It's always been personality that separates the Resident Evil games I love from those I don't. I fucking love this goofy game. Characters, plot, boss fights, the inclusion of werewolves, gameplay, just about everything appealed to me. Two playthroughs in so far (one first time, one for collectibles), and my only real complaint is I wish that there were more sections where they threw a fuck load of enemies at you. The encounters felt a little too measured at times. Besides that, yeah, I just love it. I'm blown away by how much I like my tiny whiny cockroach man Ethan Winters.

Edit: I completed this on Village of Shadows, the hardest difficulty, for my third playthrough. It was kind of disappointing, exactly the same as the base game but more annoying! I still love the game but VoS mode is so bad compared to RE7's Madhouse difficulty, which remixed the base game in ways that produced genuine challenge, tension, and surprises. All VoS does is make everything a bullet sponge.

This feels like a bit of a step down from the first Revelations, but it's been too long since I've played Rev1 for me to make a firm assessment about that.

I loved the main characters in this. The villain was interesting but not utilized that well. The level design, pretty much all areas, jesus the fucking pacing, were ass. I understood the intention behind having Claire and Barry's campaigns intercut with each other, but the execution and plotting were weak as hell. Would've been better if they'd just been separate.

I like the idea of the developers taking inspiration from Franz Kafka's writing to construct a horror game, but their interpretation was way too swallow and superficial. They could've made this much more surreal and weird.

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