So the game's been out for two months, does anyone have any retrospective thoughts?
I think the game is solid and the list of unique words and sprites really impressed me, but I found that a lot of the puzzles were too easy. There were very few I was stumped on. I also discovered that many of the puzzles can be beaten with just a handful of items (pterondon, rope, glue, black hole, blob etc.). The advanced mode allows for a bit more challenge, but it can also be easily abused (glue, adhesive, etc all produce the same items).
While the puzzles may not have been difficult, they were at least creative and amusing. The pop culture references were really unexpected, and the game throws you in to some really interesting scenarios. The people at 5th Cell certainly have a healthy imagination.
But I do think a lot of fun from the game comes from just messing around. I'm really surprised by how much strange and obscure stuff they managed to include in the game. Recently I've discovered that many buildings hold an item or person that pop out when you interact with them, so I've been playing with that.
Overall Scribblenauts is a solid game that seems to be feeling a bit of backlash considering the insane hype it got around here. I'd still recommend it, as it's a fun game to show off to people and the game takes a good ten hours or so to beat every puzzle, which is impressive considering a lot of the top titles these days take less than that to complete.
Also, someone has been ripping the sprites from Scribblenauts. Although this is nowhere near a comprehensive list, there are still many things I've never seen before.
http://spriters-resource.com/ds/scribblenauts/
I think the game is solid and the list of unique words and sprites really impressed me, but I found that a lot of the puzzles were too easy. There were very few I was stumped on. I also discovered that many of the puzzles can be beaten with just a handful of items (pterondon, rope, glue, black hole, blob etc.). The advanced mode allows for a bit more challenge, but it can also be easily abused (glue, adhesive, etc all produce the same items).
While the puzzles may not have been difficult, they were at least creative and amusing. The pop culture references were really unexpected, and the game throws you in to some really interesting scenarios. The people at 5th Cell certainly have a healthy imagination.
But I do think a lot of fun from the game comes from just messing around. I'm really surprised by how much strange and obscure stuff they managed to include in the game. Recently I've discovered that many buildings hold an item or person that pop out when you interact with them, so I've been playing with that.
Overall Scribblenauts is a solid game that seems to be feeling a bit of backlash considering the insane hype it got around here. I'd still recommend it, as it's a fun game to show off to people and the game takes a good ten hours or so to beat every puzzle, which is impressive considering a lot of the top titles these days take less than that to complete.
Also, someone has been ripping the sprites from Scribblenauts. Although this is nowhere near a comprehensive list, there are still many things I've never seen before.
http://spriters-resource.com/ds/scribblenauts/