The Walking Dead: A New Frontier Review (angel)
Don't even know where to start with this game, all I know is I'm glad I got it on sale & it didn't need to be part of the series.
Somehow, this happens to be the first Walking Dead game that I review just because I needed to get my thoughts out about it asap- how did we come from the masterpiece which is the first game- to the equally good second game- to this absolute mess? The first and second seasons have continuing, enjoyable storylines of which you are immersed in and want to see what happens next- and actually care about all, if not most characters that come into them. This, however, I hated every single one of the newly introduced characters(Except Jesus.)
Kate was one of the most dislikeable characters I've come across in video games thus far, and to be fair, she isn't THAT bad, but damn... As soon as she is introduced we see that even though we are in a zombie apocalypse, all she cares about is smoking with kids in the car, talking about bullshit in front of them and cheating on her husband. True, her husband isn't the greatest and sure she doesn't love him but it doesn't give her the right to cheat on him with his BROTHER and with her kids having to endure that. Worst of all, majority of players chose to feed into this and romance her. What the fuck?...
Javier wasn't too bad of a character, though he could be dumb and a lot of our choice options cause him to be two-faced, he isn't that bad... But the question still comes, who cares about him? We went from amazing characters like Lee & Kenny to this... Don't talk to me about the haircut he gave Clementine at the end.
I also didn't like Gabe, he was a bratty kid who constantly tried to prove himself to everyone and crushes on Clementine for some reason..., calm down, no one cares, this is a zombie apocalypse. Somehow, David spoke more sense than most of the characters at SOME points, and even though we're meant to dislike him, I ended up siding with him just because I hated everyone else, yet somehow he just goes against us anyway.
Jesus, Tripp and Ava were the most likeable new characters in this game, and it's a shame that they had to be wasted in this game, especially Jesus.
My other issue was that in the last game, I left Kenny and took AJ to Wellington. This game doesn't even continue from that and apparently we get flashbacks of some things from then, but that's into the game more and it's dumb that it didn't start off with that- hell, I didn't even know those scenes were meant to be in Wellington- I thought Prescott was Wellington. Wtf?...
I just personally didn't enjoy this game nor its characters, even Clementine was a bit out of character- she was more reserved & a little more careless in this game compared to the last. I couldn't wait to finish it(which sucks, because the previous two I didn't want to finish.), but luckily it was the shortest at only around 9 hours. Uninstalled immediately and never going back- if I ever replay the series I'm skipping this one- don't worry, AJ is barely in it so you won't miss anything between him & Clem. Not surprised Telltale went bankrupt after playing this one.
4.5-5/10