Pretty Sassy

*Sniff Sniff* the last episode of season two Sam&Max, What’s Up Beezlebub, came out today for Gametap.  I played the review copy all week on my lovely cruise between fruity rum drinks(which probably explains why it took so long to win).

The trailer is awesome on top of awesome and should be shown to anyone who might be on the fence about playing.

 The episode starts at the gates of Hell right near the “Soul Train”.  Everything is a mess.  Good ole’ conspiracist Bosco is dead and his body is layed out by the tracks, you can’t get on the “Soul Train” because you don’t have a token because you haven’t died yet.  You’re just in a rotton spot.

When you do finally get to Hell, former Dark Lord Dungeon Master Jergen(above) has been placed as receptionist.  Oh no!  Hell has been corporatized complete with shambling corporate presence who plays Minesweeper all day.   The air is hot, the work is never ending and you face a wall of shadow boxes that portray all of the people you have sent to hell this season.  Can you save them?  Do you?

The episode had some really smart writers and people who are gifted at tying a lot of scattered plot points together.  As you would solve the mysteries, you would solve bigger pieces of the plot.  This episode is the TV equivilent of a best of show.  You know the type: all the characters of the show are stuck in a walk in fridge and they remember the good times.  It’s a like that, but with a lot less re-dishing the exact same footage.

This very well could be the best game in the season, but you really need to start at episode 1 or else it loses a lot of it’s power.

 The episodic game concept is great for adults who don’t have the time to devote a clump of 40 hours to a game.

This game has that same charm the Simpsons had circa 1994.  If you’ve been reading my posts and haven’t played yet…  Please, please, please download the free episode from Telltale games and join the Sam&Max cult. 

 I imagined that the TellTale games folks would be passed out on an island somewhere sucking down Pina coladas via an IV bag(a tough software cycle turns a normally wonderfull person into ubserd applesauce).  But with all this batty, wacky and wonderfull wii events going on, that sleep will have to be scheduled for another year.  The wii event is that TellTale has announced that it will put season 1 of Sam&Max on wii.  I am so there.

Then just to make me feel even more happy about life and wii, TellTale announced Strongbad of HomestarRunner fame will finally have an episodic adventure.  You don’t even know how much of a crush I have on StrongBad.  It’s not something I can really get into.