Depending on how the player chooses to react to circumstances, Clementine can stick to Lee’s guidance from season one or go somewhat off the rails and wind up closer to Carver’s way of thinking.Ĭlementine’s character is a fantastic achievement all round, and the decision to make her the fulcrum of the season turned out to be completely justified. The same group (or what remains of it) who dumped her in a shed in Episode One consider her an equal voice in discussions by Episodes Four and Five. Her naivety with firearms in the very first episode winds up getting Omid killed, but by the conclusion of Episode Five she’s proficient at killing walkers in all manner of ways and competently wields a pistol of her own. Voted most competent party member of 2014 in a landslide. Given excellent voice by the returning Melissa Hutchison, Clem turned out to be a capable (perhaps a little too capable at times,) witty and intelligent protagonist. In the end, a playable Clementine turned out to be the strongest and most consistent part of the season. Though I admired the boldness of the decision, I was slightly concerned about how Telltale was going to handle having a young girl as the lead role in their bleak zombie apocalypse narrative.

Right: Making Clementine the player character. Here are the aspects, both right and wrong, that I feel defined the Walking Dead’s second season. The season as a whole has often felt as if it were still trying to find its feet after the departure of lead writer Sean Vanaman and co-lead developer Jake Rodkin, but has also managed to surprise me with moments that indicated The Walking Dead could still be in good hands. None of my scores for individual episodes have crested the seven mark (not that seven is even approaching a bad score here at IncGamers,) but nor have they fallen lower than a six.

Season two has been a somewhat uneven ride.

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