Scribblenauts: Difference between revisions

You are Maxwell. You want to get the [[MacGuffin|Starite]]. (What's a Starite? Well, a shiny [[Star-Shaped Coupon|star-shaped]] thing, of course.) You have to figure out how to get the Starite. In order to get the Starite, you need to use the tools at your disposal to reach it.

 

 

 

A trampoline? But of course.

[[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|What part of ''everything'' don't you understand?]]

 

 

Prior to the game's September release, the game received some mild hype from various outlets from its extremely ambitious premise. Mild until E3, that is, when game journalists finally got to play it for themselves--and kicked off one of the most ''massive'' hype trains for any portable game ''ever.'' In an entirely unprecedented occurrence, not one but ''three'' major game reporting outlets declared the hand-held ''Scribblenauts'' to be the game of the show--even more remarkable considering that ''none'' of them had ever made such a claim about ''any'' portable game. In a relatively short amount of time, the game went from being known primarily to portable gamers and those who followed portable games to the entire game blogosphere, catapulting it into the spotlight. Reviews of the full game were still generally positive, but not as enthusiastic as at E3; the controls for Maxwell's movement in particular were almost universally criticized.

* [[Collision Damage]]: "Nail", "spear" and "spike" all destroy everything they touch. With the proper application of glue, anything can turn into a weapon.

* [[Combinatorial Explosion]]: Even ignoring other examples on this page, we know that the Moon turns Villains into Werewolves, Water shorts out anything electric, people dance to Keyboard Cat, and you can create a Zombie by using a Battery to jump-start a corpse. In fact, it is ''literally impossible to do every single combination possible in the game '''in a human lifetime.''''' [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|5th Cell]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|is phenomenal.]]

* [[Creative Closing Credits]]

* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]: While not a cutscene, the official artwork for Post 217 defines the gameplay completely.

** Use a "Cupid Bow" to [[Fluffy Tamer|tame]] them to that point. It's fun to ride a Hydra, Sea Serpent, or a T-Rex like a horse. The Sea serpent is especially fun!

** "Poison" also works, for that matter. Although, they will look like they died at first.

* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: Given enough time, it's possible to kill a dinosaur with a spoon. (Provided he doesn't eat you first.)

* [[Delivery Stork]]: One level tasks you with getting a baby to a king and queen, with a stork asleep nearby. The assumption being, the stork is shirking its job. Hurting it makes the level end. Storks will also protect any babies that happen to be nearby.

** In one puzzle, your objective is to get a group of bad guys into heaven. This can be easily accomplished by {{spoiler|placing a [[Stairway to Heaven|stairway]] near them}}.

** It's a bit ruined now thanks to all the 'HOLY CRAP GOD VS CTHULHU!' stuff at E3, but at Puzzle Stage 5-1, try scrolling allllll the way down.

* [[Eats Babies]]: Summon some kind of human and a "Delicious Baby" in ''Super Scribblenauts'' Also, if you summon a dingo and a baby, [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=A%20dingo%20ate%20my%20baby guess what happens.]

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Several, including [[Cthulhu Mythos|"Cthulhu," "Shambler," and "Shoggoth"]].

** {{spoiler|You get a nuke, which blows up everything. Including you.}}

* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: The game will certainly reward any player who had a childhood obsession with dinosaurs. T-Rex, Stegosaurus, Plesiousaurus, Apatosaurus, Spinosaur, Dimetrodon, and ARCHEOPTERYX, of all things.

* [[Evil Twin]]: Spawn {{spoiler|anything relating to Maxwell himself ("Maxwell", "Me", "Clone", "Protagonist", etc.)<ref>Except for "[[Sdrawkcab Name|Llewxam]]", that'll just create a DS cartridge.</ref>}} and you get a opposite colored clothed Maxwell who steals things right from the hands of the innocent and whose presence scares most people. Typing in {{spoiler|"Clone"}} actually spawns a slightly different Maxwell lookalike than "Maxwell, "Me", "Protagonist", etc. He has a few different animations (including a weird floating limb and head thing) and doesn't scare people, but he still steals things.

** In the sequel, evil Maxwell has ''his own notebook'' and will summon random objects from out of thin air, just like you. {{spoiler|[[Unexpected Gameplay Change|He's also the final boss.]]}}

* [[Gender Bender]]: In the sequel, a female or male potion.

** You can also make a Female Male and a Male Female.

** While inherently obscene terms won't work, you can summon a number of torture and execution devices (like "Gallows, "Iron Maiden", or "Guillotine"). "Virgin" is also in the dictionary (apparently being synonymous with "[[Nerd|Gamer]]"). But not "Weeaboo", oddly enough.

** [[Memetic Mutation|"Ceiling cat is watching you... fall."]]

** God seems to function as a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|God mode]] - he can solve most combat-oriented problems with ease.

*** But Death can defeat him.

*** Robot dinosaurs can, too (type in "robosaur").

*** And he fights Cthulhu to a draw.

* [[Hundred-Percent Completion]]: Requires you to beat each level with three different solutions. There's 220 levels. Go figure.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: The tutorial explicitly states that things summoned must be real life objects and must not be any of the above: a place, proper name, suggestive material, shape, Latin or Greek root word, alcohol, race or culture, vulgarity or copyrighted. How about: [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[Cthulhu Mythos|Cthulhu]], [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Adamantium]], or [[The Lord of the Rings|Mythril]]? They don't follow the guidelines, but you can spawn them because they're not copyrighted. Even [[Product Placement|5th Cell]] is there so you can summon it.

*** They did get in some trouble for an accidental one that snuck by: {{spoiler|1=Sambo summons a watermelon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51nKrAlxXbw}} And apparently it's actually the real name of a fruit. The word was removed from the sequel, as was the common word for the taxonomic family it belongs to.

**** The game claims it doesn't deal in culture or race, yet one still can summon Imam, Rabbi and Priest for all one's culturally insensitive bar jokes.

* [[Incredible Shrinking Man]]: Try using the shrink ray... Or Shrink Magic.

** Small potion in the sequel.

** The sequel's [[Infinity+1 Sword]]? {{spoiler|Dead potion.}}

** Even better is a quick deadly sword. It'll one-hit-kill EVERYTHING. Not just everyone, EVERYTHING.

* [[Master of Disguise]]: Maxwell seems to be one of these, judging how Super Scribblenauts contains a merit called "Maxwell In Disguise" for using an avatar.

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: There are several silly Internet memes included [[In-Universe]] as Easter eggs, including:

** [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]] (summons a base with a cyborg on the main screen)

** A ROFLcopter (summons a white helicopter)

** Lollerskates (summons rollerskates)

** [[Weebl and Bob|Badgers will dance when placed near mushrooms, and are afraid of snakes.]]

** [[Leeroy Jenkins]] (synonymous with "knight")

** ORLY, YARLY, and NOWAI (synonymous with "owl")

** [[Giant Enemy Crab]] ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Go ahead, guess]]).

** [[Mario Is Missing|Weegee]] (synonymous with "plumber")

*** And the game's gotten its own mutation: [http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=16184727&postcount=217 a guy called "Feep" posted his experience with the game] on NeoGAF (post #217 in their Scribblenauts thread), which has been [http://www.britishgaming.co.uk/2009/06/scribblenauts_e3/ passed around] the web a bit.

*** The ESRB rating summary, which says that a player could [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|theoretically]] "[[Dead Baby Comedy|attach steaks to babies to attract a lion]]," has also gained a small following.

*** Spawn a girl next to Anonymous, and she runs away screaming. Sounds about right.

** Spawn a pirate next to a ninja [[Cool Versus Awesome|and they instantly attack each other]].

* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: The game includes both "passive" and "hostile" nihilists.

* [[Nigh Invulnerability]]: Priests, vampires and longcats are almost completely invincible; the only known ways to eliminate them are [[Just Eat Him|Edison]], [[Black Holes]], [[Nuke'Em|nuclear weapons]], and other sources of [[One-Hit Kill|one hit kills]].

** Longcat can be [[One-Hit Kill|eaten]] quite easily by a dragon or a large carnivorous dinosaur.

** Anything you want in the sequel. The weakness? {{spoiler|Dead potion.}}

*** You can even {{spoiler|kill your past self.}}

** The sequel's last level {{spoiler|ends with writing the answer again, only now you're on [[Recycled in Space|the moon!]]}}

* [[Oh Crap]]: The moment in Action level 4-6 when {{spoiler|the giant crab shows up ''out of nowhere''}}.

* [[One-Hit Kill]]: "{{spoiler|Edison}}" will eat anything alive in one bite, including you.

* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: The Neogaf vehicle is powered by a gamer. If you interact with the Neogaf logo instead of riding it, a gamer will pop out and the logo will no longer fly.

* [[Preorder Bonus]]: Maxwell's [[Nice Hat]], as a matter of awesome fact.

* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: Summon an atheist, then summon God, the atheist runs away. However if you summon a gun for the atheist, this trope happens.

** Subverted in the sequel: if an atheist so much as TOUCHES God, God goes *POOF!*

** Typing "President" summons an [[Barack Obama|African American one]].

** Typing "Mask" in the second game will lead you to two options: "Mask (Fun)" and "Mask (Beauty)". The first one summons a [[V for Vendetta|Guy Fawkes]] [[Four Chan|mask]].

** Summon a hedgehog and a ring. The hedgehog will run after the ring... [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sounds familiar?]]

** Typing "Burning Man" will summon a [http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/work/87/index.html giant wooden effigy].

* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]: You're going to kill him with a ninja riding a dinosaur and wielding a rocket launcher? [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|Why don't ya just suck him into a black hole?]] (Answer: [[Rule of Fun|because it's more fun that way]].)

* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]: While it's technically a puzzle-platformer, ''Scribblenauts''' central conceit is going to make it hard to resist playing it like one of these. To that end, the dev team has thoughtfully designed the start screen to be sort of a "sandbox mode", so you can have hours of fun without even loading your save file!

* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: "Taser", "frisbee", and "lightsaber" are not in the dictionary whereas "stun gun", "flying disc" and "laser sword" are.

* [[Your Mom]]: Note that just "Mom" summons a normal woman whereas "'''Your''' Mom" summons {{spoiler|a zombie}}. Hmmmm...

 

* [[Boring but Practical]]: The "immovable" adjective makes objects, well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|impossible to move]] by any means, including gravity.

* [[Cartoon Cheese]]: Try making something "CHEESY."

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Among other things, you can create, say, Winged Wings, or Burning Fire, or a Lycanthropic Werewolf, or a Zombie Zombie, or a Giant Giant, or a Robot Robot. Some of these are visibly different from the normal: Winged Wings are wings wearing wings, for example, and a King King wears a crown... on top of his crown.

* [[Dirty Communists]]: "Communist" is an adjective.

* [[G-Rated Sex]]: Try summoning "Pregnant Potion".

** Also, trying summoning a "Fertile Female" whatever and place it next to a "Male" of the same species.

* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: A bug sometimes occurs, in which Maxwell randomly ascends to the skies and never comes down. This renders the sandbox mode (arguably [[Sidetracked By the Golden Saucer|the best part of the game]]) unplayable.

* [[Gay Option]]: In one of the levels, Maxwell has to but presents for each of his parents and his girlfriend, based on the objects they have in their rooms. [[Les Yay|And if you switch to a female avatar...]]

* [[Guide Dang It]]: To get the final merit, you must "apply the [[Guide Dang It|secret]] Super Scribblenauts adjective". The only clue is that the merit is called "The Fourth Wall". {{spoiler|The adjective is Scribblenautical if you were wondering. It gives everything the rooster hat.}}

* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: Handle the "Nuclear" adjective with extreme care.

* [[Logic Bomb]]: Averted, typing in contradicting adjectives such as "Blue Yellow Apple" will result in the game ignoring all contradicting adjectives apart from the last one.