A review of the second episode of Telltale’s Game of Thrones game, The Lost Lords which was released recently.
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In case you haven’t heard, Telltale released a six part episodic game series based on the Game of Thrones show. As they describe the game:
“Based on the award-winning HBO television drama series, Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series tells the story of House Forrester. Caught up in the events of The War of the Five Kings, they are placed in a precarious position where members of the household must do everything they can to prevent the house from meeting its doom.”
The second episode, The Lost Lords was released recently and continued the story of House Forrester, an actual house from the ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ universe. If you haven’t played the second episode or the game at all, refrain from reading further as there are spoilers ahead.
To refresh your memory on what happened or if you just want to watch the gameplay from the first episode named Iron from Ice, watch this:
In brief, The Lost Lords had its good points and moments but overall, it was a disappointment especially after the success of the first episode.
Iron from Ice ended in a dramatic and suspenseful fashion – one that even George RR Martin would be proud of. With the death of Ethan Forrester at the hands of Ramsay Snow, the second episode unfortunately didn’t carry on the intensity of the first episode’s ending.
“To killing Yunkai guards!” (Via YouTube)
While it was intriguing to finally see and play as the much talked about, Asher Forrester, his part of the story was more or less just unsatisfying and predictable action scenes against Yunkai guards loyal to the Lost Legion.
However, this episode built his story up nicely as it’ll certainly be interesting to see how he, his mercenary partner in crime Beskha, and Malcolm Forrester make it back to Westeros. I’m guessing it’ll still be before Daenerys finally does.
One twist early on in the episode is seeing the supposedly dead Rodrik Forrester open his eyes in a Davos like fashion as he returns to Ironrath, injured and barely able to stand. Rodrik’s part of the story was probably the strongest as we get to choose a lot of actions which may impact the future of the house as he’s the new Lord of Ironrath.
Two of the most important ones are:
- Convincing your betrothed, Lady Glenmore to marry you
- Choosing whether or whether not to obey Lord Whitehill in front of Lady Glenmore
“I’m only marrying your for your family’s army.” (Via YouTube)
Rodrik’s return makes things interesting for House Forrester as depending if you did convince Lady Glenmore to go ahead with the marriage (I did), it means her family will be entered into the fold against the Boltons.
We also have Gared Tuttle finally reaching the Wall – an arc which seems the most true and realistic with regard to the show. I liked this part of the story a lot as it felt like I was actually joining the Night’s Watch but having learned from Jon Snow’s mistakes in the show, decided to do the opposite of what he’d do (which still backfired sometimes).
“We can’t have two highborns at the Night’s Watch who know nothing.” (Via YouTube)
Speaking of Jon Snow, we finally meet him in the game where he seems to have a very authoritative figure, even more so than in the show. I think he likes Gared and will take him under his wing which should be exciting for future episodes as I don’t see how the Night’s Watch story relates to what’s happening at Ironrath.
The game at this point has very little action since we met Asher and so with lots of dialogue, it was nice to do some training at Castle Black even if it was super easy. The small squabble between Cottle and Finn and being in the center of it was pretty fun too.
Lastly, with Mira, we have some action from King’s Landing as she plays a key role in Rodrik getting married by forging a letter from Margaery to the Glenmore family, encouraging Lady Glenmore to marry her brother.
“I think it’s time to fire this hand maiden.” (Via YouTube)
Of course, instead of writing a wedding invitation, most players would forge the letter but I genuinely thought for a second about the consequences, being that this is King’s Landing and I certainly don’t want to make Margaery mad so I applaud the game for that.
Mira is also up to some mischief with Tyrion as he continually seeks to help the good people while pissing off the bad guys while she also nearly gets assassinated by a guard.
Compared to the first episode where we were tensely face to face with Queen Cersei, Mira’s story seems to be the weakest and most unrealistic out of the four.
All in all, it felt like The Lost Lords was just a bunch of fillers and plot building which usually isn’t great but worth it in the end of any show or game. While as it stands, this episode looks like the weakest of the series (hopefully), in the end, the game will be judged as a whole. It’s just a shame we have to wait more than a month for the next episode.
The Good:
- More political decisions
- Good dialogue
- Builds up to an exciting third episode
The bad:
- Slow progression
- Less fighting action and exploration
- Too many shifts in storylines
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