Minor bugs aside, this is a game worth checking out for any Homestar Runner or Strong Bad fan. Any point-and-click adventure game fans eager to jump back into their favorite genre of gaming would do well to check out the website that spawned these characters first as there's quite a lot of inside-jokery to be found within the game before downloading and playing this game.
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People's presentation reminds me of when a TV series makes the jump to making a movie. It's a bigger, fancier, glossier package where the pacing is forced to slow down (in this case it's slowed quite a lot seeing as how this is a multi-hour point-and-click, trial-and-error game and not a short Flash cartoon), but rest assured the trademark Chapman brothers' humor is alive and kicking in this game, there's just longer stretches between the gags and zingers while you figure out how to progress in the game.
Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner is currently available on WiiWare (and may be downloaded onto your Wii console from the Wii Shop Channel in the system menu for 1000 Wii Points) and on PC for $8.95 at Telltale Games. As for the differences between the two versions, Telltale has this to say: "We have had a lot of questions about the differences between the PC and WiiWare versions of the game. The main difference is that in the WiiWare version, you can use Strong Bad's Lappy to send emails and pictures to Wii friends. This functionality does not exist in the PC version (although you can still take pictures in the PC version). Additionally, in the WiiWare version, the Snake Boxer 5 mini-game is controlled by turning the Wii remote sideways. There are no other major differences between the PC and WiiWare versions of Homestar Ruiner."
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People - Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner is rated T (Teen) by the ESRB for Crude Humor, Mild Cartoon Violence and Mild Suggestive Themes. This game can also be found on: Wii.
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1 - El Bicho
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