![]() ![]() While characters are well-developed throughout the season, there was a specific arc within my story that wound up feeling forced and out of place. What is amazing about Tales from the Borderlands is that it tricked me into thinking my decision was good, without ever changing the way Handsome Jack behaved, then made me regret my decision as the character almost immediately. I found myself trying my best to not give in to Jack’s requests for control, even in situations when it made sense for him to be let in, but even I got to a point where it made logical sense to let Jack take control. One of the bigger arcs of the season is this struggle that Rhys has with Handsome Jack, who is dead and stuck within Rhys’s mechanically wired head. Handsome Jack is one of the only characters I noticed from the Borderlands franchise that is in this season, and his rapport with Rhys makes for some great laughs but also a terrifying struggle for power. I found the two robot characters of Gortys and Loader Bot to be especially endearing, with each having genuinely touching moments despite being robots. Rhys’s sidekick, Vaughn, makes for good comedic relief, even with a cast of characters that can all handle the weight of a joke. There are plenty of characters to get attached to, even if Rhys and Fiona are the protagonists. (Tales from the Borderlands, Telltale Games) For the purpose of this review, I will be spoiling one or two moments of this season of Tales from the Borderlands, as it will be nearly impossible to discuss what works and what doesn’t in such a narrative-driven title. What works most of all – this is important to stress – is its ability to make me feel emotions that most games of this sort would rarely nail without beating you over the head with it. Whenever a decision needed to be made, I never made it lightly. Every time a character was introduced, I clung to them immediately (with a few exceptions). Despite that, I found myself genuinely hooked to almost every aspect of Tales from the Borderlands‘s first season. I have no affinity for the Borderlands franchise or Telltale’s brand of adventure games. Instead, Telltale Games have taken the quirkiness of the series and its humor to craft what might be their best game to date. The strength of Borderlands has never been its story, but rather its loot-driven gameplay and highly random weaponry – two things that do not exist in Tales from the Borderlands. If I were to try to distill what components you would need from the Borderlands franchise in order to make it feel like the popular shooter franchise without actually being a shooter, it would seem kind of difficult.
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