A couple of hours later and this spat is still ongoing, with each party going all out to destroy and avenge their losses. However, once shit hits the fan and people start eating each other, part of the family is separated, and Javi must act as a fatherly figure to his niece and nephew, Gabe and Mariana, and to his sister-in-law, Kate, who rarely shows any signs of grief towards her disappeared husband.īy the end of the first episode, A New Frontier, a berserk bandit group with little tolerance towards outsiders, has an unfortunate run-in with Javi’s humble clique, and they end up antagonizing each other.
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With this vision, which was also present in the comics and TV series, A New Frontier starts off before the outbreak, introducing Javi’s family as a tight-knit, diverse and contentious, to the point that his older brother David ends up sucker-punching Javi within minutes of arriving home. Not the one given to us by blood, necessarily, but the one we forge through hardships and love.
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The core theme in every one of The Walking Dead games has always been family. This way the first act of the story is finalized then, when introductions are superfluous and the upcoming challenges clearly looming ahead. However, unlike in previous Telltale games, this one is being premiered with two episodes at once, which, according to the developers, helps direct the story towards a particular path that would have misguidedly been shadowed in the first episode by more shocking events. Telltale’s mastery of storytelling comes to light in the first episode by involving the player in the story of Javi and his family, and seamlessly and swiftly construing each and one of them before the end of the first episode, making them feel almost like your own family. This is one of the many challenges that Telltale presents in the game, becoming part of the meta game, in regards to the player’s knowledge and feelings, and not the character’s.Ī New Frontier introduces Javier, a young Cuban-American ex-baseball player with a career cut short, as the protagonist of the game. If you are one of these players and have no notion of who Clementine is, your experience will most likely be very different from mine, as you´ll have a clean slate for her first appearance, with no predisposition towards her. And thus, A New Frontier is largely a standalone title with recurring characters, but which requires no previous experience in zombie-fighting.
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Telltale knows that Season 2 catered to veteran players who had already completed the first one, and that a third season would only curtail its target demographics.
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A New Frontier is the third season in the series, although not officially, as it’s not a continuation of the events in the past two seasons as much as it is an independent story to which Clementine is progressively weaved in. That is, aside from The Walking Dead franchise, which not only carried over the same universe, but also the same overarching theme and characters, creating a chronologically sound universe. Fair enough it laid the ground for a legacy of mechanically and stylistically similar games, but entirely different in terms of theme. The original is even considered by many a seminal work and the magnum opus in the developer’s wide portfolio of established brands spin-offs.
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The Walking Dead is Telltale’s staple franchise by now, having become if not the most famous, undoubtedly the most cherished. Reviews // 27th Feb 2017 - 5 years ago // By Borja Vilar Martos The Walking Dead: A New Frontier Episode 1 & 2 Review