The Scene Right Before the Intro Sequence
I'm definitely liking the story, character interaction and pacing in this episode better than the last.
The funeral shootout though.
One thing I hated is the part where Dee and Dum show up. I hated having a bunch of different options during combat, and having it all rendered pointless because everyone just gets shot up the same way, no matter what. I mean, it's true-form Grendel, and Holly, and Bigby.
Even if you kick Dee or Dum's shotgun far away (to the left after you attack his arm), he seems to have it in his hands instantly. Its total cutscene incompetence (my most hated trope).
Why would Bigby go wolf for the (completely unnecessary) fight with Beast, and NOT go wolf when everyone he's sworn to protect is being shot at?
and what happened to the near invincibility of Fables? Remember the fight with Woody from Episode 2? I got up seconds after having an axe in his brain.
Comments
I guess it comes down to the old argument of choice vs story. I've come to expect this from their games. Where your choices matter when they're supposed to, but never at the sacrifice of their own storytelling.
My only problem with the scene is that Gren doesn't use the arm you may have ripped off. He had Dum pinned down and could have easily taken him out if he used his right arm, but because half the players ripped it off, it meant that he looked incompetent in his own fight.
Funeral - Shotguns are deadly weapons, it dosen't matter if you're a fable, it still hurts to get shot. Bigby's an exeption since he's the strongest fable by far. And about ''choices'', you should know by now that choices are an illusion and mostly lead to the same place, it's the experience that counts.
Alley - Seems like you are just nitpicking the game to me.
Fight with Beast - Are you sure it was unnessesary? Beast is pretty strong, at least in the comics.
Invencibility - Like i said above, Fables are hard to kill, but it's still hurts when you get shot.
Hope i answered some of your complainings...
Bigby isnt strongest by far, unless you mean brute strength but even thats debatable.
Not when bitches with silver bullets come along.
But he's the 'Big Bad Wolf'. And, come on, everyone knows about him. Which makes him nearly impossible to kill.
No other fable, except maybe some really well known, is that much protected by his original tales.
And he's definitley one of the strongest fables physically, he pretty much ripped a fables throat out with no problem, and that was about half of his real power.
If Bigby fully wolfs out, anyone without silver is fucked
Actually if you FAIL some of the fight (Or try to Wrestle one of the Tweedle's guns away after they shoot Holly) Snow gets a deep gash in her neck that needs to get stitched.