Hi I'm Hamish. This is a documentation of my wonderful adventures as I make my way from a flailing animation student, to a powerful and successful art ninja (I hope.)
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Friday 25 March 2016

What week are we up to now? (Wolf among us game blog)

Coolio, this week I played The Wolf Among Us. This is one of the Telltale games and has that typical telltale branching story with choices that can lead you down different paths.

You play as Bigby, AKA Big bad wolf, who is the sheriff of Fabletown, a secret community of fairytale characters living in New York disguised as regular humans. Following a murder you are dragged into an investigation where you must uncover the murderer's identity and save as many people as you can.

This game offers a lot of story interaction, some of it really doesn't change the story at all but other choice moments can lead you down some very different storylines, leading to characters deaths, characters responding to you differently, and changing how much information your character has about the murder.

Because some of these choices can change the narrative path so drastically, all of the decisions in the game seem to have more weight. The player understands that they do have some control over the story, and the game uses this to trick the player into feeling like they have a lot of control. In reality of course there are only so many paths you can travel down and only so many outcomes they can lead to. For instance no matter how you play the first episode it always ends with you in a bar making a decision between only two possible story paths. This method allows the game creators to keep the size of the game minimal while still making the player feel as though there are many possibilities in-game.

All up I'm really enjoying the game and I plan on playing it through to the end. Hopefully I make the right decisions.

Bish bash bosh, SuperPlumpHam signing off.

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