It allows him to scan environments to find information (which is mostly used to add humor to each situation) about the things around him. A neat hook with the point-and-click gameplay of Tales is the ECHO Eye implant Rhys has. We’re all familiar with the Bullymong Jingle.Īs with most adventure games, Tales from the Borderlands plays out in a linear fashion, with the player consistently making their experience unique through different dialogue options. By the end of the episode, we find out what exactly landed Rhys and Fiona in this situation, and the setup for the next episode becomes clear.
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We then learn her side of the story and how she is connected to Rhys. Their captor, an unknown masked figure, keeps them held at gunpoint while they explain how they found out about the Gortys Project, the driving force of this episode. Not all that prosperous, unfortunately.Įventually, we find out that Rhys is being dragged to the location where our other protagonist, Fiona, is also being held captive.
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Fans of the Borderlands universe will also notice references to the previous games in the series, ranging from cameos, to the opening scene of the original game, all the way to storytelling by Marcus. He and his friends Vaughn and Yvette are climbing the corporate ladder after the events of Borderlands 2 (which I will not spoil). Telltale begins the episode with Rhys being dragged through the desert while explaining to his captor exactly how and why he got there. In Episode One: Zer0 Sum, we get an introduction to the two main characters that we will be playing as throughout the season: Rhys, a wise-cracking Hyperion employee, and Fiona, a Pandora native who has been brought up by an old trickster named Felix. Within the first 20 minutes I was hooked, and that feeling didn’t go away even as the credits rolled. The key difference with this game is the amount of humor injected into the dialogue: You can tell this game is a Borderlands game, but you can also tell it’s a Telltale creation. It’s also no surprise that Hyperion is still an evil corporation floating in space.Īs with most Telltale games, the main draw of TFTB is the story. Now that the game is out though, it’s no surprise at all that it is a must-play. Their newest game, Tales from the Borderlands, surprised many people when it was announced.
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They took a shot in the dark with The Wolf Among Us and turned it into a must-play as well. They came out of nowhere with the wildly successful first season of The Walking Dead after having decent success with titles such as Back to the Future and Jurassic Park. Telltale Games has established quite a pedigree over the past few years.