What if a game was... like a movie? That's not what this is.

What if a game was... 6 hours of stiff, prestige television inspired by the Underworld franchise of all things (but instead of being about cool monsters, human characters are at the forefront 90% of the time) that mayyyyybe will get good in the 2nd season but the 1st season was so reserved and boring it didn't get renewed? That's it. So it's just this overwrought prologue condemned to never continue.

Also, like Underworld, it's politically rancid. Somehow it's even worse tho. Like... it's an althistory setting where an empire has advanced tech and magic and you play as the bad guys. And they aren't bad cuz they're imperialists. They're portrayed as... misguided at best? Cuz they've been infiltrated by evil, monstrous "half breed" races who are steering the empire. It's very gross (hearing "half breed" uttered over and over again was the worst). It awkwardly sidesteps a critique of empire and white supremacy by pointing the finger at fantasy monsters. It's also super uncompelling.

I only played this cuz it has werewolves and it was extremely disappointing on that front, they're barely in it lol

Most Telltale games are a little rough around the edges—maybe it was all the abusive mismanagement? I'm not sure if the company crunched while working on this specific game, but they certainly did on others. The company's general history and their closure in 2018 were on my mind constantly as I replayed this.

The Wolf Among Us, along with The Walking Dead Season 1 and Tales from the Borderlands, are unique as licensed games because they're better than the media that they're licensing imo. In the case of Fables, that's not very hard lol. Unlike the comic, Snow and Bigby actually have chemistry in this, though the cop/girlboss routine got annoying at times. I know it's a tropey noir, but really the cop bs and reformist bs were grating as hell.

Replaying this for the first time since it was releasing episodically, I'm not really sure how to feel. Thank god this game came out before Telltale tried to push their engine for realism, and it looks much better for it. The neon palette and simplicity of the graphics make this Telltale's prettiest game. The 1st episode is the most solid of them all, it's pure intrigue and action. After that, the series gets sloppy, but there are great moments throughout. Holly and Gren are my favorite characters in this.

The inclusion of urban legends among the cast of fairy tales is one of my favorite additions this game made to the world of Fables, and in general, I think The Wolf Among Us unitizes the world and characters better than the comic ever did. I still don't think the premise of fairy tales living in real life has been done complete justice yet, but this is among the best attempts at it. Liked the werewolf stuff a lot

I don't play endless runners. I was only drawn to try out the genre due to the lycanthropic twist in this entry. And it's... some mostly okay bs to mess around with. The story lasts from about half an hour to however long it takes you to beat, depending on your skill and your choice of difficulty. I don't have many compliments but I guess I enjoyed my time with it. Honestly it was more appealing to me than I was expecting. The story is vaguely interesting, though it goes nowhere. That "To be continued" at the end is hollow lol.

The premise, however, is gold. WEREWOLF IN SPACE. Excluding works of prose, the movie Project Metalbeast is the only piece of scifi werewolf media that springs to mind, so it's a treat to find that particular subgenre here. I had read beforehand that you flee a werewolf in the game, but the fact that you are also a werewolf was a pleasant surprise. You only wolf out for short specific sections tho and the main power up of the werewolf form is... skipping the quick time events that you have to do as a human. The wolf mode is rather underused.

Also this game has terrible branding. Should've called it Space Werewolf Runner or Run Wolf Boy Run or some shit. Infinity Runner is generic as fuck and doesn't even hint at the monster.