A few days ago Joshua and I picked Scribblenauts up. It is rare a Nintendo DS game can capture as much attention as Scribblenauts has, especially the attention of a couple of 20-somethings, but we were so intrigued by the idea that we absolutely had to buy it. After we dusted our DS off we popped it in and were happy to find you can immediately start toying with the prominent feature of the game: making random 0bjects appear with the “scribble” of your stylus.

Scribblenauts stars Maxwell, a young boy who needs your help completing each puzzle level. In order to finish these levels and gain starites the user must use his or her imagination and help come up with ways to obtain the starites. For example, in one of the levels you must pick a flower and bring it back to a gardener. To do this though you must think of objects that can 1.) Dispose of the bee flying around the flower and 2.) Take you across the pond to reach the flower. This is where our friend Jon scribbled “Nuclear Weapons” and destroyed not just the bee, but the entire level. I stuck with a flyswatter and a hot air balloon and got my starite. Finally, once you’ve got your starite the game will tally up a score for that level, which is computed by the number of merits you receieve (for example, how creative your summoned objects are). The more merits you get, the higher your score, and the more “ollars” you receive, which can buy you additional characters and levels.

In addition to the puzzle levels, you can play action levels, which are your typical side-scrolling jump-on-this-switch-and-hop-over-this-object kind of levels. We haven’t invested too much time into these yet because we’re still fascinated with how many words you can really summon in this game. Like our other games, we’ll keep you guys up to date on our Scribblenaut progress.

P.S. For some real depression fun, scribble in ‘virgin’!

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