so great. Wasnt expecting to replay the whole game but it just happened and wow just this game is so smooth it's so good and so awesome, the first time I played it I struggled a lot and yes, I will admit even though I am ashamed I used an assist on the last level to give me one extra life. But this playthrough nope, no way Jose. None of that baby crap just pure awesomeness and the steel nerves of a gamer grizzled by the fires of combat. And guess what? I won. Hell. FUCKING. yes. I played the TMNT beatemup recently, which was decent fun, but I had a problem: there was basically no cooperation. All the co-op stuff was in these gimmicky useless moves like, dive bomb into me and I can throw you forward. It did basically nothing. But this game EVERY SINGLE THING is built around co op... like it's so easy to throw an enemy to your friend and have your friend finish it off and just doing combos even when the guy you're beating up is dead. It's really cool. #awesome #great #streetsofrage #oneofthebestgamesofalltime #GOAT

I woke up one morning after a dream. A dream of a perfect zombie game. A huge map with cities to explore, construction to build your own bases, surgery mechanics like metal gear solid 3, and total freedom to survive in the apocalypse in whatever way you want. But most importantly I wanted people and characters that you could invite to your group, having to make tough decisions and have arguments with them like who gets how much food or who needs medicine the most. That very day, I was looking for a game like this and zomboid fit the bill pretty much to the letter, excepting my last wish for the NPC friends. It's a zombie survival game that's been in early access for almost 10 years. These words should be like sandpaper to my brain. But I played 12 hours of this bad boy in 2 days and I am impressed. The sheer depth of every mechanic and how it doesn't feel like you can't do what you would do in a zombie apocalypse. You can pretty much do anything you can think of. Collect rainwater, but you have to heat it up to clean it. You could use the oven but one day the lines are gonna get shut off. Same with the sink. One day canned food will run out, so you better take the time you have to learn to fish or set up a farm. A huge chunk of my playthrough felt more like stardew valley, so when I went into town for more supplies and I saw a zombie I was like oh right. So it feels like you can safely get away from zombies with proper planning. But the zombies aren't a joke. If you make a SINGLE mistake then you're pretty much dead. Saw a fancy car I wanted. Didn't check my corners and boom, zombie. I panicked and broke the glass window of the car and got in. Deep wound, glass stuck in there. I had to hotwire it, and drive away from the horde of zombies while doing hand surgery on myself in real-time. This shit was so intense I think I lost a few years off my life from stress. I'll see you guys in heaven at 77. But anyway, you don't know shit about these zombies. You don't know how they work. Sure, you can customize them in sandbox mode but you don't know if they're drawn to corpses of other zombies or if they can smell the blood on your shirt. The game won't tell you, but if you're paranoid or cautious you can get rid of zombie corpses and wash your clothes and self to get rid of the blood. It reminds me of the early days of the walking dead when they didn't know how the bites worked or if the walkers were still conscious and could come back once the whole thing blew over in a week or two. I dunno about you guys but I like not knowing things. This game is just pure awesome.

But there is a flaw. Yeah, it's early access and it's still not done. There's just one aspect I really need from this game and that's the human NPC update. If you check the developer's Twitter updates you can see they are working on it and just like everything else in the game it's insanely detailed and ambitious. But unlike an ambitious promise from a game like no man's sky, I totally trust this team that each NPC will have deep memories of relatives going back to their grandparents and can tell you about the time their stepdad fell into the lake while fishing. These guys. That's the one thing that's missing and the part of a zombie apocalypse that I think is one of the most important. Because if you have nobody with you, then you are just struggling every day to keep living so you can survive tomorrow. I'd honestly get sorta bored just not even being able to chill at all. I like that this game has books and CDs and VHSes so our character can pass the time. But I'm adding that extra half-star when this game gets the NPC update.

started off a bit slow on that first episode, but every following one got better and better. I don't give a darn about borderlands or the universe but they made the story so fun and characters so good that I just had to be interested. Best telltale games romance too. The framing device of two people telling their own side of the story works so well and playing as two characters was so seamless that I'm surprised how badly they screwed it up in walking dead new frontier, but to be fair walking dead new frontier is screwed up in every other way too. One of my fav characters in this game is handsome jack, who I now know was a character in borderlands 2 which I now have to play. Yippee. Eh maybe ill just watch a plot summary and all his cutscenes. I'd cut my balls off with a pillow before I play a bored-erlands game

oh you motherfucker heh heh heh. Okay. Alright. You think you can do this shit... You think you can do this to ME!?!? You motherfuckers would be playing BASKETBALL in PELICAN BAY!!! When I get finished with you!!! shoe program fella!!! 23 hour lockdown! I'm the man up in this piece! you'll never see the light of- who the fuck you think you're fucking with? I'm ELKMANE! I RUN SHIT HERE!! YOU JUST LIVE HERE! yeah that's right you better walk away. Go on, walk away cause Imma burn this motherfucker down. KING KONG?? AINT GOT SHHHHHHIIIIIIIIITTTTT on me. Thats right. Shit I don't give a fuck. I'm winning anyway. I'm winning. I'm winning any motherfucking way I can't lose. Shit you can shoot me....... but you can't kill me.

I have a bit more to say about the game this time around. .. first things first I think the first 2 episodes and the last episode are good. Where the problem in this game lies is episode 3 and 4. They both have the opposite problem ; episode 3 is too rushed and episode 4 is too stretched out. What happens in episode 3 could have been slowed down and maybe taken up half of episode 4. This rushed-ness is kind of a problem in every non season 1 walking dead game but it feels really apparent here. Then it seems like they realized they sped through the meat of their story in one episode so episode 4 was super filler-y. The game is a bit more rushed than s1 yeah cause it seems to have shifted away from having puzzles and thus (I cant believe I just used the word thus I feel like a fucking English professor) it has less moments where everyone slows down and takes a chill pill. Remember that part in the first season at the beginning in the convenience store where everyone was chilling? U got to talk to people, get food and batteries and stuff, and like chill around before the story moves on. Having a chance to talk to these characters in optional conversations, which in the first game were all super well written, can give you a better feel for the characters. Like when you first are there you're like damn I hate Lilly and Larry. That old guy called my bro Kenny a homo. But then you can talk to them and then you're like alright I don't forgive you but we're chill for now. I get where you're coming from and you're a real person that I disagree with instead of a character that exists to raise tension. It's why the side characters of s1 feel much more fleshed out than even some of the main cast of the later seasons. OK walking dead fans. Tell me your favourite Omar quote. Too much? tell me a single personality trait that he has. OVERALL CONSENSUS BEFORE SPOILER PART: Great game still, super dark with some great improvements gameplay wise and a very good cold atmosphere in the later episodes that made me feel cold IRL. Like when I watched the thing. OK let's move on. Spoiler warning ...

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Let's talk about Kenny vs Jane. Jane I honestly thought they did a good job setting up. She was a good character. But did anyone actually pick her over Kenny? no? yeah I thought not. I get it yada yada realism but for a game ending superchoice where you could kill one of two characters it should be a harder decision. Let me put this into perspective. Jane: Crazy, would 100% leave you if you threatened her, wanted AJ to not be born, overall her whole thing is that she survives no matter what and she thinks it's ok to leave a group in their time of need without saying anything because she doesn't wanna help and she's just considering self preservation. VS the guy who's been there since s1 so you got the old friend bias, knows how to be a parent, would kill himself if he let AJ so much as scrape his knee, etc, etc. Plus add onto that the fact that Jane left a baby alone in a cold car? the odds are kinda stacked against her ain't they. But that's partly because of her character. She is just not a suitable guardian because she is a loner. The original plan was to have it be between Kenny and Luke, and that would've been WAY better! I really don't see why that baby ass death had to happen. Honestly feels like Jane and Luke's places were swapped. Jane comes back to help the group, developing her character a bit and then she immediately dies which validifies what she said about going solo being safer. And then Luke, the ridiculously nice dude you've been bonding with who is a total bro, would go up against the guy who you were bros with as lee. It just makes too much sense. Whatever what do I know I'm only Elkmane the most influential and important game reviewer of all time. PEACE OUT.

At least its better than a new frontier. But I didn't think this needed to be a game... cus u see Michonne come back and you can just imagine the cool pirate adventures she went on. Your imagination is cooler than any half assed dlc telltale could make in their rock bottom era. Having this game is kind of a double edged sword (lol). Cus yeah Michonne is cool but no matter what she has to be back in Alexandria on that boat to continue the story so you can't really do much. She wasn't even allowed to have her katana cus Ezekiel was holding onto it in one panel. But on the bright side I like some of the characters, the action sequences r pretty well done and the theme song and animation they got is so cool, just like the final season one. If they remaster the first two seasons all I'd want is for them to get a theme song like this and tfs.