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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 24 critic reviews
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Game Info
Publisher: TellTale Games
Developer: TellTale Games
Genre(s): Adventure
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Release Date: August 11, 2008
Summary
[WiiWare] Charming. Suave. Awesome. These are the words Strong Bad would use to describe himself. In a world gone mad, only one man can be trusted to save the day. A man with an attitude. A man called Strong Bad. As the star of the Homestar Runner Web cartoons, Strong Bad has been answering e-mails (in boxing gloves), pranking his friends, pummeling his enemies, and making people with questionable taste snort milk out of their noses for years now. And he's branched out to star in Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, a monthly five-episode series. In Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner, Strong Bad's plans to beat the snot out of Homestar backfire, and he ends up with an unwanted houseguest cramping his style. Now he needs to get life back to normal by any means possible. But wait, there's more: Teen Girl Squad comics, achievements, funny costumes and arcade games. You can even send pictures and messages to Wii Friends using Strong Bad's computer. So how about it? Can you handle Strong Bad's style? [Nintendo]
Cheat Codes & Hints: Cheat Code Central
Also On The Web: Official Website
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...
GamePro
Long time Homestar Runner fans will be pleased to see that all the major characters they've come to know (Marzipan, The Cheat, Coach Z, Pom Pom, etc.) are included along with many inside jokes.
Read Full Review >1UP
At times like this, it's a wonder that adventure games ever went off the rails.
Read Full Review >Hardcore Gamer Magazine
Clocking in at the better part of four hours, with a cost of 1000 Wii Points, each episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People will give hope monthly to those looking to support WiiWare.
Read Full Review >N-Europe
Bucketloads of humour, an involving and relatively challenging gameplay experience, lots of references and continuity for long time fans, and generally a fun game to play.
Read Full Review >Official Nintendo Magazine UK
A great start to the series - if they're all this good, we'll snap them all up. [Oct 2008, p.92]
Games Master UK
Four hours of laugh-out-loud dialogue is easily worth 1,000 points. [Nov 2008, p.85]
Gaming Target
I found that the game’s humor and entertaining quest made it well worth the $10 investment ($8.95 for the PC). Like many adventure games, the replay value is not tremendously high, but the promise of future downloadable episodes helps to resolve this issue.
Read Full Review >IGN
As a point-and-click game it doesn't do anything ground breaking, but all of the window dressing is fantastic.
Read Full Review >Zentendo
Wii owners should consider themselves lucky that Homestarrunner.com and Tell Tale games have given the Wii a bizzare yet awesome game series. It is well worth the investment and can be enjoyed by just about anyone without being dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. If you are a long time fan of the cartoon, consider it a 9.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer
Strong Bad is funny, varied and just the right length for an episodic game. The puzzles aren't particularly strong - though they're as good as anything in the recent Sam & Max games - but this is balanced out by the additional stuff to find and muck about with.
Read Full Review >Cubed3
Strong Bad’s first videogame adventure definitely proves to be the perfect game for not only long-term fans of the online web episodes of Homestar Runner, but point-and-click fans that enjoy a weird sense of humour and zany puzzles in small doses.
Read Full Review >NGamer UK
Comical catnip for fans. [Nov 2008, p.72]
Cheat Code Central
Unless you happen to be an enemy of all things cool and funny, the first installment of Strong Bad is where it's at. This new monthly series shows tons of promise, and the next episode, Strong Badia the Free, looks even more delightfully ludicrous.
Read Full Review >Jolt Online Gaming UK
The amount of content and the price point is just on the right side of comfortable, with the story trading ambition for authenticity. As a result, this first game can be called 'pretty good', but it’s still a little short on awesomeness.
Read Full Review >Nintendo Life
Unfortunately, the first episode doesn’t definitively establish itself as a proper videogame as much as it is a charming adaptation of the Flash cartoon. As well as Telltale Games did at offering a tremendous service to fans of Homestar Runner, they are only occasionally able to prove that playing a cartoon is better than watching one.
Read Full Review >Gamervision
However, it appears that they weren't able to perfectly hit their stride in terms of puzzle creation, and this episode definitely has some of the early-season jitters that the first few episodes of Sam & Max had.
Read Full Review >GameSpy
SBCGfAP is packed with little extras and mini-games, although none provide more than a few minutes of diversion. The real fun is discovering all of the inside jokes from the series plastered throughout.
Read Full Review >Destructoid
SB:Ep1 is a mixed bag; it's funny, but can get old during a sustained playthrough, and it's got some neat puzzles, but they're presented in a disjointed, directionless way that'll have players doing things not because the story or characters dictate them, but simply due to odd item placement and situation setups that seem like they should be done just because.
Read Full Review >n-Revolution Magazine UK
Strong Bad can be very funny, and this first episode is a great start for the fans. We just wish it were longer and cheaper.
Read Full Review >DarkZero
Overall my suggestion would be, stick the game’s suggestions (hints) on high, enjoy it as a constant stream of brain-dead semi funny entertainment, in a universe you are probably familiar with, and get as much stress-free enjoyment from what admittedly, feels like a pretty polished episodic game.
Read Full Review >PALGN
A polished, if uneventfully designed episode, better suited to the Homestar Runner crazy-go-nut.
Read Full Review >Giant Bomb
While demand for this style of gaming and for Homestar-licensed products both peaked a while ago, it's an enjoyably goofy diversion.
Read Full Review >Edge Magazine
You wonder if players will have wanted to spend this amount of time loafing around the Homestar Runner universe, or whether their interaction with it is best limited to ten-minute bursts via their web browser. [Oct 2008, p.101]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
