{"id":221,"date":"2009-09-16T20:08:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T01:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2013-04-30T16:58:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T21:58:19","slug":"scribblenauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/16\/scribblenauts\/","title":{"rendered":"Scribblenauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002B1TDV8?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=redreco-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B002B1TDV8\">Scribblenauts<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=redreco-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002B1TDV8\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> may be the best video-game-as-a-toy of all time.\u00a0 Sure, most games try to excel when it comes to gameplay, story, or even graphics&#8230; but Scribblenauts is simply fun.<\/p>\n<p>The game is essentially a series of puzzles.\u00a0 To solve the puzzles, you can conjure just about any non-trademarked noun available by typing it in.<\/p>\n<p>For example: want to kill a shark swimming around?\u00a0 Drop a toaster into the water.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, there is a completely unstructured &#8216;sandbox&#8217; you can play in, where you can see how different things interact with each other.\u00a0 You can summon pirates, ninjas, god, lions, giant squids&#8230; just about everything, and usually they&#8217;ll attack each other.<\/p>\n<p>I summoned a &#8216;blob&#8217;, basically a stereotypical green-gooey sentient blob.\u00a0 The blob seemed to be the most powerful creature in the game&#8230; it handily defeated god, lion, tiger, devil, giant squid, leviathan, colossus, soldier, zombie, robot zombie, puma, bear, and everything.<\/p>\n<p>Except vampire.\u00a0 Blob and vampire will fight forever, neither able to harm each other.<\/p>\n<p>However, terrorist can defeat blob&#8230; sort of.\u00a0 When the terrorist dies, he blows up, taking the blob with him.<\/p>\n<p>The terrorist cannot kill vampire, because the vampire turns the terrorist into a vampire-minion before he can die.<\/p>\n<p>At one time, Santa ran for his life from the vampire and a vampire minion.\u00a0 They decided to kill Santa, instead of turning him.<\/p>\n<p>However, I gave Santa some garlic, and boy, vampire ran away and cowered in a corner.\u00a0 I accidentally made Santa drop the garlic, which fell on the vampire&#8217;s head, vanquishing him.<\/p>\n<p>I just have the greatest grin in my face when I play this game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scribblenauts may be the best video-game-as-a-toy of all time.\u00a0 Sure, most games try to excel when it comes to gameplay, story, or even graphics&#8230; but Scribblenauts is simply fun. The game is essentially a series of puzzles.\u00a0 To solve the puzzles, you can conjure just about any non-trademarked noun available by typing it in. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redrecondite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}