Pick it up and join in for the bumpiest ride of your life.Thankfully, those unfamiliar with the Borderlands series' fiction need little background to grasp Tales' central premise: with overpowered weapons/robotics manufacturer Hyperion fueling the search for Vaults on the planet Pandora at the expense (and safety) of those residing in its ramshackle communities, players take control of two different protagonists Rhys, a Hyperion employee out to hurt a corporate rival, and Fiona, a grifter from the surface looking to lie, cheat and steal just to survive. I’m excited for the next episode but the technical issues left a slightly bitter taste to the experience. It’s a fantastic way to kick off the new adventure which managed to pace itself brilliantly from the standard chit chat to the high octane action (that really gets the adrenaline going while the blood is flowing). Then the further I got through the roughly two hour long story the character’s mouths stopped moving and bodies would glitch out so things like arms would be stuck inside an item. At first it was getting stuck to the point where I’d have to quit and reload. Telltale have only got themselves to blame too because just like in my playthrough attempts of The Walking Dead game, there’s technical issues. So far this sounds as if I have some sort of positivity complex, where episode one can do no wrong and I’d love to agree but here comes the gloom. Voiced by Patrick Warburton (Family Guy, The Venture Bros.), he gives off an immediate feel of being really arrogant and pompous, basically everything you’d expect those higher up at Hyperion to be. There isn’t a single one I didn’t at least like the way they’ve been designed or casted however there was one who deserves a special mention and that is Vasquez. At all the right times too.Īnyone who loved the quirky and intriguing characters seen in the Gearbox games won’t be disappointed as each one, even the slightly useless sidekick Vaughn, has a distinctive look or sound that makes them unforgettable.
One thing is for sure, you’ll get strange looks when you’re sat playing and chuckling to yourself with the humour in the script, whether spoken or read it’s a bloody funny game. Not the most exciting side of Borderlands but interesting nonetheless. There is also an element of searching and looking around a few small areas, where those with a keen eye (like Rhys, he’s got an ECHO eye) will learn some funny facts about various beings and items. And although it can just be a simple swipe of the analog stick, you feel pretty darn great when your influence pays off and something super sweet happens. These arise at the most frantic moments in the world of Pandora, where the madness is cranked up, with your life and those of your friends being in real danger… which is just a normal day for most of the deranged maniacs hanging around. It means you have to pay close attention for fear of tripping yourself up, especially if you’ve told a porky pie, otherwise there could be trouble.Ĭhoosing what to say is nowhere near the more pressurised situation where the QTEs are concerned though.
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One of these interactions is the conversational choices what was most rewarding was taking in what other characters had said and then remembering and using this to help you decide how to answer or respond.
Given that it’s a story that is shaped by your decisions you have to think fast on your feet at all times with just a limited time to initiate any interaction that is needed.
Without spoiling anything I must say it was a highly engaging episode in more ways than one. The rest is history… or will be once you’ve heard their story. Set after the events witnessed in the Borderlands 2 video game, these two opposites get thrown together by pure chance. On the flipside is the more rogue-like Fiona, she scavenges and cons people for all she can with her little team of hustlers in order to survive on Pandora. Rhys is the company man who works his butt off to climb the ranks at Hyperion to reach the very top it is never that simple though and he’s about to find that out.