Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season 2
The first season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead may have had its dark and depressing moments, but Season 2’s story makes it seem downright cheery in comparison.
Set after Clementine’s heartbreaking farewell to Lee, the story puts Clementine in all manner of situations that test her innocence and morality.
A wild dog tears her arm open after she tries to give it food and show it kindness, and when she seeks help from a new group of survivors they leave her to tend to her own wounds out of fear that she’s bitten.
She reunites with Kenny, only to discover the loss of his family has driven him mad and made him an abusive, violent man on the edge.
She encounters a tyrannical camp of survivors who, though friendly at first, quickly turn on her and her allies when they try to escape; which, once they manage to do, leads to the deaths of almost all of them save for Clem, a baby and one adult.
Time after time, these blows keep coming, and the player’s spirit gets worn down right alongside Clementine’s.
It’s undeniable that it sells the perilous, grim nature of the game’s world, but by the end, most any player will be ready to see something – anything – good happen to Clementine again.
