Why S3E1 needs to be 3 games in 1.
The main reason is, none of our choices aside from picking between Carley and Doug, have had any change whatsoever on the game. I was excited during season 1 ep.2 as I got to see a direct change to the group based on my choice that hasnt happend since (well until S2E5).
The first episode of season 3 needs to be 3, maybe even 4 distinctly different games in 1, unfortunately Telltale seems to be in the habbit of just tying all these ends together and leading everyone into a new story where nothing you did in the entire season will have any affect aside from +/- likeness, which only affects the dialog not the gameplay itself.
As I see it happening now no matter what choice we made in S2E5 everyones going to be lead to the exact same spot maybe 2 chapters into the game and this is unacceptable.
Jane and Clem have walked 6 days south, kenny and clem have walked 8 days north, clem and AJ alone have walked 8 days in an unknown direction, were talking about 3 different groups (the same group in different reality) spread 30-50 miles apart that are going to magically end up in the same place no matter who Clem decided to go with.
Personally I think the game wil be better if instead of spending episode 1 merging the endings into one story so that halfway through all players are in the same place, they should spend the entirity of episode 1 with an individual story dependent on Clem's situation. Wracking my brain I only see this being 3 games in 1 as opposed to 5 (there were 5 different endings).
Game 1 is Jane and Clem probably fending off bandits until the camp is overrun and the two traveling to a new safe place..
Game 2 is Kenny and Clem, here I feel theres TWO stories that can be done. One is clem is in Wellington. Personally I think she should spend a few years there letting AJ grow safely but the place will probably fall 2 days after clem walks through the front gate. The other is Kenny and Clem making their way trying to find a new safe place, years wouldnt pass because events would be happening, Clem wouldnt be in a position to get comfortable and age like she could in Wellington.
Game 3 is Clem and Aj alone, finding a new safe place.. If you left Kenny or Jane alive and they arent with you i invision them stalking the two children to make sure they are safe.
Now all telltale is going to do in my opinion is give 10minutes of story before throwing all three versions of clemintine into a "safe place" that magically no matter what path she took will still be less then 8 days away but she will find in just one day. Remember Kenny is up north still in snow, Jane is south out of the snow, clem and AJ are also where the is no snow.
I just feel the Clemintine Trilogy could be one of the greatest things to happen in recent video game history but ONLY if our choices have had an actual impact aside from one person being a bit more snarky then they would of been