Game of Thrones From Telltale Games Review: A Nest of Vipers

Season: 1 / Episode: 5 TellTale is winding down its first go at the Game of Thrones lore and there were plenty of big game changing moments in the penultimate episode. Every POV character makes a pretty big splash for their personal story with an eye on how it will affect the overall narrative in a big way. Is it a great episode though? Not necessarily. Many of the situations were pretty contrived and there is some character development that doesn’t venture down a logical path at times. People who have been forthright go back on their word, betraying not only the circumstance in this game but in the source material as well. At times, you are left with options that are simply more pigeon-holed than they should be for the character, the result being to just make you choose between some really bad choices. It’s not a bad episode, but probably the weakest of the run thus far, which is a little concerning since there’s only one episode left.

It is an action heavy episode, which is actually OK since so much exposition has been done to get here. For instance, the scenes involving Garret and crew north of The Wall run into some north of The Wall kind of problems and it ratchets up the stakes for his quest. The resolution, and more so the why in how he convinces everyone to push forward North is a bit of a leap, but it still works. Perhaps the best overall section of this week’s episode is with Asher in Meereen as he still has to find his army to bring it back to Westeros. Yeah, I kn…