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Start talkin', Toger.
I need to go to Best Buy for a new stove anyway, and this one is calling my name.
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Just got it this morning (at work), so I'll unwrap this puppy tonight and let you know. If I'd been thinking, I'd have brought my DSi to work, but who thinks that early in the morning?
Can I tell you all how much I just love Amazon Prime? That "free" 2-day (sometimes 1-day) delivery is freakin' awesome! I've totally gotten my money's worth - and more! - on that annual $80 entrance fee.
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I didn't buy a stove but I did buy Scribblenauts. It's a hoot. A little buggy (I find myself getting stuck behind objects too often) but great. All here will love it. And I say this as a person who's not a big DS player!
Note: the lasso is surprisingly powerful. Young Maxwell is a very strong lad, let's put it that way. It rocketed a boulder toward me so hard that the impact knocked me into a lake filled with piranha.
Other impressions? Speak!
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I stopped playing at the pairanhas having completely missed noticing the underwater flower. Besides, it was 2 am and past time to power off.
Earlier, after giggling in amazement many times over, I shook my husband awake to show him what he was missing. He didn't think it was either the time (1:30 am) or the place (bed, 4 hrs before he had to get up for another 10 hrs @ work). [Image Can Not Be Found]
Today I bought the strategy guide (comments UNnecessary regarding how dumb that is). Which means a select few can benefit by my indulgence. [Image Can Not Be Found]
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Husbands are trouble, Yap. Speaking as a potential husband myself, I can only say that as a gender, we are both unpredictable and untrustworthy. Waking us up in the middle of our sleep cycle is particularly dangerous. We're like hibernating bears, but without claws or fangs. Or fur. Well, we have some fur. So we're like bears but without claws and fans and fur for the most part.
That said, type “teleporter” into your Scribblenauts game and enjoy the hilarity.
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Who needs a stove when you can have Scribblenauts? I only got to play for about an hour last night, but I was highly entertained. I like how the game asks for specifics if you type a generic word like "net". I was asked if I meant a tennis net or a butterfly net. I was a little miffed that the farmer didn't accept my ostrich, zebra or horse (why the hell not the horse?), but he did appreciate the pot-bellied pig. I brought my DS to work. [Image Can Not Be Found]
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He didn't accept your horse, huh? Weird, he took mine, AND he differentiated between it and a pony. I think he would have accepted the ferret as well, but the cat ate it.
This game is hilarious.
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Trying to open new screens I “decorated” an empty, undiggable rocky expanse by adding a cave. Accidently tapped on the cave & out came a bear! Spent the next 20 minutes trying to get rid of the bear without actually killing it. Finally exited the screen where I'm assuming the bear is still chasing me. Me being the Witch, not Maxwell.
Braggard Mode: I have 4 gold stars in lvl 1.
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I rescued the cat with a mouse. Both the girl and the cat loved me!
Oh, I did find a word that the game didn't recognize – fulcrum – I'm wondering if it thought it was a proper noun?
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This game sounds great. I ordered it from Amazon, but I have a question. I hear come players complaining about the controls being clunky and Maxwell being hard to move around? Is this a problem?
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I haven't had any problem. I just tap where I want him and he goes there. You can also tap/drag. I've also only played the challenges on this first level, I've yet to do the action mode - although playing the tutorial I didn't run into any issues with controlling him.
I redid the farmer: not only did he take my horse this time, he also rode the ostrich! I think my issue last night – aside from being horrifically tired – was that I wasn't clear on people + objects. Redoing the entire tutorial this morning while my brain was reasonably fresh helped a lot. I still have issues sometimes, but that's just my stupidity, not the game.
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Had to gather flowers for the florist. Sent a bear after the bee. After eating the bee, the bear came after Max. Dropped the bear in the lake where it ate the piranha. (I have to give 'props to the piranha as it was touch & go there for a minute) Fell in the lake and was mauled by the bear.
The End.
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Just a note that GoGamer's current 48-hour madness includes Scribblenauts for $22.90.
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I'm into the Action levels of World 2, and as great as this game is, I am consistently frustrated by creating objects that don't work as they should. It's a small gripe, but it forces me to retreat to a common stable of tools I've used before, because I know they do what I want them to.
In the manual there's a picture of a vampire riding a chariot tethered to a dinosaur. I attempted to create this setup but couldn't figure out how to harness the T-Rex. What'd I miss?
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That's my issue as well – things often don't work the way I think they should. The level with the bee made me crazy as every animal I'd add to the mix would get cranky (bear vs bee, bear vs pirhana, eagle vs piiranha) and come after me. Then I managed to hook an iceberg with the fishing pole and flipped the iceberg upside down and fell in the lake when all I wanted to do was stand on the 'berg and grab the flower on the cliff with the pole. Earlier, I tried to use a jet pack only to not get enough height and fell in the lake, where the jet pack fizzled out and the piranha ate me.
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I tried to use a bulldozer to move a fridge-sized block of ice, but the stuff wouldn't budge. Later on I created a wrecking ball, then a crane, and got the ball attached to the crane's chain (rain in spain), but there was no mechanism to swing my ball (er) at a brick wall. In the fall.
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I'm glad Scribblenauts exists, but it seems to create a canvas for endless imagination and creativity that it can't possibly fulfill. It inevitably leads to frustrations of expectations. Any game that allows a player to create a situation where God can battle Cthulu with a chainsaw deserves some points... but a game where a security guard doesn't move a muscle when half the artifacts in the museum that he has been tasked do supervise are destroyed by a mysterious bomb has some major problems. The fact that Scribblenauts is both is the most frustrating part of it.
It necessitates a bizarrely constrained creativity: a thought process held within the designers' own strange reactionary logic. Of course most games are like this, but Scribblenauts, at least for me seemed to promise more... and tends to continue to do so throughout the game. And there are such strange holes... why can't I summon a bomb expert? You can type in security Uniform, but it sure doesn't fool the security guards. But I can give a piece of toast to a cat and summon a black hole.
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I was talking with someone via twitter in regards to what pissed him off about the game - he said pretty much what lokimotive said (only in 140 characters or less [Image Can Not Be Found] ) He also said that he'd found himself using the same objects over and over again. Which pissed him off because the game allows you to make so many different things, yet they don't always work the way you think they will/should.
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Toger said:
Can I tell you all how much I just love Amazon Prime? That “free” 2-day (sometimes 1-day) delivery is freakin' awesome! I've totally gotten my money's worth – and more! – on that annual $80 entrance fee.
Amazon Prime is awesome! I hardly buy anything anywhere else anymore.
Wonder if I could've used "any" a few more times in that sentence.
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