Sunday, December 6, 2009

Review – Scribblenauts


THE promise of a game that allows you to create anything you want sounds far too ambitious to be real, especially for a Nintendo DS game, but somehow Scribblenauts manages to contain an incredibly impressive library of objects, from UFOs and pearl tea to giant squids and zombies, that you can use in virtually any way you’d like.

There are a few understandable limitations though, so you can’t create anything alcoholic, suggestive or copyrighted. Another limitation ensures that you can only create a certain number of items per level so that your poor little DS doesn’t have a meltdown. 

Fortunately it’s a generous limit and you can delete any objects you make so you can replace them with a new one. Aside from that, the only limit is your imagination. The aim of each of the 200-plus levels is to collect a golden star, called a Starite, by any means necessary.