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GameCyte attempts, fails, to handle Strong Bad's style 17 May, 2008 / Comments: 5

By Jason


With the first episode a mere month away yet another new preview for Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People has hit the internet, this one from GameCyte. You can check out their impressions, quite a bit of brand new info as well as some old screenshots within.
Strong Bad starts the game asleep on his couch, his hand wedged in a bag of chips, mumbling about an old SNES game. It’s the sort of joke that, while funny on its own, is very clearly a nod to longtime fans of the series. These moments are sprinkled throughout the game, but not too frequently as to be off-putting. Strong Bad’s particular brand of humor is the kind that most anybody can enjoy — the clever dialogue will make most anybody chuckle, yet there were one or two moments when, as the only Homestar aficionado in the room, I found myself to be the only one laughing. SBCG4AP makes no excuses for the fact that it is aimed at fans, but the newcomers in our group found plenty to laugh about as well. My impression wasn’t that you had to be a fan to enjoy the game… you’d just get to enjoy it more.
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5 Comments

  • The Tingler on 17 May, 2008, 09:08…
    I disagree about needing to be a fan. That's a real cop-out in reviews. Surely there are people out there who will become fans after playing this game?
  • Kroms on 17 May, 2008, 14:25…
    You'd need to be a fan to understand MORE of it. You're going to miss-out on some of the in-jokes.
  • The Tingler on 17 May, 2008, 17:56…
    Hopefully a very minimal amount.
  • Kroms on 18 May, 2008, 01:23…
    My favourite kind of joke is the one that works both ways, as an injoke and as just that, a joke. The classic one would be in CMI when Guybrush tries to hypnotize the Cabana Boy. I laughed before I saw Star Wars, and after it.
  • Kroms on 18 May, 2008, 01:23…
    And we'll hopefully have a lot of those lol.