the walking dead season two episode 4 amid the ruins

The walking dead season two episode 4 amid the ruins series#

Call that a spoiler, but I call that legitimate criticism that players definitely need to know about. And even if I did, they all were going to die anyway.

There’s more death than I can remember in this episode, but I really didn’t care about any of the people that died. This is where the episode really suffers. She’s been questionable since first meeting Clementine, and now she’s buddy-buddy with her? The connection doesn’t make a lot of sense.

But does all that really matter? Everybody left in the group is broken, and the people interacting with Clementine the most are people that the player might not even care about. The problem is the group doesn’t trust her, and you as the player should also question as to whether Clementine should trust her too.

Call it what you want, but there’s a sense of bonding here that really hasn’t been shown since Lee was still alive. She teaches Clementine various techniques for taking out walkers that players can begin to spam throughout the episode. We see Clementine start to establish a connection to her, one that’s sort of sister-like. We didn’t know much about her, other than the fact that she uses walker innards as camouflage when walking through hoards. The last episode showed us Jane, a self-thriving strong-minded individual who’s pretty much now the Michonne (of The Walking Dead television series) of the group. Now he’s sort of become as immature as his brother. But when things started happening to the group, his importance started to fade. The first episode introduced players to Luke, a young level-headed leader that Clementine could call a friend. There was even a meaningless sequence of Clementine chasing a raccoon that seemed like it was just there for a forced laugh. Nothing really happened, and that’s just been the motto of this episode’s story. I knew that was a possibility, and as somebody that didn’t really care for Bonnie, I did it anyway. Tired of always doing that kind of work, I ask if Bonnie can just reach through the window to unlock it, only to have her attacked by walker. Clementine then comes across huge jugs of water behind a locked door, then Bonnie asks if Clementine can crawl through to grab them. One sequence of the game features Clementine helping Mike and Bonnie, new group members gathered from the last episode (with Bonnie coming from 400 Days), scavenge from a civil war museum.

The walking dead season two episode 4 amid the ruins series#

Quite a few of the characters Clementine has met over the course of the last three episodes have lost all sorts of relevance, and that makes it hard to really see where the series is actually going. But because she’s with a new group that has gone through more changes than the original one we saw fall apart in Season 1, it’s hard to really care. Why Should I Care?Ĭlementine has seen her fair share of loss, some hitting harder than others, and in this episode, she experiences more loss than ever. Up until now, Telltale has done a fantastic job giving players the illusion that they do indeed have control of where the story can go, but I felt like this episode robbed players of whatever power they thought they had. Sometimes no matter what decision you make, it’ll end in the same result. Yes, your decisions can matter, but that won’t always be the case. It’s no secret that the entire story is scripted. In the previous episode, players were given a choice to react in an instance during an attempt to sneak away from a large zombie horde and in a sort of expected turn, the choice never actually mattered. Without giving away any major details, Amid the Ruins picks up immediately where In Harm’s Way left off giving the player literally no time to breathe when beginning the episode. Unfortunately, because of that, the latest episode makes for a tough comparison. Episode 3 of The Walking Dead – Season 2 was easily one of the most entertaining and intense episodes in Telltale’s critically acclaimed point-and-click series.