LogFAQs > #957039472

7.5/10

Oh Man this is a good one. First time through, it's probably a ten out of ten. But now, I have a lot of trouble setting it apart from all the Telltale games that came after it. I see the flaws in its storytelling, it's choice-based system. The story it does tell is solid, it's emotionally grounded and quite effective at making you feel like this guardian in a crapsack world, as you struggle to find any shred of joy you can in the midst of disaster & death everywhere. A lot of the game's magic comes from the fact that you feel like your choices matter, even if they ultimately don't. I can't help but notice now how characters you save have little to no dialogue after their events and typically die shortly after anyway. In some weird fucked up way though, this system somehow reinforces the game's themes that much more. Life is uncertain, zombies or not, and the game rendering your choices ultimately meaningless is surprisingly bleak, tragic, & darkly macabre. Was this the intention? Probably not, but it works as intended nonetheless. So I applaud it regardless, as an intense work of horror & dramatic fiction, with solid character archetypes that do the job of forcing your on-the-fly reactions, while still seeing the very real flaws for what they are.

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