I played through the first episode of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People last week, and was pleasantly surprised by it. Granted, my motivation to play was more to do with wanting to see what my former colleague Mark Darin was up to than with being a fan of Homestar Runner — although I did enjoy a few Teen Girl Squad movies back in the day, I’ve never been a devout follower of the site. Still, I found the writing reasonably clever and the art style delightfully iconic. Mark did a lovely job as lead designer; despite the fact that there was a slightly confusing backwards puzzle at the start, I was never stuck in the game for very long, and enjoyed having silly minigames to poke at in the meantime. [1] All in all, it was a good couple of hours of fun, and I wait for the next episodes in anticipation.

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