7 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 17.6 hrs on record
Posted: 30 Aug, 2014 @ 10:17am

This game is phenomenal and powerful. Very few games take into account the consequence of your actions as seriously as The Walking Dead does. It is quite a bleak experience, don't expect things to be sugarcoated here, the walker threat is real and its impact is felt throughout the whole game.

The voice acting is top notch, which is a good thing, since this game is entirely plot driven. The characters are all great, you're meant to love some, hate some, and be somewhere in the middle of the road with others. Everyone has their own shades of gray, and the game really sends home the message that morality is secondary when you're purely dealing with survival. Every choice has its outcome, and its advantage along with its disavantage. It's worth replaying just to see how different it can be simply due to the most minor of decisions that you may have taken. It will make you remember each and every "yes" and "no" you have given, whether you like it or not, and you'll feel the full weight of the hard decisions you'll have to do due to circumstances that are, at times, unavoidable, so tread carefully.

It is a point and click adventure, yes, but not one that gives you obscure clues like some games of this genre do. I personally do not have much experience with point and clicks, and while at first I thought I'd have trouble navigating through it, or even being stuck, I did just fine. It has its quick-time event moments when things get more hectic, and I found it fit the game perfectly.

This game was again, a powerful, emotional, and unforgettable rollercoaster ride. It also brings out the dad in you and I'll just leave it at that. I need to play Season 2. The Walking Dead belongs in everyone's favorite game list, and I urge you to play this if you haven't yet. You won't come out unchanged.

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Zharwyn 1 Sep, 2014 @ 3:01am 
I'm so happy you loved it! It's, as you may have figured out by now since I practically forced the game on you, one of my favorite games by far. I love it so much that I even mustered through the Vita port with horrible framerate issues!

Since I'm a hardcore point and click fan, I can strongly recommend this game for people who are not into them at all. TWD doesn't get boring in the gameplay aspect, nor does it have any severe and complex puzzles to solve. TellTale wants you to progress further because they want you to experience the story.

So yeah. 11/10 would dad again.