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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 8.9 hrs on record
Posted: 26 Aug, 2014 @ 6:53pm

Aimlessly wandering. There's no real goal in this season, just stuff happening and you're a passenger. The whole "playing as a child" idea sounds neat a first, but soon just makes you all the more aware of how little your choices mean in these games. The story tells itself, and your minor changes ultimately mean nothing. This gets even worse at a definite point in Episode 5 when it just takes the controls away from you and decides "It's story time now, you don't even get the illusion of choice."

Any time you save one character from death, you just watch them as they silently carry on with their inevitably short lives. There was a chance for them to die, so for the script's purposes, they're dead. They're still hanging around, but they serve no purpose and are just walking targets, waiting for a piano to fall from the sky and crush them.

Not to mention (spoilers) after Episode 2 it just turns into the Kenny show so you get to spend the next 3 and a half episodes watching him be an unbearable douchebag while he ignores anything you say to him.

It's just a roller coaster of unlikeable characters, extremely predictable actions, and a script that doesn't seem to have any desire to do anthing interesting. Honestly "roller coaster" is a way too exciting way of describing it. Just quit with Season 1 and enjoy that without souring the whole experience with this horrid cash in on the concept.
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Precurse 24 Jan, 2015 @ 8:50am 
camp*
Precurse 24 Jan, 2015 @ 8:50am 
the point of the game is to go north because theres word of a huge survivor camo. you idiot.
Optimodus 23 Dec, 2014 @ 7:36am 
Lol , Telltale made a Nice Game, so stfu and enjoy in my god
Big Sexy® 27 Aug, 2014 @ 8:07pm 
Okay, the Kenny thing did start to drive me nuts as well, and I actually liked this season. Hell, my choice with Kenny and Jane in the finale, where I shot Kenny to save Jane (it hurt to do so), then abandoned Jane when I got a creepy vibe of "sister replacement" from her, making her lie about AJ particularly intolerable at the tail end of episode 5 broke my experience down a little bit. I think this season was really heavy on storytelling realism, rather than just continuing the style of story from before.

I mean, Season 2 needed to be pretty dark, considering that Clem was left all alone in a pretty shitty world at the end of Season 1, but the characters didn't need to feel so inevitably doomed!