This game wowed eight-year-old me as it released throughout the year. Ten years later, I didn't think it was total shit so that's nice.
Still feels awful to play with a controller and overall plays like a game far older than it is but you're not playing this game to PLAY it so it's fine.
The facial animation was actually a lot better than I was expecting. However, the voice acting to go with it wasn't always great. There were just some bad lines of dialogue but I thought Clem overall was just too hollow. If I didn't have my pre-existing love the franchise and her, I most prob wouldn't care too greatly about her. I also think Lee's delivery often sounded too stoic and didn't fit with the rest of some scenes.
It may look cheap in areas but I really still love this artstyle. Maintains the comic-book look with cel-shaded graphics but subverts what's typically expected of that style to create something so gruesome that gives of an atmosphere of desperation.
I think this game deserves to be as popular as it is because it is very well written for a 2012 game and continues to hold up (sadly The Last of Us comparisons don't do it any favours) but I think the final episode is the worst. I don't recall ever actually playing it as it's hard to come by money as an eight-year-old and think I just watched it on YouTube instead. And honestly, that'll do. I think they knew how they wanted it to end but didn't know how to get there so they made a whole other episode with a lot of padding, a cringey random antagonist, boring puzzles, and some terrible out-of-place attempts at humour that were delivered very poorly. The ending itself is great but the hour and a bit to get there was a huge decline from the rest of the season.
Anyway, excited to replay all of these. Here's hoping Two isn't total shit too because I've listed that as one of my all-time favourites ever since it finished.
Still feels awful to play with a controller and overall plays like a game far older than it is but you're not playing this game to PLAY it so it's fine.
The facial animation was actually a lot better than I was expecting. However, the voice acting to go with it wasn't always great. There were just some bad lines of dialogue but I thought Clem overall was just too hollow. If I didn't have my pre-existing love the franchise and her, I most prob wouldn't care too greatly about her. I also think Lee's delivery often sounded too stoic and didn't fit with the rest of some scenes.
It may look cheap in areas but I really still love this artstyle. Maintains the comic-book look with cel-shaded graphics but subverts what's typically expected of that style to create something so gruesome that gives of an atmosphere of desperation.
I think this game deserves to be as popular as it is because it is very well written for a 2012 game and continues to hold up (sadly The Last of Us comparisons don't do it any favours) but I think the final episode is the worst. I don't recall ever actually playing it as it's hard to come by money as an eight-year-old and think I just watched it on YouTube instead. And honestly, that'll do. I think they knew how they wanted it to end but didn't know how to get there so they made a whole other episode with a lot of padding, a cringey random antagonist, boring puzzles, and some terrible out-of-place attempts at humour that were delivered very poorly. The ending itself is great but the hour and a bit to get there was a huge decline from the rest of the season.
Anyway, excited to replay all of these. Here's hoping Two isn't total shit too because I've listed that as one of my all-time favourites ever since it finished.