The main problem with Game of Thrones, as a GAME, is that it's premise is that the player's decisions will affect the events of the story and the ending (which hasn't released as of this writing). You do end up rooting for them very quickly. The members of this family and their surrounding bannerman and support people are entertaining characters, and their story balances tragedy, perserverance, and humor in equal measure. Game of Thrones is a story about a Northern family struggling to deal with the changing political climate of Westeros in the aftermath of the Red Wedding, and it really is a good story. The result is that the player feels less and less in these two subsequent series that they are involved in any way. Both their Walking Dead: Season 2 and Game of Thrones series' have the story and character parts in equal measure to TWD, but the gameplay segments are much fewer and greatly farther in between. They haven't really recaptured that magic since. It had plenty of great story and characters, with just enough point-and-click, QTE, and exploration segments to keep a player from forgetting that this was, after all, a game and not a show. Telltale Games found a good mix of story and gameplay in Season 1 of their Walking Dead series. That’s not even mentioning the strange psychic bond between Alina and the Darkling that screams Rey and Kylo.This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There is a veritable harbor’s worth of ships, ranging from an engagement of convenience, friends-to-lovers, doomed lovers, dark-cloud-and-sunshine, old lovers, and lots and lots of yearning. From the very first episode when Mal and Alina charter a boat and find there’s only one bed, it’s clear this series isn’t afraid to lean on the YA romance a little harder than Season 1. It’s the same issue Game of Thrones ran into pretty much instantly, and it’s nothing the show could have avoided - it’s simply part and parcel with telling an epic tale.īut while Shadow and Bone may have stumbled into using a soap opera structure, it very deliberately takes another element from the genre: romance tropes. Though these plotlines eventually do intersect, there’s no unifying theme for each episode across the series, so the result is a soap-opera-style hodgepodge of stories. Nikolai (Patrick Gibson) is a fantastic new addition to Shadow and Bone. In yet another storyline, the gang of Crows plan heist after heist. In another, The Darkling tries to regain his power after a devastating loss that’s resulted in some great supervillain facial scars. In one storyline, Alina and Mal are on the hunt for amplifiers with Nikolai Lantsov (the immediately charming Patrick Gibson), the rogueish pirate prince much anticipated by fans of the book. The action of this series is now spread across multiple storylines, each entirely unrelated to the other. This kingdom-hopping is shown through cuts to a map, an interesting nod to Alina’s cartographer past.īut these map framing shots are more than just a motif from Alina’s past - it’s also a handy device to handle the biggest flaw in the series. Season 2 picks up where Season 1 left off - Alina is on the run with her best friend and faithful companion Mal (Archic Renaux) and as they try to run from the enemies they’ve created they embark on a much grander adventure looking for “amplifiers” to boost Alina’s sun powers. The Darkling sports a new grudge and new sick facial scars.
Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li,) once a humble cartographer, is revealed to be the mythical Sun Summoner, and her powers are put at odds with Kirigan, aka The Darkling (Ben Barnes, perfecting his brooding game). It established Grisha, the people blessed with magical gifts like controlling elements, healing, manipulating hearts, even metallurgy.
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It established the world of Ravka, torn in two by a mystical dark cloud full of terrifying creatures. Season 1 of the series did all the hard work.
In Season 2, the series delivers once again, amping up both aspects of Season 1 that made it successful and growing the series into more than just a Game of Thrones and Harry Potter successor - but something entirely new itself. But it’s also the story of a humble girl who finds herself in a magic world after she’s revealed to be The Chosen One, a very familiar story for a post- Harry-Potter post- Hunger-Games generation. First, it’s an epic fantasy with complex intrigue, filling the Game of Thrones void that in 2023 is now joined by a House of the Dragon void. Shadow and Bone, Netflix’s adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse YA series, is scratching two main itches for its audience.
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