Characters are introduced clearly to be killed, and the episode goes out of its way near its start to demonstrate that no-one is safe. While their previous series haven't exactly lacked a body count, there's an almost cavalier quality here. For another, GoT's notorious, almost nihilistic brutality results in a Telltale with the brakes off. For one thing, the drama hinges on conversation, and GOT/Telltale's commonality in that a wrong choice or even a wrong word can invite a disastrous butterfly effect.
Turns out that, for the first episode at least, this is the most thematically appropriate Telltale adaptation yet. How rare a thing this is, to play a game without the hero's self-belief, and the conviction that everything will turn out in at least some version of OK.įrom afar, Telltale's Game of Thrones was looking as though it might falter - to be a side-offering to the 'main' story, starring the beyond-obscure House Forrester and a whole new ensemble cast, risked being a bridge too far from our concerns about the Starks and the Lannisters. The game asks that I protect a family, and the people who toil and march under that family's banner, but I do not believe that I can. Moreover, we know that the characters in this game will not be able to defeat him, because we know the show, and his status there. He is Westeros' Joker, and damage limitation is the best that one can hope for. We know that supplication only invites greater cruelty. We know that negotiation is of no interest to him. We know that everything is a game to him. They've only heard hearsay and whispers we've seen exactly what the Bastard of Bolton is like. 'Ramsay Snow' means things to the player that it doesn't mean to the game's characters. What would you do if Ramsay Snow was on his way to your home? This is the key question posed by this first episode of Telltale's official side-story to Game Of Thrones, and also its key strength. The first episode, Iron From Ice, is out today, and Varys' little birds delivered a copy to me a short while ago. It's on you to keep the Forresters alive by, basically, not saying the wrong thing to the wrong person.
It stars a 'new' House, the historically Stark-aligned Forresters, but features appearances from a number of Game of Thrones' stars. Game Of Thrones, Telltale's latest episodic conversational dilemma game interweaves with the third and fourth seasons of the HBO show. Don't read on if you're not up to date with the show. Warning: this article presumes familiarity with the entire televisual run of Game of Thrones, as indeed does the game itself.
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