I’m surprised nobody called an ambulance because my still-beating heart was on the goddamn floor. Then they hugged, and it was really nice.Īnd when Sasha nearly died and Rhys was crying all over the place? Man. In my game, Sasha and Rhys had been kinda on the outs ever since I had Rhys confess that Handsome Jack was in his head, but when they reunited after the time skip, I did not hesitate for a mockingbird’s heartbeat at having Rhys tell Sasha he missed her. It was that burgeoning warmth and friendliness that hooked me. The first scene where they worked as a team (in the first episode, I think) was when I realised I was starting to care about Tales‘ characters. I especially liked that, more often than not, Sasha saved Rhys - not the other way around. I dug that Sasha was this brilliant, take-charge badass and Rhys was a jerk in rehab, a dork who was learning to step up and be a decent, almost heroic human being. Even before then, I liked their weird chemistry. Ever since that scene in episode three with the “fall” and the flower and the angry space jellyfish, I’ve been all fucking aboard the Rhys x Sasha train. So even as Jack begged for his life, whimpered, “Please! There’s not anything afterward! There’s NOTHING there,” I crushed my last cybernetic implant, permanently ending Jack in the process. Sure, if I’d kept that little piece of him, it probably would have just existed as a glorified souvenir - impotent and inert, except as a memory. He was rotten to the core, and I needed to make sure he could never come back, no matter what. Every time Jack seemed to turn a corner, he was actually acting in his own interests (and to everybody else’s catastrophic detriment). He confessed some heavy stuff to Rhys in part because he needed to - because he was lonely and heartbroken and a little scared - and in part because he knew he could manipulate Rhys by playing rip-roaring guitar solos on his heartstrings.īut just because somebody was good once - and still has some scraps of good embedded in them, like shrapnel from a lost battle - doesn’t mean they’re good now. But I think Jack, AI or not, also understood how human he was, how powerful his story was. When he went on his long, humanising diatribes about his own attempts at playing hero, about how everyone - even his own goddamn daughter - ultimately betrayed him, I felt like that came from a real place. Tales painted him as a character equal parts twisted and tragic. See, I felt bad for Handsome Jack, I legitimately did. I have a lot of feelings about this one, though. Maybe Yvette deserved to die, but I didn’t feel like I was qualified for the job. Tales - at least, as I played it - was about Rhys’ slow climb out of the corporate shark tank, out of a vat of churning ruthlessness. Not sure if I buy it, but I simply decided to be better. And she may not have! She claimed she only made a deal with Vasquez and Hyperion to track Rhys (with the goal of obtaining his head - alive or dead) to protect him. I mean, she was one of Rhys’ BFFs back in the good… er, corporate old days, even if she did betray Rhys in the end.
Granted, I’d have loved for there to be more massive plot-altering choices, but when something turns out as nice as Tales, it’s hard to complain too much. I got to do my thing in the heat of the moment and make up my own mind about what it all meant. There was no cold, calculating system to game - no curtain to peer behind as the clock ticked and my finger hovered over the select button. In some ways, I think that made them more powerful. They never came back to haunt me they literally couldn’t. As a result, there were some “oh shit, that was a really big deal” moments, but they didn’t necessarily have immediate in-game consequences. The book closed on Tales, but not on Borderlands.
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However, a few - like how you dealt with Handsome Jack in previous episodes - had long-term consequences, and the series itself had BIG long-term ramifications for Borderlands as a whole.Īll that in mind, I found the choices in Tales episode five really interesting. Many were, of course, illusory in that they’d ultimately keep you on the story’s straight-and-narrow no matter what. Like other Telltale series, Tales let players leave their mark on Borderlands‘ cartoonishly psychotic universe with choices.
( Tales from the Borderlands spoilers ahead!)Īs you might have already read, I adored Tales from the Borderlands‘ final episode - and the whole series in general. With a veritable bouquet of guns to your head, what choices did you make? Tales from the Borderlands‘ finale was one hell of a ride.
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