Tales From The Borderlands Episode 3 - Maxi-Geek 60 Second Review

It has been quite some time since I was able to sit down and enjoy more of Rhys and Fiona, but thankfully Telltale have been busy and the latest episode, Catch A Ride has been released.

The story picks up after the cliff-hanger event of episode 2 and depending on your choices, the start could be very different. For me, I sided with Fiona, I mean out of her and Jack she seemed like the less crazy option and while her big plan was not actually that big, using an access hatch and running away, it did feel right for her character. Sadly it was in this section that the first major issue arose and it was really bad.

There was a section where you had to sneak around a turret and if you did not it would kill you, straight forward stuff, but at the end there is a guard that tackles Rhys and there is a moment for Fiona to run in and try to save the day, I missed out on doing it so the game reloaded the last checkpoint and I got to start again, the problem was, only I was loaded back to that point, Rhys was struggling in the middle of the air against nothing and the enemy at the end was fighting no-one. While humours to watch, when I got back to that tackle moment the game stopped for a bit, then reloaded back to the checkpoint, I had to quit out of the game to stop this from happening again.

After that I was able to move forward without issue, until much later in the game when another character went back to an old animation and then even when he was speaking, he was not present in the shot and this was highlighted when the camera zoomed in on where he was meant to be. Outside of that, there were few instances of clipping but they were minor, the problem was that the story of any Telltale game is what draws people in and I am loving it here in Tales from the Borderlands, the problem was that the major issues were so distracting I was yanked back to reality and that was not a nice feeling.

The locations that you are able to visit in this episode are unlike anything else that we have seen in the Borderlands universe before and it's the major location that we see some of the characters, namely Rhys and Fiona grow. Both still have their moments of zaniness, but they start to show new sides to their characters that help flesh them out beyond the Hyperion stooge and Con-woman roles that we first saw them as. Rhys has the chance to grow a little more in one area than Fiona, but Fiona gets some lessons that allow her to hopefully move across from here to the main series.

As the story changes depending on choices, it is hard to say this is the way the story is meant to go, but there are a few choice moments that players will likely experience, how they turn out of course is up to them, but one in particular was quite interesting. The third episode had a great story, but some major disruptions to the game have pulled it back from being the best in the series so far.