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#39: The Wolf Among Us

Sometimes you don't want to play a game as much as watch one.

I wasn't familiar with the comics, but as far as I can tell The Wolf Among Us mainly consists of Hugh Jackman as a Wolverine/Batman hybrid fucking up disney characters.

I love mystery or investigation-themed games. If Heavy Rain focused entirely on the Scott Shelby segments, or Detroit: Become Human only the Connor ones, I'd still be pretty satisfied. In this game, you're a private investigator for 100% of the time. On top of that, getting a tour of a weird alternate society is my favorite part of science fiction, and the entire game is basically that. Even though the society's entire premise makes zero sense, the level of creativity throughout helps me forgive that.

It's also fun to intentionally mess up the quicktime events.

I didn't connect emotionally with the characters, so I'm at least happy the ride was interesting. On top of this, if your PC is powerful enough to truly manhandle the Telltale engine, it might not even have to skip a bunch of frames randomly! My ps3 friends have a lot to say about that.

I've played a few Telltale style games, and they're certainly a genre of their own. If you view them as more of a cinematic short story and stop getting frustrated that you can't dramatically alter the plot or do anything that cool they're a lot more fun. I say all the time that games often fall into one of two traps- the gameplay gets in the way of the story or the story gets in the way of the gameplay. This deals with that by removing gameplay almost entirely.

Ultimately this genre ends up more fun than traditional point & click adventures at the risk of not really counting as a game at all.

I've heard this one in particular is a stupidly simple platinum, too, if that's your thing.

Too bad there's never going to be a season 2.
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