And the almost perfect execution of it, is what makes it work so well. Then again, unlike the fairy tale grim noir of Wolf, this game is about having a quick paced, full of incredible events adventure.

It might be the most enjoyable game from Telltale I’ve ever played, in fact, having much more charm and punch, than even The Wolf Among Us had. It’s fantastically directed, perfectly edited, funny, full of great characters and situations that make you laugh, smile and care.

And what a story, Mark, what a story, haha. With all the old problems – no way to skip anything, no way to save mid-section if you need to leave, the usual occasional visual and animation bugs, the fact that some choices make little to no impact and the game still railroads you down certain paths… If I was judging this purely on the technological/mechanical side of things, I’d hate the game.īut then, we remember that this is an interactive story. Barely any walking and point and clicking, huge focus on talking, unfortunate focus on QTEs and lots of non-interactive cutscenes. So, how about the Borderlands game without the bazillion guns?įirst thing to mention would be, of course, that the game is still exactly the same as the rest of Telltale’s games. But I heard good things about Tales from the Borderlands, and last time I heard good things about the Telltale game, it was about The Wolf Among Us, and that game was really good. Sometimes, based on franchises that don’t even make any sense ( Story-driven Minecraft? Really?). So they did what a lot of studios do after they find a success formula that works and made, mechanically speaking, the exact same game over and over again for the past 6 years. Then they tried switching to “interactive stories”, and it didn’t work out at all (with the Jurassic Park game), yet the second try was much better and their Walking Dead series, based on the comic book series of the same name, won several awards and were lauded as a story-driven evolution of adventure titles. They started with pretty average and often boring to play (but fun to watch) adventure games with 3D controls and a lot of classic point and click adventure elements in. And that’s one of the main reasons I’ve stopped caring about the games they make. There’s been a lot of games by Telltale games.

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