Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Episode
1 – Tangled Up In Blue
Telltale
If you grew up in the seventies,
you made a mix tape, and if you didn’t, you are telling fibs. If you
have seen the Guardians movie, you will know the mix tape is writ large,
and while I understand the latest Telltale adventure draws more heavily
on the comic, the mix tape immediately anchored this in the movie world,
if for no other reason that I have never read the comics.
Before we move on, the episode
title may or may not ring a 70’s bell. Regardless, the ELO track over
the menu screen probably will.
This for me was a competent
set-up episode. Nothing was really new, except for some fiddly controls
and a more “realistic” animation, but it provided an appropriate hook
for what is to come.
The Guardians are all here –
Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot (again grown up). Their
voices though are not, and while Rocket is the closest to the movie
incarnation, none of them pull you away from the personality those of us
who have only seen the movie are familiar with. In that regard, Chris
Pratt for me will always be Andy, and then Emmett (which was really just
Lego-Andy), so I am not invested in him as Star-Lord, but you may feel
differently. Character wise, Gamora seems a little less volatile, but
Groot is Groot and Drax is appropriately literal, and Rocket has had way
too many Red Bulls.
The writing is up to the usual
quality, and I didn’t see the way the main story line was going, which
was a nice surprise. We left off with the Guardians pondering the powers
of the Eternity Forge, and given what we know about what has gone
before, the possibilities are many.
If you like Telltale you will
know what to expect from the game (quick time elements, conversation
choices, etc). If you also like Guardians, the combination will likely
appeal. I had 90 minutes of fun, without reaching any great heights, but
as I said, it set us up for the rest. As always (until I inevitably
change my mind), I will wait until it is all available to play those
rest.
I played on:
OS: Windows 10, 64 Bit
Processor: Intel i7-6700 4GHz
RAM: 32GB GDDR5
Video card: AMD
Radeon RX 470 8192MB
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