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Scribblenauts on DS

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Scribblenauts is a Platforming game available on the DS. It can be played in Singleplayer modes.

Scribblenauts is a Platforming game. Platform games task you with getting from point A to point B. The world you journey through is usually based on different levels, and populated with enemies, switches and lifts to be negotiated. As you work through each level you pick up various collectables that accrue score, special abilities and access to hidden areas.

Scribblenauts can be played in a Singleplayer mode. Single Player Campaign games focus on one player's experience. Rather than collaborate with other players either locally or online, players progress alone. The campaign style of gameplay offers a connected series of challenges to play through. These chapters work together to tell a story through which players progress. Single player games are able to focus on one experience of a scenario, so that it is usually a richer, more visceral game.

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Super Scribblenauts

Super Scribblenauts DS does more than fix the physics. With 800 new objects and countless adjective driven variations there are more ways to solve each puzzle than ever.

Super Scribblenauts extends the text based problem solving game with event more random objects. Like the first game, players are presented with a problem that they solve by conjuring everyday objects by simply naming them.
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Reviews

Teaching Gamer review Tue, 26 Oct 2010

Super Scribblenauts' inventive game play relies as much on the player's imagination and life experience as on its own design. Educationally it's both engaging and unusual in a way that will appeal to Kinesthetic learners.

Super Scribblenauts is a puzzle game where the player's imagination is the only limit to the way they can solve each problem. Rather than using a limited number of tools to resolve each challenge, players can simply conjure any item just by typing it.
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Family Gamer review Wed, 11 Nov 2009

Scribblenauts was a game I initially thought would suit me and my playing style. The premise of a platforming puzzle game that lets you put any object into its world and solve problems in a variety of ways sounded the experience I would love chipping away at during the quiet evenings when the children are in bed. But Scribblenauts conspired to turn this incredible concept into a frustration-filled nightmare with broken and useless controls doing everything to get in the way of any fun. But once I found my son playing it without any preset expectations or boundaries, I suddenly found myself using it in an unexpected and awesome way. Instead of sticking to the pre-conceived levels we used Scribblenauts as a learning platform and the game transformed from awkward platformer to a tremendous and unique educational tool.

By all accounts Scribblenauts looks like a game for kids. The main protagonist is a cheery looking guy on the front box and the art style of the game is akin to a children's drawing. This was certainly drawn out by the tutorial which I found to be patronising and overly verbose about telling you what to do and not letting me get into the game quick enough. But once I got past the first few levels its simple puzzles began to illustrate what an amazing concept this game operates under. Even the most simple task, such as rescuing a cat from the top of a house, has a variety of ways in which to be solved. I could type in 'Fire Engine' and the Fire service would come by and pick up the cat, or I could type in 'ladder' myself and climb up that way. Or I could go off the deep and disturbing end and set fire to the house, causing the cat to jump down safely into its owner's arms.
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Frugal Gamer review Wed, 30 Sep 2009

Scribblenauts is a puzzle game you solve by typing words to create objects. Maybe you need a ladder to climb a tree or a hose to fill a pool, you simply type the words with the stylus to make them magically appear. Thousands of objects are packed into this intriguing Nintendo DS game that re-writes the puzzle game genre with a nod to riddles and retro text adventures.

You may remember the old text adventures where you typed in words to progress. Scribblenauts takes the puzzle solving side of these games but massively expands the dictionary so almost every word you can think of is catered for. Each of these objects then interacts with each other and the environment to let the player decide how they solve each problem.
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