Nothing is sacred in the world of “The Walking Dead’, and Season 2: Episode 1 makes sure you remember. To the excitement of fans worldwide we are put in control of the innocent and loveable Clementine from the first season. If you remember the end of season 1, Clem is alone and seeing 2 shadows walking in the distance. Luckily, it is our friends Omid and Krista who, like most characters, are only used as a reminder that nothing lasts.
Even after playing through Season 1 twice and diving into Season 2, I’m amazed that point and click controls can feel as stressful as the game makes them.
I haven’t mashed buttons this hard since I thought I was good at Tekken.
The controls at times create a panicked feeling that I haven’t felt since “Resident Evil”, and the phenomenally written story makes you instantly love the core characters. It almost feels like a cheap shot giving us Clem as the main character since she was so well loved in the previous title. Telltale can basically throw anything at us they imagine and it is a hundred times worse, simply because she is involved. Clem aside the ancillary characters are built well, and the Telltale crew did a phenomenal job building their personalities in such a short time.
If you play nothing else this year, please play this!
$4.99 for 2 or so hours of teeth gritting gameplay is more than a value, and $24.99 (prices do vary based on discounts and system) for all 5 seasons is a steal for something this enthralling. You have to play the game at least twice, just to see the different parts of Clem that have developed in her two years away from Lee. I reiterate my feelings that using Clem gives Telltale so much more leverage, due to the fact that she was so well received in the previous title. But the adult-level decisions she (and you by proxy) is required to make had me stopping to think at regular intervals. What effects will this have on my story? Do I leave them to suffer? Can I trust these people? A point-and-click adventure has never been able to make us question our decisions until Telltale came along. I don’t care what you play this on, just go out and do it. You won’t be disappointed.