4 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 5.9 hrs on record (4.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 21 Dec, 2016 @ 9:15am
Updated: 17 May, 2017 @ 6:48pm

[This review will be updated if i feel things change;]

Okay. ♥♥♥♥. This. Game.
I get a new computer. My old one broke. Im excited to play again.
Boom. Save lost.
Boom. Saves from S1 and S2 gone.
♥♥♥♥ this series, man. I am so not goint to replay this WHOLE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GAME. Its so much easier to just watch a playthrough. Basically, ♥♥♥♥ you Telltale.
My original review is below, from when i played episodes 1-3.


Pros:
- Choices affect story for real this time.
- Story is ACTUALLY interesting and good.
- Voice acting is a lot better than previous titles.
- Graphics improved, but can still run on lower end systems.
- Legitimately shocked me sometimes; didn't even see certian events coming.
- Seeing Clementine again is so great. She has changed as a character and we get to see that through flashbacks.

Cons:
- Unstable framerate; drops quite a bit sometimes.
- Still a sense of the world being small; like its a video game.
- Story sometimes is cliche' or you knew something was coming; predictable.
- Back at it again with the "rock and a hard place" choices that could have been easily worked around.
- There are way too many characters way to fast.
(SPOILER CONS)
- At the end of episode 2, the EPIC REVEAL XDDDD was so bad. Javier's brother being the big bad buy behind all this? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid.
- MORE stupid, awful reactions to deaths. Barely even any tears. I mean, come on. This is espically heightened when Mariana and (the black dudes wife) die.


The Walking Dead season 3 is what season 2 should have been. Interesting, story driven gameplay with choices that ACTUALLY matter. I'm glad i pre-ordered this game now.

The opening scene grabs your attention and uses that to its advantage. It tells you abaout the characters and their life without spelling everything out for you. The game leaves you to infer things that happened, yet makes sure it gives you clear hints. And, lets just put this out there; its no suprise Clementine returns. Her backstory is told to us based on your choices in season 2, and i think thats a really good way to do it. The backstory i got for her made me cry. Legitimately.

So me, a person who never cries, is crying in the first episode of this game. That says a lot.

I feel like i can actually have a say in what happens this time around. I feel like the choices i make are actually doing something; and they are. Its clear they are. Thats something that even season 1 had a bit of trouble doing. Its refreshing to have this sense of 'if i make a bad choice, everything can go wrong.'

So, all in all, let me sum it up for you.

In my harshly critical sense of reviewing, i would give this game a solid 6/10.
Was this review helpful? Yes No Funny Award