Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy

This is getting really mixed reviews, so I'm not really sure what to think.

DML wrote:
1>3>4>2 wrote:Ewwww telltale D:

Where has this view come from? The Walking Dead is absolutely brilliant.

The games they made prior to the walking dead were good, but then they started doing film/tv tie ins and their studio jumped the shark too.

Tales from the borderlands is great - as good as TWD Season 1.

Tales from the Borderland was kind of mixed for me; yes, it was pretty funny and had good direction but it had barely any real interaction. Mostly it was just going from one QTE to another. Telltale tend to fall flat on puzzles and the more interactive elements of their games compared to other adventure titles, I find.

Seemingly inevitably for an Episode 2 of Telltale - a bit shonky.

I had voices distorted (as if over comms) when right by me and some silliness about "I'll be downstairs if you want to talk" then nothing to talk about and straight to the "See you later" default exit line.

Story spins it's wheels a bit too (although it would feel that after the opening episode) although there's some nice character beats.

Suffers a little bit from bad decisions.

e.g. I agree to do X with Rocket over Y.
New information/situation changes.the entire situation in next scene.
Want to do Z now based info now. - Rocket is all betrayed "You promised we'd do X" and hurt, there's no options to try and explain mitigate situation has fundamentally changed.

Still enjoyed it though

Episode 3 tomorrow!

:mrgreen:

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Oh my, episode 3 is ruddy excellent.

However, all of the choices (bar one) seemed pretty skewed in favour of a particular option, which kind of makes me feel like the big choices were slightly redundant. My favourite episode so far though, it mostly focused on interaction between the guardians themselves and it was really well paced with good humour and dialogue.

I like the Monkey Island episodes.

Episode 4 snuck up on me! Was out last week!

Well that's my happy fun adventure thoroughly ruined!

A slow episode with a focus on characters rather than epic space adventure, although there's a bit toward the end more EPIX!

Not sure how they're gonna wrap it all up in one episode!

The outcome at the end felt a little binary - and the work I'd done with Gamora before felt like it was overridden by a single binary action. Standard Telltale problem though.

Huh. That really ended with a wimper.

Re-used assets/music. Stakes feel virtually non-existent.

Fallout from last episode (which already felt like arbitrary and unaffected by my choices) is undone quickly here by very similar choices to previously that didn't affect things.

Probably the worst Telltale "finale", and might be my least favorite of the recent game series. It wasn't a build up to a climatic ending - it was a forced conflict I'd spent 4 episodes trying to avoid/mitigate, that was then resolved become "canon/lore" requires it.

The ending seeing who you sided with most, and how it affected their characteristics was nice

Stinger sets up a sequel, but with Telltales recent news not sure we'll see it. If we do, I won't be as excited for it.

Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy

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