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Article #351129Game of thrones the game: The good the bad and the ugly
From: Werner Punz
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:52
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:52
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I just finished episode 1 of Game of Thrones with mixed feelings. First the good, the artwork is amazing as well as the story, Telltale got the feeling from the books and the movies exactly right. The bad, the game is a mixture of QTEs (fortunately only a few of them) and dialog branches. The ugly. Telltale seems to have abandoned adventure games entirely in favor of interactive movies, there literally are no puzzles anymore. The game plays like this. Dialog answer under time pressure another dialog answer under time pressure scripted movie sequence, QTE dialog another timed answer, rinse and repeat. Gone are the puzzles. There are exactly zero of them in episode 1. I personally think while TTG has become lighter on puzzles over the years they nailed it perfectly right with Walking Dead Episode 1, since then it has gone downhill. But (ok I have not played Episode 2 and Wolf among us) this is a new low at least for me who loves puzzles in adventure games. So to sum it up, is it good enough that I will play the game through. Probably yes since I paid for it and i love the story. Will I buy another TT game again for the forseeable future. Probably not unless they change their ways and stop producing purely interactive movies. Werner
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