The Wolf Among Us - Telltale's Fables-based game

Finished this yesterday, but I was too busy absorbing the deluge of Dragon Age Inquisition info to write about my thoughts. Amazing ending to an amazing game.

• I kind of feel bad about killing Dum now. Poor Dee. I think when I replay the game, I'll spare him.
• I agree that its kind of perplexing that you never learn what happened to Dee and Jersey after the fight in the beginning.
• Nice car chace scene, but won't the sight of a wolfman rampaging through the streets of New York break the masquerade?
• Vivian was only more than a background character for one scene, but it was a damn well written one.
• I let Georgie bleed out, if only because I don't think that law enforecement officers should be delivering mercy kills. Besides, there was always a chance that he might pull through and be able to testify against the Crooked Man.
• The Bigby/Mary fight was amazing. The only thing I disliked was that Mary went down too easily once Bigby went full-wolf, but I guess Bigby's just that overpowered.
• I arrested the Crooked Man, although I did disarm him and punch him in the face first.
• I threw the Crooked Man down the Witching Well. I would have locked him up, but I didn't want to risk him silver tonguing his way out of jail (though from what I understand, that's not actually a problem.
• I agreed to give TJ's bug to Snow and I gave Colin my entire pack of cigs.
• My last words to Nerissa were "I hope I've done some good."
• I choose to go after Nerissa.

If Faith was dead the whole time, why couldn't we use the Magic Mirror to find Faith's body? The magic is in the Ribbon, with it gone the absolute digression should be gone as well. We also know that the Magic Mirror can show dead people because it showed Faith's Father.

Oh Mary!

We may need to do some cleanup on the works page. There are two or three different theories about the ending being spouted off with certainty (The ending implies THIS...).

I'm throwing my vote in with the Faith was glamoured as Nerissa and it was Nerissa's head glamoured to look like Faith's we find in front of the Woodlands. I think the Mirror's reaction to the ribbon's spell, which I thought was odd the first time I heard it, makes it sound like Faith was alive when we tried looking for her body. You could argue that the ribbons still have an effect on the wearer's body until Vivian's original curse is broken, but that seems like a shaky place to stand.

Now if only we could get a confirmed Season 2 with Cinderella as the player character.

Initially had doubts towards the episode, fight scenes weren't all that climatic, so on, but from the trial (I brought him back alive, despite how he seemed to be almost shouting "Kill me! Kill me!") I was hooked. I was worried about what would happen if he ever escaped, but reasoned that most of his assets had been wrecked, so who cares. Laughed at what Greenleaf's solution actually turned out to be.

Other choices:

• I decided to gamble and accuse Georgie of being the murderer, though it was mostly just by process of elimination of the other choices. I did name him as my prime suspect in the first episode, though, for similar reasons.
• Gave Georgie a mercy killing. No point in prolonging the inevitable, and though he may be an ass no reason to make him suffer.
• Accepted TJ's gift for Snow, because it's not like giving Snow a small bug the next time I see her is going to inconvenience me.
• My last words to Nerissa were "I've made a lot of mistakes." And then, I went after her. Leave no mystery unsolved.

Something I just realized. Bigby only got his reverse-lycanthropy after the Fables were exiled to the real world. Before that, he was in his true form all the time. So the Woodsman somehow managed to kill an eight foot tall hurricane-breathing wolf that can bite people in half. Not bad.

Well, he was a lot smaller at the time. Red Riding Hood would have to have been blind not to be able to tell Bigby Gigante from her own human sized granny. Besides, he wouldn't have fit in her nightclothes.

Q; How did Woody manage to beat Bigby in the Homelands?
A: I'm pretty sure he caught Bigby sleeping. That's basically the only reason he was able to get close to him at all. He was able to cut him open because his axe was ensorcelled by druids.

Q: Where's Woody in Episode 5?
A: Woody has a pretty conclusive ending to his character arc in Episode 4, when he gets his axe back, and shares a smoke (or not) with Bigby outside the Lucky Pawn, before Bigby gets into a cab.

Q: Was it Nerissa or Faith at the ending?
A: It was Faith. It's the comment from Buffkin that plays over the ending that clinches it. It's Faith that disguises herself in her story, after all.

Q: But wait, that doesn't match up with what Georgie told you!
A: So? Georgie is already lying in that scene, leaving off Faith's involvement. He's not trying to tell you the truth. He's trying to protect Faith, and implicate the Crooked Man. He knows there's no evidence, and if there's no evidence then Bigby and Snow will keep investigating until they find some. Which means that they'll eventually realize that Nerissa is Faith in disguise. They're banking on two corroborating stories being enough to close the case.

Well,remember, Bigby had to be able to huff and puff and blow down a house of wood. A house of bricks can withstand hurricane force winds.

just finished the first episode...

do they get longer after this?

No. Why would you want it to be longer?

The Wolf Among Us is the ultimate expression of quality-over-quantity when compared with The Walking Dead Season 1. The first episode of TWD is super long (I think it took me almost three hours to do), but most of it is pointless (all that time spent with Glenn, when we know that Glenn is going to be just fine, and not stick around for very long, for example). Every scene in TWAU is meaningful in some way.

edited 9th Jul '14 1:41:13 PM by BadWolf21

ah. i see.

i dont have a lot of experience with adventure game series and my last encounter was the blackwell series, where the first game is a fair bit shorter than the others. i wondered if that was the norm.

I haven't played the new episode yet, but I'd like to point out how Woody was able to beat Bigby back in the Homelands: Bigby was still a pup, essentially. It was one of his first interactions with humans. He was born the runt of his litter, and swore that every day he'd eat a creature bigger than what he ate the last day. He had worked his way up to humans, but Woody took him by surprise and almost killed him. He wasn't nearly as powerful yet as he became as an adult.

I accused Georgie, but I was only guessing because the other choices seemed too obvious. I don't get how you could even know it was Georgie.

...so i just got past the tweedle dee interrogation in episode 2, and i went out of my way to be as nice as possible to dee, to the point of outright stopping bluebeard from continuing to beat on him.

so why is it that the very next scene begins with snow white admonishing bigby for getting violent and losing control? am i missing something?

All she saw was Bigby and Bluebeard struggling, and a beaten prisoner. That dialogue needs to be the same whether you tortured your suspect or not, so you're given a range of things to tell her about what went down, including telling her you didn't touch him.

Killer hints: When you're outside the room Tiny Tim leads you to, you'll hear Georgie say "I told you; stop laughing at me!", just like what TJ heard. There's also both a Huff 'n' Puff at Georgie's place and one where Lily was murdered.

Didn't notice anything else.

I didn't name anyone. Couldn't. The damn game was a maze, and the reveal? of Faith/Nerissa was amazing. Plot of the year, 2014.

Is it possible that Bloody Mary is still alive?

Well apparently, unless put down the Witching Well as long as the fable is known they'll come back to life. Bloody Mary is a pretty well known fable so even if she's dead she'd be coming back to life.

edited 10th Jul '14 1:55:35 PM by Badwolfwho

That has to be incorrect, or else no one would have worried that Snow was apparently killed at the end of Episode 1. She would have just come back.

Similarly, Mr. Toad, Colin (both from the comics), Crane (also from the comics) and Georgie (from the game) all would have been fine, since they're from fairly well-known stories or rhymes.

Dead is dead. How well-known a Fable is determines how hard it is to kill them, but once you succeed, they're gone.

edited 10th Jul '14 4:06:42 PM by BadWolf21

oh is that how it works?

i was confused cuz the woodsman takes an axe to the brain at the start but is fine while holly getting shot in the chest went down hard enough that i worried she might be dead for a few minutes.

Even if they're not especially well-known, a Fable can take quite the beating (see how hard it was for Lawrence to take his own life in Episode 1, and he's a minor character in a mostly forgotten tale).

I'm actually surprised that Georgie went down so easy. That disembowelment must have been worse than it looked.

Considering Georgie was trying to gut Bigby with it, I wouldn't be surprised if it was doused in poison or something of the like.

edited 10th Jul '14 4:16:57 PM by lancesolous13

I was just going by what I've seen on the trope page, I haven't read the comics so I didn't know if it was true or not.

I think its true to some extent, but I don't know exactly to what extent. It might takes years for something like that to happen and, even if someone could be revived, its still attempted murder.... Or succeeded murder? I'm not sure how you'd classify that since she would be, by all means, dead.