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And as entertaining as the trial ending is it’s essentially exactly the same idea as the final episode of The Walking Dead’s first season, just in a more natural context. There’s still too many big choices that are either meaningless or which are taken completely out of your hands.

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Because each download is often handled by a different team the quality varies wildly, and month long gaps between episodes is especially problematic when you’re trying to remember every detail of a murder mystery.īut there are specific problems with The Wolf Among Us too, beyond the lack of clarity about the universe’s rules. There are still obvious weaknesses though, not least the fact that absolutely nothing is gained by Telltale’s games being episodic. There’s even a cleverly handled coda that throws into doubt the whole origins of the case and the nature of one of the main characters, and we ended the game vastly more satisfied with the episode, and the season in general, than when we began. What had previously been a rather aimless story about fairly tale characters acting like real people turns into a clever commentary on social justice, mob rule, and the problems of trying to apply black and white rules and morality to a very grey world. The Wolf Among Us: Episode 5 (360) – the Crooked Man gets his day in courtĮxactly how all this plays out will of course depend on how you play the game, in terms of previous decisions and the ones in this episode, but what perhaps impressed us the most is how the finale throws the whole narrative into sharp relief. All of a sudden your decision to rough up a suspect in an earlier episode, or go along with one of Snow White’s punitive measures just because you want to see if her and Bigby will get together, don’t seem so trivial. (Assuming you do take him back, one of the moral choices is what to do with him at the end of the climatic battle.) At this point the importance of your previous actions suddenly starts to become clear.Īs the Crooked Man tries to worm his way out of trouble he starts trying to win the crowd over with half truths and the obvious unfairness of Fabletown’s social structure. In fact The Wolf Among Us isn’t even primarily a character-driven affair, because as enjoyable as characters like Bigby and Snow White are they’re not really that well-rounded.ĭespite a final QTE sequence that almost threatens to be interesting the episode only really proves its worth when Bigby captures the Crooked Man and takes him back to Fabletown for trial. But despite smarting from our deductive failure we began to realise that the game’s opening mystery really wasn’t the point of the story. Thankfully once the game stops pretending it’s Dragon’s Lair things start to get interesting, although we have to admit we didn’t guess who the murderer was and we’re not convinced there was really sufficient clues to do so. It’s one thing that these games don’t have any point ‘n’ click style puzzles, but to have the only traditional gameplay be such badly orchestrated action scenes is like rubbing salt in the wound. Leaving all the world building up to the comic books is lazy and disingenuous, and following the extremely weak previous episode we had less patience than usual for this one’s opening scenes, which quickly segue into more of Telltale’s terrible QTE sequences. And we still don’t understand why everyone is so poor and down on their luck, especially as most of them look perfectly human and could presumably just get an ordinary job. If a reader hadn’t told us that fables are more powerful the better remembered they are by ordinary humans we’d never have guessed it.

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One of our central concerns with the series though has been that the game never really explains the rules of the Fable universe.

He’s done his best, at least the way we’ve played him, but his is an uphill struggle against the social hierarchy of Fabletown and the machinations of the Crooked Man – the criminal kingpin that’s been running everything from prostitution rings to loanshark schemes. Although Bigby apparently has a very dark past, back in the fable world, in the game he’s trying to repent of his earlier crimes and uses his job not simply to keep the peace but to stick up for the fable community’s most vulnerable members.

You play as Bigby, who is in actuality the Big Bad Wolf.

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