Your thoughts on Episode 2
 

So I just finished Strongbadia the Free.

It was awesome, once again a lot of cool jokes with a good amount of laugh out loud moments.

Probably not quite as good as episode one, but maybe it was just because it seemed a little the same. Definitely worth a play though :D

Ep 3 looks awesome, the whole band thing going on.

I would make my review more in depth but it's past 5am down here in Australia and I really need to sleep, but what did everyone think of it?

Strong Badia the Free Review
 

My thoughts are summed up in convenient review form. :)

I just finished it too.

It was definitely better than the first episode, for me at least. The humour was sharper and the structure of the episode was better paced. I also liked the "unlock areas as you go" system a lot better than the map in episode one.

In saying that, the ending was a bit of an anti-climax, and I was hoping that an over-arching storyline throughout the season would start to show by now, like the Sam and Max games. I guess that isn't what Telltale are going for this time though, which is fine.

I like that the hidden items are a bit more hidden than before and I'm still looking for more ways to insult Strong Sad.

Anyway, rather than write a 2000 word review, i'm just going to finish by saying that this season definitely still has me hooked, and I can't wait to see what else the team come up with for episodes 3-5!

This definitely has the first episode beat by a mile. :D (And not just because it had gallons of new Homsar lines.)

Everything was just spot on. If I had to criticize anything, it would be that Math Kickers was pretty bad compared to Snake Boxer, and the board game, while fun, was a bit annoying after you've seen all of the (hilarious) face-offs already.

Another jorb well done.

Good, Better, Harder, Funner, Still haven't done all the extras.

Summed up in a Not-Sentence!

Been listening to some Daft Punk?

Did you try the special moves? That made it more fun for me. :)

I was terrible at the board game the first time through. After I understood how it worked, though, I had fun trying to figure it out in the least possible number of moves.

I Would Review if it was Out for England.
But i gotta wait a bit longer. :(

I found a lil' summit summit on the game board, I'm wondering if there's anymore to be had there too!

Loved them game, still a couple of things to find (1 CGS piece, 2 insults and 1 item of clothing still to go).

Well done Telltale, loads of injokes and the rest. I really want to see if you can get Lil' brudder in the draft selection process

-m0r

Homsar's speech? A+ Player VS Player Board game? A+ Homsar? A+++

All in all, A-M-A-Z-I-N-G

I'm around halfway through, so far I like it. I think some of the puzzles are a little too obvious. But I definitely love the concept, and I heard about the finale of the episode, and it sounds awesome. It's funnier than the first episode as well. Overall, I gotta say I liked the first episode a little better, but this is almost as good as the first one (which I loved).

BTW, I wonder if the poster in SB's room is a sign, or is just there... hmm....

You can find my thoughts on the game in my REVIEW

Since I only play the games for the humour, I wasn't bothered by the puzzles' simplicity, though I did notice it. I'd say this was a more interesting setting which led to more humourous moments.

The way TGS was included had me laughing, brilliant!

I got bored with Algebros pretty quickly, even with their special attack moves. But I never really played Snake Boxer V that much in the previous episode, either.

[off topic]Did I really see a reviewer say the last bit of the game was like Axis and Allies? That was clearly a reference to Diplomacy, wasn't it?[/off topic]

Also, I could talk to Homsar all day and night.

I haven't gotten far in it yet, but there was one thing I thought I should mention here and now since I'm not sure where else to stick it at the moment...

The game is very fun and it's quite nice to see the total turn-around of unexpected cruelty on the oft-tormented King of Town. But what's bugging me is that there seems to be some .. I wanna say "lag" issues with the Wii version. I keep running into situations where the game has to pause for a second while the voices catch up. The most noticable one was in the intro where Strong Bad is checking his email, and he finishes typing part of the sentence before he even starts saying it. The thing froze for a second while the dialogue caught up.

That's definitely odd and not something I've personally experienced. If you get around to playing through the episode again, could you check to see if the problem is still there?

I can't really think of anything all that negative too say about this episode. The puzzles were maybe just a little harder than in episode one, and that was nice. I laughed... a lot.. throughout. I loved all of the in-joke references throughout.

Once again the characters were all pretty much exactly how I would want them in a videogame (I even loved the Homesar crazyness.) And I thought that the story was actually really solid. (I LOVED all of those little WWII style videos whenever you catch a territory.)

All in all, nice job Telltale. I hope these are doing well enough that we can get a season 2... maybe even with more of an overarching plot.

Ah, I forgot about the special moves! (I found them so early on that they slipped my mind by the time I finished the game proper.)

I was pretty bad at it, too. I finally finished at something like "Round 55". :p

Maybe that's why I was soured on it. By the time I discovered that The Cheat + Strong Mad = Draw, and I had a winning strategy, I just wanted to get on with it. It would be pretty fun to play it as the Homestarmy, though. :D

(Also, I should give more praise for the Homsar stuff. I nearly fell out of my chair multiple times.)

Ugh, accidentally clicked refresh by mistake.

Anyways, I was gonna say that I haven't run into the pausing glitch since the intro, so perhaps it was only there, or it may have even been a temporary error in my Wii.

I did want to say that I'm liking everything more than the first episode. The expanded areas - like Strong Sad's room, and the Homsar Reservation which is awesome - and the added "objectives" for increasing rank such as setting things on fire. It's all so much better than the first one. The humour is greatly improved. The jokes feel less like jabs at previous emails and more like a new story altogether with some familiar elements added for good measure.

I've finished the game, but I still have to track down the rest of the achievements and collectables. Still, I think it is safe for me to say that I loved this episode!

The difficulty was a bit on the easy side (it was a little more difficult compared to episode 1), but I'm assuming that the difficulty will rise as the episodes progress. The humor was excellent as well. Overall, the game was a blast; keep up the good work, Telltale!

Oh, and m0r1arty,
If you haven't done it already, you can get Lil' Brudder selected for the draft (As soon as I saw him on the wheel, I just HAD to get him selected!). You probably already have a good idea of what happens when he is selected, but the scene is just too funny to skip!