![]() ![]() You Don’t Have To Play Borderlands To Understand It Now that the game is available free to PS Plus members starting today, I thought I’d take some time to lay out why I think it’s the best game that Telltale has released (yes, even better than The Walking Dead) and why it’s worth your time. One of the first things I did when I joined Game Informer was declare it my personal Game of the Year for 2015, to the skepticism and dismay of my fellow editors. Score: 9.I’ve hardly been quiet about my love for Tales From The Borderlands. Hats off to Telltale for never losing focus on a single episode and making it their best series to date. I’d hate for this to be the last we see of Rhys and the crew. The Vault of the Traveller is a great close to a truly amazing series, one that I hope continues. It’s almost impossible to fault, in fact I don’t think I can. The music has been absolutely fantastic throughout the series and the finale is no different, I have tracked down every Intro song and listen to them frequently, especially Episode 4’s “To The Top”, while the voice-acting has been superb and full of great actors. I’d say it was Telltale’s best series actually, because not 1 episode has dropped the level of quality established in the first. This has been Telltale’s funniest series, but proof that it can also be brutal at the same time. It’s action-packed, emotional and gut-wrenching at times, but most of all it still maintains the series’ sense of humour throughout. As a season finale goes, it’s probably Telltale’s best. ![]() More or less every storyline is tied up by the end, although it obviously leaves things open in other ways. You also get to kinda get some input in the love storyline between Rhys and Sasha towards the end of the episode, once again not sure if your choices will impact it or not, especially since we don’t know if we’ll even get a second season, but I pray we do. I’m not sure how much your choices will impact a second season (if there is one) but you do get a chance to get rid of Handsome Jack once and for all by ripping out your cybernetics, including your Echo Eye and given the choice to either crush the eye or keep it, I’m betting that by keeping it we haven’t seen the last of Jack. ![]() I won’t spoil the identity for you, but it’s a good twist. But in retrospect, it does make a lot of sense. What awaits is a difficult call to make, but then the story comes full circle as the identity of the Masker Stranger is revealed, which I did not see coming. We aren’t on Helios long before we return to Pandora to open the Vault of the Traveller, which results in a rather difficult scene (as do some of the ones before it) as Gortys receives the last piece to summon the Vault and the Guardian inside it, which results in a one-on-one battle between the two…as Gortys becomes gigantic in size. Of course, the way the story has been told is in a “story within a story” method thus far as both Rhys and Fiona are captured by the masked stranger and reciting their journey. I opted to agree with Jack, a decision I began to regret and suffice to say is one that doesn’t pan out. We last left things where Rhys was given a difficult decision to either let Handsome Jack use him to take over Helios and become the Hyperion President or reject his offer in which case Jack just takes over by himself. It’s been a long journey, but here we are at the season finale of Tales from the Borderlands and what a send-off it is. What awaits the Wannabe-Vault Hunters in the season finale? ![]()
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