It's pretty much more of the same, but the storytelling is still good, and I still gasp and feel bad when characters die. They mix it up a little by having you play a new character who meets Clem a little way into the story and teams up with her, which is cool. The QTEs haven't been too bad so far, either.
I'm still not a big fan of this latest look that seems to have stuck since the Borderlands game, though - it feels more like 3D with a black outlines filter slapped on, rather than a comic come to life. The first season stuck with brushstroke textures and more stylised backgrounds with thick shadows and silhouettes, and it looked nicer even though it's lower res. The Wolf Among Us stayed stylised, looked great and played in 4K, so I don't know why they didn't go back to that approach for this, especially as the first TWD season iconically introduced that style. Maybe it takes more work, which takes more time and money, so they decided to stick with this style. Still, this game doesn't look bad and it does still sometimes look good.
Finished episode 3 of 5. Not much more to say about it, to be honest. There are no tech issues, thankfully. The QTEs are still not too bad, but the fact remains that the only response they ever elicit from me is "oh fuck off, that's bullshit, ugh you're sending me back this far?" The zombie soap opera stuff is still really good, I agonise over choices, I'm never quite sure who to trust and I'm always aware that saying the wrong thing to someone could get someone shot (or at least it feels like it could!). Having said that, I don't know what season 4 is like but if they'd wanting to keep this going for much longer they would have needed to mix it up a lot somehow. Deciding which of your burly bearded grieving friends to side with can only play so many times. Basically, the same problem the comic and the show had!
Finished! Very enjoyable and overall I'm pretty happy with where my choices took me. They added a nice little bit to the intra-credits stats of what percentage of players made the same choices you did, where they tell you what kind of a relationship you had with a bunch of the characters. I am proud to say I converted Clementine from being a loner, so she helped me out in the final battle.
I will say, it was kind of weird having a Brown guy with long hair and a beard called Jesus showing up periodically to rescue me and tell me what a good person I am!
The ending wasn't quite as satisfying as I would have liked, the baddy is just 'whereabouts unknown' and the final shot as well as the post-credits scene was just Clem wandering off to another adventure, but maybe season 4 will come back to these characters and tie things up a bit. Really my only other issue with it was that it is just the same thing again. I suspect I'll be glad by the end of S4 that they didn't get to make any more, but we'll see.
Rating: more of the same but still very good
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