yeah it was over hyped,
although i think the idea behind this game is a fresh and innovative one and innovation is welcome, especially cause' thats what nintendo praises with the nds. The anticipation after the promotion and trailer was big, but it fades after some levels of the game, the developers could have done much better, cause the control suck and is too imprecise in dificult situations and the long-time motivation isn't really big.
the words and items included in the game may be a lot, wow, but who do really want to search for every word if it's not necessary to beat the game, and if there is really someone who wants to see every item, he doesn't even have to play the whole game cause there is no limitation of words to the progress.
All in all scribblenauts is a fun game (i don't even know what genre i would assign it to) but not more:.