In an article released a few days ago, Telltale games have confirmed that there will be a second season (potentially more) to the Game of Thrones franchise. Having finished playing through the first season, I have to say that I’m annoyed.

If you haven’t played the game yet and don’t want spoilers, stop reading here!

I’d played Wolf Amongst Us, I was aware that the “choices” in game weren’t actually choices and didn’t really impact on the story at the end. This was OK, I still enjoyed playing. When Game of Thrones came on sale, I bought it and worked my way through the chapters that were already available.

I enjoyed the time I spent playing it, the emotional highs and lows were great. Although I wasn’t really sure of the point to Mira was. Other than a reason to have a connection to Kings Landing and include 3 actors of the show in the game. Her place in the plot felt weak. The characters in Kings Landing weren’t the same as they were in the show. Margaery Tyrell says to do one thing then gets angry at Mira for doing exactly that. I don’t see Cersei Lannister giving a hoot about the Foresters. They aren’t pivotal to the throne. Tyrion Lannister might toy around but I don’t think he’d care much either with all the other things going on. I guess, it allowed Telltale games to tie the game into the show and that’s why Mira was introduced. I played Mira as noble as I could. Ned Stark would be proud. When we got to chapter 6 I thought that things were going to turn around because I was under the impression that this was the end of the story. Suddenly she’s in the cells being given the choice of death or sex slave, it wasn’t until her body fell to the side that I stopped believing that there wasn’t going to be some magical plot armor appear to save her. Nope. Dead.

The game was automatically updated, so I didn’t have to remember when it was available. This was great. A surprise in the morning when the PC booted up to see that it was downloading another chapter.

I also understood that it’s the Game of Thrones world, Valar Morghulis and all that. The deaths in the Forester family felt like they were more for shock value than for any other reason. If it was that brutal in the North, they’d have lost a child before this, surely. Granted the war has only just kicked into high gear, but the Whitehills seem to be pretty big tools and the Boltons didn’t just suddenly become jerks.

Gared is sent off to the wall, which allows us to have a brief encounter with John Snow. Again, plot device to tie us into the TV world. I don’t believe that John Snow would dismiss the truth so easily as he does in the game world. He’s sent to a northern grove as the last wish of a dying man. Something that Gared coul dhave done without having to become a member of the Nights Watch. There is also no current threat to the Northern Grove. Wildlings are coming south, the main land don’t venture north of the wall and most people believe it to be a fairy tale. Sure, the magical Northern Grove that no one else knows about and isn’t under and apparent threat mustn’t be lost.

I chose to save Asher over Rodrik. The ending of chapter 5 was horrible. Asher was meant to be The chosen One to save the day with his handful sized army of slave fighters. Lets ignore that Daenerys Targaryen gave him a rather healthy sized chest full of gold to buy more mercenaries. Finally, the brothers are reunited. Aaaaaaaand one is dead.

Gregor Forester is built up all this time as being a righteous man, second only to Ned Stark. Yet he has illegitimate children that he’s squirrelled away? This doesn’t make sense. Granted he might want to hide the shame of having bastard children Elsera and Josera to some unknown woman who may or may not have had magical powers, but so far to the north, beyond the wall?

When I loaded the last chapter, I was excited for closure. Instead I got the obliteration of the Forester family. Rodrik or Asher, Mira, Ethan, Mother Elissa, Talia’s whereabouts unknown and Ryon with Beskha. When you finish playing the chapter under the belief that it’s the end of the game and there isn’t any more, because that’s what you bought, you’re left distraught. There is no happy “yay I finished the game“, there was no satisfaction. I was left in tears (big girl that I am, crying over video games) and angry that I’d invested any time into the game at all. To finish playing through the game to find out it isn’t the end feels like a slap in the face. The ending left me gutted and frustrated. I honestly don’t see myself continuing to play. What’s the point? Everyone is going to die and the plot stinks. I have no reason to continue playing beyond morbid curiosity. There wasn’t any hope in the chapter 6 that makes me want to play on. I was questionable about playing chapter 6 even, but I as I said, I was under the impression that it was going to be the ending of the game.

Not happy.