Scribblenauts (DS) Infinite Imagination?

[GameNinja]

So I recently saw some info on the upcoming game Scribblenauts for the DS.

Link: http://au.ds.ign.com/articles/936/936157p1.html

The basic premise: You help your on-screen character solve puzzles to get a an item by writing any noun and it appears. So the first puzzles involves a tree. To get the item on top of it, the demo video shows a player writing "ladder" and then a ladder appears and you use it to climb the tree...or you could make a football to knock it down with...or a beaver to cut the tree down with. In the interview in the link, they say that your imagination is the only limit, and they are going to try to make a really exhaustive list of items you can input into the game.

Sounds promising, but the questions everybody is wondering is how will it really work? How many items can they really include, and how well will those items work?

Thoughts?

[CartCollector]

Sounds sort of like a text adventure mixed with a platformer. Could be fun.

[joedick]

This post gives an idea of the amount of items in the game:

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/...er-skepticism/

[j_factor]

If they really include every item under the sun, won't it be an incredibly easy game? Getting something down from a tree isn't a puzzle if the whole world is at your disposal.

[aboblyndsae]

If the interview is indicative of the game's complexity, you could probably just summon "God" to solve every puzzle for you or something. I imagine most of the fun will be in replaying the game and trying to come up with the most absurd solutions possible.

I really do hope this is good, even if it's just as a strange toy rather than a puzzler. It's such a clever idea that I really don't want it to fail.

...and how many of you aren't going to write "dildo" or something similar as your first object?

[scooterb23]

Dildo will be the second object...right after the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch