This is the typical play style we have come to know and love from Telltale games, which still works great in 2021, and probably will continue to work for decades, even if its not innovative it works for what it sets out to do, and for what we have come to associate the style of telltale games with.
This is not where telltale shines brightest though. Its with a great narrative and the feeling that there is consequences to your actions. In this occasion also being able to stick to the foundation and the stories that has already been told, through real books and tales that your mother told you before bed when you were a kid. To be able to build up a story about decade old characters that are well known and making them feel real in a much harsher world than we have ever seen in any fairytale before it, despite that still making their key essence and personality shine through, even if some of them may have taken an unexpected turn in life, and changed for the better or worse. Which you are able to decide for some of the characters, especially Bigby wolf. Deciding if you are going to play dirty of nice, with the people of fable town being affected with every possible success and mistake.
This is the pure excellence of telltale and the wolf among us, as one of their best games. They are able to make these people and the typical fairy tale tropes and characters that we all know and love, and manage to put them in a dark and violent world - And slowly through the story to demolish our hope, that there actually exists a "Happy ever after" in this world.
8/10.
This is not where telltale shines brightest though. Its with a great narrative and the feeling that there is consequences to your actions. In this occasion also being able to stick to the foundation and the stories that has already been told, through real books and tales that your mother told you before bed when you were a kid. To be able to build up a story about decade old characters that are well known and making them feel real in a much harsher world than we have ever seen in any fairytale before it, despite that still making their key essence and personality shine through, even if some of them may have taken an unexpected turn in life, and changed for the better or worse. Which you are able to decide for some of the characters, especially Bigby wolf. Deciding if you are going to play dirty of nice, with the people of fable town being affected with every possible success and mistake.
This is the pure excellence of telltale and the wolf among us, as one of their best games. They are able to make these people and the typical fairy tale tropes and characters that we all know and love, and manage to put them in a dark and violent world - And slowly through the story to demolish our hope, that there actually exists a "Happy ever after" in this world.
8/10.