Earthbound Review

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(More customer reviews)i still remember the first time i played this game. it was given to me by and old neighbor of mine as a gift back in 1995. ever since then i think ive beaten and restarted this game over a hundred times. to me this game never gets old. the only reason i still have my snes is just for this game. i highly recomend this game to anyone that likes RPGs. it is so simple that anyone can pick it up but the storyline is so deep that it actually makes you care deeply about these 16-bit sprites on the screen.

the music is so catchy, each city has its own theme and almost each enemy has his own music. the music for this is perfect for the tone of the game.

the graphix are sufficient. sprite detail is great. the only complaint anyone has (not me) is the battle graphics are just a box with your name on it fighting a picture of the enemy. very simple but youlle actually be suprised how well it works.

replayability is by far the best aspect of the game. there is so much to do and its so fun to complete all the tasks.

it is a little bit hard to figure out what to do next though, even the original game came with the players guide. if you dont have a guide you can easily download a guide online for free.

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This role-playing game is set in the modern world and is filled with irreverent humor. You play as a teenage boy who must save the world from a malevolent alien.

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Little Nemo: The Dream Master Review

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(More customer reviews)Little Nemo came out at a time when the NES was it's hottest, along with a young Capcom (who had already had success with the Megaman franchise as well as a number of Disney Titles).

The story behind Little Nemo is that Nemo is on an adventure through slumberland.With eight levels each one getting progressivly harder.Nemo is armed with Candy which can stun his foes and get certain animals on his side.From the Frog who increases his jumping ability to the Gorilla who is a powerhouse the game featured many things.Within each level (outside of the last) you had to gather a set # of keys in order to escape the level.In the final level Nemo, now armed with the Kings magic septer must square off against the Nightmare king and his villians.

This game is a fun classic that did suffer a little from an insane difficulty, especially in level 3 where your on a speeding train.However if you are an NES fan to fanatic than this is definetly a must own title.

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Little Nemo: Dream Master NES Game. As Nemo it is your job to rescue the kidnapped Prince before it is too late!

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Scribblenauts Review

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(More customer reviews)I've had about two weeks to thoroughly delve into Scribblenauts now, and I can honestly say it is the most original game for the Nintendo DS I have ever played, and possibly one of the best console games in the last five years.The reason for that is because it is a radical departure from every single game ever made, in that it doesn't challenge your dexterity or button-pushing skill like FPS and action games, and doesn't rely at all on random number generators or luck, like a lot of strategy games; but instead, challenges your imagination and creativity.This is a great game for any age that enjoys puzzle games, and if I had to recommend just one game for a new DS owner to show off the abilities of their console, this would be it.Having fully "completed" the levels long ago, I am still enjoying it just as much as when I first got it.

GAMEPLAY
The premise to this puzzle game is to complete puzzles to collect a "starite."You do this by using the stylus to write nouns to help you complete your objective.A simple example would be a level where the starite is separate from you by a moat.You could write "bridge" and a bridge would appear.Place it over the moat, walk over to the starite, and you've just completed the level.While that sounds very simplistic and like a boring example, that is because the solution you chose is simplistic and boring, and you will be scored accordingly.The game's tagline: "Write Anything, Solve Everything," refers to the ability to almost literally write ANYTHING.One of the first things that will amaze you upon starting this game, is how virtually unlimited the Scribblenauts dictionary is.The dictionary contains an amazing 22,802 words.While some of these are duplicates that spawn the same item (such as "computer" and "Internet"), that means that the Scribblenauts team created animations and graphics for almost 22,802 objects.With the exception of a lot of proper nouns, copyrighted objects, and graphic/adult nouns, almost ANY object you can think of can be summoned.I played for 2 days before finding a noun it didn't recognize.Need a plate of spaghetti to complete a puzzle?It's in there.What about a stapler, carpet, a zebra, a tightrope, and a button?All in there.I was amazed when I decided to try the word "harness" and it came up, since it's such a generic and specific object.Who would even think to include that?The Scribblenauts team is who.You will find yourself becoming giddy at discovering some of the objects available to you.One of the more well known is that you can summon the Necronomicon (a fictional book appearing in horror stories by H.P. Lovecraft).Not sure what to do with it?Summon a necromancer and watch him interact with the Necronomicon and start chanting.This can be particularly useful if you summoned a zombie earlier, and need to get rid of it because it is running around and turning everyone else on the screen into zombies!During one puzzle, I used a shark to get rid of a smaller fish.I the needed to get rid of the shark, but I couldn't think of anything in the ocean tougher than a shark. Out of chance, I typed in "megalodon," and was amazed when a huge prehistoric megalodon shark dropped into the water and promptly devoured it!A well-known example of creativity is a player who was on a level with zombie robots that he had to dispatch. Traditional methods were ineffective, so the player summoned a time machine, traveled back to pre-historic times and found a dinosaur, rode the dinosaur back through the time machine, and then stomped all over the zombies.I won't give away anymore examples, because I really believe your experience will be much better if you discover these objects on your own; and I strongly encourage people to avoid reading too many reviews of Scribblenauts until they've played a lot of the game, so they don't run into any more spoilers.

There are two modes to gameplay.Puzzle Mode requires you to complete some type of puzzle to make the starite appear. An example is to collect flowers for a botanist.But one of the flowers is on a cliff, one is underwater (which contains a piranha), and one is right beside an angry bee.You must now come up with object(s) to help you accomplish this. Each puzzle has an average number of objects it expects you to use to complete it. The fewer objects you use, the more points you get.Maybe there's an object you can use to take care of the bee and the piranha together.Creative thinking like that will earn you Style Points.Additionally, the less time it takes you to complete the puzzle, earns you points as well.Once completed, your points are added up and converted to "ollars," which can be used to purchase new levels, songs, and avatars.You can complete each level as many times as you want, but completing it three times with completely different items will earn you "prodigy" status and a gold star.The first time going through a level, I highly suggest completing it as quickly as possible, since this seems to give you the most points. Next, go for style, which is where you can have the most fun.The game takes everything into consideration. It knows you can summon a gun every single time to get rid of a troublesome animal that is blocking your path, but if you come up with a more creative method, such as using an item to dig a ditch, putting some kind of bait on the other side, and trapping the animal, will not only earn you style points, but points for "no weapons" as well.

There are ten "worlds."Each has two modes of play (that are completely different and don't recycle screens), and elevel levels per mode.That's 220 different levels.If you play through by trying to complete each level 3-4 different ways, that's 880 levels!They get progressively harder and require much more skill.Although I completed all of them in two weeks, that was rushed for review purposes and had I taken my time, it would have taken me much much longer.This is not a traditional DS game that has a shelf life of 30 hours. There are many more options to play this game that I will discuss below.The game's title screen is also built as a "sandbox" environment, where you can play around and spawn objects to see how they interact.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The AI of the game is really impressive.Every one of the objects you can spawn has properties associated with it for interacting with its environment and with other objects.Beavers and termites eat wood.Consequently, if you spawn these animals near wood, they will proceed to consuming it. The same association exists with a lumberjack (provided you give him a tool to work with). Predatory animals also interact with each other.A piranha will eat a minnow.A shark will eat a piranha.A megalodon will eat a shark.And yes, there are creatures in the game that will even take on a megalodon.It is amazing to me how the developers were able to come up with all of these associations for so many different objects.Your character can interact with them as well, and even create new items.I found that interacting with a honeycomb yielded a jar of honey, but interacting with a bomb was not as sweet.The artificial intelligence provides for endless possibilities with the level editor.

WIRELESS + LEVEL EDITOR
Scribblenauts has wireless features built in so you can play levels with friends.Simply exchange friend codes with people and you can share custom-designed levels. While the level editor has been overlooked in many reviews, I think this is one of the biggest features of the game.Using the custom world environments provided by the game and the numerous objects, you can spend the rest of your life coming up with completely individual and unique levels to exchange.The great part of this is you can customize the AI of the objects, and their relationships with other objects.For instance, the natural AI for a dog is to attack a cat, but you can change this so the dog is scared of the cat, or even protective of the cat.It's great to send a friend a level with a box of mice in his way, and have him remove the box and suddenly be attacked by the mice.Or have a dragon that is deathly afraid of grilled cheese sandwiches.Create a level with dozens of pirates on one side and dozens of ninjas on the other, separated by a brick wall. Remove the wall and sit back and watch as they battle to the death.As I said, the combinations and possibilities are virtually endless.You can't completely modify the physical landscapes and are forced to use the templates from the game, but you can summon thousands of landscape items (trees, mountains, sun, city hall, etc) to get around this and make your level as unique as possible.

COMPLAINTS
It would be nice if the wireless capabilities allowed for downloadable new content and levels, without having to exchange friend codes. Given the customization of the level editor, I find this to be a huge drawback.If someone creates an awesome level online, there is no easy way to distribute it to thousands of people.I also would have liked it if the game was a little more restrictive on what kind of items you could create during the puzzle phase.Maybe if it had a skill level associated with it.You could feasibly breeze through the first few worlds just pulling out a gun and a pair of wings to take care of 70% of the problems.Of course you won't have much fun doing this, but it would be neat if there was a "hard" level where you couldn't use the same object more than once in any level for an entire world.Another complaint, is that it's too easy to get rid of items you create.Anything you create can also be destroyed.While this is very useful (you can't summon infinite items, and the screen gets cluttered with more than a dozen or so), it would be more...Read more›

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Scribblenauts is a unique single player side-scrolling action game for the Nintendo DS that challenges players to solve spatially oriented puzzles like no game before it. In it players use an in-game notepad/keyboard, as well as the touch screen and stylus of the Nintendo DS, to conjure up solutions to the obstacles placed in the path of the game's hero. Solutions are manifested in the form of literally thousands of items--many very unexpected--that are called up and take on a life of their own, resulting in puzzle-solving that is limited only by the player's imagination.

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Gameplay
Based around 2D side-scrolling action and word play, the premise ofScribblenauts is simple; quite literally, anything you write,you can use and reuse in the game. Players use the DS' touch-screenand the in-game notepad/keyboard to help their character, Maxwell,as he moves throughout 220 increasingly difficult levels on his never-endingquest for the star-like "Starites." But it is not as easy as reachingup and plucking a Starite. Attaining them requires Maxwell to solvespatially oriented puzzles. To do this players describe objects viathe notepad/keyboard, which in turn appear on the game screen andfacilitate the starite making its way to Maxwell. There are literallythousands of items in the game, both utilitarian like ladders, ropes,cars and buses, to the outlandish items, such as invisibility cloaks,pirates and black holes. There are time limits on levels, as wellas a limitation to the number of items that can be used per level.But regardless of these restrictions, the game is all about experimentation,imagination and endless replay value as players open their minds tothe nearly limitless possibilities that are sure to make Scribblenautsunlike any side-scrolling platformer they have ever played.

Key Features

Create Your Own Interactive Experience - Objects you write down in the game are only limited by your imagination.
Everyone Can Play - Scribblenauts features all-ages pick-up-and-play fun for everyone.
Touch-screen Controls - Easy to pick up and play on Nintendo DS. If you can tap, you can play.
Unlimited Replay Value - Use less objects to increase your score, or experiment with different objects for endless replay value. Write anything; solve everything.
Playground Mode - Play the entire game in a sandbox style right on the title screen.
Create and Share - Share levels you create with the level editor via your Nintendo DS Wi-Fi Connection.
Innovative New Title from Leading Developer - 5th Cell, the creator of the Drawn to Life franchise and Lock's Quest, has experience creating high-quality, innovative DS games.

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