Review time: Scribblenauts!

Ahoy hoy! I've not been around on here for a while, so I thought i'd might as well add a new arrow to my quiver, metaphorically speaking: a new review!

Scribblenauts

Scribblenauts is a game for the Nintendo DS, and gives a simple yet challenging premise: "Write Anything. Solve Everything" This is broadly true.

The game's main attraction is it's ability to summon up any kind of object you can think of so long as it's not Trademarked, a person's Name or a specific Place Name. And that's it. Go nuts.

Example: You're in an aquatic zone. To swim underwater, you can summon up a scuba diving tank, or you can summon up a submarine, or you can summon up a bubble of air. Enemies trying to kill you? Poof; summon up God to kick thier asses. Then, equip God with a Top hat and chainsaw to fight against a Kraken. It goes on and on.

There is a proper adventure mode, as in a series of challenges that test your skill, style and speed in trying to get the Starite. To quote Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw, "It is ALWAYS Stars". For example, you want to get the star down from the tree. How could you do that? There are numerous ways of achieving the goal!
1) Summon an axe and chop the tree down
2) Summon a lumberjack to chop it down
3) Summon a ball to throw at it to knock it down
4) Summon up a beaver to gnaw down the tree
5) Summon a ladder to climb up and get it
6) Summon a jetpack to fly onto it
7) Summon a policeman and throw a doughnut up thier, and watch him scramble up to get them
8) Summon a time machine, go back to the past, ride a dinosaur, go back to the present, knock over the tree with your dinosaur

And so on and so forth. Despite the lack of trademarked things, you still have a huge array of things to summon (22,000 words iirc). So unfortunatley, no summoning Lightsabers or Davy Jones.A complaint I do have, though, is that you cannot summon up any sorts of alcohol. They let you play with rifles, bombs, napalm, nukes, swords, but draw the line at alcohol? Fairly random.

Anyhoo, a good play nonetheless. 8/10, I'd say.
Any ideas for a next review people? Can be a book, a game, a film, a TV series etc etc. Ta!

Just a quick update

Ahoy to all you folks! Just a little update :)

First up, I'm going to be contributing towards this new-fangled "School magazine" that would be set up online. The meeting we went to was rather good, lots of year 10/11s, only a couple of +16 but they loooked like a good bunch. I'm going to help contribute to a comic, and i'm going to start writing book reviews. Should be teh funz0rz! Also, i've volunteered to be one of a cylce of "Editor-in-chief". Why, you ask? On a CV; "Former Editor-In-Chief". Bad. Ass.

(p.s if you want to contribute an article or w/e annoynmously or named, just message me in some way, and it should be able to get in)

Also, I have a Facebook fanclub of sorts! Kinda crazy, because a friend of mine made it and now it has ~60 people :O :O. Makes me feel warm n fuzzy inside :)
Am loling at other people who have taken the idea for that and tried to make thier own, (including PRESTON (in-joke)).

Watched Derren Brown yesterday. Lol'd fairly much as he failed. Then I realised it -was- a setup. Someone on WikiAnswers had this to say about it;

"This was definately faked (not that I expected it to be real). It's not a secret that you can work out roughly where the ball will land at roulette if you have the right machinery as it said at the beginning or if you are insane at methematics.

It was clearly a set up because you can't just go into a bank and take out £5000 at once without prior permission. I also think it would be illegal for Derren Brown to do so. He probably took nothing out and then Derren Brown made it look like he did. He is an illusionist after all.

I also think the casino was a set up as he has a ban from entering casons and he wasn't in disguise. He was also talking into his sleeve which any guards would spot instantly.

He failed on purpose as getting it right next to the number he thought it was going to be makes it look like the theory pretty much does work but he wouldn't have to give that guy £175000 persoanlly or from the production team (which he would if the casino was fake and he won)

Derren Brown is entertaining but he freely admits everything is a trick and I think in these cases the trick has been on anyone from the audience that believes that what he did was real. "

Anyhoo, ta-ra for now!