Due to the month-long break from
playing video games I took to work on my Dropzone Commander
miniatures, I missed out on playing episode 4 and 5 of The Walking
Dead Season 2 when they first came out. So I actually just played
them in a row, one a night for two nights. It's a little weird since
I played the other episodes a month or 2 apart. I loved playing
episodically, but finishing off with two in a row worked out pretty
well. I just finished writing my episode 4 review last night, so
this one might reference that a bit.
Like for starters, Episode 5 ran much,
much, much better than the mess that was Episode 4's technical side.
In fact, this might be the best running episode of the season,
although it still wasn't perfect. There were a few instances of
animation stutter and freezing at the beginning of a scene, but that
was it. I felt like the graphics really shined in this episode too.
The lighting work on people's faces was especially great looking, and
a few of the special effects used this time were a bit more
impressive than past episodes.
As for the story, well, another Season
is wrapped up, and I am certainly feeling some feels. I don't know if
I made the right decisions. How many games leave you with that
feeling? This season is not as good as the first, but it is certainly
head and shoulders above most video game storytelling. It continues
the first season quite well. Wow, it's great stuff.
Despite my constant griping about the
technical problems plaguing this Season (which will
continue until they are fixed), I greatly, greatly enjoyed the second
season of The Walking Dead, and the last episode is fittingly
enjoyable. It raised the story back up to the level of the first two
episodes of the season. I hear that season 3 is in the works, and I
will definitely play it. Hopefully it can keep this good thing going
without losing the magic, and hopefully attain a perfect score by
fixing the technical problems. Episode 5 is a great game tier 2,
and the season as a whole is as well. 
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