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was fun to play this for like 5 minutes when you pirate it on your r4 and see what things you can type into the box and then get bored and stop

If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. But in this case it's not because of the premise - the game really does let you spawn basically anything you can think of outside of swear words and other vulgar things. It's still a Nintendo DS game where you can make God fight Cthulu though which is kind of crazy.

There's a good amount of easter eggs between item interactions too. Plus references in level set-ups, like the one designed after Pac-Man, with moth balls in place of the usual dots, and generic ghosts to run from.

What's "too good to be true" in this case is the game built around the concept. The game is split into puzzle levels and action levels. The puzzle levels require you to spawn specific items or complete a task in order to spawn the starite. Action levels have the starite in the open and have to be navigated to somehow. Though there is some overlap - a lot of action levels are basically puzzles and some puzzle levels and vice versa.

The issue comes in how repetitive many of these stages can get. For example, one level had me saving a lamb and getting it to its mother, and between them was a wolf. In my case I used a helicopter, spawned some rope to attach the lamb to the helicopter and flew past the wolf. Then in the same "world" or whatever a set of levels is called, I had a mission to get a penguin to safety over a pool of water with a whale in it. I just used the literal exact same solution.

I get that the games whole schtick is that many levels can be completed in many ways, but it's way too easy in this game to fall back on tricks you know work due to how many times the devs seemed to put the same basic problems. So, so many of the action levels are just obstacle courses with things you need to kill, which sure can be done in so many ways, but eventually you get bored of experimenting and just spawn the same overpowered creature. You stop thinking of ways to fly and just spawn the same jetpack or pterodactyl. Thinking of spawning the sun to light up a pitch black level is pretty fun the first time - not so much the next 10 times. It got so repetitive that by the end for the action levels I was using a certain glitch involving a vending machine and handcuffs to skip most of the levels.

Way too many levels come down to "Kill thing" "Find a way to fly" and "Find a way to swim underwater".

The game doesn't really do much to encourage you to experiment either. Playing a level once beaten does have a challenge mode where you need to beat the level 3 times in a row using different words, but even this has issues. For one thing, the first of those 3 times can just be the exact same solution as the original completion of the level. Secondly, the game doesn't really care about using synonyms - you can use "cop", "police" and "policeman" as different words. And lastly, because of the repetitiveness of the missions, this method doesn't necessarily require you to think up lots of different solutions, but 3 solutions that will apply to a huge chunk of levels. Basically just falling in to the exact same trap as playing the levels once, but taking longer to do so.

Oh and the game also controls like poopy. It's purely stylus controls which means you're so often moving when you meant to click an object, accidently jumping off cliffs, accidently unequipping something and so on. Apparently there was a re-release that switched to button controls but I didn't play that one. Luckily it was also changed to button controls in all future games, so I definitely wanna try that out. Maybe if the game was more fun to control I wouldn't feel the need to rush through all the later levels.

I really give props to the devs for the huge amount of effort gone in to this, it's just that I don't find the game that fun to really complete. They could have cut down half of these levels easily and lost nothing.

Nostalgia in a game man I miss the times where my ball didn't drop I used to just spawn guns and shoot people good times 7/10