Lena Headey’s performance as Cersei Lannister is spot-on as she delivers condescension and lopsided sneers in plentiful heaps upon the player, breaking down your nerves as you fumble to find the right words to appease her. While the writing in this episode is excellent, the stunning likenesses and high quality voice work provided by the cast of the the television series push the delivery over the edge. Having said that, we hope that subsequent chapters offer a bit more in terms of a gameplay to go with the overall superbly written story. While the formula works, it’s hard not to feel like a specter, or as if you’re playing a story-focused game of the 1983 laserdisc arcade classic Dragon’s Lair at times, and that is disappointing, offering a well-written but somewhat hollow feeling experience at times. Of course, it makes sense for the dialog to take front and center in a Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series, it’s still somewhat disappointing to see that the game follows the trend that Tales from the Borderlands set in regards to a near complete lack of puzzles, or interaction in general outside of the aforementioned QTE events. During your time with Iron From Ice you’ll find yourself having to make some truly harrowing choices while dealing with a handful of the series more menacing figures, such as the cold and calculating Cersei Lannister as she question’s Mira’s allegiance and the murderous and volatile Ramsay Snow, whose unpredictability makes for a truly unnerving verbal chess match during Ethan’s portion of the chapter shines brightly as a truly maniacal antagonist that is sure to make your skin crawl. Of course, being set in the Game of Thrones universe the familiar dialog sequences ante is upped, with the tension being dialed to 11. Unfortunately, there are only two of these QTE events in this debut episode, and both of them are set at the very beginning of this chapter in the story, making the latter portion of Iron From Ice’s roughly 2.5 hour story feel somewhat lopsided. While the majority of the game revolves around making dialog choices, some of which will impact the overall arc of the adventure’s story, you’ll also spend time scouring small locations for clues and details, and in Gared’s opening segment, spend a prolonged opening sequence performing some dramatic maneuvers several QTE’s that capture the brutal nature of the books and HBO television series the game that serves as the game’s inspiration. If you’re familiar with the previous games in Telltale Game’s packed stable of narrative adventure titles you know what to expect from the gameplay of Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series. In this debut episode, players assume the role of three members of house Forrester: Ethan Forrester, the young and inexperienced teenage son of Gregor Forrester who assumes power after his father Gregor is brutally murdered, Mira Forrester, the firstborn daughter who resides in Kings Landing and serves as the handmaiden to Margaery Tyrell, and Gared Tuttle, squire to Gregor who is entrusted with an urgent message before Gregor’s demise. The Forresters, seated in the castle Ironrath, in the wolfswood in the North of Westeros, find themselves in the precarious position of swearing allegiance to Roose Bolton after the bloody outcome of the Red Wedding found him in the position of Warden of the North, or facing utter destruction. Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series- Iron From Ice is set against the backdrop of the War of the Five Kings from A Song of Ice and Fire, an especially grim and turbulent time in the continent of Westeros, where houses fall, kingdoms crumble, and blood flows as freely as the series’ copious sex and wine.ĭuring the game’s planned six chapters, players assume the role of five members of House Forrester, a northern house loyal to the Starks. The wasteland dust has barely settled from developer Teltalle Games’ recent release of Tales from the Borderlands, and the masterful storytellers have already returned to kick off another episodic adventure. Ironclad narrative supports an ice thin adventure
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