"Starved for Help" is a great second episode for The Walking Dead. Writing continues to be solid and the choices are difficult. However, this episode has a few pacing problems and the overall technical quality continues to be poor.
The Full Review(No Spoilers for THIS Episode, Spoilers for Previous Episodes):
Don't Judge A Book By It's Cover
After a fantastic start to the series, Telltale's The Walking Dead continues with another strong episode that only has a few pacing problems.
This episode starts 3 months after the events of the first one. Our group is still staying at the hotel but they have a huge problem. Food. As their food supply starts to go low, tensions rise up in the group. However, two new people they met promises a trade with them. Their food for our gas. To make this trade, a few people from our group goes with these new people but they quickly realize that something is wrong.
This whole episode is about these new people and the problems they have. Twists and turns are obviously included and overall I really enjoyed the story here. Writers Mark Darin and Chuck Jordan did a good job with the plot and the character developments we got here.
Unfortunately, my main problem was the pacing. The opening is pretty strong, even stronger than the first episode's opening. But then the episode continues slowly until the very end of the episode. There is one moment that is a bit more action-y but that is it. Opening, ending, and a very brief 3-4 minute sequence towards the end of the first act.
There is nothing like the Motel puzzle thing or the fight with the zombie officer. Those high action scenes aren't featured here. The hard choices continues though. There is especially a scene at the first act where you need to do food distribution and you don't have enough to give to all. That scene was great. Even if a similar thing to it was featured in the previous episode as a side objective.
It took me 2 hours to finish this episode. Sinilarly to Episode 1, there is a HUB area of this episode you are constantly returning to. There are some other places as well but this time you go to them much more linearly. It's not like the first episode's drug store where you could see a lot of puzzles just waited to be solved. Again, there are not much puzzles like that in this episode. It's much more dialogue heavy.
Technically, the art direction continues to be strong but the animation quality and overall technical quality is poor. Not too poor but you will feel that there is something wrong with this game technically.
"Starved for Help" is a great second episode for The Walking Dead. Writing continues to be solid and the choices are difficult. However, this episode has a few pacing problems and the overall technical quality continues to be poor.
The Full Review(No Spoilers for THIS Episode, Spoilers for Previous Episodes):
Don't Judge A Book By It's Cover
After a fantastic start to the series, Telltale's The Walking Dead continues with another strong episode that only has a few pacing problems.
This episode starts 3 months after the events of the first one. Our group is still staying at the hotel but they have a huge problem. Food. As their food supply starts to go low, tensions rise up in the group. However, two new people they met promises a trade with them. Their food for our gas. To make this trade, a few people from our group goes with these new people but they quickly realize that something is wrong.
This whole episode is about these new people and the problems they have. Twists and turns are obviously included and overall I really enjoyed the story here. Writers Mark Darin and Chuck Jordan did a good job with the plot and the character developments we got here.
Unfortunately, my main problem was the pacing. The opening is pretty strong, even stronger than the first episode's opening. But then the episode continues slowly until the very end of the episode. There is one moment that is a bit more action-y but that is it. Opening, ending, and a very brief 3-4 minute sequence towards the end of the first act.
There is nothing like the Motel puzzle thing or the fight with the zombie officer. Those high action scenes aren't featured here. The hard choices continues though. There is especially a scene at the first act where you need to do food distribution and you don't have enough to give to all. That scene was great. Even if a similar thing to it was featured in the previous episode as a side objective.
It took me 2 hours to finish this episode. Sinilarly to Episode 1, there is a HUB area of this episode you are constantly returning to. There are some other places as well but this time you go to them much more linearly. It's not like the first episode's drug store where you could see a lot of puzzles just waited to be solved. Again, there are not much puzzles like that in this episode. It's much more dialogue heavy.
Technically, the art direction continues to be strong but the animation quality and overall technical quality is poor. Not too poor but you will feel that there is something wrong with this game technically.
"Starved for Help" is a great second episode for The Walking Dead. Writing continues to be solid and the choices are difficult. However, this episode has a few pacing problems and the overall technical quality continues to be poor.