Reviewing the series as a whole, this series is a must experience if you want a good heart touching story. No game or movie has ever made me feel so emotional (I may or may not have cried) for any character, let alone two. I'm in a love/hate relationship with this masterpiece of a story.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the story and where it ends, the hate comes at the very end. I mean I'm glad it got a happy ending, I absolutely would have hated it if they didn't pull it back a notch there at the end. My hate stems from how I just can't say goodbye. After watching Clementine grow up and seeing what she's been through, she has a very special place in my heart and I just want more content. At the very end, the game sets up another Episode or Season (despite being called "The Final Season") where you play as a different character which has more than 4 choices of dialog, and they talk about meeting another character the next morning. Not to mention the previous games had 5 episodes, this one only has 4. It's not much but it really feels ready for a continuation that will never come.

I wouldn't say I want a proper conclusion because that would certainly end in Clementine's death, or really some of the newly introduced characters in Season 4 and I just don't want any more of them to die. What I really do want is to see what's next for Clementine and AJ. The ending is just so open to me that it just really feels like it ended at the wrong time. I said that we watch Clementine grow up throughout the series, and while that's mostly true, it's not entirely true. She's still a teenager in the final game and she possibly has a lot more of her life ahead of her. But we will never get to see what her life is actually like after the end.

Perhaps it's for the best it ended when it did. Another 5th episode probably would be devastating in that they'd kill all the characters you have come to love or enjoy, just like how most people you have met in the previous games have died. This series is riddled with loss, but that's part of what has built my attachment to Clementine. Every time she has lost one that she's truly cared about, I almost felt like I lost something too.

Again, this game series/story is a masterpiece for me, and is towards the top of my must play, or rather, experience games of all time. I would recommend anyone play it if they want a good story, just be prepared to struggle saying goodbye.

Update: after doing some looking around, there are some comic books that exist do continue Clementine's story which is exactly what I said I wanted. Except the new writer who wrote that book singlehandedly destroyed the points of seasons 3 and 4 with 2 sentences in the plot, and for that, I can't accept glorified fanfiction as canon. The plot says of the book Clementine Lives says "Clementine doesn't feel at home at the school and nothing makes her happy. Not even AJ can make her happy." The whole point of season 3 for Clementine was to get AJ back as they had been separated. The point of season 4 was to not only teach AJ to survive, but to find a home, as between seasons 3 and 4 they have been on the road a while and want to stop running. Well they found that by the end of season 4, and Clementine just suddenly isn't happy anymore, after everything she's lost? She's just going to throw what she had away? ♥♥♥♥ that and ♥♥♥♥ the comics. There are 3 comic books being written after Clementine Lives, and if you love this series, it might be a good idea to not read them. The new writer could have at least found a way to kill everyone, but even then that'd be a devastating blow below the belt that would really make the comic suck. But at least I could believe it.

Ignore my lack of playtime, I played this offline on my Steam Deck except for the final episode.