Just finished the final chapter of The Wolf Among Us[, and then restarted the entire thing from chapter one and replayed it through again to try out a few different things and see how it felt as one piece versus over extended time.

I think in large part the exercise proved to me that in the case of TWAU versus The walking Dead that the condensed game-play suited it far better given the nature of the series as a Noirish detective story versus that of the ongoing travails of survivors living through a zombie apocalypse.

Albeit TWAU started off strong with it's opening chapter it suffered somewhat with the staggering of the follow ups given the operators of time frame within the narrative (the entire storyline takes place over a matter of days) and consequently they felt rather disjointed as singular episodes. As a whole though, the experience is much improved and makes for a pretty enjoyable experience, that though it might not quite hit the high bar set by The Walking Dead's excellent first season in terms of the writing is still pretty effective and does a good job in bringing Bill Willinghams characters to life. Here is hoping for a second season.

Minor quibble would be that at least on the 360 controller I found some of the action sequences a tad tricky (for some reason hammering A on the pad is less effective than pressing Q on the keyboard) but nothing too egregious.

Recommended (8/10)

Just finished the final chapter of The Wolf Among Us[, and then restarted the entire thing from chapter one and replayed it through again to try out a few different things and see how it felt as one piece versus over extended time. I think in large part the exercise proved to me that in the case of TWAU versus The walking Dead that the condensed game-play suited it far better given the nature of the series as a Noirish detective story versus that of the ongoing travails of survivors living through a zombie apocalypse. Albeit TWAU started off strong with it's opening chapter it suffered somewhat with the staggering of the follow ups given the operators of time frame within the narrative (the entire storyline takes place over a matter of days) and consequently they felt rather disjointed as singular episodes. As a whole though, the experience is much improved and makes for a pretty enjoyable experience, that though it might not quite hit the high bar set by The Walking Dead's excellent first season in terms of the writing is still pretty effective and does a good job in bringing Bill Willinghams characters to life. Here is hoping for a second season. Minor quibble would be that at least on the 360 controller I found some of the action sequences a tad tricky (for some reason hammering A on the pad is less effective than pressing Q on the keyboard) but nothing too egregious. Recommended (8/10)