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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 5: 8-Bit is Enough

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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 5: 8-Bit is Enough
82
5.5 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 18 critic reviews
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Game Info

Publisher: TellTale Games

Developer: TellTale Games

Genre(s): Adventure

Players: 1

ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older)

Release Date: December 15, 2008

Summary

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? [TellTale Games]

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

100

GameShark

The episode is brimming with pop culture references that range from The Color Purple, Se7en, The Shining, and even Samuel Adams beer.

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90

Armchair Empire

With diverse stories and settings, great animations and overall visuals, and strong point & click gameplay along with hilariously smart-ass ribaldry that’s becoming the developer’s trademark, 8-Bit Is Enough is a satisfying series conclusion.

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90

GameZone

Telltale finishes Strong Bad’s Cool Game 4 Attractive People with a bang as 8-Bit Is Enough is hands-down the strongest episode out of the bunch.

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86

IGN

This episode is truly bizarre, but still very funny.

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86

My Gamer

So while Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People may have come to an end, it is still one of the more impressive point and click adventure games that came out in 2008 and firmly deserves a look.

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86

GamingTrend

8-bit is Enough is another solid entry in the Strong Bad series.

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85

GamePro

It offers a strong finish to some great episodic gaming. Not Trogdor strong, but pretty close.

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85

Gaming Target

With its rampant hilarity and imaginative puzzles, 8-Bit is Enough is a great capstone to the Cool Games for Attractive People series.

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84

Cheat Code Central

8-Bits Is Enough offers a satisfying conclusion rife with gaming nostalgia and Strong Bad’s trademark ridiculousness. While it’s hard to say whether Telltale and the Chapman bros will eventually cook up another batch of gaming episodes, surely there are plenty more absurd adventures worth exploring.

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83

1UP

Maybe it's the spot-on humor based on the industry I work in, or perhaps just accumulated experience from the earlier episodes, but whatever the reason, 8-Bit Is Enough certainly embodies the maxim of saving the best for last. Well, until the assumedly in-the-works second season rolls around.

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82

PC Zone UK

Some of the most polished and laugh-out-loud writing that Telltale, or any other devloper, have made for a game since LucasArts in the '90s. [Mar 2009, p.75]

82

PC Gamer UK

Great fun, but goes out on a whimper, rather than a bang. [Feb 2009, p.62]

80

PALGN

A fine finish to Strong Bad's Cool Game, and a fine videogame parody in its own right.

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75

Gaming Nexus

8-Bit Is Enough is a surprisingly slow-to-start but satisfying capstone to an eclectic first season for Homestar Runner and friends.

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70

Adventure Gamers

It’s still a little shallow in the gameplay department, but right down to the closing credits, it’s a lovingly thorough ode to retro games, and an amusing final adventure with some of the most colorful, acerbic, and silly characters you’ll ever virtually meet. If you can appreciate those things, then consider this game more than worthy of its pixels.

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70

Jolt Online Gaming UK

Shows an obvious fondness by the game’s creators for classic videogames, but that’s not really represented in the gameplay, which has sadly run its course here.

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70

Game Chronicles

If you like Homestar Runner and Strong Bad and the Cheat and so on and so forth, there is no reason why you should not get this game. You’ll love it, trust me.

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45

Destructoid

Strong Bad Ep.5 is also the least linear of all the games in the series.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 5.5 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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