“The Walking Dead” by AMC (TWD) shocked and unstable fans throughout its 11 seasons race, thanks to its dark connotations as post-apocalyptic zombie horror. With hindsight, some of the most tragic stories feel inevitable, especially The feeling of morality of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) is put in the ultimate test Towards the end of his bow, as well as the sugary repercussions that follow. However, there are moments that make us succeed in a different result, inviting “what if?” Scenarios that could have potentially saved some lives or prevented devastating events.

This is the main argument for the sale of “The Walking Dead: Destiny”, the 2023 action-adventure game that promised players the ability to reshape the major stories of the first four seasons of the show. The basic premise follows a skills tree mechanic, where you can unlock bonuses for the character you play, while translating variable endings and results. It is not surprising that AMC and the publisher Gamemill Entertainment wanted to take advantage of nostalgia attached to the franchise, because the concept of playing as Rick, Daryl or Michonne in a title of choice in your adventure is intriguing. This also meant to relive it from familiar places – such as the Greene and Woodbury farm – allowing you to explore the history more in depth and Make choices that modify the life that determines that live or die.

Unfortunately, the gap between high expectations surrounding “Twd: Destiny” and the reality of its poor quality and horribly precipitated gameplay could not be wider. This fatal combo of “overpromised and sub-lifting” has absolutely not done the game, which makes it an insulting and shallow action of action-adventure which is the palest shadow of the AMC parent series. If you think I’m exaggerating, let’s take a closer look at the promised game mechanisms and how they In fact Stay in the confusing finished product that everyone prefers to forget.

When “TWD: Destiny” was announced for the first time, Gamemill promised that you could “weave your own path through the events of the series” and trigger results that were very different from what is happening in the show. The idea was to launch the story in the shoes of Rick Grimes, and to gradually branch towards other characters after having unlocked their respective skill trees, which come with their own combat style. While some characters use melee weapons like peaks or katanas, others use craftsmen from a distance, such as hunting rifles or crossbows. These are fairly standard stuff if you know role -playing games rich in combat, but “TWD: Destiny” insisted that its main attraction lies in its nuanced narration – which would offer a significant closure for its broad and passionate audience base. Well … it turns out that this daring statement was a lie.

Can you make choices that lead to different results? Yes, you can, but these choices are structured without reflection or consideration, paved together in the most incompatible way possible. For example, the AMC program sets up an argument between T-Dog (Irone Singleton) and Merle Dixon (Michael Rooker) above a building in Atlanta, which Rick finally disorganized, restricting merle. “TWD: Destiny” recreates this scene while offering us a choice: You can either do what Rick does canonically (handcuffer merle to a pipe) or do Blackbird Hand the T-Dog to a pipe to exchange their roles. This exchange is useless little or nothing, because the result is always the same, with the exception of a slightly modified animated kinematics where T-Dog seems agitated as devil.

Some of the most complex choices of the game are also shocking. You can kill longtime characters early enough, or completely eliminate Rick from the fundamental arcs, but these differences are not sufficiently expanded to evoke the fear or morbid curiosity. Combine this with a repetitive gameplay mechanic to go from point A to B while killing the walkers, and you have an adaptation of video games which lack respect for a beloved deductible by unfortunately despite his source equipment.

The flagrant faults of “TWD: Destiny” (which is a barely functional game adventure in my book) feels more pronounced when we look at the adaptations of franchise which are sincere work of love. A glance at the episodic adventure of “The Walking Dead” by Telltale Games will make this gap clearly, because this 2011 game includes unless the well -written characters shine in a world overflowing with visceral horrors. This episodic adaptation does not even include Rick GrimesAnd it’s better for that; Instead, he loves two new characters with zero and incorporates their hopes and dreams into a fascinating story that deserves to be told.

The cash seizures are generally not supported by the strongest feeling of artistic integrity, but there is always an attempt – as low – to recondition its impulses supplied by greed as artistic sales artists. Unfortunately, there is an adaptation of “walking game” of 2021 which does not even pretend to do it. This undoubtedly makes it worse than “destinations”, because its very existence is contrary to the ethics of the series of comics by Robert Kirkman (on which the AMC spectacle is based). I am talking about the horror of multiplayer survival “The Walking Dead: Empires”, which is an MMO powered by the blockchain which sells packs / equipment active ingredients in the game like NFTS.

Yes, we have reached grifting levels based on the scam, where a moving and human story on survival was sloppy in embarrassment that “Twd: Empires” is. There is not much to say about his basic gameplay, who imitates a basic survive-scavenge-kill mechanic to sell too expensive players of players at his players base. While “Destiny” suffers from each defect that a badly told role -playing game can show, there is a few The artistic merit in its existence, especially if we have to consider the actors who have taken up their roles by expressing the gaming counterparts of their characters.

If in doubt, you can always revisit “The Walking Dead” by Telltale Games, the story of survival approved by Kirkman where your choices really count.