#Game of thrones telltale 5 series

I’ve got an edition of A Feast for Crows in the most gorgeous red slipcase you’ll ever see, and I’ve seen The Mountain and the Viper about 500 times. It wasn’t so much a “tune in next week!” as it was, like… “Well, that was shit - do I want to know what happens next?” Of course you do. That last episode cliffhanger after leaving one of the two eldest Forrester brothers to die was delivered with real elegance. Asher Forrester’s return to Ironrath wasn’t greeted by a parade of jesters and trumpeteers - it was solemn, bleak, and ultimately bittersweet. Ramsay killing Ethan wasn’t some sort of gory bloodfest so much as it was pure, quiet villainy. When Telltale wrote Game of Thrones, it took influence from these single standout moments - not the biggest battles or the wildest drama, but the evocative, slow-burning stuff. I almost teared up writing that last bit, because despite reading the books multiple times each, I’d honestly forgotten about it. I’m on about seasons three and four, with The Red Wedding, The Purple Wedding - why do people continue to get married when everyone at weddings seemingly dies? - Tyrion’s trial, Oberyn vs The Mountain, Grenn and Pyp courageously taking on the giant in the tunnel to Castle Black. I’m not talking about season one or two, by the way.

Telltale’s Game of Thrones captured a lot of the same essence that invigorated early Game of Thrones. Jon Snow, King in the North? Who’s that? Mate, we’re all about Gared Tuttle here, the crow from the ironwoods who’s off to find the North Grove.

#Game of thrones telltale 5 series

This was a game that took beloved characters from the world’s most titanic series and integrated them into a whole new story as minor players with less than a handful of lines. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t excellent in its own right. Sure, it wasn’t The Walking Dead season one or The Wolf Among Us. Related: 5 Ways Elden Ring Reminds Us Of Winds Of Winter (And 5 It Doesn't)Ī lot of people thought Telltale’s Game of Thrones was pretty average. Telltale, on the other hand, never needed said source material in the first place - it took the lore, parsed it, understood it, and said, “Okay, now let’s write our own story.” Season six was pretty good - we got The Battle of the Bastards - but Dan and Dave were always going to drop the ball as soon as they’d fully exhausted George RR Martin’s source material. Weirdly enough, I was always more excited about the possibility of season two of Telltale’s Game of Thrones than season seven or eight of HBO’s one. I’m not going to waste time adding to the already uproarious disdain for Game of Thrones season eight - I actually reckon my ambivalence towards it was rooted in a different reason to most people - but let’s just say it was unanimously disappointing, right? That Jon and Daenerys scene… rough.