Game of Thrones is one of the most visually stunning shows on television so obviously this is quite a lot to live up to, but even when you don’t hold Telltale’s version up to this standard it still falls short.
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The sounds effects are pretty gruesome at times.Īn element of the game that is less like the TV show is its visuals. That said, that kind of violence is still in there and I’ll warn you it can be very difficult to watch, though actually more difficult to listen to. Fortunately, Telltale manage to avoid making the violence feel overdone or exploitative with the majority of the violent acts coming from good people driven to doing terrible things, and less of it coming from sadistic caricature villains like Ramsay Snow. Telltale’s Game of Thrones is just as brutal and grim as the show with just as much blood. Telltale’s Game of Thrones isn’t just similar to the show in terms of its characters and story arcs, it also shares its violence.
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The Game of Thrones series can really make you hate the awful things people are capable of, but the game will help you see you’re no different. They so effectively riled me that I frequently acted on impulse – something I’ve admonished characters in the series for doing because it’s the quickest way to meet a grizzly end and I thought I was above it. Every time I encountered a member of the villainous Whitehill family, the expletives were flying so quickly from my mouth I’m fairly certain I created new ones. People who think narrative heavy choose-your-own-adventure games aren’t exciting because of simplistic mechanics really need to reconsider this is the most stressed I’ve felt playing a videogame in a long time and I attribute a good portion of that stress to the fact that I cared about the well-written characters.Īs well as writing characters you can get behind, Telltale’s Game of Thrones also does almost as good a job as the books at creating characters you can utterly loathe. Often their life and the lives of other characters hang in the balance and the fact that you only get a limited amount of time to make these dialogue and action decisions only adds to the stress. The game’s story progresses as you have various members of the Forrester family make decisions, and they’re certainly not easy decisions to make. It’s probably quite important that fans of the series are able to draw parallels with the decisions their characters are making and the already existing characters have made because it really makes it hit home just how difficult and stressful playing the game of thrones is. It is a little trying in episode one but as the tension builds and the shit hits the Flail it becomes clear this game’s story is a lot more than a boring copy and the various stories begin to branch out. When you already know most of what’s going on in the Game of Thrones world, being introduced to the Forrester family and the events surrounding them isn’t too overwhelming but I wouldn’t really fancy having to balance learning all of the different houses and their relations to one another without knowledge of the pre-existing houses and character alliances, because they do come into play.Īt first it feels like the Forrester family are rather dully similar to the Stark family, and you can certainly draw parallels not only between their characters but also their story arcs and the threats they all face there’s an honorable elder son, an elder daughter in Kings Landing, a mother who wants nothing more than to protect her family and younger siblings to protect.
Although it takes players away from the main story of the books and the TV show with its own George RR Martin-approved cast of characters with their own story, the universe’s complex lore and wide cast of characters do still have quite significant involvement in the telling of the story as it’s set to coincide with the latter half of the third series of the TV show, up to the beginning of the fifth series. If you haven’t watched or read Game of Thrones before, I wouldn’t suggest that you make this game your entry point into the series. Game of Thrones fits well into Telltale’s choose-your-own-adventure style of game, coming as it does from a universe that’s filled with interesting characters making difficult decisions in the areas of politics and warfare. Though this doesn’t reveal anything particularly positive about how I organise my life, it does speak volumes about how well this game draws you in.
And so this lack of self control continued and that’s the story of how I lost my Saturday.
When I started playing Telltale Games Game of Thrones I had intended to stagger my gameplay and review it episode by episode, but after playing episode one I couldn’t help but play episode two, and then episode three was right there waiting.
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