Sunday, April 26, 2009

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: 8-Bit Is Enough



In 8-Bit Is Enough, video games collide with real life, and tons of meta humor and pop culture references ensue. Telltale has covered this ground before with Sam and Max: Reality 2.0, but they do enough differently this time that it doesn't feel like a retread and it still has the feel of the Homestar Runner universe going for it. I'm not sure if it's just me, but to me the game felt like it was easily the most elaborate and involved of the episodes design-wise, as tasks and goals were layered on each other and you always knew what you had to do next, even if you weren't sure how yet. They do seem to go a bit bigger with the last game in a series, and I definitely had a lot of fun with this episode and the games in general. I may actually have to watch more of the web cartoons now.

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