You switch control between the aforementioned three as they do different things in the story: anxious pacifist scientist Anu, her (heavy air-quotes) street-smart adoptive brother Octavio, and bloodthirsty fro-yo shop owner Fran. It’s up to the team to save the world from the terrors of a megacorporation that’s absolutely not meant to be Hyperion and safely secure a healing crystal. They’ve got a robot pal named LOU13, who definitely isn’t Gortys. Your primary three characters: Octavia, his scientist sister Anu and Fran, who loves her some blood. To compare it to the original is inevitable, but to look at it from its own merits, there are moments that remind you that this is supposed to be set in the same universe as its predecessor. You’ll play as different characters over the course of this long, long experience (it’s not that long, it just feels it) and you’ll barely learn a thing about any of them as the heart has been fully removed by Skags and thrown into the nearest loot box. If you’re so inclined, New Tales from the Borderlands treads familiar territory, but this time with a brand new set of characters that can’t hold a candle to the chemistry of what came before it. They clearly have no idea where to take this franchise next, throwing everything at the wall and trying out everything that stuck. The original is the best Borderlands game ever made. New Tales feels, acts and plays like a cash-in for a company running out of ideas for their global franchise and looking to resurrect their greatest spin-off. Whilst TellTale Games themselves got enormous (so enormous they ran completely out of money and had to close in 2018) with ‘TellTale’ versions of Game of Thrones, Minecraft, Marvel, DC and much more, Tales from the Borderlands was a genuinely fantastically executed seven and a bit hours of pure joy. There are a majority of endings and your choices for the characters will ultimately allow you to see how your choices played out, and how they compare to other players around the world. If you’re new to the series – and for love of God do not start with this one – Tales from the Borderlands is a narrative-driven interactive adventure, its gameplay the famous TellTale way offering a variety of light and often very heavy decisions to get your characters over the line. Annoyingly though, not the correct ones, it would seem. That this isn’t being made by the original creators was the first red flag, but I gave Gearbox the benefit of the doubt purely because they had recruited some former TellTale folk to see this one through. Yes, in my heart New Tales was always going to be up against it. Unfortunately, New Tales from the Borderlands is a misguided, one could argue even ‘bad’ follow up to one of the most enjoyable game narratives in history.Īnd that’s me being kind. They’re all wrong, it’s Tales from the Borderlands and that a sequel was coming made me giddier than a tiny happy robot voiced by Ashley Johnson. Some say it’s the second series of Batman, some idiots even proclaim Guardians of the Galaxy is the greatest achievement. Some say The Walking Dead is the best series in the glorious TellTale canon. The story of a gang of ragtag idiots doing whatever it takes to survive in the brutal lands of Pandora stands up to any scrutiny you can imagine. TellTale’s Tales from the Borderlands is perhaps their magnum opus. Unlike its predecessor, New Tales from the Borderlands can't hold a candle to its legacy.
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