's a ninja), new music, new sandbox levels (which begin every gameplay session), and there is even a level editor. That is correct. You can go into any level you've played and make your own puzzle out of it using anything you'd like. I have to say that the amount of stuff you are allowed to put in each level is pretty limited, but I suppose they had to have some kind of a cap on it to keep players from getting out of hand with their creations. You can also wirelessly share your levels with any friends you have who own the game, which is cool.
I don't believe there's ever been a game like this out there. "Scribblenauts" is a game that anybody can get into. It twists your mind and has a wicked sense of humor to boot. Some of the puzzles are insane and coming up with ways to solve them is bound to make you try some very outlandish things. Seriously: a superhero with magnet. Is there any other game out there where that would be a viable option for anything? And why bother putting in an atheist who can get the fear of of God put in him? It doesn't even have anything to do with solving puzzles! Just because the makers of this game want you to know that they are way ahead of you and at least as twisted as you are, that's why. I look forward to delving into the innumerable (okay, they are numerable, but that numero is really big) challenges of this game and hopefully finding even more hidden little goodies to make me laugh out loud while I try like hell to find a way to beat the current maddening challenge. If you've got a DS and an imagination; buy this game.
What an amazing game September 15, 2009
Jennifer
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
This game is truly amazing. It goes beyond normal gaming and opens up your imagination.
Basically, Scribblenauts is an extreme puzzle game. You'll get sort of "quests" to beat and the tools at your disposal to solve them are completely unlimited.
The only real limitations in this game is you can't use proper nouns or anything vulgar or copyrighted. (ie. You can't use "Godzilla" or "Superman")
Here is an example of the kind of puzzles you might get: The shepherd has lost one of his lambs and you have to cross a river and get by a wolf to get to him. The sheep are scared of weapons and explosives so you can't use them. Now, you can use anything you want to get back that lamb. Chainsaws, helicopters, mummies, butter, mountains, you can really use just about ANYTHING!
I love this game and I'm totally addicted to it. It's by far the best game I've ever played on Nintendo DS and in my opinion, the most innovative thing to come to video games since Guitar Hero.
One of my fav games! October 25, 2009
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you like to have a challenge when you play video games and you want to be creative, this game is for you! All you have to do is type in a word, like...giraffe, and a giraffe appears! POOF! I bet you think you can't make every item appear, but you pretty much can! You can run around with a slice of pizza and have a princess follow you because she wants to eat it! The game isn't really violent, yes your charecter can die and there's bombs and stuff, but there's no blood. It's just a little cartoon. It's like Mario, if you die,you try to beat Bowser again. There's animals, clothes, food, gross stuff, and so much more! You can just sit around and do stuff, or figure out a ton of puzzles instead. This is a game you need to have!
LOVE this game!! September 30, 2009
Atticus
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this game for my third grader. He is obsessed with video games (what third grader isn't?) and I was intrigued that this game required a knowledge of reading and writing. Well, I am over the moon!! A game that my child LOVES to play and that makes him think and use his vocabulary. EXCELLENT!! We do have the Scribblenauts book - which is helpful if a puzzle is too difficult or frustrating. But as a parent I can't say enough about this game. He is playing AND learning. You have to love it.
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