While this is an original story set in Westeros, knowledge of source material (show and/or books) is STRONGLY recommended, unlike in the Walking Dead games. We meet four canon characters (Margaery, Cersei, Tyrion and Ramsay), all with their official voice and appearance from the TV series. The narrative switches between three protagonists: squire Gared young Ethan, burdened with command Mira, handmaiden in King's Landing. Iron from Ice introduces House Forrester, Stark bannermen struggling to survive the Red Wedding aftermath. I'm eager (and somewhat worried) to see the fallout of my decisions in future episodes, which will import saves and be influenced by them. A couple of scenes made me cringe (in a good way) as I argued with potential enemies and, for all my attempts at subtlety, I kept painting myself into a corner.
Iron from Ice stammers with its sparse QTE-based combat, wonky "exploration" (of the "walk around a room and collect items from the table" variety) and lack of puzzles, but shines when focusing on the interplay between characters and factions, desperate attempts at diplomacy and thorny moral choices. It's the classic Telltale template: excellent voice acting, compelling plot, strong dialogues (forgetting a terrible "okay" which somehow slipped through), simplistic gameplay - an enjoyable experience as long you expect neither a RPG nor an action game nor a point and click adventure, but rather an interactive story set in the Game of Thrones universe. Iron from Ice, the first episode of the series, makes you fearful and paranoid in a giddy kind of way during its best moments, which invariably involve decisions or verbal confrontations. Its not without its flaws, but in the end it left me highly surprised of how good it was.
Voice acting was great, writing was superb and story was highly involving. Overall, "Game of Thrones" is a great game by "Telltale".
Although i was a bit disappointing by the ending of Mira's story, this game overall was simply great. I was so involved into this story of saving House Foresters that it kinda heartbreaking when some later events didn't turned out as expected - some moments later in a game literally did generate some tears in my eyes, and that happen highly rarely in video games. Character development was great, story started to have a true weight and writing was superb. But then with episode 2, things have changed in a very good way. First episode was disappointing to be honest, it was simply pretty boring. "Game of Thrones", a game by "Telltale Games" was much better then i first think it would.
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