I'm not familiar with any other Walking Dead media, but I understand that Michonne is a player character with a much greater documented history and thus there isn't as much opportunity to affect her development or characterization compared to other protagonists in the series; she's a pretty static character who hardly gets any development, and no matter how cool it is that she slices up walkers with a sword, that's no good in the Telltale formula. I've never been one to complain much about the illusion of choice in these games, because maintaining that illusion is itself an artform that can greatly affect the experience; Michonne is very transparent that nothing you choose will really matter due to its status as an interquel.

Unlike the main series, where the player is traveling in a party with a few key figures in conflict that the player will find themselves choosing a side, Sam is the only companion who drives the narrative in Michonne and thus your ability to care about what happens extends as far as you care about her, and I thought she was awful! She continually makes horrible decisions, never gets fully called out for it, and despite my best efforts to throw her to the wolves at every chance, Michonne is continually dragged into cleaning up her messes. Didn't care about anybody, thought everybody sucked, even Michonne is difficult to get attached to without any prior knowledge of the character (those dopey flashback hallucinations are so stupid), and it's the misery porn that season 2 often gets accused of being without anything of value in its place.

This game does make me want to play Oneechanbara though.