Telltale's The Walking Dead: Season Two

Yeah my Clem was unforgiving. It's like if you crossed her once you were dead to me.

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Especially with Rebecca or Bonny for obvious reasons. Once they got on my bad side they stay there.

And yeah that was probably the most depressing death for me in the whole game. It really made me yell at the screen.

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I ended up doing both parts. First time around I ran out there to save him. My thinking was Clem is light on the ice and might stand a better chance getting out there without it breaking. To me when Luke was like, "Get back and just cover me" I assumed he knew that he was going under and just didn't want to drag anyone else with him. So after Luke died, my computer ended up doing a scheduled shut down like it normally does late a night and I just happened to still be awake at 5am playing. So I turned it back on, restarted and did the second choice. This time Bonny's ass goes out on the ice and makes it break and Luke goes under. They're telling you to get back but I was like fuck dat and ran out on to the ice. You can see him right under the ice banging on it for help so you start slamming your gun on the ice trying to break it with the handle. At one point you end up shooting it and you fall in too.

Either way is fucking depressing and Luke was too cool of a guy to go out like that. That's the thing about this game that makes it so bitter sweet. Not all deaths are perfect, not every last moment with a character is fulfilling. The characters you imagine yourself walking off into the sunset with seem to die the worst.

 

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Yeah I agree with that about episode 1. You hope Clem is kind of going to start to become better off but Lee's death is just a precursor to how miserable her life is going to be. All those events you mentioned are detrimental for morale so to see Clem keep going after losing Christa, putting the feral dog down (which some people have said was weak foreshadowing for what will happen to Kenny) being absolutely disregarded by this new group you encounter and then having to resort to lying and sneaking around to fix your bite wound really makes you appreciate how she can never give up hope. And how much she has changed from when Lee dies to when you become separated from Christa is just amazing.

I think episode 1 and 5 are sort of tied as favorite for me. The amount of possible endings you can have plus the tense moments between Kenny and Jane's fight made that a great ending. I almost called her Molly but you can kind of see the parallels between the two.

What do you think was your favorite moment overall this season?

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I think Kenny's return was probably one of the better moments of the series. Oh and when you have the flashback to Lee in the RV. I'm not gonna lied, I teared up for that pretty hard. It wasn't as bad as when Lee died but it was right up there. Even if it was for but a moment I thought all of season 2 was going to be a dream in that instant where I woke up in the RV. But you quickly realize it's Lee giving you more advice.

 

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If Kenny was particularly self-destructive in a way that effected the rest of the group then that would be different for me. Aside from Arvo of course but he was more of our prisoner. Of course he openly voiced his opinion, someotimes to the characters themselves, that he did not care for most of them. Kenny didn't actually become pushed over the edge until Jane put him in that place. At that point he could really have gone either way but instead of treading lightly Jane was like, "lol watch me troll your friend." And he blew up because he thought AJ was dead. Which is a good example of what I was saying earlier that Kenny is in a better place now that AJ was born, once he thought AJ was dead is finally when he broke down. I had some respect for Jane until she did that. Kenny and I had just been through too much together for me to give up on him like that.

I always remember that quote Kenny gave Lee when Omid and Christa wouldn't help us look for Clem in my s1 finale, "You've always been there for me Lee, always had my back when it mattered. What kind of friend would I be if I wasn't there for you now? You and Clementine are the only family I got left, I'm with you to the end." That same exact quote can be used from Clem to Kenny, changing the names of course. No way in hell I will ever give up on this man.

It's really hard to compare both games because each one is so great in its own ways.


Edit: Revised quote lol

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"You've always been there for me Kenny, always had my back when it mattered. What kind of friend would I be if I wasn't there for you now? You are the only family I got left, I'm with you to the end."

 

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I guess to me a few bad choices and being down a dark path will never be justifiable or outweigh the good things he has done.

 

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I think that the stories will be different for a good portion of the beginning of s3e1. But then something will happen to make Clem become alone again. Could be that kenny and Jane will die no matter what in s3e1 because that's too many different stories to cover. I guess it wouldn't be too unrealistic though if just the characters were changed to whoever you picked and the dialog was all the same. but Kenny and Jane are two different people so I can't imagine them talking in a similar way. So yeah, I think they'll both die somehow early on.