Troy
30-10-2009, 10:01
I'll be blunt, never has a handheld game peaked my interest so much.
I find it one of the most ambitious games to have been released, the premise and tagline of the game is simple - Write anything. Solve Everything.
This game has a dictionary of around 20,000 words and brings them all to life and then goes so far as to include natural interactions as well.
Summon a shark on land and wont move very much, but will still bite you if you get close.
Summon a vampire and a werewolf so they can duke it out and the vampire will turn to dust as it is day time and the werewolf will turn into a man because there is no full moon out. You can summon night (moon) or a fullmoon...
I did summon the Large Hadron Collider and turned it on. It produced a black hole and sucked everything up.
As I said, NEVER have I come across a game so ambitious that actually lives up to it's hype.
I was sure a unicorn would beat a dragon... I was wrong.
A bear can beat up a gorilla.
Cockroaches cannot survive a nuclear blast.
Mace (defence) cannot repel a bully, but chloroform does work. So does Mace (weapon) for that matter.
You can glue a dartboard to a hippy and then throw rocks at him. A T-Rex will still eat him afterwards.
A Pirate can beat a Ninja.
A Navy Seal and a Marine working together still could not defeat an Orc.
I can spend hours just on the title screen summoning random stuff without even going into the game and trying their 100+ puzzle levels and 100+ action levels.
This game has been rated for kids so it cartoon violence so cannot produce alcohol/drug related items or for that matter any copyrighted or trademarked material (mush as I would like to see Chuck Norris beat anything in this game)
Still the 10+ rating is a little dubious given the total freedom seeing as you can potentially summon an orphanage and then subsequently burn it down, or tape a steak to a baby then summon a lion, or place a cat in a sack and throw it into deep water.
As with most things there is a downside and that is the controls. Everything seems to be controlled by the stylus and so your character inevitably dies or does things you dont want him too until you get used to it all. Once you get used to how to get him to stay still while you go off and do something complicated (I handcuff him to a tree) then it become enjoyable all the more.
Anyway, I urge anyone with a DS to have a look at this game
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I find it one of the most ambitious games to have been released, the premise and tagline of the game is simple - Write anything. Solve Everything.
This game has a dictionary of around 20,000 words and brings them all to life and then goes so far as to include natural interactions as well.
Summon a shark on land and wont move very much, but will still bite you if you get close.
Summon a vampire and a werewolf so they can duke it out and the vampire will turn to dust as it is day time and the werewolf will turn into a man because there is no full moon out. You can summon night (moon) or a fullmoon...
I did summon the Large Hadron Collider and turned it on. It produced a black hole and sucked everything up.
As I said, NEVER have I come across a game so ambitious that actually lives up to it's hype.
I was sure a unicorn would beat a dragon... I was wrong.
A bear can beat up a gorilla.
Cockroaches cannot survive a nuclear blast.
Mace (defence) cannot repel a bully, but chloroform does work. So does Mace (weapon) for that matter.
You can glue a dartboard to a hippy and then throw rocks at him. A T-Rex will still eat him afterwards.
A Pirate can beat a Ninja.
A Navy Seal and a Marine working together still could not defeat an Orc.
I can spend hours just on the title screen summoning random stuff without even going into the game and trying their 100+ puzzle levels and 100+ action levels.
This game has been rated for kids so it cartoon violence so cannot produce alcohol/drug related items or for that matter any copyrighted or trademarked material (mush as I would like to see Chuck Norris beat anything in this game)
Still the 10+ rating is a little dubious given the total freedom seeing as you can potentially summon an orphanage and then subsequently burn it down, or tape a steak to a baby then summon a lion, or place a cat in a sack and throw it into deep water.
As with most things there is a downside and that is the controls. Everything seems to be controlled by the stylus and so your character inevitably dies or does things you dont want him too until you get used to it all. Once you get used to how to get him to stay still while you go off and do something complicated (I handcuff him to a tree) then it become enjoyable all the more.
Anyway, I urge anyone with a DS to have a look at this game
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