![]() ![]() For the sake of fairness, I decided to play the game with them. However, I happen to live with two children who are huge Minecraft fans, and who play the game with devotion, along with all of their friends in school. I am not a Minecraft fan and I am not interested in games that won’t let me traumatize children. I recognize that I am not the target audience for this game. There are some sections where crafting is necessary, and you are given a choice of what to craft, but everything serves the same purpose of moving the story forward and the options are fairly limited, usually by whatever items the group has on them at that moment and a handful of recipes. While Minecraft Story mode is most certainly a Telltale game, with no open world, or crafting, or gathering, it does try its best to include some of Minecraft’s mechanics into the experience. You will still end up in the same place with the same characters, but it is still an entirely different segment of gameplay, and it does add some unprecedented replay value to the game for those who want to play the game over and over. It makes no difference in the great scheme of the story mind you. This choice will greatly alter the first half of the second chapter. There is some weight to decisions you make in Episode 1 that manifest in Episode 2. The choice is very evident, and it comes at the end of the first chapter. That combined with the many choices that as a Telltale veteran you know won’t really matter, and it feels like you get to see the machinery behind the great amusement park ride you are on. You could easily guess who was going to dislike who, when the group was going to have a disagreement, and most other story points. It was disappointingly predictable for people who have played past games by this developer. The story is your average fantasy fare with a Minecraft skin, though you can’t really blame Telltale for that as the source material does not have a narrative. ![]() Through a series of unlikely events, he and his friends becomes embroiled in a conflict among the Brotherhood of the Stone, a group of legendary adventures, and a frightful creature known as the Wither. Minecraft Story Mode tells the story of Jessie, a builder in the world of Minecraft who is entering a building competition so his work may be featured in the upcoming builder’s convention, Endercon. It is not bad, but it feels like some of the passion is missing. It feels like the kind of work an artist might craft for a wealthy patron so they have enough money to work on what they really want. Aside from that, though, there is a feeling that Minecraft is a mercenary title. I was never interested in these titles, and as you might expect Minecraft Story Mode closer to the Monkey Island and Sam & Max games than the studio’s other recent work. Before they mastered the art of giving you bad choices and making you feel awful for the one you picked, the tone of their games was more comedic and childish in nature. Like most people I fell in love with Telltale Games via the Walking Dead series, and the surprisingly excellent The Wolf Among Us. ![]()
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