So I played through all of the first season of the game and absolutely loved it. I really enjoyed my time with it, and when it ended I was excited for the next "season" to come out.

But for some reason, I just have felt almost no desire to play the new season - I haven't touched it at all. I feel like I haven't heard nearly as much about this new season when compared to the the first season. Is that an indication that it isn't as good, or are people just not talking about it? It's on sale on steam right now, was wondering if it was worth picking up. Is the story as good as the first game?

I think so. After digesting it, I still found the first one better, and the second is a little more directionless, I feel. But I really enjoyed what they did with Clementine after where the ending to 1 left her, and I feel it's worth it to see where they take her. The rest of the cast doesn't reach the heights of the last one, but if you're invested in Clem's story at this point, I'd say give it a go.

It may not be as good as the first, but it's definitely very close. Clementine is a wonderful character, and having her become the new protagonist was a wonderful idea. You raised her as Lee, but now you get to see her grow up on her own. It's a wonderful story with interesting twists and turns and some really shocking moments.

I'm someone who doesn't get too emotionally affected by games, but after finishing the last episode was was thinking about it for a few days, which says just how good it is. It has some rough bumps, and getting "wise to the act" is kind of weird but it's still worth the journey.

Not AS good. But still good.

There are some cool moments in this game. But season one was so nice and self contained, it didn't really need a sequel.

I loved it. It is in my top five of this year (top three). I think it was about as good as the first, if better in spots honestly, though I didn't love the endings, they just weren't that satisfying to me. I beat it late two months ago, and it's still on my mind. I found it weird that there was little discussion about it, and you'd have to actually search for it to get some, when for Season One, that was big in gaming news so you didn't really have to search. I say you should definitely get it if you liked the first, otherwise you may be missing out, and for the price it's at, why not try it regardless? I played both Season One and Two back to back. I have never cried in a game, but I was emotionally invested and really focused on this game that there was one moment in it that I teared up, during a camp scene late in the game. I've gotten the spine tingling feeling before, but never teared. Obviously, there are some people that played the first and loved it, and didn't love this, but I would say that if you did love the first, you should still play the second.

I think that the fourth and fifth episodes were a bit of a let down but the build to the climax of episode 3 was on par with anything that went on in season one, and by that point you're invested enough in Clem that it's worth seeing her story through the last two episodes (if I remember correctly, episode four is also on the rather short side).

It's in my top 10 games of 2014, so I'd definitely give it my recommendation.

People disliking the post season 1 walking dead telltale games I think are more burned out on the format, because I dont feel like the games have let up in quality at all. Well maybe the game of thrones game, that one has some issues.

Yeah, I found it to be quite good. Exploring that world through Clementine's eyes changed how I approached things, so it was a nice fresh take on that formula. It never quite hits as hard as season one, and the characters aren't as memorable, but I found the whole thing really enjoyable, and I look forward to a potential third season.

i think its WAY better than the first season,so yes.

I enjoyed it quite a bit. I was invested in the story of Clementine. That's why I was there and I felt satisfied with her story. Everything else was just a bonus.

Yup, this. TWD S2 was a little more unpredictable I found, and Clementine made for a more interesting character to play. Plus, the continued arc of Kenny alone I'd say justifies Season 2.

@yummylee: you pretty much said my reasons for why i like the second season more.i would add that i felt it was darker then the first season as well,which for my taste the darker the better.

yes

Good, not amazing like the first season. Not as focused, not as interesting characters, not as demanding of your attention, not as well written in general.

The first episode was a bit of a stinker in my opinion. I didn't play the rest though and the first episode of season one was pretty mediocre too.

I really enjoyed it, if you played the first season you should absolutely play it.

I found it pretty bad. Every episode hits the reset button, only it's not executed as well as in season 1, 400 Days amounted to literally nothing, the new characters are rather bad with some exceptions (Sarah, Jane) and hastily written out whenever something interesting is happening with them and there's some contrived bullshit in the finale (ice scene).

It's not me getting tired with the formula, either, because The Wolf Among Us I consider pretty boss, even though that season peaked at the first episode.

I'd still play season 2, though, it's worth it for some emotional closure on Clementine, but that's the only reason I'd recommend it.

I got up to the second episode, and I just don't feel like carrying on.

I blame Clementine, I think her VA is way too flat compared to the other characters.

I just finished playing this season right after the first. Overall it was definitely somewhat disappointing. I just never felt that Clementine gets to know these people nearly as well as Lee does his companions during the first game. Perhaps a part of that has to do with the majority of characters you are surrounded by at the end having no real development or history with Clem.

By the end you are only left with Bonnie, Mike, Jane, kenny, and a toddler. Of those, the only person you have any real connection with for more than a couple of days is Kenny. That is why there just wasn't much emotional investment in someone like Mike or Bonnie betraying you. And Arvo> Yeah who cares?

All in all it was still a fun experience, but the story just felt less impactful than the first.

I found it to be as good as the first . Alex's opinions on this and the wolf among us left me dumbfounded, honestly. : /

If anyone remembers Chuck from Season 1, I basically felt as if the supporting cast in Season 2 had way too many characters like him. They just show up, don't have much in the way of meaningful dialogue or interaction, and are then gone with little impact.

@excast said:

I played the seasons not back-to-back, but I share your opinion.

Clem spent a lot of time with the original survivor crew in Season 1 (you spend like weeks and weeks at that motel, barricading it and stuff, before autumn comes and you leave in the RV). Something about that implied passage of time A) made me feel extra bad when stuff happens with Kenny's family, and B) made me feel extra betrayed when Lily is a total ass. When you think about Season 1, Lily's dad is the first major person to die, and you spend nearly all of Episodes 1 and 2 butting heads with him so you've probably decided by then whether you respect his way of doing things or not. And with the Kenny and Lily stuff in episode 3, those are people you've now spent 3 episodes with, and those characters get a decent chunk of screen time in all 3 episodes. The only character in Season 1 who you never spend much time with and then he unceremoniously dies is the hobo (Chuck?), and even then, that guy was kinda alright.

Season 2 feels like it takes place over the course of about 10 days or something (each episode feels like at most about 2 days of time), with the result being that I don't feel like Clem even knows many people in the new group. And the character deaths just have no impact, because who cares?

Overall, I just feel like a lot of characters randomly died before anything interesting happened with their character arc. I would've been fine if they had died sometime before the end of the season, but they needed at least one or two more really memorable moments. Sarah needed more time to grow before her death, and I actually wish they would've killed Luke at the point when they randomly kill Nick, and then have Nick be shouldered with the burden of doing stuff in episode 4 and 5 when he was so used to relying on Pete and Luke to help him out.

The season was supposed to be Clem learning to be independent and self-reliant, which I guess she somehow wasn't right after Lee died, nor after like 6+ months with Omid and Christa. I guess it accomplished Clem being that much more grown up, but I just don't think they handled most of the other characters very well.

@excast said:

Oh yeah, definitely. Most of the characters in Season 2 are, at best, Chuck. As in, you meet them, they seem alright and you chat with them once or twice, then they randomly die and you kinda feel nothing because you barely knew them, and the way in which they died had almost nothing to do with your actions. It's a revolving door of Chucks.

I'll admit, in Season 1, the way Ben and Kenny died was also super random at the time, but I feel like Ben at least really established by then that he was a sad sack who wasn't going to improve or change much as a person, and then Kenny actually makes it out alive and is one of the only good characters in Season 2. Sarah gets basically the same story arc as Ben, but I don't buy it with Sarah, because she was still young enough to change, maybe, and I would've liked to see Clem kinda take Sarah under her wing. I actually wish that was the episode 4 and 5 story arc, instead of what we got, which was "lol nope, Sarah dies, you get a baby, and then episode 5 is a super contrived who's-the-bigger-asshole match between Kenny and Jane that is out of character for both of them".

I completely agree with basically everything you said. I never really felt much in the way of a connection with this cast like I did in the first season. Perhaps there were just too many characters they were trying to work on to give them all real depth, but I never really felt as if I understood the personalities or motivations of people like Sarita, Bonnie, Mike, etc. Only a few new characters such as Jane get any real chance to grow and even then ...

I actually enjoyed season 2 considerably more than season 1. Not sure I can put my finger on an exact reason for that, though. I should say that I didn't like the first season nearly much as most people seem to have (not even close to being in my top 10 games of that year).

Great to hear that Season 2 was just as good as the first. After I lost my S1 save on PS3, Season 2 (and even 400 days) went off my radar because I didn't want to get spoiled. Now that they are all on PS4, I think I'm gonna play the whole shebang this summer.

I think that i'm one of the few who actually see that the second season is actually better than the first. The characters are more interesting here and their development is what kept me going through the game, specially Kenny's.

Although i wouldn't ask for a third because i think that there is nothing left to expand up on. Unless, they go with Clem/Jane side of the story but i still don't think that it will be interesting enough.

I'm surprised that no one have mentioned how lazy Omid death was.

This to me is me is the most disappointing part in the game but then the game actually kept getting better. The reason i'm replying is that i kind of disagree about your view on Jane, Bonnie and Mike.