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I just read the call for Scribblenauts adventures, so I thought I’d throw my hat into the ring.
I think that most people would agree that most of Scribblenauts creative fun comes from the title screen. The island title screen is what sparked my idea to reenact a story of epic proportions: Moby Dick.
I made myself a neat little ship and a rowboat, complete with a cartoon Ishmael and Maxwell as my Ahab, and gave each a spear. I summoned a sperm whale and the battle was on. A battle that lasted, oh, only 15 seconds. Apparently, whales in Scribblenauts land don’t have much fight in them.
Disappointed with my literature-based reenactment, I decided to just throw all kinds of nautical life into that small body of water. A heated undersea battle ensued. And a lot of seafood was made.*
First up? Tuna versus Swordfish. The swordfish emerged victorious, only to face the diabolical dugong. The dugong quickly had himself a swordfish steak.
Dugong was quickly done in by the terror of the seas, the shark. But what can kill a shark? Not much. I had to be creative and reach into the mythical beast bucket.
I sent out the ferocious leviathan to do in the shark and he did his job well. But the leviathan was child’s play for oddly adorable looking Loch Ness Monster. Beneath that harmless exterior lies a true fighter.
Nessie was defeated handily at the hands, er, tentacles of the Great Kraken, who emerged the winner of this fishy fiasco. His reward? A crown fitting for the king of the seas. Too bad giant sea monsters won’t wear awesome crowns.
So, in the end, I feel that my sea-themed skirmish trumped the classic Moby Dick in many ways. Herman Melville doesn’t have anything on Scribblenauts.
*No sea animals, real or fictional, were harmed in the making of this article.
