The Wolf Among Us
YOU GUYS. You guys. Holy shit. You need to hear about Chapter 3. It's amazing.
OKAY, so, The Wolf Among Us. About Fables and stuff, right. Two people are dead, and Ichabod Crane is a creep and a half, and you are PISSED. But first you need to talk to Snow White, because she might be in danger, and she's at a troll funeral, because why wouldn't she be? Who ISN'T at a troll funeral? I try to be as peaceful as possible, talk to Lawrence for a bit, before Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum decide that I need to be threatened, so that's great. Eventually shit goes sideways, as the attendants of the funeral do not like being interrupted by bullshit, and also they are monsters, so there's a huge fight and everyone gets shot with a shotgun. Things have a tendency not to go well, and as openings go, that's a pretty goddamn good one.
You hurt your shoulder, but everyone's fine, so it's back to the Business office, only to find that Crane broke the magic mirror so we can't find him. Bluebeard is walking around being a real jackass, mentioning that his ill-gotten pirate booty FUNDS this ridiculous operation (what a jackass), but the important part is to find Crane, so after a bunch of back and forth, you are on the hunt, while Bluebeard is also on the hunt, because he sucks.
I go to the Tweedles office, where some Scooby-Doo reject named Flycatcher is the janitor and just kinda lets you rifle through the Tweedles' stuff. They are weird, but also they hold and deliver illegal goods, which gives you the first clue you need to find Crane, someone named Aunty Greenleaf. You head over to the Trip Trap to bother the shit out of Grendel again, because what is an episode of this game without getting into his business and ruining his fucking day. Turns out Grendel is HIGH AS FUCK, and also the Woodsman is there. Turns out the Woodsman was sleeping with the dead troll, and everyone hates him! You eventually convince everyone to calm down and go to bed*, and you find a book of addresses, which lead you to the home of Aunty Greenleaf, 15 minutes late.
You go to Aunty Greenleaf's apartment, and met a young tot, who lets you in and lets you poke around, only for you to eventually realize it was Aunty Greenleaf glamoured, trying to trick you. It was not the greatest plan. This is where Snow White goes CRAZY and decides that you should get all vigilante and burn down the magical Ygdrassil tree that Aunty Greenleaf has, because she's feeling super vindictive for some reason, but I eventually say "Woah, Woah, what the fuck, lady?" and we leave without destroying what is surely a priceless artifact from the Old World. I frankly didn't get this part at all; it seemed to be thrown in only to add an an huge choice point with far-arching implications that we won't know for two episodes. Or maybe it doesn't matter at all, who knows?
But you get the info you need, Crane is at the Pudding and Pie, so you get there, knock some folks around, and find him, trying to rough up a lady and get some info out of her.** It's blatantly clear he isn't the murderer at this point, but they force you into a very specific path to just bring him in for being a creep instead, because I guess Bigby is stupid? Anyway, he is arrested, and you leave the strip club, only for things to get off the goddamn chain.
A couple of cars trap Bigby, Snow White, and Crane in an alley, and the Tweedles walk out with shotguns and start threatening, and then the new best character shows up, the bad guy's Dragon, Bloody Mary, who is SO COOL and SO INTIMIDATING and so well-designed and I loved her immediately. I wanted her to succeed, even though she was the bad guy! Bloody Mary for President. Anyway, Bloody Mary grows sick your bullshit almost instantly (same here, Mary), and tells the Tweedles to just murder the fuck out of Bigby, only for Bigby to WOLF THE FUCK OUT. Bigby goes full bore and slashes the SHIT out the Tweedles, even going so far as to murder Tweedle Dum (I told him to do that), only to get shot by a silver bullet and almost decapitated by Bloody Mary before Snow just...caves and gives Crane over to the villain, who I guess is the Crooked Man? It is a phenomenal middle act in a video game and it was just so awesome. I loved it a lot, and while I know I've ruined A TON of this, you should really really play this game because it's pretty great. I am this close of buying the Game of Thrones game by Telltale just because I am reminded how well these guys do this.
BUT YEAH, The Wolf Among Us. Supergreat.
*One of the features of The Wolf Among Us is that a little tooltip will pop up whenever something "important" happens, usually in the form of "The Woodsman will remember this" or what not. During this scene, during which Grendel is high (as fuck), he eventually passes out while you are talking to him, and a tooltip pops up that says "Grendel won't remember this." That's...pretty goddamn funny. I love when there are jokes in the interface.
** The main thing that Crane has been up to is trying to get ahold of a ring that will break magic spells so he can get the prostitutes to talk (they are enchanted to never reveal info), and while he does find it, it doesn't work, hasn't for decades. You catch him in the middle of trying to break the spell, and slam him against the wall because fuck that guy, but in a last ditch effort to cover his ass, he continues to try to use the Dispel ring. And he does this by...thrusting the ring at a prostitute like he's the goddamn Green Lantern. The scene shouldn't be funny, but it was a laugh riot. I was almost expect him to start shouting "Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt!"
YOU GUYS. You guys. Holy shit. You need to hear about Chapter 3. It's amazing.
OKAY, so, The Wolf Among Us. About Fables and stuff, right. Two people are dead, and Ichabod Crane is a creep and a half, and you are PISSED. But first you need to talk to Snow White, because she might be in danger, and she's at a troll funeral, because why wouldn't she be? Who ISN'T at a troll funeral? I try to be as peaceful as possible, talk to Lawrence for a bit, before Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum decide that I need to be threatened, so that's great. Eventually shit goes sideways, as the attendants of the funeral do not like being interrupted by bullshit, and also they are monsters, so there's a huge fight and everyone gets shot with a shotgun. Things have a tendency not to go well, and as openings go, that's a pretty goddamn good one.
You hurt your shoulder, but everyone's fine, so it's back to the Business office, only to find that Crane broke the magic mirror so we can't find him. Bluebeard is walking around being a real jackass, mentioning that his ill-gotten pirate booty FUNDS this ridiculous operation (what a jackass), but the important part is to find Crane, so after a bunch of back and forth, you are on the hunt, while Bluebeard is also on the hunt, because he sucks.
I go to the Tweedles office, where some Scooby-Doo reject named Flycatcher is the janitor and just kinda lets you rifle through the Tweedles' stuff. They are weird, but also they hold and deliver illegal goods, which gives you the first clue you need to find Crane, someone named Aunty Greenleaf. You head over to the Trip Trap to bother the shit out of Grendel again, because what is an episode of this game without getting into his business and ruining his fucking day. Turns out Grendel is HIGH AS FUCK, and also the Woodsman is there. Turns out the Woodsman was sleeping with the dead troll, and everyone hates him! You eventually convince everyone to calm down and go to bed*, and you find a book of addresses, which lead you to the home of Aunty Greenleaf, 15 minutes late.
You go to Aunty Greenleaf's apartment, and met a young tot, who lets you in and lets you poke around, only for you to eventually realize it was Aunty Greenleaf glamoured, trying to trick you. It was not the greatest plan. This is where Snow White goes CRAZY and decides that you should get all vigilante and burn down the magical Ygdrassil tree that Aunty Greenleaf has, because she's feeling super vindictive for some reason, but I eventually say "Woah, Woah, what the fuck, lady?" and we leave without destroying what is surely a priceless artifact from the Old World. I frankly didn't get this part at all; it seemed to be thrown in only to add an an huge choice point with far-arching implications that we won't know for two episodes. Or maybe it doesn't matter at all, who knows?
But you get the info you need, Crane is at the Pudding and Pie, so you get there, knock some folks around, and find him, trying to rough up a lady and get some info out of her.** It's blatantly clear he isn't the murderer at this point, but they force you into a very specific path to just bring him in for being a creep instead, because I guess Bigby is stupid? Anyway, he is arrested, and you leave the strip club, only for things to get off the goddamn chain.
A couple of cars trap Bigby, Snow White, and Crane in an alley, and the Tweedles walk out with shotguns and start threatening, and then the new best character shows up, the bad guy's Dragon, Bloody Mary, who is SO COOL and SO INTIMIDATING and so well-designed and I loved her immediately. I wanted her to succeed, even though she was the bad guy! Bloody Mary for President. Anyway, Bloody Mary grows sick your bullshit almost instantly (same here, Mary), and tells the Tweedles to just murder the fuck out of Bigby, only for Bigby to WOLF THE FUCK OUT. Bigby goes full bore and slashes the SHIT out the Tweedles, even going so far as to murder Tweedle Dum (I told him to do that), only to get shot by a silver bullet and almost decapitated by Bloody Mary before Snow just...caves and gives Crane over to the villain, who I guess is the Crooked Man? It is a phenomenal middle act in a video game and it was just so awesome. I loved it a lot, and while I know I've ruined A TON of this, you should really really play this game because it's pretty great. I am this close of buying the Game of Thrones game by Telltale just because I am reminded how well these guys do this.
BUT YEAH, The Wolf Among Us. Supergreat.
*One of the features of The Wolf Among Us is that a little tooltip will pop up whenever something "important" happens, usually in the form of "The Woodsman will remember this" or what not. During this scene, during which Grendel is high (as fuck), he eventually passes out while you are talking to him, and a tooltip pops up that says "Grendel won't remember this." That's...pretty goddamn funny. I love when there are jokes in the interface.
** The main thing that Crane has been up to is trying to get ahold of a ring that will break magic spells so he can get the prostitutes to talk (they are enchanted to never reveal info), and while he does find it, it doesn't work, hasn't for decades. You catch him in the middle of trying to break the spell, and slam him against the wall because fuck that guy, but in a last ditch effort to cover his ass, he continues to try to use the Dispel ring. And he does this by...thrusting the ring at a prostitute like he's the goddamn Green Lantern. The scene shouldn't be funny, but it was a laugh riot. I was almost expect him to start shouting "Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt!"
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