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| The Crazy Shit That Happens in Scribblenauts, a thread by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/15/2009, 11:46pm PDT | ||||
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| My mission was to remove a cow from the path of some cars.
A cow is blocking a line of cars. A butcher awaits on the far side of the screen. The first thing I tried to do was give the cow some grass - sort of lead it on. That worked just fine. The butcher saw the cow and HACKED HIM TO BITS. The line of cars, now completely free from any obstruction, proceeded to run over the butcher, killing him. For some reason, the game didn't consider the end result of that mission a success. I dorked around a couple more times before putting the game down. When I returned, I started up the mission and saw something I hadn't noticed before: when the level begins, there is an icon to the left of the "Level Start" text. The icon is that of an active volcano. Everyone is trying to get the hell out of dodge because they built their fucking town next to a lava-spewing precipice from hell. But there's no volcano anywhere other than the little square that quickly disappears after the level start text goes away. What a neat little detail. And with that in mind, I guess that makes it sort of okay if the cow gets chopped up. I mean, I have no illusions that the cow's destiny involved cattle decapitation, but look, I wasn't just given that hat for nothing - I'm a Scribblenaut. I knew I could save the cow and the day. (And, in real life, I *wasn't* given that hat. After an EB refused to sell me Doom 3 on release day, I made sure to never pre-order anything, out of spite. Well, it cost me big-time, no Scribblenaut hat for me. As someone who is ordering crocheted Berzerk pillows off the Internet, I want that hat. As someone who got six days of autumn in 2009 before it fucking snowed, I literally need that hat.) I had read that a lot of puzzles could be solved with the UFO, and I needed something to help me fly over traffic. I couldn't go around the cars, since Scribblenauts has no concept of left and right along a z-axis. However, there was still more room to maneuver here than at any point during the average evening commute on I-25. Anyway, when I positioned the UFO over the cow, the cow started to levitate. I'm not sure if it does that for all things. But I do know that UFOs like to beam two things up: cows and rednecks. So I was surprised, but then very happy, as it made sense. This cow was a fatty filled with beef patties, however, and the tractor beam of the UFO was not sufficient to get the thing completely up. The cow ended up on the roof of a nearby building. Now, I have no idea how, but the butcher somehow got up on to the roof of *another* building after I ditched the UFO in an attempt to get the starite. I suspect the butcher climbed up the UFO to get at the cow. Which is just - I mean, I wish I cared about my job as much as this butcher did, to just ignore alien technology casually discarded by some rooster-headed kid so I could get Bessie to the chopping block and make quota or however one tells the good butchers from bad. The butcher and cow then fell off the roof and got run over, which caused the mission to fail. I don't want to give into hyperbole, and I am admittedly prone to liking things, but this is one of the greatest games ever made. the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey! |
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