Indeed, with the announcement of a second season for Game of Thrones, this could be the case for the first season of Telltale’s Game of Thrones. In the scope of episodic work, The Empire Strikes Back would be a cliff-hanger looking to resolve itself with the next season. There is no Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight, without Luke Skywalker, young man who takes on evil and loses his hand, his resolve, and nearly his life. It says, “we know people expect bad things to happen, so we’re going to make it just as awful as we possibly can”.Įvery hero needs to experience a loss to build up their resolve and propel them to their ultimate victory: the triumph over evil. The trouble with Telltale’s presentation of this is that, for me, the final episode comes off as being misery for the sake of misery. I’m going to, I guess, spoil things for you and let you know that there is essentially no hope for the Forrester family. Giving a player, for all intents and purposes, virtually no hope is counter-intuitive to enjoyment in many ways. In a very real way, it’s almost an inevitable certainty that this family cannot “win” given what we know of the happenings in Westeros and especially the North.
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Timeline-wise, we know that the books and TV have already passed this family by. Telltale’s Game of Thrones focuses on a family that we’ve never heard of previously. While there is no denying that each type of media consumer feels a heavy investment into the story, a gamer, it can be argued, is more of an active participant within the narrative construct. But as players, we not only expect a win of some sort, we need it, perhaps moreso than any book-reader or television-watcher. So it is that we should expect dark storylines from games based on such grim and seemingly hopeless worlds. Tyrion is looked down on and betrayed by both his sister and his father, but he manages to escape – for the most part – danger, and most of his family members do not. The Starks had their awful wedding, but then the Lannisters got theirs as well. Yet despite their bleak nature, for each franchise, and more specifically in regards to Game of Thrones, the good guys are usually given “a win”. In the books (graphic novels) and on the television shows, your favorite families are torn apart and scattered across the world, and your favorite characters are murdered, sometimes seemingly on a whim. They each delight in making their fanbases miserable.
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Two of the most famous pieces of media currently, Game of Thrones and the Walking Dead, originate in literature, both have adventure game series created by Telltale Games, and both exemplify this line of thinking. And many companies are loving misery these days. Platforms: PC/Steam, PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 | Developer/Publisher: Telltale Games | ESRB: M | Controls: Mouse/Keyboard, Controller
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