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Stong Bad's CGfAP - Episode 2 - Strong Badia

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Developer: Telltale Games Publisher: Telltale Games Genre: Arkanoid > General Released: Sep 14, 2008 Players: 1 Website

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Michael Scarpelli: 9

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People's second installment takes a little score dip for me from the first. Though, really, it's a bit of a technicality.

Strongbadia the Free features all the same great Homestar Runner characters, the hilarious dialogue, the accessible gameplay, the well-crafted interface and all that good stuff… but it IS all the same stuff.

On the plus side, the game is pretty easy to pick up and play without having played the first installment in the series… but it is the curse of the episodic adventure to suffer the comment from reviewers that its not breaking any new ground. Really, though, that's because it's one game broken up into many pieces.

Pany Haritatos: 8

Strong Badia: The Free doesn't really bring anything new to Telltale's Strong Bad series, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. SBTF is executed with the same high level of polish and attention to detail as Telltale's first Strong Bad game. The graphics are equally as good, the audio top notch again, and the puzzles are generally even better this time through. It is another great adventure game experience, that's easy to recommended for fans of Strong Bad and adventure games.

Coby Utter: 8

The second episode in Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Strong Badia resumes where Homestar Ruiner left off with mounds of humor and witty dialogue. Being an episode in a singular game experience, you won't find major gameplay differences from the first in the series, so if you enjoyed Homestar Ruiner, you'll probably enjoy Strong Badia every bit as much.

Strong Badia does improve in a few areas, most notably with a tighter narrative experience. I also found Strong Badia to be funnier than Homestar Ruiner, which is saying a lot since the first episode was pretty hilarious. Reviewing episodic games like SBCGfAP is difficult without retreading the assessments of previous episodes, and Strong Badia is more of the same: funny, polished, and entertaining.

Russ Carroll: 8

Homestar Runner is bottled goodness.

Strong Badia marks the second of these episodic games and if for some reason you're passing on them, you should correct that behavior right now. The humor is fantastic and the games are fun, oh and the price is really low. It's really a no-brainer. Anyway, Strong Badia for its part, I thought was on par with the first game, which is to say it's marvelous.

The first puzzle of being under house arrest starts a little slow, but quickly delivers some of the best lines in the game. The map from the first game is replaced with a Risk like map as you work to take over by treaty, brute force, or mad dancing skills, the rest of the territory on the map. I got all geeked out by the meshing of a strategy board game map in the game and really enjoyed my play through. It's pure fun.