From the moment I turned on this game to the moment I turned it off I experienced a rapid degradation of enjoyment. I played it on the Wii and was hoping this would be one of those games which stood out from the bad game influx on WiiWare; as the StrongBad e-mail animations are hilarious. But what I got was a smack in the face, Just to make this look more professional here is an in-depth review to tell you why it sucks:
Gameplay 6/10
The game falls into a point and click adventure genre, but with side scrolling elements. The controls are horrible; to move you have to click somewhere and Strong Bad moves VERY slow, even though there is a run option if you double click with the WiiMote; StrongBad takes up such a big part of the screen that running lasts for about two seconds max, before you have to re-click twice. I suppose this game wasn’t meant to be taken seriously, but rather have a laugh at StrongBad’s responses upon examining items. Of course that doesn’t work for two reasons: the jokes are really flat, you’ll find watching all the episodes will bring you much more entertainment, and there aren’t that many objects to mess around with in the first place.
Story 5/10
Little Timmy (age 7) who wrote the story for this game had it easy, since the story is easy to follow and hard to continue with half the characters being retarded (literally). I haven’t experienced the whole thing myself since I quit soon after I found out that I had to beat a handicapped cripple(Homestar runner) in a tri-annual race. Its like beating someone in the Special Olympics and feeling good about it.
Graphics 8.5/10
Probably the best aspect of the game is the cell shaded graphics which help connect this game to the original toons, much like every DBZ game. The animation is good, but if they were going to make such simple graphics why didn’t they just make the game 2D. I would have enjoyed a nice platformer instead of another WiiWare failure.
We can only sit down and play Super mario until LostWinds 2 hits the shelves…ughh wii shops.
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Level: 5
August 27, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Finaly, someone else hates this game! More spamware!
Level: 4
August 28, 2008 at 9:45 pm
What really caught my attention about WiiWare is that for every good games there are 3-4 bad ones to ruin the Wii’s reputation.Not a smart move on Nintendo’s side to allow newborn third -party companies to produce one of their major products, even tho there are awesome games like LostWinds, Defend Your Castle and…umm…My Life as a King I suppose, people make games like Pop where all you do is pop bubbles…is that what some of the best creative minds are supposed to be making?
And talk about unoriginality, remaking doctor mario?
WiiWare isn’t worth the firmware update and its worth it even less if you use the Homebrew.
Level: 4
August 28, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Heard of this game in IGN. Looks very epic.
Level: 4
August 30, 2008 at 1:23 am
Not :/
Level: 4
September 12, 2008 at 12:20 pm
This game doesnt sound like any fun.
Level: 5
October 15, 2008 at 7:59 am
I liked it…
Level: 5
October 16, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Yeah I’m against the grain here, I really enjoy it. It’s all about the humor though. Without that it wouldn’t be nearly as fun.