Developer: 5th Cell Media
Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Media
Rrp: £14.99 (Steam), £14.99 (Humblebundle)
Released: 15th February 2013
Available on: Steam and Humblebundle
Played Using: Mouse and Keyboard
A curse has befallen your sister after you played a prank on an old man, the only way to lift the curse is to use the power of Starites born from the happiness of others. Luckily you have a magic notepad that brings anything you write to life, within reason. So now get out there and get to making people happy!
Scribblenauts Unlimited is a side scrolling platform game where you solve puzzles using your magic notepad. Anything you write becomes reality, with some limitations. As the game puts it ‘vulgarity, copyrighted materials and proper nouns are not allowed’. Cthulhu and God on the other hand are totally fine…
You can see where people and tasks that will give Starites or Starite shards are by using Starite vision (the star in the upper left corner of the screen), this turns the world darker and those who need help will be in gold. Personally I didn’t like using this function because I enjoyed stumbling across them.
The art style is cartoon-esq with all the characters and objects looking like they are made out of paper. I love this aesthetic, the way that the characters and world look like they’re made from paper. I’m also a fan of the fact that you can solve most puzzles in almost anyway you want, as long as it makes sense.
The gameplay has been kept relatively simplistic making this game accessible to children, although adult who plays this will find its absolutely crammed with pop culture references.
In my eyes Scribblenauts Unlimited is a great little game, although if I have a criticism its that, its too little. I feel like much more could have been done, perhaps this is something that is rectified in the next title but something tells me it isn’t.
Here’s the thing though, even though I had fun with this game I certainly wouldn’t pay £14.99 for it, it feels too much like the beginning idea for a game than a full blown one.
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