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Good & Bad things about the game - Chpt. 1

dharthoorndharthoorn
edited December 2013 in The Wolf Among Us

This is My Humble Opinion as a player. I do not represent anyone or anything other than myself. Feel free to comment although I consider arguing on points of opinion fruitless.

The Good:

  1. Wonderful comic-book-style environment.
    --> It's got Dick Tracy and Sin City written all over it.

  2. Excellently written and narrated dialogue.
    --> Mature themes presented in a mature way. And, yeah, screw the ESRB rating mafia.

  3. Good blend of both action and adventure.
    --> I like adventures and I like QTE so what's not to like.

  4. Highly creative setting.
    --> Albeit not totally original (Alice - Madness Returns anyone?) the "human spin" on fantasy creatures works very well. Dragging a credible cockney-spewing frog through the uncanny valley takes a lot of talent.

The Bad

  1. Convoluted Save system
    --> For the love of God, where is the quicksave button? Yes, I am a perfectionist and if I smell a mistake I want to go back and do it over quickly and painlessly. Do NOT needlessly make me jump through hoops to suit the engine/infrastructure of the software.

  2. No "Skip Scene" option
    --> There are a number of reasons why one would want to replay a specific scene. Please facilitate this by allowing the player to skip the irrelevant scenes/narration. Here's a formula for ya; (Tp) represents perceived time and (t) represents actual time. (Tp) = (t)x(amount of playthroughs). Yes, for me, after seeing a cut scene for the third time it takes three times as long.

  3. Story Branching
    --> At this point it is unclear what the repercussions are for choices made early on. I do know from having played Chapter one that I FEEL as though I have had little influence on the overall story. I couldn't effectively save anyone that mattered to me. I do realize the amount of permutations increase exponentially at each true branch. Still, the impact and amount of choices in this first part fell short of my expectations.

Comments

  • -jqp--jqp-

    If you wanna replay some part you just have to go through it first, and then, load a scene from your already finished episode. It can be done.

    Also, like you said, this is a first episode so there's not much repercussion on your choices. However, if you chose to go to Toad's, Prince-whatever dies and you save him if you go to him first. That will be a considerable change in further episodes, one person being alive or not.

    No Skip Scene... man, this company is called TellTale, not Rockstar. Deal with it.

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