The storytelling is excellent, from cool viewpoint changes, to splashy character introductions, and the characters are both believable and easy to get emotionally attached to (you really get to hate your boss, the one who likes comparing spaceships to anatomy). And of course, there’s the humor. Tales from the Borderlands is incredibly funny.
Tales from the Borderlands: Episode One - Zer0 Sum
Telltale Games · Dec 11, 2014
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Set on the unforgiving world of Pandora after the events seen in Borderlands 2, this is a story full of Borderlands’ trademark humor. You will play as Rhys, a Hyperion ‘suit’ with dreams of being the next Handsome Jack, and Fiona, a Pandoran con artist looking to score her biggest ever swindle. Thrown together as unwilling partners in an adventure to recover cash they both think is theirs, their journey will take you on a wild ride where gangsters, bandit lords, and Vault Hunters are just some of the obstacles you will encounter.
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- The best part of Tales from the Borderlands is that this game shows us that Borderlands is more than a game. It’s a concept. A concept of different worlds to be explored by different characters – or in this case, the same world with characters that put you, the player, in the shoes of people from the other side. Or aren’t they? It eventually all comes down on that shiny treasure.
- 9.0Well, this episode is a great way to start off this series. The promise and potential for Tales from the Borderlands was very high, and "Zer0 Sum" generally gets off on the right foot.
- 9.0Telltale knocked it out of the park with this one. The main series, although humorous and fun, sometimes lacks the immersion that helps drive the unique setting for Pandora home. Tales from the Borderlands remedies this by connecting players to two of the regular citizens of the forsaken world and lends a sorely needed personal connection to the series.
- 9.0When Tales from the Borderlands was announced, I honestly wasn’t sure what to anticipate, but with one episode, Telltale have sold me on another one of their ideas. It’s shares a lot of DNA with both Borderlands and the usual Telltale adventure games, and yet it’s nothing like them at all. It’s one of their best offerings, and a refreshing new direction for both a game series that had begun to go stale and a gameplay formula which had started to feel repetitive.
- 10Tales from the Borderlands is everything fans could possibly want out from a Telltale game set in the Borderlands universe. There were more than a few moments where I laughed out loud (something I rarely do when gaming), and even one point where I had to pause the game because I had to just take in the awesomeness of what I just witnessed.
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