Review: The Walking Dead: Michonne – A Telltale Miniseries (Sony PlayStation 4)

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Review by Brad L. Oh boy, did I go into this with high expectations! Especially after the excellent first two seasons of The Walking Dead impressed with an engaging narrative and deep, relatable characters. The Walking Dead: Michonne feels like a cheap cash-in, a way to whet the appetites of…

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Review: Minecraft Story Mode – Episode 2: Assembly Required (Xbox One)

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Telltale Games is very sneaky. A week after the launch of Minecraft: Story Mode’s first episode, it suddenly launches episode two with no warning. Not that I’m complaining, as I enjoyed the first episode but felt it was more of a prologue than an entire episode, and all of a…

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Review: Tales From The Borderlands: Episode 5 – The Vault of the Traveler (Microsoft Xbox 360)

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From the beginning, the idea of a Borderlands game as a narrative-heavy affair from Telltale Games struck me as a potentially weird mix. So here’s the thing: it worked. It worked so well in fact, that now we have the last episode accounted for, I can say that this was…

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Review: Minecraft Story Mode – Episode 1: The Order of the Stone (Microsoft Xbox One)

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I was terrified when it was announced that Telltale was doing a narrative game season based on Minecraft. Minecraft, of all things! The most open-world game available, the game which I have easily sunk hundreds of hours into playing over the past five years, the game which I’ve seen grown…

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Review: Tales From the Borderlands: Episode 4: Escape Plan Bravo (Microsoft Xbox 360)

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Tales From The Borderlands: Episode 4: Escape Plan Bravo packs a great deal of humour into a single episode, but also manages several touching moments with characters while keeping the plot rolling. The best episode in what is shaping up to be the most balanced Telltale Games effort yet delivers…

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