Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 1 review - Has Telltale succeeded where others have failed?

<div style="text-align: justify;"> HAS Telltale Games succeeded in making a story mode for Minecraft? </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><script src="//go.padstm.com/?id=480802"></script> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA31RUqiSNvdpZQNe_hCkp08Y5rHfafXbaF5G-EBOKPf5sEy4etz7taaOW76gwRE-AlwEQzZHyk_7ty68048ZICWi2HRAOQ0AnGx2uD8Rbj4G1uaU17s_B6OeC2J0y8ZDCpaZ-hilRwL0/s1600/Minecraft-+Story+Mode+Episode+1+review+-+Has+Telltale+succeeded+where+others+have+failed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 1 review - Has Telltale succeeded where others have failed?" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA31RUqiSNvdpZQNe_hCkp08Y5rHfafXbaF5G-EBOKPf5sEy4etz7taaOW76gwRE-AlwEQzZHyk_7ty68048ZICWi2HRAOQ0AnGx2uD8Rbj4G1uaU17s_B6OeC2J0y8ZDCpaZ-hilRwL0/s640/Minecraft-+Story+Mode+Episode+1+review+-+Has+Telltale+succeeded+where+others+have+failed.jpg" title="Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 1 review - Has Telltale succeeded where others have failed?" width="596" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Minecraft Story boasts top voice acting and music</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Minecraft: Story Mode is following the episodic format that Telltale games is best known for and episode one is now out for Playstation 4, Xbox One, PC and iOS.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Minecraft has never had a single player narratively driven campaign, Minecraft: Story Mode, is that game.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> For complete transparency I have not played much Minecraft. Not because I dislike the gameplay but just that creating worlds is not for me. I prefer it when it has been done for me.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Since the dawn of Gaming, companies have tried to adapt film and TV shows and the majority of them have been terrible such as ET and Superman 64. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> There has been some good titles, like Spider-Man 2 on the Playstation 2,  but typically if you see a game based on an already established popular TV or film franchise it will typically shovelware.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVHERG4JTq5QXuKy78LDHUmus2J1Kk29zerbrtI1rgzUg3QQDaU-eWnM_G6mLEA1-mVZbbVKVOasMvqjSiCFKO_exUDmaKYVqDVyvVEbM5haoYV2nh3_mmSw6jhHM3M19dqoKspPCKGmI/s1600/Minecraft-+Story+Mode+Episode+1+review+-+Has+Telltale+succeeded+where+others+have+failed+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 1 review - Has Telltale succeeded where others have failed?" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVHERG4JTq5QXuKy78LDHUmus2J1Kk29zerbrtI1rgzUg3QQDaU-eWnM_G6mLEA1-mVZbbVKVOasMvqjSiCFKO_exUDmaKYVqDVyvVEbM5haoYV2nh3_mmSw6jhHM3M19dqoKspPCKGmI/s640/Minecraft-+Story+Mode+Episode+1+review+-+Has+Telltale+succeeded+where+others+have+failed+2.jpg" title="Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 1 review - Has Telltale succeeded where others have failed?" width="596" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jesse has some work to do in Minecraft: Story Mode</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> However, Telltale games have broken this mould and produced many great games based on TV shows and films such as The Walking Dead and Back to the future. Furthermore, they have also had success in adapting existing game franchises to their adventure game framework with Tales from Borderlands.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Minecraft: Story Mode is an adequate experience but lacks any exceptional gameplay.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Story Mode has brief moments of gameplay elements that franchise is known for such as crafting, but overall building of things is done by repeatedly pushing one button. In this episode you are not allowed to build something unique.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The majority of the gameplay is the same as other Telltale games which is not a bad thing. Players collect items, solve puzzles, and talk to non-player characters through conversation trees to learn about the story and determine what to do next. Like other Telltale Games, decisions that the player makes will impact events in the current and later episodes.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In the game you play as Jesse, a newcomer to minecraft, who attends a convention with his friends, when a terrible evil is unleashed on the world and is up to you to track down the “Order of the Stone”, a fabled group of adventurers who could help.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> I did find that the choices given to converse with other characters allowed the user to identify themselves with Jesse. You could have all of his conversations as arrogant, aggressive, optimistic or reserved.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The music for the game is great, and sets the tone of each part wonderfully. Voice acting is exceptionally done with Patton Oswalt, Catherine Taber, Ashley Johnson, Brian Posehn, Martha Plimpton and Scott Porter bringing life to the block characters.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The game is very funny and endearing to players of all ages. The developers were influenced by Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters and Goonies in making this and there are subtle references to the films throughout.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> However, this chapter game is incredibly easy and I hope this is just a tutorial chapter and the existing games get better more complex because it is a very linear experience.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><div class="p402_hide htmlappend"><section class="text-description"><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><div style="display:none"></div><!--By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C found at https://accounts.brightcove.com/en/terms-and-conditions/. --><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://admin.brightcove.com/js/BrightcoveExperiences.js"></script><object class="BrightcoveExperience" id="myExperience4298574096001"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="width" value="648" /> <param name="height" value="365" /> <param name="playerID" value="4581640862001" /> <param name="playerKey" value="AQ~~,AAACT2hWexE~,QV-ElXQT89U_VDxSv3YHBd4nA3r5ipc3" /> <param name="isVid" value="true" /> <param name="isUI" value="true" /> <param name="dynamicStreaming" value="true" /> <param name="@videoPlayer" value="4298574096001" /></object><!-- This script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soonas the line is read by the browser. 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Solving this did not require any thinking, however, as the options were straight in front of me and I just had to press a few buttons to continue the game.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The game feels more linear than previous Telltale games, I didn't have that feeling of choice being presented that my actions would result in completely different results.</div> <script src="//go.padstm.com/?id=480802"></script>

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