Warner Bros. has big in things in store for 5th Cell's long-awaited DS puzzler Scribblenauts. The game, released today, has been compared to Professor Layton by the publisher, with a belief that it will gain mass-market appeal and herald the start of a whole new franchise.
"The stylized look of Scribblenauts offers something fresh and friendly that doesn’t appear intimidating," says marketing manager Phil Lamb. "That combined with the addictive gameplay means that it will definitely strike a chord with casual, female and maybe even ‘grey’ gamers.
"What Scribblenauts offers is something akin to Nintendo’s Professor Layton -- an addictive and challenging game that has real mass-market appeal all wrapped up in a uniquely stylized package. We fully expect this title to be the start of a brand new franchise in the DS puzzle market."
I am certainly glad to see Warner is supporting this game. 5th Cell never had much luck when THQ was in charge of its games, mostly because THQ was very bad at promoting them. Lock's Quest barely got so much as a shred of marketing, so I truly hope that Warner is serious about giving these awesome developers a big spotlight. Time shall tell.
Now go out and buy Scribblenauts, for God's sake.
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8:00 PM on 09.15.2009
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But still kind of fun.
I think any game we deem worthy should be publicised. Anything to get the general masses interested in and take the focus off the whole "Imagine" series.
Maybe they are referring to aliens who enjoy video games? I bet aliens would fucking love scribblenauts.
Older gamers.
Layton is feature film worthy, but I CAN see a viable television series on Public Access, though.
I will be first in line for a 3D scribblenauts though :).
His name is Maxwell. Hmph.
220 levels is alot more then one would think, and mastering them is certainly no small feat as the game goes on.
BOught my copy today, can\t wait to see what else is in store for me.
Seriously, no console/platform is worth buying just for one game. Especially this game, it's not that special. Once you get over the fact that there are so many objects to summon, the actual gameplay isn't even that good. Despite being over 20k objects, there are probably about 20 or so different functions that they all can do. Some items don't even do anything. This game seriously is quantity over quality. You MIGHT end up enjoying the entire game, but I personally felt like I experienced everything this game had to offer after only a couple hours of playing it. So if you don't even own a DS, you need to seriously give it some thought before you spend all that money over one game.
Yes the gameplay is a tad shallow, but it really does come down to how creative YOU want to get, and with the plethora of options given it caters to almost anybody.
What the fuck?
Anyway, I am not sure about this as a series but I do think it deserves some good sales numbers. The action puzzles can be really frustrating sometimes.
I can't it doesn't release in the UK for a month!
Hmmmmm?!?!
Its pretty fun, as a word-y, to come up with synonyms to complete the challanges multiple times.
Sure, I'll take a series, TV show, Webcomic and a reality TV show on youtube.
My only beef with the game is that I had a cat in an oven for at least 5 minutes, and the cat was fine when I took it out. That's not realistic at all.