Zero Punctuation: Scribblenauts
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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No review of WET? I'm now even more disappointed than I was before. On the other hand, My day is greatly improved by someone pointing out that Scribblenauts is not fit for adult consumption.
Wow, what a generalising and moronic comment.Captain Pancake said:
There are lots of hardcore gamers that have Nintendo DSs. It has many classic titles for hardcore gamers and they are always of decent quality despite the limitations of the hardware. Here's a list of quality DS titles:
GTA Chinatown Wars
Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass
Mario Kart DS
Advance Wars Dual Strike
Advance War Days of Ruin
New Super Mario Bros
The World Ends With You
Chrono Trigger
Professor Layton and the Curious Village
Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (Diabolical Box for the US)
Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow
Castlevania Portrait of Ruin
Warioware Touched!
Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword
Elite Beat Agents
Metroid Prime: Hunters
Good luck finding as good a list of PS3 or 360 titles.
EDIT: Okay 360 and PS3 can probably match it but not for exclusives, in any case the DS is a good platform and reached more people than any of the hardcore consoles.
When I realized from another source that you can summon god and give him a lazer sword, because you can't call them lightsabers for obvious copyright reasons, I was interested but then I looked through an opened strategy guide and put it down faster than a fake Necronomicon trying to bite my fingers off. I still want a DS someday and for the titles posted by beddo but I must wait till I sort out and update my 360 collection.
"Come back when you understand what 'fun' means" is one of the best ending lines Yahtzee's delivered in a quite a while.
Scribblenauts is the kind of game I like to see shredded. It had effort put into it, but in the end it still had plenty of flaws to exploit. It's boring when he does games that are blatantly bad or generic, like Wolfenstein. I actually don't mind him reviewing good games either.
While we're on DS games, I hope he reviews Bowser's Inside Story soon. It's an RPG, but it doesn't star any spikey haired teens and the battle system is way more fun then you'd ever think was possible in a turn based RPG. I DARE him to try to hate it
While we're on DS games, I hope he reviews Bowser's Inside Story soon. It's an RPG, but it doesn't star any spikey haired teens and the battle system is way more fun then you'd ever think was possible in a turn based RPG. I DARE him to try to hate it
Oh Yahtzee, you dashing piece of manflesh, I do believe you are spot on about this game. Though I will admit that I prefer using Death (aka the Grim Reaper) to handle all of my enemies. At some point, you stop caring about being creative because a helicopter and chain just work so darn well. And the control system was something they obviously didn't test before they sent it to market. Well done, good sir, well done.
Finally! I've been waiting for this review for a month, and I have to say that I wholeheartedly concur. Brilliant job, as always.
That god thing is pretty true. Limitation creates creativity. All the powers of the universe creates nil, nada, nothing, zero (which I'm guessing is The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything).
Note how I said "mostly". Are you trying to say that the DS isn't aimed mainly at children of about 10-12? look at some of the titles you see in your local Game store, then maybe I won't seem so "moronic".beddo said:
Yahtzee is like our A.I. director. Whenever we feel we may have made it safely to the end of the level he drops three tanks on our ass and we get to gleefully see that not everything is as simple as the hype of the light at the end of the tunnel claims to be.
Scribblenauts is the freight train you mistook for the end/useful evolution for casual gaming. Disguising itself as an adventure game with access to the level editor we realize quickly that all we're doing is playing a protracted game of Tetris where we get to pick and choose which blocks we want to fill our screens with.
Try as they might, the Typing of the Dead lightning is unlikely to strike again soon with the casual/adventure gaming crossover genre.
Scribblenauts is the freight train you mistook for the end/useful evolution for casual gaming. Disguising itself as an adventure game with access to the level editor we realize quickly that all we're doing is playing a protracted game of Tetris where we get to pick and choose which blocks we want to fill our screens with.
Try as they might, the Typing of the Dead lightning is unlikely to strike again soon with the casual/adventure gaming crossover genre.