It also pulls no punches when it comes to making snap decisions on what kind of person you want your characters to be - the Telltale comes out to play as you take the reins on just how big of a jerk you're willing to be and to whom. The game does not hold back from poking fun at itself - and in fact, poor Scooter's big Borderlands-typicalВ entrance gets shot down a little by Fiona's oh-so-eloquent attitudes of '.wtf are you doing.' Sure, you can still walk around, point and click, but it does not have the same sense of a snail oozing along at a glacial pace to take a look at all the things you need to - a definite increase in this aspect of fun factor compared to Episode 1.ДЄnd just as before, you have the same eclectic mix of sassy fun and over-the-top weird of the BorderlandsВ franchise tempered to the perfect degree of funny. Time count aside, this game felt faster because it also played through faster - fewer instances of crawling around in slow motion and walking painfully slowly around single enclosed spaces. (Steam tells me 2.9, but I distinctly remember some deep technological derping on my part getting it to run properly at first.) I finished it in about 2 hours where I finished the first one after approximately 2.5. In fact, it felt like it ended far too quickly - faster even than going through Episode 1. It's also important to note that 'not as exciting' does not necessarily equate to 'boring.' To their credit, it kept me keyed to attention andВ my hand ready at the mouse at all times - not always the case in the midst of long cutscene segments. but compared to controlling and aiming your friendly neighborhood Loader Bot and his mini-arsenal of body-squelching rocket launchers in Episode 1, mashing Q to watch Rhys pull his foot out of a completely obvious gaping hole in a dumpster lid so he can reach one last powerbox just feels a little flat. They make sense in context of what's going on. Sure, there are several run-ins with some neighborhood Psychos who wouldn't mind digging the eyes out of your fleshy meatsack with a spork, but these altercations are brief and the quick-time events (QTE) actions are somewhat unoriginal and forced. In any multi-episode narrative, there's bound to be some downtime - and in all honesty, the majority of this episode feels a little like one long segment of downtime before what is hopefully another round of crazy hijinks in Episode 3. (Just in case you forgot any of these crazy faces.)

Thankfully for those of us who started in on Episode 1В as it was released, the narrative does a decent job of catching you up without deliberately spoon-feeding you all the details. Once again Tales from the BorderlandsВ slam-dunks the player directly back into the occasionally silly narrative of our intrepid heroes: Rhys, Handsome Jack groupie, and Fiona, practiced Scooter-charmer.ДЄs these two cordially snarky friends-turned-emphatic-question-mark continue to snipe at each other in between fragments of backstory, they are herded along to places unknown by the same stoic stranger in a gas mask and voice changer.

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