It's a fascinating setup that never quite pays off. He struggles with right and wrong because everyone, including Clem, is living with such a skewed moral compass. Clementine's teachings - which oftentimes are kill or be killed - have turned the five-year-old into a cold and emotionally confused murderer. The final season does try something new with AJ, however. If Telltale was trying to say something clever about the cyclical nature of life, it didn't come across. But your dialog options and resulting actions rarely diverge from previous seasons. A chance for the player, and Clementine, to make different decisions that reflect her experience and the world's changing state. The details are different, but the broad strokes are oddly familiar.Īt first, I thought these retreads were intentional. Later in season four, Clementine defends the school from raiders and manages to capture one of its members - just like Michonne did in her Telltale mini-series. It also mirrors the start of season two where a still-young Clem has to convince a wary group of survivors holed up in a cabin. Clementine spends the bulk of the first episode, for instance, persuading her rescuers that she's trustworthy and can help them survive the apocalypse. It did, however, give me a nagging sense of deja vu throughout. The story is well written and has a smaller and tighter scope than season three. Luckily, the world-weary pair are saved by a group of children who live in a nearby boarding school. They stop for some supplies, get swamped by nightmarish 'walkers' and ultimately crash their car in a ditch.
It begins with an older Clementine driving through the backcountry with AJ, a young survivor born after the outbreak in season two. The fourth and final season wisely switches the spotlight back to the game's central heroine.
Javier's story felt like a needless divergence and relegated Clementine to a sideline character. Please don't judge me.) Season three was a bust, though. (In my playthrough, Jane died, and I left Kenny at the side of the road. Picking between Kenny and the resourceful but self-centered Jane was one of the toughest decisions I've ever made in video games. It was a heartfelt goodbye, sure, but I was hoping for a grander statement on the world and its inhabitants.įor context: I loved season two and how it portrayed Kenny, a friend of Lee's who is kind but increasingly unstable after the death of his wife and son. I enjoyed the finale but feel the developers could and should have done more with Clementine's character.
It was a bleak and emotionally draining climax that earned the studio countless accolades in 2012.Īlmost seven years later, the once-acclaimed series is finally over. The gut-wrenching farewell inside a jewelry store. Telltale delivered a heartbreaking finale for Lee Everett - a former professor and convicted murderer - and his efforts to protect a young girl called Clementine in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. The Walking Dead: Clementine Book One will be release in comic shops and digital comics storefronts on June 22, 2022, with a bookstore release to follow on June 28.I wept at the end of The Walking Dead: Season One.
The Clementine series will ultimately span three graphic novels, though Skybound has yet to reveal any plot details or release date information for the remaining two books. As friendship, rivalry, and romance begin to blossom amongst the group, the harsh winter soon reveals that the biggest threat to their survival…might be each other. But when she comes across an Amish teenager named Amos with his head in the clouds, the unlikely pair journeys North to an abandoned ski resort in Vermont, where they meet up with a small group of teenagers attempting to build a new, walker-free settlement. Here's Skybound's official description for the series:Ĭlementine is back on the road, looking to put her traumatic past behind her and forge new path all her own. However, Clementine Book One will feature a much longer and more in-depth look at Clementine's fate after the events of the Telltale games. Clementine recently made her comic book debut in the pages of Skybound X, an anthology series that also revisited the fanciful "Rick Grimes 2000" storyline introduced in The Walking Dead #75.