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Concept
I find the concept of this game very fun. You write words to create objects to solve puzzles. While you can't, of course, write *anything*, the game does recognize a lot of words. I've only had one or two instances where I put in a word that it didn't have a match for.

Handwriting recognition
The handwriting recognition on this game doesn't seem to be very good. I gave up on it pretty quickly. Thankfully, the game provides the option of an onscreen keyboard you can use to type in letters instead. Since the writing mode of entry only accepts one letter at a time, it's not much slower to tap the letters on a keyboard.

Levels
There is a moderately long tutorial world that has levels that teaches you all of the game's mechanics. After that, you buy access to the other levels using the money you earn in the game by completing levels. This is nice because if you get stuck on the levels in one world you can buy access to another world if you have enough in-game money. Once you have completed a level, you can return to it and try to complete it three times in a row without using the same objects (advanced mode). At the beginning of each level you are given a hint as to what you need to do to complete the level. While in some cases this is pretty obvious, in some cases the hint is not clear or there are victory conditions that are not mentioned.

Object Interaction
Objects that you create interact with the world and can interact with each other. However, sometimes the interactions are not what you would expect. One of the things I find frustrating about the game is that some of the interactions that you expect are not what you get. As an example that I found very frustrating and silly, I created a beekeeper to take care of an angry bee in a level. The beekeeper comes wearing the normal beekeeping suit that you would expect. I expected the beekeeper to capture the bee. Instead, the bee attacked the beekeeper until the beekeeper was dead. In another example, I needed to take care of a violent bully. I found out that you couldn't kill the bully or you would lose the level, so I created a police officer, expecting that he would either chase away the bully, arrest him, or at least keep the bully from harming me. The police officer instead pulled his gun and proceeded to shoot the bully until he was dead, at which point I lost the level again.

Object Limitations
Some objects have strange limitations. The most frustrating one that I found was the fact that I never seem to be able to think of a bridging object that will allow me to cross most of the small-looking gaps in the game. If I can't fly over the gap for whatever reason, I usually end up giving up on the level. You would think a bridge would work? Maybe a steel beam? A plank of wood? Nope, all of those things are too short. I've tried a lot of things and had very little success.

Controls
The controls for the game are not very precise. It can be hard to control your character and it is easy to tell your character to move somewhere when you were just trying to tap on an object with the stylus. Both movement and object interaction are done via the stylus.

Summary
To conclude, Scribblenauts is a game with a great concept ruined by a lack-luster implementation. The first levels in Scribblenauts avoid many of the problems I mentioned by not being too complex and having victory conditions that are easy to understand. Once you figure out how to solve a level, going back in advanced mode can be very fun and a bit of a brain-teaser. This is Scribblenauts at its best. One saving grace is that I haven't run into any money issues yet, so when I can't figure out any more of the levels in a world I have been able to move on. I heard that the developer is working on a second Scribblenauts game that is supposed to fix the control issues and allow you to add adjectives to the words, so you could create a "long bridge" for example. If you've only got a small amount of money to spend on games and are interested in Scribblenauts, you might want to wait for Scribblenauts 2.Get more detail about Scribblenauts.