Film Review #35 - Telltale's The Wolf Among Us (Episodes 1-3)

     Oh boy, Telltale just loves to show off how good they are at making gripping story focused video games. The Wolf Among Us is based of the comic series Fables, in which fairy tale and folklore characters, who refer to themselves as Fables, have fled the Homelands and formed a clandestine community in our world, in New York City. The game takes place before the events in the comics, where we play as Bigby Wolf, the Big Bad Wolf himself, as he tries to solve an unfathomable crime: the murder of a Fable. The story so far has been an incredible ride, with twists and turns and tense moments. It's similar to Telltale's The Walking Dead in the sense that you select what the character will say and you get to make choices, but it feels different. Maybe it's the atmosphere, an incredible atmosphere by the way. The art style is the same, but their use of shadows and colors remind me of a noir film. The soundtrack also heavily reinforces that feeling. A welcome improvement to the formula is the combat. In The Wolf Among Us, combat scenarios feel a lot more engaging and offer you more control over what happens. You click a directional key when prompted to avoid an attack for example, and in general everything is more fast paced and feels more fluid. It's definitely very satisfying. Now I can't say what's going to happen in "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" and in "Cry Wolf", the two remaining episodes, but what they've set up in Episode 3 "A Crooked Mile" and how they ended it makes me very excited to see the conclusion.