This choice will greatly alter the first half of the second chapter. There is some weight to decisions you make in Episode 1 that manifest in Episode 2. The choice is very evident, and it comes at the end of the first chapter. That combined with the many choices that as a Telltale veteran you know won’t really matter, and it feels like you get to see the machinery behind the great amusement park ride you are on. You could easily guess who was going to dislike who, when the group was going to have a disagreement, and most other story points. It was disappointingly predictable for people who have played past games by this developer.
The story is your average fantasy fare with a Minecraft skin, though you can’t really blame Telltale for that as the source material does not have a narrative.
#MINECRAFT STORY MODE EPISODE 1 SERIES#
Through a series of unlikely events, he and his friends becomes embroiled in a conflict among the Brotherhood of the Stone, a group of legendary adventures, and a frightful creature known as the Wither. Minecraft Story Mode tells the story of Jessie, a builder in the world of Minecraft who is entering a building competition so his work may be featured in the upcoming builder’s convention, Endercon.
It is not bad, but it feels like some of the passion is missing. It feels like the kind of work an artist might craft for a wealthy patron so they have enough money to work on what they really want. Aside from that, though, there is a feeling that Minecraft is a mercenary title. I was never interested in these titles, and as you might expect Minecraft Story Mode closer to the Monkey Island and Sam & Max games than the studio’s other recent work. Before they mastered the art of giving you bad choices and making you feel awful for the one you picked, the tone of their games was more comedic and childish in nature. You certainly can’t argue that the game doesn’t emulate the look and feel of Minecraft though, even if the mechanics are completely different.Like most people I fell in love with Telltale Games via the Walking Dead series, and the surprisingly excellent The Wolf Among Us. That’s a level of interactivity that the game’s young audience are more likely to baulk at than the adults, but that’s how Telltale’s games have always worked. On top of this are several action sequences, including a minecart chase and building scenes which are handled simply as QTE events. Except instead of questions of life or death, here it’s a question of testing friendships and which of your group of archetypal child-like personalities you want to side with. That’s a common enough problem with some of Telltale’s other games though, and in fact despite the subject matter this plays very similarly to everything from The Walking Dead to Game Of Thrones. It’s only in the closing minutes that there’s any real call to action, and you realise that you’ve essentially just been playing a prologue. The other problem with Story Mode is that the titular story never really gets going in this first episode.
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