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The Unfairness of Choices In The Walking Dead Game 2012: An Unasked-For Essay

A game post? On my book blog? It's more likely than you think!  I've read a lot of fun books recently, but none that I've had the urge to write about. So instead, take this essay on the most important choices in Season One of The Walking Dead Game. Spoilers ahead, but hopefully entertaining ones... The first Walking Dead Game came out in 2012 so this is some real up-to-the-minute, zeitgeisty gaming chit-chat here. Nevertheless the first season of this game is something of an obsession of mine. I humbly boast that there are  few people out there who know the inner mechanics of the characters and choices as well as I do (and even fewer with encyclopaedic knowledge of the larger Walking Dead universe). One of my hobbies is watching new players having a go at it, because the nature of this decision-based game turns it into an incredibly revealing psychological experiment. It's like watching people take a crack at the Milgram Experiment over a period of ten hours. Someone w...