When comparing Scribblenauts Unlimited vs Super Meat Boy, the Slant community recommends Super Meat Boy for most people. In the question“What are the best Colorful games on Steam?” Super Meat Boy is ranked 17th while Scribblenauts Unlimited is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose Super Meat Boy is:
When you die, you spawn quickly to try again. Many games draw out the death, and have to reload. Super Meat Boy immediately re-spawns you so you waste no time.
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Pros
Pro Encourages creativity
In Scribblenauts, the goal is to help other characters perform physics based tasks, and you can solve them in any way you want. You can create any object by typing it out and use them in creative ways to solve the puzzles.
Pro Not too difficult
The game has an appropriate difficulty level for kids and because puzzles can be solved in different ways, the difficulty in inherently flexible.
Pro Builds vocabulary
You can write in tons of nouns and have them appear in game. You can also add adjectives to the nouns to modify them. By having the words appear and add to the gameplay, it encourages building a larger vocabulary.
Pro Play through iteration is fast
When you die, you spawn quickly to try again. Many games draw out the death, and have to reload. Super Meat Boy immediately re-spawns you so you waste no time.
Pro Forgivingly tight controls
The addition of a "run" button adds a lot of depth to levels, keeping the run-jump-repeat loop more interesting. The characters have acceleration as well, which demands finesse.
Pro Large number of levels
This is not a game you are going to complete in an afternoon. With 240 levels scattered across 7 worlds there is a lot to play in the game.
Pro Unique visual style
As is typical of Ed McMillen's games, it looks like nothing else out there. The art style is 2D based but heavily unique with a vector graphics cartoony look.
Cons
Con More inventive solutions often do not work
The limitations of the game can be easily seen when solutions that make sense (though may not be the programmed solution) do not work. For those with really vivid imaginations or who use off the wall thinking they may run up against a wall with this title.
Con Cut-scenes lack polish
Between the games gameplay are cut-scenes that fill the player in on the evolving story, sadly the artwork and polish for these cut-scenes shows quite a bit that this is an indie game made by two people as they are a bit unrefined.