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anyone played this? was a big fan of the first few seasons of the show and remember when this released, just never tried it out. would appreciate any reviews

Here's a 2025 review of the first season looking at it from a modern lens. This is an interactive game which is mostly driven by QTE's and interacting with small environments to point and click through simple "puzzles" like finding a saw in a shed and using it to cut an obstacle. The puzzle gameplay is like those old point and click games but smaller scale and not multistep, so it's just simple and slow but still a bit obtuse; way behind modern interactive games like Detroit Become Human or even Telltale's later Batman games. The rest of gameplay is picking 1 of 4 dialogue options/choices for some small deviations in story and some different dialogue. There's really only 1 choice in this game early on that kind of makes a difference for whose in your group, the rest of the choices don't matter. I personally liked the dialogue option structure but felt the puzzle gameplay was terrible. Running up and down a stopped train for an hour doing little simple chores to get it running is just boring to me.
Graphics aged terribly. The backgrounds are poorly made and simple, the environments feel terrible to move around running into invisible walls around objects and with point and click terrible fixed camera angles as you navigate through a home for instance, the interactable environment is super simple with most objects just being able to be "looked at" with a line of throwaway dialogue. The faces on characters like Clementine just look deformed at some points making the story seem more amateurish if that makes sense.
The story is good but paced more like a TV series rather than a movie. So lots of down time and boring dialogue between some interesting story moments. I've never been obsessed with the zombie craze or the Walking Dead, but you might like the story more if that's your thing. It's a small group running around trying to survive during a zombie apocalypse. There are definitely some interesting bits like bonding with a girl in your care, friends and foes dying, etc but it's honestly a little overhyped for modern standards when games have advanced so much. The relationships are a little too on the nose and some characters just are boring/too one note for me. The ending is probably the most impactful part of the game but there's a lot of fluff people forgot about in order to get there. I'd give it a 7.5/10. I see the promise that the game has, but I tend to evaluate a game's entire runtime rather than just focusing on the highs like the ending. So lots of people with fond memories of the high points probably would rate it higher. If the game was remade fixing the gameplay aspect, making choices matter more with many branching paths, and cleaned up the engine and graphics the game would be incredible.

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