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Telltale brings Strong Bad to attractive people

Wow, we never thought we'd be writing about Strong Bad twice in one week on a Wii blog. Yet, Telltale finally announced their oh-so-secret WiiWare game, which will feature everyone's favorite Homestar Runner mascot. Titled Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, this series will consist of five episodes that will come out on a monthly basis. (As it turns out, the "actual gameplay footage" at the end of the Strong Bad Gameways video is actual gameplay footage!)

Like Sam & Max, this game will be in the adventure genre, involving humor, puzzles, and point-and-click goodness. Telltale has also added some neat time-wasting extras, like checking Strong Bad's emails, making prank phone calls, and playing arcade games styled after the ones on Homestar Runner's site.

Between bringing this and Sam & Max to the Wii, we're so in love with Telltale right now. If you're excited, too, make sure to check out the official webpage for SBCG4AP, which just went live (and has a gameplay trailer!).

(Note: Sorry for the delay in putting this news up; we were waiting for Telltale to release assets for the game first, to make this post as thorough as possible.)



[Via press release; also, thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

Zero Punctuation tackles Zack & Wiki

You may know Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw first and foremost as the man behind Zero Punctuation, but he's also dabbled a bit in game developing. Many of the works he poured his blood, sweat and tears into happen to be adventure games; that's why you might be especially interested to see his take on Zack & Wiki, a game that's captured the hearts of Wii gamers (or, the hearts of the few of us that bought it, at least).

There are many things that Yahtzee liked about the game (pretty much the "adventure" parts). Yet, he wasn't too keen on the use of waggle or the inclusion of character deaths, which he calls an adventure game cardinal sin. That pretty much sums up the meat of Yahtzee's ramblings -- minus the funnies, of course.

Yahtzee's NSFW video review of Zim & Spaki Zack & Wiki is posted after the break for your viewing pleasure, folks.

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Last Flight: Vampires on a plane on your Wii



We're going to go ahead and fire a pre-emptive strike: ignore the mention of Nibris in the source article linked to this post. Ignore it completely. Nibris has nothing to do with this completely awesome WiiWare title that has been announced, which means it may have some chance of actually existing.

That said ... have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a completely badass, whip-carrying food critic who is also totally capable of killing vampires with whatever happens to be lying around? Enter Last Flight, which is that very game, except it's also on a plane. The cel-shaded game sounds awesome, but we'll have to wait an entire year to find out just how awesome -- it's not slated for release until Q1 of next year.

For now, however, we can jump around excitedly over what we do know. Our hero, Larry Adelman, is up against an army of undead, and he's got a whip dipped in holy water ... but that won't curb the threat. No, he's got to stake them. The problem? He's only got four stakes, and when those are gone, he has to use whatever is at hand to make more. Time to get creative, troops! But don't worry. You've got a year to bend your brain toward the extermination of the undead menace.

Telltale won't tell about Sam & Max


A German press release recently revealed a Sam & Max game for the Wii, but Telltale isn't ready to confirm anything yet. The Sam & Max developer was tight-lipped on the supposed game, stating, "While it's no secret that we want to bring Sam & Max to the Wii - and it is something we're actively pursuing - we don't have any official news right now ... When we're in a position to confirm that we'll be porting Sam & Max to the Wii, we'll make an announcement about it."

While those of you looking forward to some dog and rabbit sleuthing on your Wiis shouldn't be doing cartwheels yet (or ever, if you're over ten), Telltale's statement makes the game sound more likely than not. We're up for some more point-and-click adventuring, though, so hopefully Telltale will confirm something soon.

Wii Warm Up: Point-and-click, yea or nay?

The Nintendo DS really revived the point-and-click adventure genre for consoles. Because of the nature of the Wiimote, we're not surprised to see some point-and-click action hit the Wii, too. With games like Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure and Harvey Birdman leading the way, we're sure that the Wii will see many others of this breed to come.

Will you welcome these types of games to the Wii with open arms, or spit at them as they walk through the door? Perhaps you prefer to keep your point-and-click portable? Or maybe you just (shudder) hate the genre in general?

So which is it: yea to point-and-click, or nay?

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