That’s not been helped by the fact that, despite good voice-acting, Sean and Daniel are nowhere near as charismatic as Max and Chole. It was clear from the summary shown at the end that we’d taught Daniel to be a good person, but the events as they played out didn’t represent that in a particularly satisfying manner.īut the overall plot is so meandering, and filled with so many dull, uninteractive moments, it’s been a real chore to stick with at times. Suffice to say it’s nowhere near as heart-rendering as the end of the first game and frankly our version of it didn’t seem to make much sense in terms of either the position Sean found himself in or Daniel’s subsequent decision, which depended on a level of forethought and introspection that he’d never previous exhibited. When you finally arrive at the wall – which has always seemed the natural end point of the story, even from the first episode – it’s all over surprisingly quickly and you must make your final fateful decision on how to end the game. It’s one of the least interactive parts of the whole game and suddenly being introduced to a bunch of new characters that Sean and Daniel already care about, but you’ve never met before, is confusing and ineffective (we kept thinking we must’ve forgotten something from Episode 4, it being so long since we’d played it). Although the main problem from a storytelling and gameplay perspective is that the first hour spent at the commune is so incredibly dull.

Daniel seems quite happy to be there and it’s not really clear why Sean is so adamant on leaving or why his mother is so willing to help him. That’s obviously a gross simplification of how real parenting works, but the game still manages to get its points across relatively well.Įpisode 5 starts one month after the end of the last episode, where the pair have been living with their estranged mother on a sort of hippy commune close to the Mexican border. Throughout all five episodes you’re constantly influencing the way he sees the world and treats other people, moulding his personality to be more or less law-abiding and morally upstanding. As becomes clear by playing through each one the real theme of the sequel is the effect your decisions have on Daniel. You can read our reviews of each individual episode here, with Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, and Episode 4 (including a bonus interview with Dontnod).

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