Posted on: December 5, 2020
Kroms
Games: 293 Reviews: 14
Excellent remaster, great game
This remaster is excellent: I love the new lighting, subtle redesigns, music cues, remixed music, and UI, and the slightly changed timing on the humour does wonders. I played these in 2007 and stuck with Telltale through "The Wolf Among Us" (you can Google my username + Mixnmojo), so revisiting them has been a joy. It's good to know the other (and superior) two seasons are coming! It takes a bitttt to find its feet (episodes 1+2 have some weak bits), but once it does, it does so with a crash and a bang. Everyone says episode 4 is where it really gets going, and I'm inclined to agree. I see a lot of people angry that they recast a black character (to have a black actor play him instead of the black guy in the original), but I think that's the right decision. Otherwise, as best as I can figure (and I've alt-tabbed between the remaster and original), they've tightened up the script a teensy bit (what the Internet is calling "censorship" because a joke about Down's Syndrome was changed) and updated a couple of jokes (like the box in the office), and it now just looks like a game released this decade as opposed to something made, low budget, in 2006. Highly recommended!
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