EPIC TALK: Minecraft: Story Mode REVEALED!

YouTube has had over a trillion Minecraft videos on the platform alone which I hope doesn’t hurt this video’s chances of doing well but I guess we’ll see which I hope doesn’t hurt this video’s chances of doing well but I guess we’ll see which I hope doesn’t hurt this video’s chances of doing well

But I guess we’ll see which I hope doesn’t hurt this video’s Chan in general well oh my goodness well godamn you guys did not disappoint before this video begins I just wanted to quickly thank you guys for checking out my last video on Minecraft I appreciate all the views all

The likes everybody who subscribed and especially all the people who commented on it I got so much positive and constructive feedback so many people sharing with me stories of their own playthrough I read every single one of those comments and let me tell you just

Seeing those pop up on my phone over the course of the past two weeks has just been a massive serotonin boost to my brand so I don’t know what else to say but thank you guys [Laughter] so at the risk of throwing that all away Minecraft story

Mode this guy’s face really says it all so a few years after the initial release of Minecraft they started making side games with Minecraft story mode being the first and apparently the most popular judging by the poll that I put out a little while back for me I never

Played this game before I mean what kind of person would I be if I played Minecraft story mode before the main game oh [ __ ] psycho I have however played a couple of games developed by Telltale Games before so I had a good idea of what I was getting myself into I

Played The Walking Dead in the first two chapters of The Wolf Among Us so I think it’s pretty safe to say I’m an expert on this genre and my word should be taken as the gospel here but before I ruin whatever good relationship I have with the Minecraft fan base let’s talk about

How this game sort of manifested itself out of The Ether around the early 2010s there was a newfound interest in these narrative Adventure style games that seem to be taking a lot of influence from the point-and-click style adventure games of the 9s your monkey Islands Mists and Salon Maxes led the charge at

The time for games to be a lot more narratively focused with the gameplay taking a back seat in favor of light puzzle solving in order to experience the next piece of the story two Studios were really responsible for the updated take on this formula Quantic dream with

The likes of Fahrenheit Beyond Two Souls and of course heavy rain and the studio will be focusing on today Telltale Games with their works on Back to the Future The Walking Dead and the Wolf Among Us see while Quantic was more interested in creating their own IPS Telltale was

Often using licensed materials to craft their worlds they would go on to release another Walking Dead game and an adaptation of Game of Thrones before finally making their jump into using another video game property with tales of the Borderlands it was during this time that the idea of doing more with

Video game worlds came about the game at the top of their list Minecraft which is a bit of an interesting idea seeing as how there was technically no story in Minecraft or characters or even any guaranteed events in general really this apparently excited Telltale with how

Open this Prospect was and they could do essentially whatever they wanted to with this world Telltale knew that fan generated content was huge for Minecraft at the time and Drew inspiration from that plus things that happened within their own private server while they were playing unlike a lot of their

Contemporary work Telltale really went back to their point-and-click roots with this one given the family-friendly nature of the IP all the dark themes of sex violence and substance abuse were replaced with jokes and characters that wouldn’t be out of place in an early morning Nickelodeon cartoon the game was

Officially shown off at Minecon 2015 where it was revealed to be releasing in an episodic fashion very much like other Telltale Games at the time all the Minecraft story mode episodes were released between October of 2015 and September of 2016 with a collection featuring all the episodes together

Releasing to seventh and eighth gen consoles in October of 2016 followed by some ports to the Wii U in December and to the switch in August of 2017 the game was released on B basically everything under the sun and it was um well people played it kind Of getting to the scores for this one kind of a pain in the ass given its episodic nature most scored in between the high 60s and low 7s with a few critics grading the overall package in that same range Nintendo life gave the collection a seven and was quoted as

Saying in short Minecraft story mode the complete adventure is a worthwhile ride though it is a bit inconsistent in terms of the quality of the episodes while website cubed 3 gave the game a less positive six and said if it was not for the amusing script well realized Minecraft setting likable characters and

Moderately engaging story lines then this would have been an unmitigated disaster as Telltale continues to take the point-and-click genre in a direction that no point-and-click fan wants ouch can’t say I totally disagree though more on that in a minute I couldn’t really find some concrete sales numbers for

This one which is understandable given the episodic nature of the title as well as being released on nearly everything under the sun as well as another big event that I’ll talk about in a second but from what I’ve heard this game underperformed by quite a bit and when

It came to accolades I also couldn’t find a whole lot on this one either outside of a few nominations from the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards which it lost to Just Dance take that for what you will it doesn’t end there however as Minecraft story mode also received a

Second season in 2017 which was received just about as well as the first season and in June of 2018 it was announced that Telltale would begin porting their games over to Netflix with Minecraft story mode being the first edition in late fall of 2018 Telltale revealed their bankr ruptcy related issues and

That the studio would be shutting down this essentially left a skeleton crew to complete the transition to Netflix and the game being Dlisted on all storefronts in June of 2019 with each of the episodes no longer being available for download even if purchase prior licensing Rights was escapegoat given

And in the leadup to the listing the episodes on the Xbox Marketplace were priced up to $100 each to quote unquote deter players sure the deal with Netflix wouldn’t last long though as the game was also removed from there in December of 2022 so with all that being said this

Makes Minecraft story mode completely unavailable unless you able to find a physical copy for sale or you are a pirate and because I couldn’t find a great source for that second option I had to scour some local game stores to find this baby right here and if you

Ignore the disgusting price tag and the fact that someone chewed on the spine you’ve got yourself a game that if I’m going to be fully honest really wasn’t worth the time it took me to find a copy all right so quick synopsis before we get into the meat of this video

Minecraft story mode it’s all right I said all right this game doesn’t necessarily do anything super bad like don’t get me wrong some of the writing is cringe chicken chicken chicken chicken it’s gone you’re totally fine you’re a totally cool dude okay most of the writing is cringe and the story

Really isn’t all that interesting and a lot of the characters are pretty lame or annoying it does have some fun meta ideas for some plot points but the real Sin this game commits is that it’s so boring if this game isn’t actively giving me embarrassing dialogue it’s

Causing my eyes to glaze over because nothing is happening Telltale Games have never been known for their exciting gameplay but they do occasionally have segments with legitimate tension or tough decisions to be made I did not get that in this game at all given how low the stakes actually were and how little

My choices ultimately mattered and the story story well not bad it’s just a slog to get through because the lack of material spread out over the course of eight whole episodes which is the most out of any Telltale Game I’ll get into some more detail as the video goes on

But I’m going to be very forthcoming with you guys on this one I think this game is mostly skippable to some it’s a very fun nostalgic experience and hey you could definitely grow up with worse I grew up with this but to me this game is just sort of okay it’s incredibly

Inoffensive very safe with with nothing really doing much to keep me interested outside of a few notable moments I should also mention that I’m pretty much only going to be focusing on the first season as well as the DLC content in this episode I truly could not find a

Physical version of the second season to save my life so here we are we got a lot to cover today so without further Ado this is my review of Minecraft story mode let’s start this review off with something positive which is actually the scenery from my understanding every

Single scene in Minecraft story mode was actually hand created in Minecraft before being ported over to Telltale to animate meaning pretty much every set that you see the characters run through in this game can be recreated in Minecraft proper I think that is really cool not only for building purposes in

My own game but it’s also remarkable of how many different environments Telltale were able to craft given what Minecraft was like nearly a decade ago like some of the structures they built were massive and they all did a really great job of making you feel like you were

Really in these unique locals I also love all the little nods to visuals like the hearts that appear on screen during the combat segments the way characters jump up blocks and the way people blink red when their damage even if it doesn’t always consistently happen what I don’t

Like are the way that these characters look and how they’re animated I’ll come out and say it I think some of the characters in this game are flat out ugly and they look like bad fan Creations like most of the main characters are okay but [ __ ] just look

At Axel’s stupid [ __ ] unibrow or how about this Green Lantern wab be or God whenever anybody gives that [ __ ] eating grin during dialogue they look like Shaquille O’Neal trying to sell you something you can’t mess with perfection but you can moisturize it that’s where a lot of my issues with animation actually

Is these characters if standing still look like they could maybe be custom Minecraft skins but when they move they have more fluid animation than anything you’d see in a game of Minecraft they move their limbs in a way that you’d never see in the standard game they blink and have multiple different

Expressions they have flashy as [ __ ] fight scenes for some reason but then they also combine that with traditional Minecraft animations such as mining building eating food or jumping up blocks what this does is give the game a very inconsistent style of Animation between wanting to appeal to Minecraft

Fans while also being more visually interesting but given the blocky nature it still limits how fluid those animations can actually be now in a game like Minecraft where you never see your character and only occasionally see other people that’s fine and it adds to the charm a little bit in this game

Where you’re watching it from a third person perspective it somehow manages to be both incredibly inconsistent and also uninteresting to look at speaking of uninteresting let’s talk about the audio design let’s start with maybe my least favorite thing the voice acting for as star studded as this cast is the voice

Acting is very inconsistent you have some standout lead performances with Ashley Johnson as Petra and the late Paul Rubin as Ivor and some decent supporting one-off performances from Matt Mercer Jim Cummings Ashley Burch hell they even got Angelic to the core Cory Feldman Here I can’t believe he wasn’t busy pretty much everyone else seems to be just wanting to collect a paycheck because there is little to no emotion behind any of these performances Patton Oswalt Scott Porter Brian pain I know these guys are great voice voice actors but they just sound so bored reading

Their lines as I was listening to them prismarine is such a cool word prismarine very very bored the audio design isn’t all bad though for fans of Minecraft you could definitely be prepared to hear familiar noises from placing blocks to the multiple mob noises but one notable

Thing missing from this game when it comes to audio is Minecraft OST you had one of the best soundtracks in game history and couldn’t bring back anything for the next entry in the series granted the soundtrack in this game is actually pretty decent in its own right an teimo

And Wells did a great job and I think some stuff such as Ivor theme and Lapis Lazuli really could fit into the Minecraft soundtrack and no one would bat an eye but some of the other pieces I don’t think mesh nearly as well with the rest of the soundtrack they’re good

For background noise or maybe just for this game but they aren’t exactly something that stands out in my mind that being said when you have an OST of over 100 songs there are bound to be some forgettable pieces so I think this one gets a pass for me so as is the

Title of the game the big appeal behind this one is of course the story but how do you take a game that’s as open-ended as Minecraft and condense that down to a cohesive plot well Telltale found a way for Better or For Worse the story starts

With a flashback to a group of Heroes the order of the stone who defeated the Ender Dragon a long time ago it is implied that these heroes are actually the characters from The Players playthrough of inecraft but this game has gone ahead and given them their own personalities Gabriel the bravado

Fielded Warrior Sauron the leader elegard the genius Redstone engineer and Magnus a griefer bet on destruction in the present day we meet our main characters Jesse a guy with no personality Olivia a girl with no personality and axel a guy who has a personality that I wish he didn’t have

There’s also Jesse’s pet pig Ruben who serves as comic relief and to give the game a cutesy mascot they’re heading over to a festival called endercon in order to win a chance to meet Gabriel from the the order of the stone during their time at endercon they meet with

The ocelot a gang that makes Team Rocket look like the Yakuza they are led by a guy named Lucas so why don’t we just forget about all this and you know make this about how cool our builds are Lucas is a [ __ ] your team decides what to

Build and Aiden the most annoying member of the OT gets upset and lets out some lava to destroy your build burning Reuben and the crossfire Jesse sets out to find Reuben gets surrounded by mobs and gets saved by Petra a local adventurer who I think Jesse may have

Some eyes for you better be able to make the Minecraft characters [ __ ] in this game she convinces Jesse to help her sell a withered skull to a client of hers but the deal goes south after this Rasputin looking [ __ ] Ivor scams Petra by giving her lapis lazuli instead

Of the promised Diamonds the group finds a way to the meeting Hall where Gabriel is and then head down to the basement where they find ivor’s secret lair they find a ton of various things but the scary thing is an incomplete wither when they are suddenly ambushed by Ivor who

Summons an iron golem to attack attack them the group runs upstairs considers going back downstairs to save Lucas since he was left behind and by consider I mean I chuckled at the thought of helping him and carry D my day as the group explains to Gabriel what is

Happening Ivor summons the Wither with a command block on his chest it seems that Ivor was looking to control the Wither and kill it after it was summoned in order to become famous like the order of the stone the plan does not work when the command block stops responding and

The Wither grows in size becoming the Wither storm the group makes an escape before the Wither storm begins to suck up both Petra and Gabriel after picking who to save Gabriel will give the player an ambulet and tell them to take it to the Temple of the order of the stone to

Find the other members after a quick ROM through the nether we come to the Overworld and decide to build a shelter for the night this gives us plenty of chances to be a dick to Lucas oh what’s that Lucas you’re starving to death in the corner too bad [ __ ] there’s only

Enough cookies for four of us and the pig is higher up in the pecking order than you in fact I think you look better outside in the rain see you later you [ __ ] loser oh he just comes back in the morning to forgive you no matter what

Okay moving on we eventually get to the top of the temple and are given a choice between traveling with Olivia to find eligard or with Axel to find Magnus since I rather gouge my own ears out with a scalpel than listen to another second of Axel’s hmbo dialogue I’m going

To go with Olivia so we go find elgard help her make a command block the Wither storm destroys everything and we regroup at the rest of the party this is where we learn about a weapon that saurin has been working on that’s even stronger than TNT the forab

Bomb yeah yeah yeah I’ve heard all about F bomb before F bomb yeah saurin claimed that dropping the f bomb could destroy anything he means [ __ ] the group sets out to find sain in this Fortress where upon arrival elard and Magnus get into an argument and go their separate ways

Whoever you saved earlier between Petra and Gabriel confines in you that they have the Wither sickness and don’t know what the long-term effects are they do this right before a creeper blows open a path to a secret laboratory where they have another confrontation with Ivor Ivor makes his Escape by hitting the

Group with a slowness potion and that’s the end of chapter 2 after the potions effects wear off the group accidentally digs into a massive mob farm of all things huh maybe I was wrong about farms in my Minecraft video they then find an End Portal and take it to where they see

Saurin going into his end base they follow him through an entire area made of wool um sure and up into a secret lab where we see that he’s been studying the behaviors of Enderman we Dawn an Enderman disguise the [ __ ] chin kind of stinky but it

Fits more than kind of stinky I’m sorry to say way to ruin my joke and then solve a puzzle only to be knocked out by saurin the Endermen are in a frenzy though and we leave the base by flooding the whole thing and what I must assume must be a hurricane style catastrophe

For the Enderman people after arriving back in the Overworld the group uses the formid bomb on the Wither storm killing the Beast for about 5 seconds before it splits apart into two identical copies and we flee the scene with a friend that we didn’t save earlier now suffering

From Amnesia oh and either Magnus or eligard dies whoops everyone else escapes on Horseback to come up with a new plan we eventually meet up with Ivor who tells us we can enchant a weapon at his base in the farlands in order to destroy the command block ah this is

Kind of cool checking out a world design Quirk and making it a mystical area I like it as the group travels through sain’s Fortress they find a number of artifacts that the order of stone used to have after seeing an ender crystal that was still intact which Sor claimed

To have destroyed them all we learn the order’s dark secret Ivor actually used to be the fifth member of the order and he left after they used the command block to delete the Ender Dragon from existence essentially in cheating their way to Victory I have to say all this

Sort of meta plot points are honestly incredibly interesting like this the mob Farms the farlands being a thing all of the Redstone Contraptions that were definitely Community Creations there’s a lot of attention to detail in these areas and I think this is an excellent way to pay homage to those parts of the

Minecraft Community while making it fit into this game’s World we’ll see a couple more examples of this later on but just know no matter what I say about this game’s story this is really an ingenious way to add this into the plot so Jesse crafts his weapon of choice I

Chose the diamond ho because memes and we take the fight to the Wither storm we fight off a number of tentacles Reuben takes a shot for Jesse before Jesse delivers the final blow killing the Wither storm on the ground all of our main characters are celebrating the feat

Of the Wither storm but something doesn’t seem quite right where’s Reuben oh no okay this has got to be one of those gags where he plays H and gets right back up and he’s fine right no no no not the sad pig noises come on Reuben get up Reuben please get

Up you are the only character I could tolerate please get up no Ruben why noben not now no no no no no Rben what the [ __ ] why was that so sad it’s just a stupid Pig why did they have to make that such a gut punch of a scene Jesus Christ and then holy [ __ ] having him turn into a pork chop what this is legitimately one of the funniest

Things I’ve ever seen in a video game they did not mean for this to happen I don’t know what else to say let’s just move on so that’s the story of Minecraft story mode except not quite we’ve only finished episodes four out of eight I don’t know what else there is to

Really go over with this story I thought things ended pretty conclusively well chapters 5 through 8 actually take on an almost Anthology like style approach with a loose thread tying each of them together essentially Jesse finds an enchanted flint and steel that can open up portals to other worlds and you end

Up doing various things and collecting certain objects for these episodes you mainly bring along Petra Ivor and Lucas I guess he just likes the abuse episode 5 sees our group travel up to the skies to find something called the eversource this turns out to be the thing that

Creates all the spawn eggs and our heroes get captured after building illegally and has a showdown with the former ocelot gang honestly this episode was a little bit on the boring side but it was kind of funny throwing Aiden off of the edge of the world episode 6 is

Set in this creepy Mansion where they come across something they have never encountered before something truly terrifying something that no one should ever have to see in their entire lives Minecraft youtubers Stacy plays LD shadow lady DanTDM Stampy Cat and of course Captain Sparkles are all here in a who done it

Style game of guess who as we attempt to solve a murder that happened shortly after we arrived honestly YouTuber cameos aside I like this episode I think Mysteries are a large part of this genre’s roots and it’s where these types of games excel at so I thought this

Episode was pretty good for the most part I mean the person who actually is the Killer is always the same and there isn’t anything you could do to catch them early but still I don’t mind this episode even the YouTuber performances I think are fine and if anything we could

Take solace in the fact that this game came out at the time it did because if it came out a few years later you just know they would have to include dream or some [ __ ] which might make this one of the worst things ever created by the

Human race episode 7 I’m not going to lie I kind of like this one too you meet a giant redstone computer named Pama which again is a really good Community reference and you essentially have to stop it from trying to assimilate everything this one has a fun premise an interesting section controlling some

Mobs yeah I like this one too the last episode has a starting in a spliff arena in this hunger game style of setup this episode is also surprisingly good and it has some fun villain great Community references and an interesting setting this is all before it ends on a

Cliffhanger for all of our main characters looking for more Adventures honestly after playing the last four episodes this game should have just been an anthology series like the first four episodes aren’t necessarily bad but it feels like a lot of the ideas are just hit or miss and they’re drawn out over

The first four episodes I didn’t really care about the order of the stone until I found out they were cheaters because that is actually funny and interesting on a metal level it’s when they start playing around with the community actions and Creations and fitting them into their own story line that’s where I

Think the story for this game really shines there’s a lot of potential here and I know I haven’t played the second season of this game but I have to say I am curious to see if they follow up on more of those Concepts what I can’t get over though is this game’s awful

Characters and it’s piss poor writing these characters are mostly a personality black hole some people like Ivor really do some heavy lifting of Hamming it up in every scene where everyone else could not be bothered to give a [ __ ] the jokes they tell are awful they rarely show any form of

Emotion and the dialogue is incredibly inconsistent a couple examples that come to mind are in chapter 1 when exploring ivor’s lab Axel suggests they steal some [ __ ] to help them out while Petra scolds him for doing so sure makes sense literally the very next time you speak

To Petra less than a minute later she is stealing one of his golden swords like what the [ __ ] is that or how about when saurin doesn’t want his Enderman to be harmed mere minutes after you flooded the entire end base drowning hundreds of them does everybody in here suffer from

Short-term memory loss like oops I completely forgot what my moral compass was or oops I completely forgot that we committed Mass genocide on this group of Enderman like how do you [ __ ] this up it goes even beyond that though because most of the problems that these characters face are completely contrived

And can easily be figured out by anyone who’s ever played Minecraft before hell sometimes they solve problems earlier on in the story that they could easily replicate their results later for but they just don’t for one reason or another play through this game and count how many situations Jesse could have

Gotten himself out of if he simply placed five blocks up to get away from the mobs or how about how many times he was stuck somewhere and could easily mine his way out or how about the number of times characters needed to get across something that they could have easily

Built a bridge for I get it the game would have been incredibly boring if players were able to do the same solution over and over again but in the context of this game’s narrative it makes no godamn sense like in a life or death situation why does Jesse not mine

Behind him and fill the walls with dirt just to keep himself safe here what is stopping Jesse from mining through this door where he knows there’s an entrance to the other side why can’t Jesse just build a bridge across this maze so he doesn’t have to navigate the whole thing

Why do I need to unleash water on these Endermen to keep them away when we already had a segment in the same episode where we saw we could easily get by them as long as we made no eye contact this [ __ ] makes no goddamn sense and it happens throughout this game’s

Narrative you might think I hate this game’s Story by the sound of my complaints that’s not entirely true but I would be lying to you if I said I had a good time with this one I didn’t like most of the characters I thought there were too many logical inconsistencies

With the writing and worst of all a lot of what was going on was simply boring yeah there is some cool meta Concepts and [ __ ] that moment with Reuben dying was honestly something I don’t think I’ll ever forget everything else though can’t say I’m a

Fan so how is the actual game part of Minecraft story mode well when you take one of the most open sandbox games ever seen up to that point and apply that to a formula a game that is so restrictive that some even hesitate to call them a

Game what exactly do you get the gameplay for Minecraft story mode is very familiar for anyone who’s played any of telltale’s other titles the game has broken down into an episodic nature with each episode lasting roughly an hour and a half or so I like this format

Because if I’m being honest with you it makes moderating these play sessions super doable since I honestly don’t find actually playing this game to be all that interesting all right the gameplay itself has broken down into the four main sections explorative segments QuickTime events conversation trees and decision-making let’s just go right down

The list first the exploration segments I think these might be my favorite bits of gameplay since these probably have the actually going on with them so occasionally you’ll be dropped into these areas where you are free to move around and interact with various characters and objects while maybe

Saying free is a bit of an exaggeration let me explain you are pretty much locked into these rooms to walk around in emphasis on walk because your default movement speed is abysmally slow and in some areas like this maze it can be a bit of a SLO some of these rooms you

Explore are a bit more expansive than others featuring multiple camera angles like a classic Resident Evil game this can be a little disorienting when they switch between between different perspectives as your directional controls do alter but it’s something you can get used to as you play now what you

Do in these areas usually involves figuring out a problem of some sort going back and forth with talking to NPCs solving a puzzle or gathering items to use in the game’s crafting system problem with these things though the NPCs usually don’t amount to much the puzzles are some of the easiest you’ll

Ever experience and the inventory and crafting system is basically brain dead the NPCs you can talk to in these sections rarely have anything useful to say and are really just there for more flavor text and discussion the puzzles are a bit of a mixed bag some of them

Aren’t that bad like selecting the items in order based off of story that another NPC tells you but some of the other ones are incredibly simple which becomes even worse when Jesse just blurts out the answers before even giving the players a chance to guess finally the crafting

System is taken from Minecraft which sounds interesting in practice when applying that to a point in Click Style Adventure game however this game really does not capitalize on that IDE idea you get materials as you explore but only the one the game allows you to get as opposed to Minecraft where anything is

Possible even when you get these materials you are limited to what you can actually make with them based off of what the situation is asking for and even beyond that you can only use these items in contextual situations it’s not like an old school style point and click

Game where you need to think about what items you have to find a solution to your problems the game will just pretty much do that for you I don’t think these segments are necessarily bad they’re honestly the highlight of the gameplay sections for me I just think that

Compared to other games in the genre they’re a bit more restrictive than I’d like the next of these gameplay sections are the QuickTime events these are pretty standard run-ofthe-mill qtees and you probably have seen these before if you’ve ever played God of War Resident Evil 4 buttons come on the screen you

Hit it and move on or be like me and purposely mess up to see what happens usually nothing there’s some variation with the QT such as occasional sections where you’re steering Jesse through void obstacles moving through a particular area or during some of the more in-depth combat sections the obstacles that Jesse

Has to avoid are pretty simple though the fixed perspective causes me to fail a couple of these more times than I really should have there are times that you’ll take control of Jesse as he moves to an area which is completely on Rails I didn’t know whether to talk about this

Here or my last point but these sections are either completely pointless or a massive waste of potential look at a couple of these examples here’s a break in a cut scene for Jesse to walk up some stairs that’s it here is Jesse climbing a ladder what a Thrill with dark and silence through the night that’s it here is Jesse walking through a field of Enderman trying not to die that’s it [ __ ] you can’t even fail this section how cool would it have been if the Enderman responded to where your cursor was on screen so you had to move

Forward while also keeping your cursor away from their eyes that would actually be a really interesting intense gameplay situation but instead you just walk forward without the risk of failure now this is gameplay the combat segments are the things that save the qtes the most you could sometimes swap between a sword

And a bow and you are in this fencing like section that is honestly kind of fun the next gameplay section is the dialogue trees they don’t matter one bit yeah I’m not going to Min words on this one outside of adding some different flavor I don’t think these dialog choices

Matter at all you essentially have four dialogue options given any circumstance that you have to choose within a time limit now these aren’t your standard good neutral or evil options you might expect for some games but instead are always contact sensitive and they essentially all accomplish or say the

Same thing well except for choosing the silence option which I have to admit I did on a number of occasions just for a laugh there really is just something funny about the game prompting you to give a speech and you just stand up there and make some weird faces like a

Dumbass you still get the messages in the top Corner that said this character will remember that so what does that amount to slightly different dialogue which is better than nothing but not something that would ever make me want to replay this game to experience there are however some options that affect the

Story to a greater extent and that is the last gameplay segment the decision- making each episode will offer a number of decisions that the player will need to make in order to ultimately decide how to shape the plot these decisions usually give the player two to five choices which can alter different parts

Of the story for the player experience somewhat so a lot of these decisions again don’t really have that big of an impact now to be fair there are a lot better than the dialogue trees there are some decisions that are super small that only affect cosmetic things

Like the weapon you want to craft in episode 4 or whether or not Reuben gets a black eye in episode one some of the other ones are a bit more pivotal which one of Legendary Heroes are you going after which one of your friends are you saving and who you ultimately decide

Lives or dies between two characters those are some of the larger decisions except it still doesn’t amount to that much if you choose to go after one legendary hero over the other one of Jesse’s friends will just get the other one for you with the only difference being that they’ll be slightly offended

You didn’t choose to go for them first no matter who you say between Petra and Gabriel in chapter 1 there events basically trade places but their Fates remain the same and regardless if you let Magnus or elgard die you don’t see either of them again after chapter 4 so

That decision really means [ __ ] all some decisions are basically asking do you want to experience this gameplay section or not with the likes of going down in the basement to save Lucas in chapter 1 offering to help build the command block in Chapter 2 or entering the witches hut

In chapter 4 it also almost seems like these decisions minus a few exceptions don’t affect much of anything outside of the episodes of they’re in and I’m not going to say that the walking dead or The Wolf Among Us gave you a billion different outcomes or anything but those

Games at least made you feel like what you were choosing actually mattered to some extent if you want to go back and re-experience a prior episode and make new decisions you thankfully have the ability to rewind not only a previous episode but to a specific chapter in

That episode too this is kind of a double-edged sword though because when you go back to that section it means it reverts your progress back to that section of the game and you need to play through everything again so you might as well just do two separate playthroughs

If you really want to see everything I wouldn’t recommend it though just look up the alternate cut scenes on Youtube there used to be a menu at the end of every episode that showed what percentage of players made what decision but now that the game is delisted the

Only way to find this information is by looking up on an archival post on the wiki and even that doesn’t have everything from every chapter this game just feels like no matter what choices you make they’re completely forgotten about within an hour which really starts to bring down this game story which I’ve

Already said I’m not super crazy about I think I spent a good portion of this time really kind of thrashing this game but I want to make something very clear I don’t hate this game or even think it’s that bad I don’t like it either if

I haven’t made that clear enough I just think this game is extremely flawed in a number of different areas and it doesn’t surprise me to see that this game is often cited the beginning of the end for Telltale as a studio a lot of the stuff that I loved about telltale’s other

Games just simply isn’t here and a lot of the stuff that I love about Minecraft is also nowhere to be seen what’s left in my opinion is a mismash of ideas that simply doesn’t work this game shows promise in a couple of areas such as its understanding of the Minecraft Community

But it also fails to see one of the most important aspects of the people who love Minecraft the openness that all being said I do think it’s still a shame to see this game not being available on any storefront you’re not necessarily missing out on anything by not playing

This but as someone who believes that game preservation is something that should be taken seriously I would really like to see Telltale and Mojang work something out to bring this back check it out if you’re very very curious I wouldn’t seek out a physical copy unless

You’re a DI hard fan but hey maybe watch the game on YouTube or even give this video a replay if you want to experience it again that’s all the time I have for you guys today so thank you for watching what was your favorite memory of Minecraft story mode please be sure to

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