Slashdot Mirror
Strong Bad Episode 1 Hits the WiiWare Shop
Nintendo has added a new title to their WiiWare shop, Strong Bad Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner from developer Telltale Games. The new title features the infamous boxing-glove-adorned character in the first of five installments of Telltale's "Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People." "The point-and-click adventure game stars Strong Bad, the lucha libre mask-wearing character from web cartoon series Homestar Runner. Players can create 'Teen Girl Squad' comics, play a retro-styled minigame titled Snake Boxer 5, and send pictures and messages to their friends through the Wii's message board system." In addition to the new title, two classic titles have also been added for virtual console, Break In, and Star Parodier.
Given that you can't (officially) use a Wiimote on a Windows box, I would hazard a guess that it's probably better on the Wii. Thus the discount for the crappier platform.
In a "point and click" game like this, I doubt the Wiimote will make any difference at all.
You know, for all the years of their unique brand of humor, WITHOUT ads, without a subscription, and without resorting to having strongbad basically beg you to buy his merchandise, think of it as a $10 donation to the chaps bros.
Seriously, all that animation must take an assload of work, it's always the same quality, there are only occasional long lapses in updates. Pay the $10 or at least nominate them for internet sainthood.
Bullshit. How much a month do you spend on coffee? Eating out? Other crap?
$10 for a game like this makes me feel like I'm ripping them off, seriously.
Quite frankly, I find these newfangled computers to be quite a pain in the ass. I think our lives would be much better if we all had just ignored them and continued using Teletypes.
"The games they have on the site look like something that you would have played on a Commodore 64 or an Atari."
Uh, you do realize that's exactly the point of them don't you?
Sometimes my arms bend back.
I'd check it out if I didn't have to [...] own a Wii.
You do realize that the H*R game was also released for the PC at the same time?
Or have I been imagining those four hours of playing through it yesterday?
But not as weird as if he was developed by Homsar.
"MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."