Recent reviews by Miikast

Update for episode 3: Above the Law

There is only minimal gameplay in episode 3. We are talking about 5 to 10 minutes of gametime, where you can actually control Javi, rest of episode is, you guessed it, long cutscene with few prompts to press Q or E. Problem with these gameplay sections are that they only require you to press W on your keyboard for short time to move little bit forward.

I'm not going to spoil anything, but here are some thoughts about the story and characters in general. I found the story pretty lackluster compared to other episodes. It felt like writers didn't have a clear vision what they wanted to do, so they chose pretty safe story arc in this one. Also some characters feel pretty inconsistent in their design, like they were robots or something. After you choose some dialogue option that upsets them, they are annoyed by it for brief moment and then rest of the dialogue carries out like nothing player chose mattered in first place.

Above the Law doesn't fix the issues that were already present in first two episodes, in fact, it only seems to multiply problems that I mentioned below, so I'm not changing my thumb down review to thumbs up.

Definitely most dissappointing WD episode so far, I still have some hope left for remaining episodes though.


Episode 1 & 2 review:


There’s not much gameplay or interractions in this season of Walking dead, however, if you like zombies or Walking dead series in general, this might be right up your alley.

This installment is pretty streamlined almost up to a point where the game plays itself and the player is there just to press few buttons to watch things happen. There are hardly any puzzles or free roaming, which were present in first season of the Walking dead series. Pacing also seems exhausting and there is hardly any downtime during the first two episodes.

Voice acting and acting in general are top notch and these are accompanied by some really good musical score. Characters are interesting and I cant wait to see what happens in next episodes. I love the way game looks, it's gorgeous and has really distinctive Telltale look.

I had fun with A new frontier, despite all it’s problems, however I feel 23 euros might be bit too much at the time of writing this review and I really hope that later episodes fix the problems I mentioned above.

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