Pro: - I enjoy the game, it's fun to play and just run around the world in doing side missions etc. - The main story is quite interesting for the most part, with a few sloggy bits inbetween but overall interesting enough to make me want to finish it. - I know people have had mixed opinions of the crafting system, but I quite enjoy being able to craft equipment and ammo on the fly when needed. - There are some great characters which I love, but some as I mention below are very flat and clearly need more work. Cons: - Obviously bugs - For a game that was advertised to us as our choices matter, they frankly dont. Your starting has no impact on the story and the ending... Basically it doesn't matter what you do, who you befriend etc. All those "choices" lead to one point at the end where you basically pick choice A or choice B, very Mass Effect 3-ish. - Romance is weird? It's a nice edition, but some of the romance characters are flat in comparison to others, and the game treats having sex as the conclusion. If you chose to enter a serious relationship with anyone the game doesn't care and once again acts as though nothing changes. You had sex enjoy the quick scene and goodbye! - Lack of interactivity in the world, large world with little to do? I've sunk a lot of hours into this game, mostly thinking all the side missions and people I befriend mattered at the end... I do enjoy the game for what it is, but it is in no way groundbreaking. I sincerely hope they improve the very core/base of the game to give something more akin to what they were hyping.
This game is essentially a interactive visial novel. At different points throughout the game you can have an input on the outcome, for anyone wanting an overly interactive game this way not be exactly what you're after however if you can put that to one side and go along for the story I'm sure you'll love it. You follow the character of Lee, a convict on the way to prison when the "Walking Dead" starts, you quickly stumble onto a little girl called Clementine and from that point out you spent the rest of the game surviving and taking care of this little girl. To me the story was engaging, and well written. Compared to the later games in this series the characters are well developed and you do grow attatched to them. The episodes are a decent length and there are many chapters in each episode so you can stop for a rest. How you act and respond in this game will change dialog options, outcomes and in the end how Clementine ends up as a person. You may think a survival game about taking care of a little girl is boring but it truely gives you a whole other aspect for survival. You can't just be a solo act, you have to think about your actions and consequences and how they not only affect you but her as well. Theres no manual saving which I quite like about this game, however the game is a bit buggy at times. I have seen this with quite a few Telltale games however and I'm not sure if that has something to do with the engine or just poor coding. Overall I love this game as you can probably tell and out of all Telltale games this is one I would reccomend to anyone who wants to experience what Telltale has to offer.
