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Super Scribblenauts
If you don’t appreciate the power of adjectives, try to go a day without using them. In addition to being unable to complete Mad Libs, you’ll find yourself unable to describe just about anything. We have those things for a reason, after all.[Excerpt
If Scribblenauts wowed players with its astounding variety of nouns, Super Scribblenauts is bound to delight with the addition of adjectives. Gameplay is largely the same, but letting players hone their summoned objects by describing them adds some hefty new gameplay layers. A bike is perfectly nice, but how about a hairy bike? What does an angry bike do?
It’s fun to tweak objects in silly ways, but adjectives are useful in Super Scribblenauts, too. Scribblenauts veterans know that jetpacks are useful for grabbing out-of-reach Starites or escaping deep pits, but in Super Scribblenauts new additions like flying bikes work just as well.
Developer 5th Cell says that are 10,000 total adjectives in the game. There’s definitely a solid library of modifiers in Super Scribblenauts, though it’s not as vast as the object roster. In the preview build we played, we could strum on happy guitars, but loud guitars were a no-go. It’s always a bummer when a suggested word gets crossed out upon entry, but there’s still plenty of room to experiment.
In addition to adjectives, Super Scribblenauts has 120 all-new puzzles. They’re as clever as ever, and many of them play off the game’s larger vocabulary. In one, several objects – including a vampire, leech, robin, and toy helicopter – are in boxes, and players have to come up with something that shares some level of commonality with the others. We typed in “vampire bat” and picked up the Starite for our trouble. Another puzzle works like a math problem, with players filling in the blanks with appropriate creations. A ghost minus a blanket is an invisible ghost, but what is a man without a watch? How about “late man”?
Add in some tweaks such as much needed d-pad controls and a puzzle creator, and you’ve got a game that’s shaping up to deserve the “super” descriptor.
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