![]() That’s a bold move when the story doesn’t even have its own internal logic. The adventure would slow down to explain to me things that had just happened, or would keep beating me over the head with the same point repeatedly. It honestly feels like someone gave a 15-year-old the reins of one of the biggest series in gaming and hoped for the best. Plus the tone is super awkward and weird in the scenes themselves, so they don’t even work out of context, either. The final episodes try to pull off some emotional character moments, but when they haven’t been explored or set up well in the first few episodes, they feel melodramatic and hollow. Threads are introduced and abandoned, or brought up in a way that would suggest some kind of significance that was never set up beforehand. Some characters are introduced in the first episode and then never show up again except in the finale of the whole story. One of the side characters had a somewhat interesting little semblance of an arc, but they use him so sparingly that it loses most of its impact. The relationships aren’t developed in any meaningful or interesting way. Personality-wise, they don’t change or have any form of introspection (until some over-the-top scenes toward the end). I don’t know if it was a problem with the engine not loading things fast enough, but I felt like I was trudging through molasses the whole time. When it came to the actual speed of the lines delivered, or the pauses between lines, it also felt like everything was moving in slo-mo. I don’t know who told the writers that I wanted to do chores and deal with an insurance claim in a Borderlands game without any sort of comedic twist, but they were sorely, sorely mistaken. In the final episode, one of the main characters literally says they’re wandering around and doing nothing in particular. In the final episodes, where the story is supposed to be at its most climactic and enthralling, it would have been slogged down by the snail pacing if what was going on made any sense at all.Ī major plot point hinges on a montage of the characters sitting around and killing time. Most of this game features the characters standing in the same building and talking - even one of the big battle sequences had the characters stopping and talking every other second. ![]() Narratively speaking, it takes forever to do everything. MSRP: $39.99 Does this even count as a story? ![]() ![]() New Tales from the Borderlands ( PC, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S) I honestly don’t even know where to start. And likely incur some wrath from those who want to defend this hot mess. ![]() Now I’m tasked with detailing what a torturous experience this was, and to be the bearer of bad news. How wrong I was.Īs I made my way through each subsequent episode, I regretted taking on this review more and more. Telltale’s Tales from the Borderlands is an all-time favorite of mine that I’ve played through multiple times, and while I was disappointed to see that Gearbox’s take on Tales wouldn’t continue Rhys, Fiona, and Sasha’s story, I was optimistic that the sequel would be an enjoyable experience. I was really excited to get to do the New Tales from the Borderlands review for Destructoid. I didn’t want to have to do this, but they gave me no choice ![]()
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