Telltale’s Game of Thrones Liveblogging

Ok, so a while back I played Episode 1 of Telltale’s Game of Thrones, and I had promised to do a playthrough of succeeding episodes. However, I haven’t really done that to date, partly through being busy, and partly because the game’s excellent use of moral choices (even ones that don’t have a major ludic impact) made me surprisingly anxious about moving on before I’d “perfected” my choices from Episode 1 – what if I saved Bowen? What if I learned more about the North Grove? Etc.

I’ve finally mustered up the free time and willpower to finish what I started, so beginning at 8:00 PM Eastern I’m going to be live-blogging my playthrough of the series. Instead of a detailed writeup after the fact, I’ll be writing a continuous stream of bulleted commentary as I go, and updating the posted version:

Progress Update

Hey folks, since it’s been a few days since the last update, I thought I’d put this up to let people know what I’ve been up to. Over the last week, I’ve been primarily writing a series of essays that haven’t seen the light yet – I wrote a bonus essay about the history of the smallfolk that’s going to go in Hymn for Spring, and I’ve been writing two essays that update the Hands of the King and Hollow Crowns series for the upcoming “Analyzing” e-book. Needless to say, it’s taken a little bit longer for me to finish these than I had originally thought, which has slowed down the chapter analyses a little bit. I have the next two chapters outlined, so those are going to return to schedule shortly. I’m also working on some Game of Thrones recap stuff that I’m hoping to put up shortly.

In other news, I’ve also shaved off some free time this weekend to play through Telltale’s Game of Thrones – I’m going to start from Episode 1, set up some decisions a bit better now that I have a sense of how they open or close various options, and go from there.

Playthrough/Review of Telltale Game of Thrones, Episode 1

So, Telltale’s Game of Thrones game dropped today, and I played through it. Thoughts below the cut: