The Wolf Among Us

Amazing game with an amazing story line. A great Mystery, Noire style story to add in with all of the other great Tell-Tale titles. If you enjoyed the walking Dead, GoT, or their other games get it. If you are looking for a game that draws you in like a book, where every action matters. Get it, you won't regret it.

It gets 2 stars for looking good and that's the only positive thing to say about it. This game marked when Telltale decided to full out movie. No puzzles, no choices that matter. Just listening to dialog and quick time events. The only gameplay is clicking the mouse to keep the movie playing. ZERO choices matter in this game. Responses may or may not cause someone to silently frown at you with a "so-and-so will remember that" caption. Some choices SEEM like they would matter, like "arrest him" or "take the bribe", but ALWAYS something will immediately happen before your character carries out either choice. One segment where you're chasing 2 villains who split up and you get the choice who to follow, A or B, but it invalidates your choice and you always follow B, because it's a movie and they dont even bother to disguise the fact there. So you're left with the writing, and it's not good. First, it gets everything wrong about the Fables comic: the character personalities, the tone, everything. The comic is mostly whimsical with a modern twist. The game tries to be Chinatown meets Taken. If you don't care about the source material? The writing is still not good. The mystery is so straightforward that I swore it was a cover to a bigger twist...there was no bigger twist. You show up to a crime scene, go "hmmmm" to a lot of obvious clues, question someone who refuses to talk, then get into a pointless fist fight as an excuse for another QTE. Repeat until game ends. The mystery is one of those where you figure it out long before the characters. There is obviously a magic spell at work, the main character has an entire department of wizards at his disposal who deal with that kind of spell, yet never asks them about it. It's like watching a detective show where they have the suspect's license plate and never think to check the DMV. Check out Life is Strange instead, an example of where the genre should be heading and save us all from the dreck Telltale has become.

I was never into the telltale games, i found the walking dead to be boring and the lack of actual gameplay to be disappointing. But this game made me fall in love with a universe i never expected to like, i played in one sitting and wanted to play it again afterwards, its a very enjoyable ride, and while it plays like an interactive movie most of the time, it keeps things going and interested enough so that you cant stop. Here is hoping for a season 2

Great game, I really enjoyed the experience.

You can say what you want about TellTale's QTE-games, but the story of this game really catches you! After finished this game, I really wanted a second season so to speak. Doubt that will come, so instead I'm gonna try to read the Fables comic. I recommend this as the game to play if you want to play any of the newer TellTale games! 10/10