Scribblenauts Unlimited, or Scribblenauts Unmasked?

Scribblenauts Unmasked has Batman; Scribblenauts Unlimited has Cthulhu.  As you might imagine, this is giving me a bit of an almost moral dilemma, here. It’s a surprisingly difficult parenting decision, which is why I’m crowd-sourcing it.

These are great games for kids, by the way. Makes them want to spell words out. Which is fine by me…
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OK, I admit to being a little skeptical of Scribblenauts.

Even if Tycho of Penny Arcade was waxing poetical on the subject.  But I introduced my kids to the Scribblenauts apps on the Kindle and iPad and danged if they didn’t get instantly hooked on it. My youngest suddenly started sounding out the word ‘lion’ in his eagerness to get a lion on that screen. That was worth the 99 cents, right there.

So, hey, seriously, check it out.