• Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
  

  16 hours playtime

  50 of 50 achievements

i heard minecraft story mode had come to netflix and my kids love minecraft so i started playing this to see if it’d be a good fit for them. it’s definitely scarier and more intense than minecraft itself . . . so i think i’ll keep it to myself until the kids are older.

i quickly switched to playing with my controller since it doesn’t support remapping keys and i use dvorak. i was able to use the arrow keys instead of WASD for movement, but needing to possibly hit an arrow key in any direction or q or e, or even move the mouse for the QTEs just isn’t feasible. would have preferred the mouse for times i needed to quickly move the cursor, but i did okay with the right stick on the controller.

my other minor frustration was that i couldn’t look at something else while listening to dialog because it might have a timed choice or a QTE pop up that i’d risk missing. i generally dislike QTEs and this wasn’t limited to cases when i could know when to expect them. i’d also prefer it to wait for me to make a dialog choice instead of just continuing with no choice to keep the story moving if i’m not fast enough. i expect this is how all telltale games work (this is the first one i’ve played) but they say choices matter and i’d like more time to consider my choice.

it wanted me to log in to a telltale account and i created one but was unable to log in. looks like back in the day before telltale went away it may have shown a list of what i chose and what percentage of players made the same choice? it didn’t come as a big surprise to me that this part didn’t work, and it was easy enough to just not attempt to log in and still play the game. 47 of the 50 achievements you definitely get playing through the story once, and you can go back to chapters of the episodes to pick up the remaining 3 if you don’t want to re-play the whole game. you can’t get all in the same playthrough because 2 are opposing choices.

as expected, i enjoyed the story and the choices. out of 8 episodes it felt like the first 4 fit together and were a complete story, then the last 4 are a mostly separate story with the same characters and more variety. being familiar with minecraft i always knew what to do when it had me craft something, and there are definitely references to popular minecraft streamers and servers, but i think it shows you how to craft if you need it and you could just miss the references and be fine. if you can get your hands on this considering it’s no longer for sale on steam, i recommend it!