Consequences come no matter what decision you make. One had Toad, who called to say he was in trouble the other place had hot evidence regarding the murder. For instance, I had to decide between two different places to visit. It allows you to really consider the decision you're about to make and weigh the positives and negatives. Telltale places important emphasis on these, even stopping the action completely and letting you think before you make your choice. Telltale takes consequences a step beyond its efforts with The Walking Dead by forcing you decide between equally important crises. The choices don't just extend to dialogue. How do you convince people to trust you when at one point you tried to eat them? Do you give up and use force, or try to show these Fables a softer side of Bigby? That's a decision that Telltale allows you to make throughout. He has plenty of swagger, but he also faces an interesting problem: trying to prove he's past his big bad ways. For a lead character, Bigby is as great as they come. But when he later found out about her death he showed significant emotion, even toward Bigby, their long feud notwithstanding.įable's biggest lure is controlling Bigby.

I watched the Woodsman fight with the murder victim right before her death, calling her every vulgar name in the book. Characters got under my skin so much that I thought they could never redeem themselves, but then a new insight would surface and I'd second-guess why I hated them in the first place. The tale isn't happy, but it is intriguing due to its multi-dimensional, outrageous personalities. The two have blazing chemistry, to say the least. the Big Bad Wolf), you must solve the case with the strong-willed Snow (White) along for the ride. Plenty of merciless fights, foul language, and unfortunate circumstances unfold in the first episode when a fellow Fable turns up brutally murdered. The dark interpretations of these fairy tales are gripping and Telltale never forgets that hook.

Expect alcohol-indulging flying monkeys and former heroes fallen from grace.

In Fabletown, a secret community in New York where famed characters conceal their true identities with magic, nothing is as it seems and everyone has something to hide. Faith, the debut episode of Telltale's The Wolf Among Us, has a primary theme running through it: 'Expect the unexpected.' That's appropriate considering that Bill Willingham's Fables - the world on which The Wolf Among Us is based - is all about taking everything you think you know about fairy tales and twisting it.

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