I'm annoyed they keep pushing it back. Was supposed to be released in November. Then December 17th. Now it's the 18th. Fuck you I wanna play already :(
The episode by episode wait is TORTURE, but I really love that aspect of the series. I don't think I would have been as attached to the characters if I didn't have to wait to see what happened next. It's a relatively short game if you just breeze through in one sweep.
- Chrisa and Omid both alive. Hooray! I have a feeling this isn't going to last :( Speculation was true about Christa's pregnancy though. This should be interesting.
- I hate this bitch. Wish I could have taken the gun with me into the stalls. Or maybe I could have and didn't think of it.
- OMID NO ;_____________; Ugggggh I knew he wasn't lasting long but fuuuuck. Why'd it have to happen in the first 5 minutes :sad: He was always my second favorite character behind Lee and Clem. I was REALLY hoping for him to be the protag in this season. I wanted to kill that fucking bitch myself, god dammit Christa.
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- 16 months = a little over 400 days. Looks like we'll definitely be catching up with our DLC friends in this season.
- Christa suddenly not pregnant and no baby in sight. Wonder what happened there.
- Holy shit, I actually started to choke up when I went to the fire and the only options were [ Burn picture of Lee ] or [ Burn drawing of Kenny, Duck and Katjaa ]. Oh my fucking god. I couldn't do it and backed out, mercifully found a log to burn shortly after. I would have hated myself if I saw that thing after I burned them.
- LOVE the new action buttons. Makes things a lot more tense and gives more options for chase sequences. They had something similar in Wolf Among Us and was hopoing they would implement it in this too. So much fun and a lot more possibilities. Glad that asshole got eaten, fuck him.
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- Oh. Great. A dog character. And now you realize that this dog is going to get violently eaten eventually after getting really attached to him. And it's going to be sad. Really fucking sad. I can't wait! :sad: :sad: :sad: He sort of looks like my awesome Shiba Inu from back east too. FUCK YOU TELLTALE. STOP MESSING WITH MY FEELS.
- ....or not violently eaten at all, but killed by our own hands of course! Yay! Food aggressive little shit. Ended up putting him out of his misery, that was really hard to look at
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- New characters! Of course my dog bite is mistaken for a walker bite... why do i get the feeling these assholes are gonna want to chop my arm off like Lee?
- Since Lily has officially been retconned as the same Lily from the comics, I'm wondering if we'll run into her again. Especially in this new camp we're heading to.
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- Another pregnant lady? Got damn.
- Wonder if all the fishing gear in the shed is foreshadowing or just a subtle reference to Kenny.
- Haha, I love Alvin. Apple juice, what a boss <3
- Wanted to hear more of the kitchen conversations but I'm so paranoid someone's gonna jump out and shoot me D:
- Why do I get the feeling I'm REALLY going to regret becoming friends with this girl? Felt weird they kept prolonging the promise like it's going to come back to bite me, lmao.
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- UGGGGGGH this stitching sequence.
- I began choking up when I was telling Luke about Lee. ;___;
- Called that bitch Rebecca out about the baby and told her she better be nice to me. Ahaha. Clem's a boss.
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- Holy shit! One of those bodies was Roman from 400 Days, the dude from Shel's Story.
- I was so sad to see the bite on Pete. :(
- Decision was tough. I like Pete's character a lot and hated Nick at first, but his story is so sad. I went with Nick cause Pete was already bit. Could have probably chopped his ankle off I guess but.... fuck. No time to think in 5 seconds maaaan.
- Preview for next episode.... the mystery person has got to be Lilly. Can't be Christa cause Clem didn't seem very happy to see them. Although... I spared Andy St. John in S1E2 so.....but.... no way.....
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DECISIONS
- Tried to save Christa. Didn't really see any reason not to. No idea why only 60% did.
- I killed the dog, seeing it squirm on those arrows was brutal. Fuuuuck. Have no idea how only 55% went with that, heartless bastards.
- I accepted Nick's apology cause really, how can you not?
- Gave water to the guy cause I was hoping he would tell me more information.
- Saved Nick cause of what I already said.
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Overall, amazing. Fucking amazing. This blew last season's E1 out of the water which is not an easy task. Playing as Clem is really awesome because it makes the overall experience so much more different. Lee could just kill walkers like nothing, but as Clem you really struggle to kill just one. And playing as a little girl doing something like that stitching sequence or having to kill a dog... puts a whole new spin on things. So many incredibly sad moments that kept you wanting to see what would happen next. The new group of survivors is great. It's a shame we couldn't interact with them more like Lee got to in his first episode, but hopefully they give us the chance to in the opening to E2.
Cannot wait till next episode, errrrgggh.
If you haven't got this, GET IT. NOW. And if you haven't played Season 1 yet, what the fuck are you waiting for?
Yeah they're fucking teases. They usually don't reveal release dates until like a week before it's to come out either.
Considering how well it's been doing in sales and reviews, I think it has a lot of seasons left in it. Could you imagine like reaching Season 10 and shit you did as Lee still effecting gameplay? That would ridiculously cool.
I actually recorded me playing this as an experiment but it's incredibly long. Think I may just cut it down to the major decisions and climax. Wish I had a capture card.
Anyway they stuffed more in this episode than I could have ever bargained for. The decisions in this season are a LOT less linear this time too it seems which makes for so many different scenarios, already stacked on top of decisions from Season 1 still leaking through.
- Nick's a fuck-up but I kind of find him endearing for this.
- Carver is fucking UNCOMFORTABLE!
- I loved that Clem could choose to kill the big walker over the sitting one even after Luke told us not to. She's a little bad ass.
- Nick killing the nice man on the bridge... uggggh.
- I'm beginning to sympathize for Rebecca and now feel really bad for telling her off in the last episode. Fuck, stop messing with my emotions Telltale.
- HOLY SHIT KENNY! I kind of called the foreshadowing with all that fishing gear in the first episode.
- Unfortunately Kenny still acts like a bit of a prick. Oh well.
- I hated having to choose between tables, but ultimately went with my group over Kenny, simply because I was concerned that they would stop trusting me if I just sat with my old buddy. Kenny's sad face over this made me feel bad.
- Oh fuck, Bonnie from 400 Days. She was the real fucked up one of the group that almost everyone unanimously hated out of all the five characters, so uh... I'm not holding my breath on this one!
- I felt really awful when Luke revealed Matthew's identity as the bridge guy.
- The whole scene with Walter and the knife made me uncomfortable. Thought he was going to kill himself if not Nick. I kind of let him draw out his own conclusion because I was really mad at Nick for being so trigger happy, but I regret that.
- Nick getting devoured in front of Walter - UGGGGGGH! I instantly knew it was because I didn't defend Nick and felt ridiculously bad about it. I slapped Walter for it anyway.
- Carver coming in with the assault rifles made my heart stop.
- The whole hold-up scene was hard to watch. Deep down inside I knew if I tried to stop it, bad shit would happen. But I hated Bonnie and Carver both so much that I wanted to see them burn, not later, but now. I knew it was impossible, but I did it anyway....
- I told Kenny to shoot Carver while he had Alvin. I thought MAYBE somehow this decision actually worked and rewarded us for being ballsy when Carver went down. When he got back up and killed Alvin, I hated myself.
I made AWFUL decisions in this episode and I really, really regret everything. Apparently Nick and Alvin's fates both are detrimental. Alvin was my favorite of the new cast and Nick was beginning to get up there despite his screw ups. I'm so bummed I lost both of them.
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Doubt I'll do this again but I thought it'd be an interesting experiment. It really wasn't. This would be a lot better if I had a capture card and just straight up LP'd it. Alas, I do not.
Amazing stuff. That was one of the most action packed episodes of the series to date. Not sure if it's the best, but it's up there. Considering this is only EPISODE 2, that's a good sign. This has potential to top Season 1. Which would be incredibly difficult to do because the Season 1 finale made me cry like a bitch.
My only knock with this season is that Clem can't interact with people like Lee did. I liked those little breaks we would have to explore and we'd be able to go up to everyone in the group and get to know them better. People like Chuck and Mark, who didn't really have much purpose, you could suddenly become attached to cause of you getting to know them better during those breaks in the action.
I guess it makes sense since Clem is still just a little kid but eh.
I also just finished Season 2 Chapter 2. Here are my thoughts w/ spoilers:
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- When I chose to "give up" I didn't think it meant all of us, just the pregnant chick. So I was annoyed that we all gave ourselves in because I definitely did not want Clementine to go down there. I don't know what would've happened if I went to find Kenny but if I could pick again I'd definitely do that.
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You find him at his vantage point just in time to try and stop him from shooting one of Carver's men. He does anyway, which leads to Carver killing Walter. After that Carver grabs Alvin and threatens Kenny to surrender or he dies. You then have a choice of telling Kenny to shoot or surrender. I ended up telling him to shoot in a state of panic, thinking that we'd get rewarded for making a bold decision. I didn't trust Carver to keep his word. Kenny shot him, Carver went down. But then it's revealed he was only shot in the shoulder so he jumps back up and shoots Alvin in the head, killing him. Uggggh.
He grabs Sarita (Kenny's woman) next and Kenny immediately surrenders. So Alvin can live or die depending on your choice.
I guess Nick's fate depends on your decisions too judging from your thoughts. I'm so mad at myself for ratting him out to Walter, but I was so pissed about what happened on the bridge and really did not want Kenny or anyone to think I had anything to do with it if they found out later.
Seeing how our games are shaping up, it's very obvious that decisions are much more complicated in this game and I love that. In Season 1 it was basically "do this" or "do that" at the end of the episode and it more or less always resulted in the same thing and just determined who was mad at you and who wasn't. I really love the new system.
