The Walking Dead - Season 2

At the river, when the Dad and son are getting attacked and you have to choose....I chose the son....because the dad looked like he had been bit. Dad eventually gets eaten...son screams at me.

So I quit the game...tried to reload and have the son die...but I was stuck with my choice

Did anyone save the Dad...or are you able to ?....or is he doomed ? does he blame you for the death of the son (assuming he dies) ??

So the son gets away ? The dad...he makes it back alive or is alive anyways ?....he's brown bread in my game.
He is bitten though right ?

I sided with Nick over Pete at the end of ep1 because hey....Pete was bit. He was brown bread. So Nick gets wasted in the barn and offers the little girl some whiskey and I'm like "This guy is Ben 2.0". Anyway, I talk him round and we make a break for it. He gets left behind but we come back for him later. I wonder does Nick live if you go with Pete. I'll have to replay to find out.

So I'm back at the house and in walks Mr Blonde himself, Michael Madsen. I smooth talk the **** outa him and give him no info whatsoever. I didn't go for the knife because really....he has a gun and is 3 times your size. He finds the photo me and the kid took, I deny knowing her and he leaves.

I and 57% of people blamed the photo debacle on the dad. I mean...it was his idea. In hindsight it was nobody's fault but really....they are children.

So we are on the road again and have to cross the bridge and out comes Mr Asian red shirt offering us food and shelter and Nick goes and blows his head off. Part of me is mega pissed at him and then the other was a little suspicious and understood where a panicked Nick was coming from. I flip flopped on this one. Everyone makes mistakes etc. but he seems like a liability....especially considering it turns out that the Asian guy was a good egg.

So Kenny's alive. I was hedging my bets on that reveal being either Kenny or Lilly. And Kenny seems just as aggro as before. Everyone is about to shoot each other over having to hand over their weapons and Kenny wants me to vouch for the new group.....which I would do but it has Nick in it who is unpredictable. So I end up playing a Switzerland and asking everyone to play nice.

I and 33% of people sat with Luke at dinner. Like wtf 66% of people? Kenny was a loose cannon before he lost his entire family. It's great to see him and all and it brings back the season 1 feels....but he makes Nick looks mentally stable. The way he lost it with his latin lover over the boxes is all the indication you need that he's still the same Kenny we knew.

I and 26% of people lied to Walter about Mathews death. There really could be nothing gained from telling him....at least that was my thinking. But then Clem insists that they tell him the truth anyway so I dunno....this felt like a false choice.

I and 86% of people managed to get Walter to forgive Nick. This surprised me. A lot. I didn't aim for this....it just kind of happened. I suppose it worked out well because he saves Nick from the Walker later on.

I and 57% went to look for Kenny with the hostage crisis. This was a coin flip. On one hand if you surrender to the hostage taker, he will likely kill you all coz he has what he wants. On the other, you have no men and no guns....he has lots. Is there anything to be gained from resisting at that point? I was conflicted on this one. Walter ended up biting the dust. When Carver grabbed Alvin I took the gun from Kenny and surrendered. I wonder what would've happened if I had let him take the shot........

And Bonnie from 400 days was with Carvers group. I didn't trust her instantly. We know she has no family....so that was an obvious lie. I'm like "Check that ginger for weapons, yo!" and then I laughed out loud when they give Clementine that options to say. :P

Yeah - he lives if you go without him. I went with the older guy because Nick is...well Nick. Liability all over him but more sympathetic than Ben from S1 ever was. I did empathise when he was saying "They're over there talking about me right now. Nick is a liability to the group"

Also FFS Kenny. The "surprise" I least wanted to have. I hated that git from S1. His fanbase is inexplicable to me. That said, his shooting towards the end had me liking him a bit more - if Alvin hadn't been so paralysed, things might have worked out differently. I played through to the bitter end on the exchange of deaths - Kenny wimped out when they brought Sarita forward for execution

In a general sense, the ski lodge bothered me - it just didn't seem credible that a small 4 man group could defend a large building with large glass windows, and a horde of zombies so close by that a wind turbine spinning a bit faster turns into a dinner bell

I really like Carver as a villain. He strikes me as just the right balance between someone who is obviously psychotic but who also seems reasonable - that if you just do what he wants, he will leave you alone. One part of me is a bit disappointed still by the decision of Telltale to rely on old characters like Clem and Kenny to carry season 2. With characters like Carver (and Bonnie) they don't need crutches or to go over old ground.

Kenny: Agree. Can't remember a game that has made me care about the characters as much as this. I was almost welling up when they hugged haha, OH thought it was hilarious