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| Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 5: 8-Bit is Enough |
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[WiiWare] Trogdor, the beefy-armed dragon of legend, has shaken free from his video game and is running through the countryside, "burninating" everything in sight. With a dragon on the loose and 8-bit classics leaking into the real world, it's all fun and games until the proud land of Strong Badia falls to Trogdor's fiery wrath. Now Strong Bad must take back the night by sending this scorching menace back into his arcade cabinet once and for all. Just one problem: Does anybody know how to kill a dragon? [TellTale Games]
| PUBLISHER: |
Telltale Games |
| DEVELOPER: |
Telltale Games |
| GENRE(S): |
Adventure |
| PLAYERS: |
1 |
| ESRB RATING: |
E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) |
| RELEASE DATE: |
December 15, 2008 |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
GameShark
The episode is brimming with pop culture references that range from The Color Purple, Se7en, The Shining, and even Samuel Adams beer.
90
Official Nintendo Magazine UK
A great end to a great series - we hope there's more but if there isn't, at least it's gone out on a high. [Feb 2009, p.86]
86
IGN
This episode is truly bizarre, but still very funny.
85
GamePro
It offers a strong finish to some great episodic gaming. Not Trogdor strong, but pretty close.
84
Cheat Code Central
8-Bits Is Enough offers a satisfying conclusion rife with gaming nostalgia and Strong Bad’s trademark ridiculousness. While it’s hard to say whether Telltale and the Chapman bros will eventually cook up another batch of gaming episodes, surely there are plenty more absurd adventures worth exploring.
83
1UP
Maybe it's the spot-on humor based on the industry I work in, or perhaps just accumulated experience from the earlier episodes, but whatever the reason, 8-Bit Is Enough certainly embodies the maxim of saving the best for last. Well, until the assumedly in-the-works second season rolls around.
80
Gamervision
As a season closer, 8-Bit is enough is all that you could want from a Strong Bad game. Filled with references to earlier episodes, better and more polished gameplay, and as epic of a story as could be expected.
80
WiiWare World
Episode 5 is about videogames – that can really only mean good things! It’s not longer than any of the other episodes, nor is there more to do, but it’s got more jokes than any other entry in the series, plus we finally get to see Trogdor in 3D – what more could you want?
80
PALGN
A fine finish to Strong Bad's Cool Game, and a fine videogame parody in its own right.
70
Jolt Online Gaming UK
Shows an obvious fondness by the game’s creators for classic videogames, but that’s not really represented in the gameplay, which has sadly run its course here.
70
Adventure Gamers
It’s still a little shallow in the gameplay department, but right down to the closing credits, it’s a lovingly thorough ode to retro games, and an amusing final adventure with some of the most colorful, acerbic, and silly characters you’ll ever virtually meet. If you can appreciate those things, then consider this game more than worthy of its pixels.
45
Destructoid
Strong Bad Ep.5 is also the least linear of all the games in the series.
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