My Girlfriend Plays The Wolf Among Us
Telltale Games is famous for its long line of point and click adventure games, in particular their adaptions of Sam & Max, Homestar Runner, Back to the Future, and The Walking Dead. Their most recent game, The Wolf Among Us is another in this list being a videogame version of the critically acclaimed Fables series of comics from the Vertigo publishing company. Having come out in 2013, The Wolf Among Us serves as a prequel to the rest of the series, taking place about twenty years before the events of Fables #1. In it, a large group of fairytales called Fables live in a magically concealed part of New York City, with Sheriff Bigby Wolf (Get it?) keeping them all in line and making sure they don’t tear each other to pieces. But when an unknown Fable is murdered and her corpse displayed on Fabletown’s doorstep, it’s up to Bigby and his co-worker Snow White to deduce who the mysterious killer is. As they delve deeper into this murder case, they find it increasingly difficult to balance the competing interests and egos of Fables like Ichabod Crane, Mr. Toad, Bluebeard, and Bloody Mary.
The player is my girlfriend, Victoria “Tori” Stearns. She is 20 years old, and is a Criminal Justice and Psychology major here at the University of New Haven. While she found Telltale’s adaption of The Walking Dead to be “Boooorrrrinnnnggggg”, she has been a big fan of the Fables comic series for a while now and was extremely excited to play The Wolf Among Us. After some technological difficulties, we set up my laptop on her dorm TV, and she allowed me to take pictures while she was playing.
After a certain point, my camera ran out of battery, and we had to call it a night. However, immediately after, Tori immediately asked me when we could play the game again. After some prompting, she said she loved the videogame incarnation of Fables praising its artistic style and its regard for the source material. She also enjoyed the action and investigation sequences, saying they were more streamlined and required more thought than the fights and puzzles of The Walking Dead. Her final request was that immediately after I finish this review, we play it again.
Telltale Games is famous for its long line of point and click adventure games, in particular their adaptions of Sam & Max, Homestar Runner, Back to the Future, and The Walking Dead. Their most recent game, The Wolf Among Us is another in this list being a videogame version of the critically acclaimed Fables series of comics from the Vertigo publishing company. Having come out in 2013, The Wolf Among Us serves as a prequel to the rest of the series, taking place about twenty years before the events of Fables #1. In it, a large group of fairytales called Fables live in a magically concealed part of New York City, with Sheriff Bigby Wolf (Get it?) keeping them all in line and making sure they don’t tear each other to pieces. But when an unknown Fable is murdered and her corpse displayed on Fabletown’s doorstep, it’s up to Bigby and his co-worker Snow White to deduce who the mysterious killer is. As they delve deeper into this murder case, they find it increasingly difficult to balance the competing interests and egos of Fables like Ichabod Crane, Mr. Toad, Bluebeard, and Bloody Mary.
The player is my girlfriend, Victoria “Tori” Stearns. She is 20 years old, and is a Criminal Justice and Psychology major here at the University of New Haven. While she found Telltale’s adaption of The Walking Dead to be “Boooorrrrinnnnggggg”, she has been a big fan of the Fables comic series for a while now and was extremely excited to play The Wolf Among Us. After some technological difficulties, we set up my laptop on her dorm TV, and she allowed me to take pictures while she was playing.
After a certain point, my camera ran out of battery, and we had to call it a night. However, immediately after, Tori immediately asked me when we could play the game again. After some prompting, she said she loved the videogame incarnation of Fables praising its artistic style and its regard for the source material. She also enjoyed the action and investigation sequences, saying they were more streamlined and required more thought than the fights and puzzles of The Walking Dead. Her final request was that immediately after I finish this review, we play it again.