It’s the only C64-exclusive game I can ever remember being any good. Admittedly, I only ever had it as a demo from some Commodore magazine cover tape, but still. And it is pretty good, yes. I’m not a fan of the up-to-jump mechanism so often favoured in computer (as opposed to console) games, especially when it leaves a fire button free and unused as here (well, except when you want to jump down a level, but that just makes the …
I was very pleased with myself when I managed to get past the magma on Dr Wily’s level, only to find I hadn’t – I needed to pass it again in a different way shortly afterwards. And, of course, I couldn’t. Gah!
JEWEL MAN BEATENED! PLUG MAN KILLEDED! Hurrah! Of course, now I have to kill Smarmy Smiley Dr Wily. Or even just get to him, as his fortress is clearly impossible to penetrate, what with the magma streams you can’t get through. Gah!
OH I AM BEST NOW! Not one, not two, not even three, but FOUR bosses defeated today! First up was Splash Woman, who was very easy to get to (but quite hard to defeat). Then came Concrete Man, who was both tricky to reach and hard to kill – until I used Splash Woman’s weapon on him. Next came Hornet Man, who was a nightmare to reach (that flower clock bit was a real pain) but was killed on my …
Another level (the Gugentraz one) completed! It took over an hour though! It’s getting quite tricky now too, and I’m not liking these Ink Bike things and Ink Turrets at all.
And quickly, too. It seems that reading the Help that comes with the board game thing actually helps, as it tells you that a fight that results in a draw means the opposing side can’t move. With this, I used The Cheat to prevent Strong Mad from moving, Homsar to ground Strong Sad, Coach Z to distract Homestar, and The Poopsmith to hide The King of Town every move. In 9 moves, I’d won both the battle, and the game. …
OK, so I managed to convince both Pompom and Homsar to join my country, leaving Homestar and Strong Mad. Strong Mad had me puzzled for ages, until I realised what to do with my sword, and then he gave me something I could use to rig the Draft Wheel making Coach Z join the Homestarmy. So, with the army assembled and all the countries joined as one, I became King of Town! Only now I don’t want to be any …
Grrr! I got to Concrete Man (after finally figuring out how to defeat the Evil Elephants without dying), but he’s too hard. Neither of the boss weapons I have are effective against him, and it’s all to easy for him to turn me to stone, then jump on my head, then shoulder-charge me, wiping out half my energy in one go. Gah.
Hurrah! I convinced both The Cheat and Strong Sad to join my country! Turns out all The Cheat needed was pilot’s badge, and then he gave me his lighter, which I used to torch everything Strong Sad owned, pretty much. Now I’m stuck again, having no idea how to impress Pompom, or how to converse with Homsar.
Yes, I downloaded Episode 2. After Episode 1, I couldn’t just leave it, could I? No, of course not. The plot of this one is that everyone in town has set up their own country. It seems that I have to get them all to become part of Strong Bad’s empire – Strong Badia. I’m yet to manage this though, having not persuaded anyone to join. It’s still funny though!
I beat another boss! After $hlmun attempts at Tornado Man’s level, I finally got to the boss. Then promptly lost all bar one of my lives, before managing to beat him on my final life with just two bars of energy left. Phew! Oh, and Galaxy Man’s weapon on him is more than useless.
Um, yes. I would say “already”, but it did take about 5 hours. It’s just I’ve played it a lot. And excellent it was too. I finally figured out how to beat Pompom, and the section in the castle was all sorts of amaze. And the snake game is fantastic in its crapness.
I love point and click adventures, and I had a load of spare Wii points from when I bought Mega Man 9. So it was only a matter of time before I bought SBCG4AP (as the game refers to itself as). And? It is amazing. Very few games are genuinely funny, and fewer still are actually hilarious, but this? This is real actual side splittingly funny. I was aware of Strong Bad (the web “thing”), but knew very little about …
That’s 5 levels down now (and another couple of “secret” ones). I still can’t get over how much fun this is to play. There have been a couple of slightly challenging bits so far, but even when you fail a challenge you’re not punished – you just have to start them again, only anything you’ve already done is saved: e.g. You have to paint 20 buildings, you paint 19, then run out of time. You restart and 19 are still …