Gamers who are familiar with Telltale's particular brand of choose-your-own-adventure games will feel right at home with Tales From The Borderlands. For the uninitiated; in the Telltale formula players are required to make--more or less--difficult decisions, and the story changes in order to reflect them. In addition to shaping the outcome of actual events, your interactions with the NPCs you encounter decides how they react to, and your opinion of, you. But where previous Telltale offerings like The Walking Dead presents the player with gut-wrenchingly difficult and morally opaque choices, Tales From The Borderlands is more lighthearted in its approach and aims to elicit laughter. For example, instead of choosing "who will starve today", it tasks you with deciding which kind of rousing speech to deliver or which witty quip to deliver in response to one of the game's outlandish set-pieces.…show more content… For one, it often serves to take the edge out proceedings; at times it all but deflates whatever immediacy and seriousness present. Secondly, it may be harder to gauge preemptively how a character will respond to your actions and comments, which renders it more difficult to plan out your relationships. However, due to the hilarity on offer, this becomes less of a problem than it would in a more serious title - actually, you'll probably end up choosing the rudest and most outlandish response possible just to see what
