Telltale players are coldblooded. Javi could lose his entire family and we’d be okay with it, so long as Clementine lives to see another day.
Telltale released a developer diary video explaining their intentions behind the intense story choices in The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. The video highlights some of the popular decisions in the game, which include most players deciding to stay with Clementine to fight the New Frontier and going against Javi’s brother to run off with Kate. Check out the full video below to hear the developers’ insights.
While the developers say this season is about family, The Walking Dead: A New Frontier doesn’t really make you want to be loyal to Javi or his brother David. Earlier episodes of the game lead you to believe David, who was married to Kate before the zombie virus outbreak, wasn’t good person. He seems bitter about Javi’s successful career in major league baseball. The flashbacks with Javi and David just showed the tension between the brothers. It never feels like the love is there.
It also doesn’t help that David seemingly abandoned his family. Javi and Kate looked after David’s two children for months before leaving their family home. You see in flashbacks David never tried to get back to them. Sure David was just trying to survive, but there you learn later that he’d open up to Javi about wanting to leave his family behind. You just never get the chance to really connect with David and Javi. Their drama-filled relationship gets too melodramatic and distracting to the overall plot, at least in the first few episodes.
We’re still not sure why Telltale decided to ditch Clem as the story’s main protagonist. Even though she’s only a supporting character in The Walking Dead: A New Frontier , Clem greatly outshines Javi’s storyline. We want to know what happened to AJ and if they’ll get to be reunited. The flashbacks that reveal what happened to Clem after Kenny’s death are the best moments in the season. Seeing Clem do everything she can to make sure AJ survives just shows how far she’s come since shooting Lee before he turned into a walker.
Clem is strong and we’ve grown attached to her. The zombie apocalypse hasn’t been kind to her, but she always remembers the people who’ve helped her survive. Once Lee died, you’d think Clem wouldn’t have stood a chance of making it on her own, but she persisted. We hope Telltale embraces Clem again with the next season of The Walking Dead ; she’s the reason we come back for more.
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier will launch its final episode in the series Tuesday, May 30 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC/Steam, iOS and Android-based devices. What do you think will happen to Javi and Clem? Let us know in the comments section below.
