Finished Episode 5 today after having had to replay the entire thing due to a crash when my friend played Episode 4, corrupting and deleting all our saves
That said it gave me the opportunity to play through the whole story with it fresh in my head, just didn't really feel like playing Ep1/2 again as I'd had to play through them already once for a previous glitch.
Glitches aside...
Absolutely loved it, probably my game of the year. Decisions wise my repeat playthroughs at least gave me the opportunity to see a few different outcomes.
Let Carley survive first time, then Doug second, Carley again on third. I already knew the outcome was the same regardless but its a shame that it didn't turn out differently, they only created subtle differences in the gameplay but interesting ones all the same. Could never bring myself to side with Lily or Larry though, couldn't stand either of them.
In my previous game that glitched I let Ben drop to his death in the clock tower at the end of Episode 4, but on my second playthrough I warmed to him and actually felt sorry for him and was sad to see him go.If he dies then does anyone know how that effects the outcome for Kenny? I assume he falls to his death in place of Ben? Was genuinley sad to see him fall to his death even if he was a whiney little gooseberry fool. I really felt Kenny's death as well, really wasn't expecting it at that point. The game was great at catching you unawares when characters were killed off.
At the end of the game I told Clem to shoot me, she said she didn't want me to come back as a walker so it was the right thing to do. The bit post credits left me hoping it was Omid and Christa. Game left me wondering what happened to Molly and the same with Victor's group who took the boat. Was half expecting Molly to appear and help Clementine get away at the end. Kind of hope the next Episode continues with Clementines character because I'd like to see what happens next, that said it would end up recycling a lot of the same themes. Perhaps revisiting it in a further series would be better.It really took me back to the days of playing through Lucasarts point and clicks and it was a refreshing change of pace, looking forward to the second season!