If Season 1 was a story about a good man seeking redemption for doing a bad thing, Season 2 is about a girl growing into a woman such a brutal, visceral way you can't help but believe it.

While it didn't quite reach the highs of Season 1, this game did just as masterful a job of tearing at my heartstrings. There is something so poetic and indescribable about how Clementine is simultaneously becoming her own person while every so often, you see Lee in her. Lee and Clementine are two of the best video game characters ever, full stop. The ending of this was inevitable; it was built up over and over and I think it was executed flawlessly.

I have some issues with the narrative decisions during the epilogue, but the last major deicison on the playground was perfect. Although I immediately knew what I had to do, I couldn't make my thumb physically hit the button. I hated it but I pushed through it, and felt sweeping relief and sadness. Clem's flashback reminded me how damn good the first game is, as well, and I dropped a good few tears on the way. I think the supporting characters may have actually been more interesting than in Season 1, but here and there parts of the script felt shaky with them adding and losing new characters so frequently. Still though, you MUST play this if you played Season 1.