Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People was the next series of
episodic adventures from Telltale Games, the people who made the Sam and Max ones. Not being enough of a fan of Homestar Runner to plop down my hard-earned money for it when it came out, but enough of a Wallace and Gromit
fan to preorder their first season of games, I got my hands on the
fourth Strong Bad episode as a bonus. It didn't quite convince me to
pony up for the rest of them necessarily, but it was a reasonably
enjoyable and sometimes funny few hours. Also it's probably the largest
ratio of words-in-title to minutes-of-entertainment that I've ever seen.
Dangeresque
is apparently a recurring concept from the cartoons, a low-budget
series of detective films Strong Bad makes to flatter himself, sort of
like everything else he does. The fact that the game is a homemade film
within the story is played up throughout the episode, and was a pretty
constant source of humor. From what I've seen I've generally
appreciated the sense of humor and some of the wacky characters,
although it's rarely laugh-out-loud funny and Strong Bad's voice can
get really tiring after hearing it for a while. The puzzles weren't too
bad, although a bit too easy some of the time, which came to a head
when the final confrontation was resolved in a single obvious mouse
click. A lot of the design is pretty clever, I just felt like the Sam
and Max episodes were a bit more involved in addition to liking the
characters more. Still, anyone who really likes these cartoons and
clicking on things probably can't go wrong here.
