The Walking Dead : Michonne Episode One “In Too Deep” Review

*This review main contain spoilers*

This is the premiere episode in a three part story following on from Telltales two season story telling game The Walking Dead. This story follows Michonne Who is just as bad ass in this game as she is in the comic and the TV series.

The opening prologue reveals her painful back story which has been perfectly put together across all manners of the franchise, she is protecting her two kids from walkers which opens up the QTE where she hacks her way through the walkers with her trusty Katana.

Having been a fan of all the Telltale games and The Walking dead is at the top of that pile for me, i found myself enjoying this but also i could tell the plot straight away, you’re always left at the end of an episode with a massive decision whether to save one of the other.

Michonne is alone at the beginning but then is saved by Pete who is with fellow survivors Oak, Siddiq and Berto. They trawl the rivers on their boat trading with other survivors, Michonne is awoken by Pete who is searching for survivors over the radio when he uncovers a faint voice. When i first heard it i thought it was Clementine but it is a young girl named Sam.

When their boat is stuck the crew decide to search for anything they can use to survive and get loose from the sunken ship that is holding them back. Michonne and Pete decide to head to an abandoned ferry, on the way they’re attacked by walkers who were walking under water…I’ve never seen that before. They literally looked like scuba divers, when you reach the ferry you uncover what has happened there…i won’t spoil it but it is horrible.

Here you meet Sam and Greg (brother and sister) who want to kill you for stealing their valuables. Then after a badass QTE where Telltale have introduced combos now…well sort of like combos, basically you have three buttons to press one after the other instead of one here and there and a swipe of the stick. When this concludes the gang are confronted by Randall and his misfits who are armed with automatic weapons. He claims that Sam and Greg stole the supplies from his community and decides to take you all back there to get the truth out.

So as you’re on your way there you see that it is a pretty tidy gaffe sort of like something from Waterworld loads of barges on water all linked together. Randall splits the gang up with Pete and Greg together and Sam and Michonne together, some more stuff happens that I won’t talk about as I don’t want to spoil the story but you’re taken to the leader of the community…there is always one! Norma, she seems OK until you lie and then she switches. Randall brings up Greg and tortures him in front of you to get answers, He then decides that you all need to go somewhere quiet so takes Sam, Greg and Michonne to the medbay to interrogate you all I can say is here is where shit goes down and opens the story for the next episode “Give No Shelter”.