Best Adventure & Visual Novel Games of 2019
Winner: The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Editor-in-Chief Ed McGlone: The final season of The Walking Dead was dramatic and emotional not only in-game, but out of it. Fans that have been following the series since it first started in 2012 almost had the rug pulled out from them at the very last minute following the abrupt closure of Telltale Games.
Although the early episodes were promising, even after Skybound Entertainment rescued the final season, there were some doubts that the interrupted work could have an impact on the final product. And, on top of that, ending a beloved series in a way that satisfies fans is one of the hardest things you can do in any medium, games included.
The developers that worked on The Walking Dead: The Final Season found a way to overcome all of that, and crafted a beautiful ending to story that started in 2012 with Lee, and ended with Clementine and AJ.
It was the strongest season by far since the first as it found a way to perfectly balance callbacks to earlier seasons, creating its own unique moments, and also finding the time to put the final bookend on Clementine’s long journey with AJ.
And while everyone is going to have their own opinion on it, we here at Twinfinite loved the ending and it seems the general consensus from fans is that most people also found it satisfying as well.
That’s no easy feat, and the people behind The Walking Dead: The Final Season deserve a ton of praise for sticking with it through all the hard times, and following through to finish the job in a spectacular and memorable way.
