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1. What is The Wolf Among Us?
The Wolf Among Us is Telltale's first game in the post-Walking Dead world, based off of the Fables series by Bill Willingham - WAIT NO COME BACK I SWEAR IT'S GOOD. The heroes and villains of every fairy tale you can imagine, due to a series of unfortunate events, are stuck living right under the noses of humans (called "mundies") in New York City. You play as Bigby Wolf, sheriff of Fabletown and dreamy detective out to solve a mystery.
2. Okay, that's cool. But what's the game part of this game like?
The Wolf Among Us features an updated control scheme from The Walking Dead. It is very heavily conversation based, with up to four options to choose from when in dialogue with another character and a limited amount of time to choose what to say or do. It still has your typical adventure game investigation portions, and moments of action are still quick-time related. Action events have a wider variety of keys to press and a more visceral reaction when you're hitting them. It's hard to say if your conversation choices will have a bigger impact on the plot than TWD, but I guess we'll know that for sure once the second episode releases. Supposedly, choosing when to do something will also have a big impact on the story, not just choosing what to do this time around. You'll also be able to decide whether to let Bigby give in to his Big Bad Wolf side and terrify the Fables around him into submission, or to play him as someone who is actively trying to fit in and live a less lonely existence by being a decent person.
3. What platforms can I play it on, and when?
You can get the full season of episodes on Steam, XBox Live or the Playstation Network.This will include:
Episode 1: Faith
Episode 2: Smoke and Mirrors
Episode 3: A Crooked Mile
Episode 4: In Sheep's Clothing
Episode 5: Cry Wolf
4. How dreamy is Bigby Wolf?
So dreamy.
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Nope! There's a codex in the game that tells you the background about all the characters as you go on. I don't think it hurts, but my friends who've played it without reading any of the comics before didn't get lost or anything.
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Mostly cause I like what telltale does WRT traditional adventure games and also liked the first two parts of walking dead...
I never finished walking dead though because it was so goddamn depressing.
Hopefully the mouse smoothing in the menus isn't so bad in the game!
Did you try to play it all at once, or as they came out? I think this is the one time where I didn't mind episodic content. Playing all of the episodes at once would have been incredibly exhausting!
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Honestly in some ways it might be better if you don't
It offers different perspectives based on your Fables knowledge, which is interesting
Also it plays with perspective based on what you do in the game, which is very interesting
This is pretty awesome. Finished Ep1 earlier.
I lined up with the community across the board at the end, even chose...
Even though I have no idea who that is, but they mentioned him several times through dialogue as being some big bad in their universe, so it must be him.
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wondering how to save lawrence because the separation of "you went to toad's first" and "you didn't save lawrence" implies the two aren't linked
I now have
so much regret
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Only thing is I've never been fond of long waits, so I usually won't get in on episodic stuff until there's two or three available.
I went to their concert at Osheaga last year and it was probably the best show I've ever seen live. I was like 15 feet away from the stage when they did this:
IT WAS SO COOL
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Oh man!
Gonna play dis game.
I've heard the name thrown about a few times but didn't realise telltale we're making it.
Is it like a police procedural set in a fantasy land a la Grimm? I uhhh have to admit that one of my guilty pleasures was watching that show
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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Yep! The comic series is a little different; it mostly follows Bigby around while he does Sheriff things, but has to do more with Fabletown in general. This is more like a wonderful combination of The Walking Dead, urban fantasy and Tex Murphy.
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I'm not a fan of the writer's work at all, but I'm digging some of the characters in the game so far.
Wellllll
Just that going the other route doesn't make it a sure thing
2. What the heck is the significance of the tarot card you can (optionally) pick up in the mayor's office? You keep it, which seems odd; and unlike the other two tarot cards you can look at, neither Bigby nor Snow White have any idea what it means.
Also I felt pretty bad when the player choice thing came up at the end and realized you could actually save Prince Lawrence. (I went to Toad's cause I thought someone was trying to kill him!) Having a living witness to give some info about what exactly happened to Faith and who she was involved with would have been... helpful.
I bought the season pass right away because they have hooked me hard
Answers for @Gundi
spoilers obviously
I asked the mirror about the tarot card and even he didn't know, so, I guess we'll have to wait and see
I too let Lawrence die; I may have to replay that bit to see how it goes otherwise
Seriously guys this game is so cool
I'm guessing if I didn't leap out at that time he would've killed himself successfully this time
As a side note, I had never heard of the story that Faith comes from
Kind of a weird feeling when you've just sorta assumed you've heard all these tales before
@Wyborn now that I've played episode 1, what exactly did you mean by this?
Well
Initially I went to Mr. Toad's house first, which means that your first encounter with one of the Tweedles is a lot more... sketchy than if you go to the other apartment first. The second apartment is covered with false positives, where if you're not careful you might think that this whole "suicide" thing was a setup, and the Tweedle you find in the closet
Well
Let's just say he was my number one suspect on that playthrough, whereas when I went to that apartment first I was given a very different impression
I'm actually about to do a partial replay right now
In no small part because near the end one of my conversation options read [Glass him] and I didn't take it
About that whole larger scene
Like, yeah, dude's a dick, but something about him lying in the corner, cradling his bloody stump, sobbing, just makes me feel like a monster
About to throw down
Spoilers for the bar fight
Guess my main run will just have to leave Prince Lawrence to die because that's how it happened and I don't want to re-replay it
Spoilers for all of episode 1, obviously.
He might also be the guy you run past when you have to lift up the couch as you're chasing Tweedle Dee, but I can't be %100 on that
I woulda gone with TV on the Radio, personally
Anyways i'm excited about actually playing this, because TWD is wayyy too sad for me
Because he can transform, but the Big Bad Wolf of the stories is not generally considered to have been a werewolf or have shape changing powers