It is another Telltale game, made up of developer base formula. Brief story about revenge and personal dramas with few plot twist, but interesting characters. Unfortunately, choices and decisions of little relevant to the development of story, gameplay is simple and with few puzzles/challenges.
The original soundtrack is great for every moment and detailed environment. The choreographies of action are little elaborated for who played other games of developers, but the fatalities are violent and very bloody.
It has comic-style graphics, which, although they are a bit outdated but good, the game has problems rendering textures.

It is a cheap and short game that players will play due to the fame of the series The Walking Dead, with graphics problems but good atmosphere, charismatic characters and incredible soundtrack.

Relevant aspects:

• Progress saved in the cloud;
  
• Statistics of choices and decisions with players from around the world.

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Not as good as the original Walking Dead games but still a pleasant experience. Nice story but there was a bit too much gore and even less control over the things as usual. But still recommended if you have played the previous games. 8)

Though I'd like to generally recommend this game, I cannot.

The short version is that if you haven't played the other two Telltale games (and the 400 Days intermediary piece), your time would be much better spent playing them, rather than this. If you loved those games as much as I did, however, you'll ignore all negative reviews and THEN play this game anyway... maybe you won't even be as disappointed in every other character not named Michonne as I was.

The first season of The Walking Dead added punch and weight to your consequential life and death, ethical and moral decisions because of the presence of a small child in your care. I wrestled with my choices far longer than I would have in a game like Dragon Age or Mass Effect for fear of the impact on the excellently voiced little girl. I wasn't just playing for Lee, I was playing for Clementine.

The second season placed you in the role of Clementine, and even though I found the conclusion muddy and uneven (depending on the ending you got; mine was a headscratcher), seeing the zombie apocalypse from the point of view of this weirdly expert child was novel and engaging to me. I'd become invested in her journey.

Here in Michonne's tale we have the most visually iconic character of the The Walking Dead canon front and center. Though they couldn't get Danai Gurira to voice her, Samira Wiley does an excellent job. The cast as a whole, like previous games, creates a strong ensemble of voices. There are some truly excellent performances. The dialog felt naturalistic, like things a real person might say; however, the one-sentence descriptions the game gives you of your choices led me into some confusing turns of conversation. They pack so much interchange and well-directed camera cuts that I sometimes couldn't see how my choice was connected with where the story next went, though I was entertained enough to shrug and carry on.

The whole of this first episode feels like the first half of one of those television pilots where characters are introduced in the first segment that you get no time to know; but, by the second commercial break there are a whole new set of people with more names to immediately forget. My game time is 95 minutes (as of this writing) on Steam, but five of those were making a sandwich. In that ninety minute running time, my only investment was in the faithful and effective portrayal of Michonne.

This leads into a conceit that breaks one of the primary rules of The Walking Dead franchise: anyone can die.

Except since this story is sandwiched in comic book canon and Michonne is in the title and all that, we know she can't possibly die; so, without investment in secondary characters or some larger, laudable goal, I didn't feel any motivation or jeopardy other than being directly antagonized by "bad guys". I didn't care if I saw any of the characters from the opening again. Furthermore, I didn't want to see half the characters they'd introduced in the second half of the episode at all.

If the second episode connects me with some of these characters, I could see revising my review. Right now, though, I'd advise anyone who hasn't played TellTale Games's The Walking Dead seasons one and season two (yes, in that order) to play those instead.

As for the people who've played the other two excellent TellTale games, nothing I'm going to write will stop you from playing this one. It looks far better than the previous games, though the hard black shading meant to mimic the comic book looks like multiple melanoma or a dark chocolate misfortune on several of the characters. Norma, in particular, was jarring and confusing to my eye, as if she'd had wrinkles tattooed on her wrinkles.

I loved the song, all foot-stomping low-fi roots.

Though The Walking Dead: Michonne had some excellent performances, cinematography and some badass machete play, it left me not wanting more, but empty from it passing right through me due to a lack of substantial characters to care about.

The Walking Dead: Michonne is a mini-series from the prominent point and click developers, Telltale Games. Releasing in February 2016, we follow the story of a sword-wielding woman called Michonne. The story is based on the comic books from the franchise. The game only includes three episodes which is much shorter than the other games in the Telltale catalogue.

Gameplay wise, it is what you should come to expect from any Telltale game now, a gripping story where you have to make quick fire decisions when it comes to dialog and what actions to carry out. Throughout a couple of chapters you get multiple options which will really shape the way the rest of the game. Of course the quick time events make a return here, but they only appear in moments where you would expect and don’t make an appearance too often compared to the rest of the series.

Most people will be playing this game for the story, and as someone who hasn’t read the comics or even watch much of the TV show, I have to say I really enjoyed following the story from beginning until conclusion. You are shown glimpse of memories of Michonne’s past throughout and it will leave you guessing until the end as to what will happen. You will encounter plenty of other characters along the way with whom you can develop relationships with depending on dialogue choices. Each of the three episodes are split into five or six easy to distinguish chapters as there is a clear cut off in scenes and when the story is about to take a different turn.

The art style from Michonne is again, as you would expect from a Telltale game, the comic book look does the game complete justice, there is nothing fancy about them, and it just looks really good. From the animations of all of the characters movement, facial expressions and textures, this game looks brilliant. The voice acting is again top notch; I would expect nothing less from a Telltale game now. There were times when interacting with objects didn’t make a sound, but you anticipate it happening which did kind of knock me out of the immersion at points, but I was able to overlook that given the quality of the story being told.

The Walking Dead Michonne took me just under five hours to complete. This is easily a game you can complete in an afternoon’s worth of time. I wouldn’t say there is any real difficulty to this game though; you are in it more for the ride rather than a game play experience. The lack of any “puzzles” or tricky action scenes may put a handful of people off unfortunately. You could always make the game a little more challenging by turning off any of the hints at the start if you did want that added layer of difficulty. I’d say this title does have at least some replay ability in place – the key decisions you make throughout the story will reward you with different plot points and different endings.

Sadly the game does come with a couple of technical issues. Firstly the loading times, every scene change requires a black screen of at least 10-15 seconds worth of loading, even on my SSD. Secondly, the game will sometimes completely lock up and you just have to sit and wait for a good minute for it to actually sort itself out. This at times will give you a heart attack as you don’t really know when the last time you hit a checkpoint – just bit a little patient and any lock ups will usually sort them self out. Thankfully I didn’t actually get any hard crashes which sent me to desktop which I guess could be a saving grace in this day and age.

I completely enjoyed my time playing through Michonne, no it doesn’t have the long story that the rest of the seasons have, but it’s not meant to. This an evening’s worth of entertainment that is well worth the low price of £10.99. You’d spend that on 2 hours at a movie and to be honest you are going to get a more enthralling story from this game, along with the added replay ability. Telltale fans will have already played this game through by now, but even if you have a passing interest in point and click adventures or The Walking Dead franchise, this is worth both your time and money.

Tom's Score Card
1) Stay away
2) Not Recommended
3) Only recommended when on sale
4) Recommended
5) Highly recommended
6) This is a must play

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First it should be said that I am a huge telltale game fan. I loved the entire Walking Dead series (both seasons), Tales of Borderlands, The Wolf Among us, everything. I've always loved the fascinating characters, story arcs, emotional scenes, humor (particularly in Borderlands), and everything else talltale has always had to offer. They really are a genre of thier own.

Not so much this time.

The Walking Dead: Michonne was probably the most disappointing telltale game I've played. While the characters were vaguely interesting and the plot wasn't bad, it was the actual amount of content that was disappointing. The entire game took me maybe three hours to complete, with each episode barely being an hour. Keep in mind that each Borderlands episode took me two hours and sometimes more (and there was five episodes, making it a really solid game). I recognize that this is a mini series but then the price should be cut drastically to match the gametime.

Additionally, actual gameplay, although pretty decent wasn't the same compared to the other Walking Dead games and for me, it was because of emotional investment. At the end of Walking Dead Season 1, I was crying hysterically. I was so invested in Lee and Clem that the ending literally had me emotionally striken, and I left with tons of feelings even days after completing the game. After I finished Michonne, I kind of just stared at my screen and shrugged like, "Alright." I couldn't get very emotionally invested in the characters and it seemed as if the game was simply telling you who to get invested in and what to think. "These are the bad guys, you are the good guys, they're gonna chase you, you gotta do things to save yourself but some will die, the end." Whereas with Walking Dead Season 1 was more like, "Hey, here is this kid named Benny, he is going to really suck sometimes so you can either take sympathy on the poor kid or you can completely screw him over, or do a combination of both or neither." It was the same way with Kenny, Clem, and everyone else you made moral decisions about. The game didn't tell you to care about certain characters or view certain characters as strictly bad guys. It was up to you to make that decision for yourself.

Overall, if this game was on sale (5~10) and you are a fan of talltale I'd still probably suggest you get it, but just keep in mind that it's not a very long game at all and you may not get as emotionally invested as you would playing Season 1 or Season 2.

If The New Frontier is TWD lite, then Michonne’s little sidequest here is like Coke Zero. Comes in smaller sizes, no calories, and tastes better than Diet Coke, but you just have to wonder what the hell they put into it to make it taste that way.

It’s short and fairly entertaining, but there’s not much content and because Michonne is from the comics/TV series, we know that she can’t die. Which means we have to worry about the people around us, a bunch of nobodies who we’ve never seen before and aren’t ever going to see again.

Which for me, kind of flopped. I couldn’t connect with anyone and though I really like Michonne from the comics/TV series, I just wasn’t that into her drama.

I got the game for just a few dollars, so I don’t feel ripped off or anything. It’s just not super compelling.

Still, I’m giving it a recommendation as a sale item. You can play it without ever having played any of the others if you want, but it’s definitely geared more towards fans of the TV series and comics than fans of the games.

As someone who loved the mainline entries of Telltale's The Walking Dead, I decided to give their spin-off, Michonne, a chance. While the ever so familiar gameplay loop of doing almost nothing besides pressing a random button once in a fool moon is still present, it's the story where The Walking Dead: Michonne inevitably fails.

Unlike the games that follow Clementine and her struggles from the start of the zombie outbreak, The Walking Dead: Michonne tells only a very tiny snippet of our titular hero's journey. We get to see what Michonne was doing during her brief absence from Rick's group in the comics. Thus, you already know Michonne will survive, breaking the illusion of her being in any kind of danger during this quite short adventure.

And while this is a self-contained story, Michonne is an already established character in the comics. So to understand her and this whole pilgrimage she goes on, you need to read the source material. Like, why did she even leave? And her being an already established character, with her quirks and traits, removes the possibility for the players to project themselves onto the character, which you can do in many other "choice" based games. This is because, while the protagonist has a backstory, you are there when their new life starts and take control of them from that point onward, making history together. Take Lee from the first The Walking Dead game as an example. Sure, we get a glimpse into his past, but the question of "Who is Lee?" ultimately falls unto us, the players, to decide. We are the ones that steer him according to what we perceive him or want him to be. And sadly, that's just not the case with Michonne.

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But, the game is not just bogged down by the requirement of knowing who this character is and why she is where she is, it's also the uninteresting supporting cast. They are never properly set up and feel more like a means to an end than genuine people you'll form some form of affection towards. Heck, after the first five minutes, you don't even see Michonne's crew, except for Pete (depending on one "tough choice"), until the very end of the last episode. And this leads into another glaring issue - choices don't really hold any weight, whatsoever. Yes, yes...Other "choice" based games also lack meaningful consequences for your choices and just present you with an illusion of choice, while the story plays out mostly the same, with only minor differences. But at least in those games, people you care for and spend time getting to know have that ominous spectre of death loom over their shoulders as it waits for you to make a "mistake". Here, it's just some random dudes and dudettes specifically conjured up for this spin-off. They are never mentioned again and have zero impact on Michonne's character and her overall journey in the comics. So why care about their potential deaths when their entire existence is confined into only these 3 specific episodes? Because we spent 5 minutes talking about rum and cards? Nah.

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As for the gameplay, it's more of the same; Quick time events galore, timed dialogue picks, simple exploration of small areas, and a couple of "impactful" choices sprinkled throughout the story. The presentation is the only thing I can praise. Its famous comic book aesthetic is still here, and so is the gore, so don't worry. The sound effects are still solid, with your zombie growls, human shrieks and that oh so familiar sound of a blunt object meeting an unfortunate cranium. And once again, voice actors do a splendid job, with Samira Wiley stealing the show as Michonne. Last but not least, the locations you visit are rather dull and drab looking, and that is the only nitpick I have with the presentation on offer.

And that's it, there's not much else to talk about.

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Truthfully, I wouldn't recommend buying this as a standalone purchase, as it's part of an all-in-one collection - The Walking Dead Definitive Edition. And even then, I don't really recommend it as a must-play unless you are a die-hard fan whose hunger for all things The Walking Dead is unsatable. Personally, this game has no valid reason to exist. It does nothing for its titular character and feels like it was made just so Telltale can cash in on The Walking Dead brand.

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I cannot recommend this game simply because it is too short. There is not enough time to connect with any of the characters that you meet. The story is not very creative either. The whole "we need resources so we have to fight these mean people for them" is getting rather old.

Disappointing. A few exciting scenes can't save an overall tedious cliche plot.

- Michonne is one of the more bad-ass characters in TWD universe.
- Decent graphics and soundtrack.

- Flashbacks about her children almost every few minutes
- Cookie-cutter disposable side characters.
- "X will remember that". Yeah, for like 5 minutes before they die.
- Your choices don't really affect much, General outcome is the same in the end.

As someone who loves Telltale Games and multiple choice games in general, the reason why I purchased this game is pretty much obvious, however, I expected much much more from TT than they delivered.

Here are some good and bad things about this episode of the series.

Pro's:

—Decisions have a somewhat bigger effect on the story than other games in the series.
—It’s simple and easy to play and understand, even if your new to the series.
—Lots of hard choices.
—Great art style, as always.
—Great story.
—It's brutal and plays with your feelings.

Con’s:

—Too short. Finished it in about 12 hours.
—It's expensive given how short it is.
—UI has bugs and glitches.
—No controller support.
—Not enough interactive events; They were great, they were just not enough.
—Spoiler: Michonne seeing her daughters all the time was overdone, annoying and frustrating, as if they tried to pull off something similar to what happens to Cobb (Inception) but failed.

In conclusion, I still feel it’s a really good game but if you're not sure about buying it because of how pricey it is, do think twice.

Great game, could've been done better.
8.2/10