Highly recommended for Game of Thrones fans. With six episodes in Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series, you're left with an overwhelming sense of dread, asking yourself, "Did I make the right choice?" There's a great sense of responsibility for your actions since you don't know which decisions will affect the outcome of the story. The story is just as good as the show, if not better. If you get stressed out watching the Game of Thrones show, you're going to be even more wound up playing the game. It only happened briefly so I can forgive it. However, there was one section where Kit Harrington's character was dubbed with a complete different voice, taking away from the immersive experience. There are as many twists as the show and the voice acting is great. You're playing it for the story and the story is EXCELLENT. There's also quick time sequences where you'll have to dodge and rapidly press buttons.īut you're not playing Game of Thrones for the combat. You point to click where you want to go and select dialog choices with your mouse. It's a point-and-click adventure game and there's not much variation in the play. Playing Game of Thrones is a retro affair. With so many choices, the game merits several play throughs to see how you can affect the story. Speaking of other players, you can compare your decisions with other players after each chapter. The experience has to be consistent for different players so the ending can't be different for each person's story. Some players may hate the fact that they can't change the outcome of the story but I don't have a problem with it. While you can't change the overall outcome of the story, you can affect how the in-game characters perceive you and how the story plays out. I've played Telltale's other adventure games and NONE of them made me agonize over my decisions more than Game of Thrones. While the TV show is a passive experience, Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series makes you feel the gravity of each decision. By making your actions and dialog choices effect the story, Telltale made a game where you feel responsible. Without spoiling anything, you'll play as different characters from House Forrester and interact with characters from the show. The Forresters were aligned with the Starks and you'll have to deal with the repercussions of the events following the Red Wedding. In addition to the TV cast, the game follows the story of House Forrester with characters not mentioned in the show. You'll see some of the characters from the show including Lena Hadley as Cersei Lannister, Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, Natalie Dormer as Margaery Tyrell, Kit Harington as Jon Snow, and more. This is a major issue with a game that's strength claims to be the player's ability to make key decisions.Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series takes place between the fourth and fifth seasons of the TV show. It makes me worry that no matter the decisions I've made in past episodes will not have a drastic impact on the story's conclusion. "Well, that's not good," I thought, but come to find out that subsequent events put this family on your side anyways. In one playthrough, I succeeded and she pledged her family's strength to the Forresters immediately. One example: In one of the episodes, while playing as Rodrik, you are tasked with securing the marriage pact with a sympathetic Northern family. The nagging feeling I get through multiple playthroughs is that this is not necessarily the case. The main problem with Game of Thrones, as a GAME, is that it's premise is that the player's decisions will affect the events of the story and the ending (which hasn't released as of this writing). You do end up rooting for them very quickly. The members of this family and their surrounding bannerman and support people are entertaining characters, and their story balances tragedy, perserverance, and humor in equal measure. Game of Thrones is a story about a Northern family struggling to deal with the changing political climate of Westeros in the aftermath of the Red Wedding, and it really is a good story. The result is that the player feels less and less in these two subsequent series that they are involved in any way. Both their Walking Dead: Season 2 and Game of Thrones series' have the story and character parts in equal measure to TWD, but the gameplay segments are much fewer and greatly farther in between. They haven't really recaptured that magic since. It had plenty of great story and characters, with just enough point-and-click, QTE, and exploration segments to keep a player from forgetting that this was, after all, a game and not a show. Telltale Games found a good mix of story and gameplay in Season 1 of their Walking Dead series. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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