{"id":591,"date":"2025-06-07T12:53:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T04:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamespot.top\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/marvels-guardians-of-the-galaxy-the-telltale-series-review\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T21:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T13:16:26","slug":"marvels-guardians-of-the-galaxy-the-telltale-series-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamespot.top\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/marvels-guardians-of-the-galaxy-the-telltale-series-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel\u2019s Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Editor\u2019s note: Marvel\u2019s Guardians of the Galaxy: A Telltale Series is an episodic release. As such, this review will remain provisional and follow the season as it unfolds.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Telltale Games\u2019 first swing at a Guardians of the Galaxy story brought back a lot of good feelings. Not memories, necessarily. Just good feelings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The story it tells is a rather standard establishing scene for a comic book hero team, and its intentions, particularly in introducing the characters and giving all of them some interactivity, are telegraphed. There\u2019s a slow, padded-out interlude after the first big fight that seems to be set in Knowhere, the gang\u2019s base of operations, for no reason other than to show it to you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yet as all this was going on,\u00a0Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>\u00a0radiated a good-times vibe worth preserving. Telltale put me among a gang of misfits who really need each other, and threatened just enough to break that all up that it influenced my decisions. The developer\u2019s narrative catalog, spanning The Walking Dead, Batman and Borderlands, is best when I feel myself leaning into it, like reading a good paperback, or a captivating comic book \u2014 but when the story starts to slip in a direction I don\u2019t like, I get to put a thumb on the scale to bring it all back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series<\/em>\u2019 first chapter is perfectly that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There are two big fights in\u00a0Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>‘s first chapter, but its real conflict is spoiler-proof: The team is, big surprise, at each other’s throats. The grudges largely developed through my dialogue choices after the first action sequence. It’s not like everyone started out pissed at one another, with all the expository dialogue that would require. I put things in a bad spot when I shit-talked Rocket for shit-talking Drax. As big and mighty as Drax is, physically, he is earnest and emotionally delicate, and I don’t want someone so destructive to check out in a key situation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I tried to patch things up with Rocket by endorsing one of his typically tasteless ideas, in the chapter\u2019s major choice. That alienated Gamora, who likewise needs emotional support, but also has to be told to stop whining. She was reeled back in by choosing her for the major mission (where her performance, I thought, was a lot stronger than Drax\u2019s would have been). As for Groot, well, he\u2019s a tree. Just put him out when he catches on fire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Looking back, I\u2019m pretty sure there isn\u2019t some dramatically divergent path from the outcome I reached. But in context, at the time, I genuinely couldn\u2019t be sure. That, more than investigation puzzles or quick-time events, is what validates this type of a video game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>\u2019s weaknesses are rather common to Telltale\u2019s games, but they don\u2019t injure the overall story. There\u2019s always a risk that, in a scene, you get to the critical dialogue or discovery before hearing all of the other conversation options, or seeing everything in the setting, making all the leftover stuff difficult to introduce, or even irrelevant. There were two sequences where I got to the point a little too quickly, so someone playing this chapter needs to do so more as a director than as a gamer trying to 100 percent everything.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The game\u2019s most emotionally pivotal scenes connected with me, though. There are two very touching flashbacks involving Star-Lord and his mom that anchor Telltale\u2019s take on the group to its overall lore. In between is a striking opportunity for empathy with the game\u2019s first big adversary. Both proceed rather linearly, with only one choice that isn\u2019t really connected to anything. Yet as\u00a0Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>\u2019s branching paths gave me direction over the story, the dialogue options in these scenes gave me ownership of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>\u00a0is crisply illustrated, though not in the stylishly inked comic book style of The Walking Dead or\u00a0The Wolf Among Us<\/em>, nor the signature looks of Minecraft or Borderlands. The art is more of a mainstream animated series look. There are some noticeable pauses between scenes, tipping off that the game is queuing up something important, and weird endings to dialogue choices made out-of-order.\u00a0Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>\u00a0doesn\u2019t seamlessly fit together all of the moving parts, even if together they make a very charming comic book story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And that\u2019s where\u00a0Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>\u00a0hit me most. The first chapter\u2019s conflicts and outcomes may be conventional, but so were the the ones in the weird comic books my best friend\u2019s older brother stored in bread bags, which we\u2019d read as fast as we could before he got home from football practice to terrify us. The feeling of wanting to read the next issue is just the same, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To be continued …<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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