The Walking Dead: Season 2 Episodes 4 & 5 (2014)

Fresh from the shrinking backlog here at Emotive Pixels, we serve up the long-overdue finale to our discussion surrounding The Walking Dead Season Two, a Telltale adventure series loosely paralleling Robert Kirkman's comic and - of course - the culturally monolithic AMC TV production. We tackle episodes 4 and 5 here - check out earlier coverage further back in our catalog! In these episodes, we follow Clementine through more harrowing guts-strewn throngs of zombies on through even more awkward and profound emotional moments and, as our cast is wont to point out, intolerable humans. We get into the conclusion of the series quite deeply and really rue the things we felt we've missed with our endings (especially as they relate to our mostly-merciless treatment of Kenny). We talk about how much Bonnie is no good, the fine balance beam Telltale is walking with their action-to-cutscene ratio, statue quotes, dream sequences neverending, and niche Hotline Miami references. It's an exciting week, and an older episode serves as an excellent reminder of the thrills that are only possible when you rate games. Remember when we did that? Relevant links! Austin Powers steamroller scene: important cultural references abound Wes Fenlon via PC Gamer: The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 5 review MDK: murder, death, kill? A game of madness, but it's Interplay so you know it was good SPOILER: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons death scene - death done 10/10 as only in videogames Shameless plugs! (quality warning) Emotive Pixels #4: The Walking Dead: Season 2, Episode 1 podcast Emotive Pixels #9: The Walking Dead: Season 2, Episodes 2 & 3 podcast