The Walking Dead: Season Two

Let me just get this out of the way: No, this is nowhere near as good as the first season as a whole. In the end, it's still worth going through in my opinion, though there are some definite issues (and no, the illusion of choice is not one of them. Yes, Telltale's insistence that choices truly matter is annoying but if that seriously ruins everything else... I dunno, I don't get it).

And to be honest, it's apparent that it will have issues during the first five minutes. There's this thing going around mainstream pop culture called GameofThronesitis, whose sole symptom is people thinking that killing off characters at the drop of a hat is inherently good writing. Not to say that killing off characters shouldn't be a part of this whatsoever, but the game opens up with Omid getting shot by some random stranger that we never see again for the sake of Clementine suffering. Come the fuck on. A good deal of the other deaths in this at least have some weight behind them, but this just felt forced as hell (and Christa getting separated almost immediately afterwards doesn't help).