The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series

A flawed series, but one worth playing Telltales Walking Dead (Season 1) is one of the most legendary games of all time. It was probably the best reviewed game of 2012. Top tier voice acting, writing and story, presentation that was groundbreaking and unique for it's time, and an episodic release structure that thankfully didn't catch on for any other studios, with Seasons 2 and 4 being just as good (Season 3 isn't great). Unfortunately, these games are essentially just glorified VNs, where you're essentially just watching things play out and the choices you get mean almost nothing aside from a select few. Nothing you do will affect the course of the story, or change the outcomes for most of the characters you meet. Everything will happen the same way, every time, regardless of your choices. That said, it doesn't really matter. Like a good VN, the lack of choice or interaction doesn't really matter when you're too busy being enthralled by the story. And while Season 3 is definitely lacking, Telltales Walking Dead as a whole has some of the best stories and characters in video game history. Worth playing at least once. Just know what you're getting into.

This is a masterpiece by Telltale Games. If you played some of their games, you already know if you like the gameplay or not. If you do, the story is worth it, I assure you. For those who never played it, you can think of it as an interactive movie, with a comic book art style. For the most part it consists of dialogues, where you choose the important lines of the main character. Short sentences are displayed, but the actual dialogue is often a lot longer, so you never have the feeling your character is an empty shell. They have a real personality and meaningful interactions with other characters. There is a bit of exploration sometimes, even some "puzzles" in the first season, although they quicky disappear. And the action sequences consist of QTEs, which are pretty immersive. Except if you don't like QTE of course. The story is obviously what this games are all about, and it's GREAT. In short, it's about a convict, Lee, who encounters and then protect Clementine, a little girl he encountered at the beginning of the epidemic who's looking for her parents. Of course, you will get to make a lot of choices, both small and important, that can have consequences of various proportions. You may often hear that the choices are meaningless because the story always ends up the same. This is true to some extent - the devs can hardly build 8 completely different stories at the same time. It's not really a problem, as the real impact of a choice is at the moment you make them. This is how I enjoyed these games, by getting really invested into the characters. These games give you the feeling of being both a writer and a spectator to their stories, of setting them in a path while letting them surprise you. The story itself is amazing, and Clementine became my favorite video game character ever. Seeing her grow up and harden throughout the games is priceless. I cried numerous times. I'm writing this just as Ifinished the last game and my eyes litteraly hurt from crying.

Originally I played Season 1 & 2 on Steam but stopped before Michonne was even announced. 9 years after Season 2 I found out that this was coming to other platforms than Epic with a DRM-free on GOG I snatched it up when it was on sale Now as of this review, To this day I have not had any story impact me as much as Season 1, 2 & Final season with the Final season being the only story to impact me twice within the same scene. Hence why I said it would be a great movie since gameplay is only there in spirit since it is more like a point & click adventure from 90's era of PC gaming but like I said earlier the story is worth even without a sale

This is the first game where i cried. I love the story so much. The story-telling, voice acting, art-style and soundtrack all is amazing. Dont expect too much from the gameplay though. The choices do not matter as much as I would have liked, but when the story-telling is better because of it, then I dont see it as a big problem.

I used to like the series - both TWD and FTWD - but they always managed to trash it somehow. Maybe they should have pulled the writers from this game to work on the show? Anyway, great game. I'm not keen on the cartoonization animation in games but it adheres to the comic book vibe better that way. The "Definitive" series for this sale price is a crazy good deal. Thank you GOG!!