The planet Pandora is a miserable hellhole except for mythical Vaults full of alien loot, the promise of which attract loony mercenaries who call themselves Vault Hunters but who mostly just aimlessly trash the place until four of them prove that Vaults really exist by locating one (it turns out to be guarded by a tentacle-monster, but eleven million bullets later the alien loot is theirs) this inadvertently draws attention from the evil Hyperion Corporation, which arrives with a space station to exploit Pandora’s resources and loot-Vaults, at which point a dude named Jack seizes control of the company and gets his face burned off, ruining his good looks but allowing him to adopt the ironic nickname Handsome Jack, after which time a new set of Vault Hunters go looking for (you guessed it) another Vault while simultaneously fighting for freedom and all that shit, but mostly just wrecking more of the planet, and then Handsome Jack turns into a tentacle-monster and dies, which leaves the Hyperion Corporation leaderless but still there with a great big space station full of employees who are much-hated but hey, everybody needs a job.
But I was once accused of “ruining” Man of Steel because I mentioned there were fights between super-beings from the planet Krypton in the film, so if you like to go in completely blind, take heed.īorderlands in One Extremely Long But Grammatically Correct Sentence There’s no “Snape kills Dumbledore” here. Things might seem like spoilers, but I’m pretty confident they’re not. Speaking of story, be aware that while I describe some specific plot and gameplay stuff in this review, I make an effort to do so without any context. Borderlands virgins will have a good time, but this game is a cornucopia of inside jokes, character cameos, and backstory references that only aficionados will fully appreciate. It’s also clear that Tales from the Borderlands is part of the official canon, since it closes assorted plot holes and puzzle-pieces right into the narrative more or less where Borderlands 2 left off. It assumes you have at least some knowledge of the story so far, which was three games and nine big expansions even before TellTale got involved. The Walking Dead’s impact was such that TellTale became the go-to company for work along these lines, creating games based on a variety of licensed properties including Gearbox’s zany shooter Borderlands.įarce comedy requires very little plot foundation, meaning anybody will be able to enjoy this game in a general sort of way they probably even call Tales from the Borderlands a standalone narrative, but newcomers will be lost for a while. The sense that every choice truly contributed to the long-term ripple lent great, often tragic gravity to the experience. Your trajectory through the game was determined by subtle dialogue options and the sum of hundreds of branching decision points, some innocuous (offering an apple to one person versus another), others momentous (leaving someone to die). AJ explains how every choice in The Walking Dead: Season One had such weight. TellTale Games has been around for a while but really got noticed thanks to 2012’s The Walking Dead. Yes, like this! Falling down, hurting self. But however much the last episode put me off – a lot, it put me off a lot – Tales from the Borderlands was only really depressing because it was over. It’s true that Tales from the Borderlands comes super-close to completely wrecking itself on account of an abrupt, unsuitable, ill-conceived ending incongruous enough to cast a pall over the entire first season. But short of starting over and making different decisions, which seemed excessive less than 24 hours later, there wasn’t anything to be done about that. I wanted to laugh at people falling down and hurting themselves and reciting witty dialogue about the same. The next day I was sad, because I wanted to play more and it was over.Īfter a long evening giggling at the screen, I wasn’t in the mood to return to the parade of bummers I’ve been working through. Nine hours and $15 later I’d finished the entire five-episode run of TellTale’s shooter-inspired adventure (I really, really had nothing to do that day).
The first episode of Tales from the Borderlands was a PS+ freebie in December, and since I had nothing to do a couple Saturdays ago I started it up to have a look around. But however much the last episode put me off, it was only really depressing because it was over. …Tales from the Borderlands comes super-close to completely wrecking itself on account of an abrupt, unsuitable, ill-conceived ending incongruous enough to cast a pall over the entire first season.
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