So hey, the first episode came out today, and I thought it was fucking great!
let's do that comparison of choices thing we did in The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us threads:
Spoiler: choices and what not (click to see content)
So, I went in planning on playing Batman as a nicer and more compassionate character than he's usually been portrayed as of late, hewing closer to that wonderful time from decades past when Batman didn't act like an egomaniacal dick to nearly everyone around him. But to my absolute delight, the game already is basically approaching Batman from that direction! He actually feels like a real human being and not a constantly scowling rage monster!
The only thing that bugged me was what they're doing with the Penguin; I'm not really sure how to feel about it and I don't think the direction they seem to be going with (Penguin as leader of populist uprising, against the rich elite) works all that well for the character.
If you connect your game to a Telltale account, it will be able to pull up a list of the choices you made. But the weird thing about all this is that the list of your choices on the website is completely different than the list in-game. And I don't mean that it doesn't display the actual decisions you made, it just shows a different set of choices and the decisions you made for each one. So instead of the standard 5 choices one would expect from previous Telltale games, there's 10???
I refused Falcone's offer of alliance. It feels refreshing to play a Telltale game and go hard into optimism and idealism. Batman's a superhero, not a civilian in a zombie apocalypse or a morally compromised noir detective from fairy tales; there's no way he'd partner up with criminal scum like Falcone!
I stayed to talk to Gordon at the docks. Pretty standard Batman behavior!
I saved the theater tickets. I mean jeez, it's Batman. Dude loves to both hold onto emotional trauma AND to store stuff in trophy cases in his basement. No way would he rip up those tickets!
I prevented Catwoman from getting away with the loot. This counts as a decision, even though it's a QTE???
I sympathized with the plight of the Cobblepot family. Cuz my Batman/Bruce is a very nice boy... within reason.
I defied falcone by inviting Harvey into the meeting. Who the fuck does this bozo think he is, barging into the Wayne mansion and thinking like he can set the all terms? I wanted that creep gone as soon as possible, and bringing Harvey Dent along seemed like it would
I gave Vicki a quote to get ahead of the story. Hopefully this doesn't bite me in the ass later on. I basically figured this whole "Wayne family conspired with Falcone" thing was entirely bullshit, like the falsified allegations against Thomas Wayne about him faking his death and Alfred being Bruce's real father, from the Morrison run. But the preview certainly seems to imply there was something going on between Falcone and the Waynes. Perhaps it was a sort of "saving Gotham, by any means necessary" type deal; setting up a similar moral conflict that Batman will have to face later on in the series?
I showed mercy in the interrogation of the docks shooter. There's not a ton of incarnations of Batman that would break that dude's arm (even after getting a confession), and I'm not interested in emulating the ones that would.
I gave the Falcone data to Gordon. This seems pretty sensible, right? It's Gordon, he can be trusted to do the right thing, and the it's not like the truth was suppressed; it all came out in the open within a few hours of giving the data to Gordon!
I showed restraint and handed Falcone over to the police. Again, I'm so not interested in playing Batman as a psychopathic douche. Got enough of that from the Arkham games *grumble grumble*