Despite some of the more uneven aspects of the series as a whole – its mixed visual style and its sometimes over reliance on recreating events similar to the original television series – “The Ice Dragon” proves to be a finale as satisfying as much as it is incredibly bloody and heartbreaking in many ways.
Game of Thrones: Episode Six - The Ice Dragon
Telltale Games · Nov 17, 2015
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Your story is about to come to an epic conclusion. With House Whitehill tightening its grip on Ironrath at the behest of Ramsay Bolton, the remaining Forresters must give their all to save the family, whether through diplomacy, subterfuge, or violent force. In the frozen wilds beyond The Wall, Gared learns the secrets of the mysterious North Grove, and Mira discovers that political games in a King's Landing controlled by Cersei Lannister often involve the highest stakes of all.
What is the fate of House Forrester? When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die. Your choices, your story: you decide.
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- 7.0Game of Thrones: Episode 6 – The Ice Dragon offers an alright ending to a slightly disappointing spin-off overall. We struggled to care about a lot of the deaths here, but the story moves along reasonably well and it sets up what we hope will prove a superior second season. It can't light a candle to some of Telltale's finer work, but it's never been outwardly bad.
- Given Telltale’s past work on the series, it was hard to imagine that Episode Six would actually do right by that decision and manage to wrap the season up in a remotely satisfying way. Sure enough, huge chunks of Episode Six are just as middling as everything else in the season, and on a technical level, it’s even worse. Still, there’s bright spots throughout the episode, especially with Mira’s storyline, that prove enjoyable enough that players who have made it this far should finish it out.
- 7.0Unfortunately, the season’s finale was hampered by poor audio quality and a cliffhanger ending that seemed to come out of nowhere. It’s not the worst ending, but considering season two hasn’t even been announced yet, there isn’t any kind of a guarantee that players will get closure for everything they did in season one.
- 5.5The Ice Dragon is a disappointing ending to a season that seemed to hold so much promise. Mistaking shock and surprise for engaging material, on top of the typical Telltale technical woes, leaves behind an underwhelming experience. There may still be some good craft in the dialogue and characterization, but that was wasted on a plot that seemed to take the easy, well-trod path we have all seen before, rather than try to capitalize on its potential in the end.
- 6.7We knew this wasn’t going to end in happiness for the Forresters - if it had, I’d be crying foul that it didn’t feel like Game of Thrones at all. The problem is that sense of inevitability mixes with the lack of resolution for major parts of the plot in an unappealing way. Most of what this uneven season finale has to offer is found in a few strong moments and continued hope for answers to questions in a hypothetical season 2.
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