Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People – E5
Verdict: graphicketeering at its best!
In a Nutshell: 8-Bit is enough is the latest episode in the Strong Bad adventure game series.
“Trogdor must be stopped! The beefy-armed dragon of legend has broken free from his arcade cabinet and is burninating the land. With classic 8-bit games leaking into the real world and Strong Badia a fiery mess, only Strong Bad can take back the night and conquer this scorching menace once and for all. Does anybody know how to kill a dragon?”
- Fun Rating: Fun
- ESRB: E 10+
- Players/Mode: Single-player / Campaign
- Game Duration: 4-8 hours
- System: PC and Wii
- Developer: Telltale Games with Mike and Matt Chapman
- Website: http://www.telltalegames.com/strongbad/8bitisenough
- Cost: Get Episode 5 for $8.95 from Telltale (or the entire season for $34.95)
- Demo: http://www.telltalegames.com/demo/8bitisenough
| Would I play this again? | maybe |
| Would I recommend this game? | yes |
| Was the story good? | yes |
| Was the music good? | fantasticly retro |
| Were the graphics good? | yes |
| Was this game difficult? | no |
| Was this game frustrating? | no |
| Was this game offensive? | no |
| Was this game worth your time/money? | yes |
Playing the game
In Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, a point-and-click adventure, the player assumes the roll of Strong Bad. Clicking on the environment will move Strong Bad around. Some objects have labels that will appear when the pointer is shining on them. Clicking those objects allows Strong Bad to interact with them or will give you more information about the object.
During your adventure, you’ll also be interacting with the crazy cast of characters. Clicking on these characters starts a conversation. Depending on the conversation, you’ll have the option of clicking on the icon of the topic you want to discuss or praising or taunting the character. On the PC, right-clicking will skip ahead in the conversation.
Strong Bad will occasionally collect items. These can be accessed in the inventory. Some items, like the metal detector, are in use as soon as they are selected. Other items require you to first select them and then select the object in the environment you want to use the item with.
Visiting the other areas of the world of Strong Bad is made possible with the map. Open the map and pick where you want to go, assuming you have it drawn in. Opening the map brings up a flip through menu that includes a couple of notebook pages keeping track of your score and item collection progress.
A tip: when you unlock “Extended Play” make sure you save it in a different slot and not leave it in the auto-save slot (otherwise, the next autosave will overwrite it!)
What the game gets right
The laughs keep coming in the season finale: 8 Bit is enough. With a clever segue from the last episode, Trogdor is unleashed as is the smile inducing sass towards all of the video game genres of olden times. The script’s jabs didn’t even spare the current episode. Everything you love about the Videletrix flash games is here, too. With the same amount of graphical bits and just as much humor, the plot is a well executed video game movie classic.
As far as support characters go, Gel-Arshie steals the show. That guy is fantastically creepy and jibbly inducing.
What the game gets wrong
The only complaint I had with this episode is what looks like a bug in the controls while storming Trogdor’s castle: stand too close and the attacks with the Light Musket do nothing.
Sum it up
Well, here we are at the end of season 1 for Strong Bad’s Cool Game for attractive people. This series started off rough but finished really well. This game reminds me of everything I loved about games growing up and the nostalgia was made anew with the line “Load ‘PQuest’ comma 8 comma 1.”
If you haven’t bought the any of the other episodes, I highly recommend picking up the full season. If, however, you’ve already bought the other individual seasons, use the link above to get the last one without having to pay for the upgrade.
To sum the entire season up, here’s my ranking for the episodes from most to least fun: 2, 4, 5, 3, 1.
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