The best game you've probably never heard of

[Talisman]

Day one purchases are extremely rare for me, but there's no doubt I'm going to be snatching this one up on release day.



The game is called Scribblenauts and it's only on the DS. Here's the basic sales pitch:

Scribblenauts is simple; quite literally, anything you write, you can use and reuse in the game. Players use the DS' touch-screen and the in-game notepad/keyboard to help their character, Maxwell, as he moves throughout 220 increasingly difficult levels on his never-ending quest for the star-like "Starites."

To solve the spatially oriented puzzles, players describe objects via the notepad/keyboard, which in turn appear on the game screen to help Maxwell. There are literally thousands of items in the game, both ordinary things like ladders, ropes, cars and buses, to the outlandish items, such as invisibility cloaks, pirates and black holes. The game is all about experimentation, imagination and endless replay value as players open their minds to the nearly limitless possibilities that are sure to make Scribblenauts unlike any side-scrolling platformer they have ever played.

And here's the post from neogaf.com that had me cracking up and feeling like a kid in a candy store at the same time:

I had played all the big titles at E3. Private showings of God of War III, Heavy Rain, Alan Wake. But at 4:00 on Thursday, I was wandering around the show floor, wondering what else I had to see. I saw a small little booth for "Scribblenauts!" in the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment section. I mean, who goes to that booth? But I remember hearing about it on GAF, and so I decided to check it out.

Best game of E3? Without a ****ing doubt. Anyone who says otherwise did not play Scribblenauts. Best game of all time? Jesus Christ, I don't know, maybe. It's a game that challenges your IMAGINATION. No other game has ever done that.

So listen to this story. I was in the early levels; I didn't quite have an idea of how ridiculously in-depth the database was. I was summoning things like ladders, glasses of water, rayguns, what have you. But I reached a level with zombie robots, and the zombie robots kept killing me. Rayguns didn't work, a torch didn't work, a pickaxe didn't work. In my frustration, I wrote in "Time Machine". And one popped up. What the ****? A smile dawned on my face. I hopped in, and the option was given to me to either travel to the past or the future. I chose past. When I hopped out, there were ****ing dinosaurs walking around. I clicked one, and realized I could RIDE THEM. So I hopped on a ****ing DINOSAUR, traveled back to the present, and stomped the shit out of robot zombies. Did you just read that sentence? Did you really? I ****ING TRAVELED THROUGH TIME AND JUMPED ON A DINOSAUR AND USED IT TO KILL MOTHER****ING ROBOT ZOMBIES. This game is unbelievable. Impossible. There's nothing you can't do.

Holy ****ing shit.

Here's a quick developer walkthrough vid from E3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3HXgvl8lp0

It's out in September. I'm thinking about lining up now.

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by Crashride

Whens the release date?

09/15, iirc

[TrickyNicky]

This game is awesome. That is all.

[Saulbadguy]

Originally Posted by TrickyNicky

This game is awesome. That is all.

this.

[Fairplay]

Your kid will be mad because the old man wants to play it also.

[TrickyNicky]

I love it. I spent an hour just playing around on the title screen. On one of the puzzle stages, I said to myself "I wish I could just make a teleporter....hmmmm" Type it in and see for yourself.

[Crashride]

Im gonna buy this for my nephew.

[Fish]

Why can't you just write "Gamma ray burst" or "Supernova" and destroy the world? This game sucks.....

[munkey]

The name and the fact it's only on the DS equals no sale for me...To each his own...

[Saulbadguy]

Originally Posted by munkey

The name and the fact it's only on the DS equals no sale for me...To each his own...

Great way to judge a game, I suppose.

[aturnis]

Originally Posted by munkey

The name and the fact it's only on the DS equals no sale for me...To each his own...

Who's the guy in your avatar anyway? Looks EXACTLY like a guy I used to work with!

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by munkey

The name and the fact it's only on the DS equals no sale for me...To each his own...

The name? Get the **** out.

[Reaper16]

Curious easter egg stumbled upon tonight. I was summoning random fantasy archetypes: elf, halfling, dwarf, ogre, man. I realized that these archetypes were all in Lord of the Rings. I summoned a ring and dropped it onto the ground. The previously-peaceful characters instantly became enraged and fought each other for the ring.

Much LOLing occurred.

[Reaper16]

Another great moment in Scribblenauts:

I had an Orphanage out, with a priest and some orphans playing outside of it. I dropped a stick of TNT somewhere outside of the orphanage, far away from it and put some glue on the TNT. Then I summoned a pyromaniac. The pyro saw the TNT and went to set the fuse. He did so, but got the glue on him so the TNT got stuck to him. He ran in the direction of the Orphanage and the TNT blew up not long after he arrived at the feet of the priest. The explosion killed the priest, all three orphans and set the Orphanage on fire where it quickly collapsed into embers.

This game is so satisfying.

[SLAG]

is it worth heading to walmart to buy this game right now

[Imon Yourside]

This puts Mad Libs to shame i must regretfully admit, it actually got me to put my psp down in favor of the DS. 1st Time Ever.