Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - Episode 4: Who Needs You

Critic reviews

• TTechRaptor

  Samuel Guglielmo · Oct 20, 2017

  6.5

  Who Needs You is probably the best episode of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series yet. Sadly, that isn’t saying much. Up until this point, the series has been noticeably unable to keep up the quality it’s needed to make the season worth it. This may be the best episode, but this is also the penultimate episode and the season needed quality well before this. Telltale has one more chance to salvage something from the season, but it seems unlikely to happen.

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• CCOGconnected

  Michael Chow · Oct 18, 2017

  7.0

  Overall, Guardians of the Galaxy: A Telltale Series turns the series around from perhaps its weakest episode to perhaps its strongest. With a refocus on the dynamics of the Guardians as a team rather than the main plot line, Telltale appears to have repositioned themselves into a better perspective with which to enter the final act. With this episode, we can also begin to see how certain plotlines are coming together now that we near the end.

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• PSPush Square

  John Cal McCormick · Oct 16, 2017

  6.0

  Episode Four - Who Needs You showcases the best and worst of the Guardians series so far. The jokes repeatedly fall flat, the story is largely irrelevant, and the characters are still pale imitations of their big screen counterparts, but after a fantastically dull first hour, the episode manages to conjure up some surprisingly poignant moments in order to make the second half the highlight of the series so far.

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• GIGame Informer

  Matt Miller · Oct 12, 2017

  7.5

  No matter your decisions up to this point in the story, the end of Episode Four does its most important job – puts our leads into dire personal conflict as we head into the last act, making it seem impossible that they can ever pull things together and win the day. If we lose some of the lighthearted fun this time, I’m willing to withhold judgment and see if it all pays off with some big twists in the conclusion.
• HGHardcore Gamer

  Sam Spyrison · Oct 11, 2017

  7.0

  Although Who Needs You provides some of the season’s most emotionally charged scenes, the episode’s inconsistency with its tone and story progression, and all-too-familiar gameplay and technical issues make for a lackluster penultimate chapter that only looks to harm the upcoming season finale. Telltale may need to find its own Eternity Forge to revive the series’ attempt at wrapping up this dysfunctional space family’s premiere story.

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• IIGN

  T.J · Oct 10, 2017

  8.6

  I can definitely feel that end-of-series crunch happening in Who Needs You, where all the many choices I’ve made have to converge back together to fit a limited number of endings. It comes across a bit heavy-handed in setting the stage for what seems like a somewhat predictable final chapter, but Telltale has surprised me before. As a standalone adventure, it’s definitely up there with Episode 1 as something I’d play over a couple more times, not just to explore different choices but because it’s simply fun and exciting. The fact that it pulls very few emotional punches left me feeling a bit worn out, but also with a glowing sense of anticipation for the sprint to the finish and tying it all together.

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