The Walking Dead: The Final Season - Episode 4 - Take Us Back

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• CCOGconnected

  Patrick Anderson · Apr 03, 2019

  8.7

  If you’ve been playing the series all along up until now, it goes without saying that you should play it to the end, and the good news is that when you do you won’t be disappointed. And of course, unless you’re a brain-dead zombie you know what’s coming and you know that you better be prepared for feels by the bucketload.

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• TTechRaptor

  Samuel Guglielmo · Mar 31, 2019

  8.5

  Take Us Back wraps up Clementine and AJ's story in a satisfying way, developing both characters and making sure the conclusion is worth sticking around for. Getting to finally put Clementine's story to rest is a doozy.

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• GGameSpot

  Justin Clark · Mar 29, 2019

  9.0

  Here, the trademark Telltale UI has changed, no longer that distinctive up-down-left-right grid of responses, but a floating collection of potential thoughts or emotions to have. It looks a little like the crucial time-stopping decision clouds of Life Is Strange. It acts a little like the emotion-based response system of Mass Effect Andromeda. It feels like a statement by a group of developers whose legacy is now safe and sound.

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• GRGame Revolution

  Michael Leri · Mar 28, 2019

  6.0

  As a singular episode, it’s fine. But in the grander scheme of wrapping up a six-year storyline and four-episode arc, it’s also just fine and that middle of the road result is a bit of a disappointment. The finale to a once-revered franchise should have more impact than this and even though parts of this episode are pretty solid, it doesn’t quite rise to the occasion and fulfill its full potential. It’s the end of an era. It just should have been a more memorable end.

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• NINintendo Insider

  Darren Palma · Mar 28, 2019

  8.0

  Overall, I appreciated the way that the lid finally closed on the Telltale’s The Walking Dead, and the decision to wrap everything up in just four episodes felt, to me at least, the right choice to make. While collective distractions and over-saturated plot lines can seem all too familiar with the franchise as a whole, to finally see the nail hammered into the coffin on a strong note is a far braver achievement made when compared to its peers. The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season was a gaming phenomenon. It put Telltale on the map in how brilliant a concept it was.

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• GGameSpew

  Becca Smith · Mar 27, 2019

  9.0

  The Walking Dead: The Final Season Episode 4 – Take Us Back is a triumph of a finale that gives the players – and the characters – the ending they deserved.

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