It appears we’ll get one last adventure through Telltale’s Walking Dead games soon. Skybound has announced that the Definitive Edition of the games will be coming on September 10th to PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Along with this, the team also brought a new trailer to showcase what’s changed.
The Walking Dead: Definitive Edition will feature everything from Seasons 1-4 along with Walking Dead: Michonne. There will also be a slew of graphical improvements to make the games feel more polished. To add that extra little bit of change, you’ll also find updates to the menus and some behind the scenes content to enjoy. Unfortunately, the game will be coming exclusively to the Epic Games Store for PC. This will upset a lot of people (including me), but it doesn’t come as a surprise. Still, there’s nothing saying it won’t ever come to Steam so we can at least have hope.
Regardless, this should still have fans of the Walking Dead game series excited. Being able to dive back into the four (plus Michonne) titles with improvements should offer great nostalgia. If you’d like to find out more information regarding the game including some minor features left out here, check the game’s official page.
To an extent, this statement actually does make sense. It’s no doubt that Battleborn wasn’t exactly regarded as a solid experience. It was riddled with many different issues and this would’ve likely made Gearbox actually do things differently. We won’t know just how good the game is until September, so we’ll have to see how that holds up.
Starting with Xbox One, you have INSIDE available from July 1st to the 31st. INSIDE is a puzzle-platforming adventure game made by the brilliant team behind Limbo. You take on the role of a kid in a heavily dystopian future trying to cheat death along with solve many puzzles. The game currently has a 93 on Metacritic and should be a must play if you haven’t tried it already.
Moving on to Xbox 360, you have Castlevania: Symphony of the Night available from the 1st to the 16th. Following that is Meet the Robinsons available from the 16th to the 31st. Both games are solid classic games, receiving generally positive scores.
From the start of the game, you can tell that the artists at developer Frogwares were hard at work designing the world and characters. The scenery and each of the characters is designed in quite a distinct way that helps set the tone. A lot of the characters are dressed in more dark colors to represent the dark tone, and the world reflects that which can prove to set the tone well. Even the music matches this, giving off that dark tone while also being quite reflective of how the music was at that time. This all weaves well together with the few cutscenes present. These offer some jaw dropping scenery that make the strange visions take shape.
The game on the surface really is something to be appreciated and had me into it from the get-go. Unfortunately, diving deeper really does expose the prominent issues with the game as a whole. Traversing through the open world, the atmosphere really begins to lose its uniqueness and feel repetitive. The color palette chosen doesn’t help this either, with discolored fog making the already similar structures look identical. With so much potential in front of Frogwares, I’m surprised they ignored that opportunity.
As far as mechanics go, I found that a lot of them (excluding the aforementioned ones) weren’t used to the effect I had been hoping for. There should be many uses for your camera to capture evidence, but it was only used one time. Along with that, the insanity meter very rarely caused much concern for me. Having the camera come into play more often would’ve made the detective aspect outstanding. That, combined with the insanity meter being more effective would’ve helped a lot.