Alrighty I am back again today to review The Wolf Among Us which is a game I completed just yesterday. Recently Telltale Games has been getting a lot of attention due to their Walking Dead video game series which plays episodes of the game much like TV does and has multiple seasons of certain games. The company only has about three games out currently but are working on multiple other interesting games including Game of Thrones and Borderlands. Most of the gameplay in their games is decision based where you can end up with multiple outcomes based on the decisions you have made throughout the game. The game plays identically to the Walking Dead game for those of you who have played it, but just has a different story.
The Wolf Among Us is about all of the fable characters being driven from their mystical lands and into normal civilization. Due to their appearances, they must pay to be enchanted to look like mundies (the Harry Potter equivalent to Muggles or humans). While some fables are still living the high life, others are forced to trade their souls to the Crooked Man to make ends meet. The game is a murder mystery type of game where you work with clues to solve the murders of two prostitutes. You play as Bigby Wolf (a.k.a. Big Bad Wolfe) who is the sheriff of the fables. Together with Snow White, you try to solve the murder mysteries.
During my playthrough, I tried to make Bigby as nice as possible, however, you can also choose to be very savage and murder a lot of people yourself which I'd be willing to wager has a completely different ending once you've finished.
**SPOILER**
As you follow Bigby around, you uncover that the city head official Ichabod Crane is embezzeling money from the city to pay a hooker to dress up as snow white for his sick fantasy. You also find that because of Crane's ignorance of the town's needs and being preoccupied with other things, the town people have put their trust in the Crooked Man who has enslaved them into doing whatever her wants. When the two prostitutes disobeyed him, he had them killed. In the end, Bigby prevails by either killing the Crooked Man or bringing him to justice.
This game was great, but the only real issue I had was the confusing part at the end with Narissa. For those of you who have played all of the episodes of the game, what did you think that last part meant? Personally I think it was a hint that Narissa was really Faith as that was the comment Faith had made to Bigby when she had first met him. Does anyone else think this or have any other ideas on what that could have meant? That ending did leave room for a second season which I hope they do though they have not released any information regarding that as of yet.
I liked to see the fables going from being glamored to being their normal selves. Some of my favorite characters unglamored were The Jersey Devil and Bigby himself. This was a great game and a good play for those of you who are not terrific gamers or if you are looking for something easy to complete. It is possible to die, but it's not necessarily easy to do unless you're being careless.
I gave this one four out of five. Great game. Hope to see a second season down the line and also hope to see this one make it to disc rather than just being a download.
No comments:
Post a Comment