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what's up guys this is nick AKA stew beef from gamers in excess net talking about the wolf among us episode to smoke and mirrors the wolf among us is an adventure type series from Telltale Games the developers at the walking dead and it's based on the fables comics fables comics take all these characters from fairy tales and nursery rhymes and put them in the Fabletown slums in new york city leaving them to violence drugs and just about anything that would make walt disney roll over in his grave you play as bigby wolf the fable town sheriff and go around interrogating characters and breaking down crime scenes most of the time you're using a dialogue wheel and can play as a good cop bad cop or anywhere in between so in smoke and mirrors Big B is investigating a murder that happened at the end of episode 1 which I won't spoil so you're picking up where episode 1 left off interrogating the suspect you arrested at the end of that episode and getting some important info on a new lead in the case from there you're nearly getting into a scuffle at a strip club and conducting a forensic autopsy among other scenes Telltale Games has done an excellent job of creating and maintaining suspense and further developing the character relationships from episode 1 the dialogue between Big B and the other characters seems fluid not forced you've got enough options and even though a lot of the dialogue is timed you still have enough time to read through the decisions and make a conscious choice episode 1 sometimes didn't give me enough time so this was a good improvement to see a lot of the characters from episode 1 return but there are some good additions to smoke and mirrors the stand out here is Georgie the strip club owner and his initial stubbornness made for a fun scene my Paragon Big B finally got fed up and decided to kick down a cigarette vending machine so this was one of the ways i felt big b's integrity was tested in the episode we had the chance to experience the different sides of big be like when he slowly picks around a corpse for evidence while his partner in crime shudders and fights the urge to hold him back there's even a scene where he has to find out how toad jr. came across the same body so he bends down and you know depending on how you play through it you can really see a sensitive side from him telltale games does a nice job with animating the facial expressions of these characters especially in the most dire instances but as well as the character relationships and dialogue dynamics play out I've got mixed feelings about Big D's fight scenes these are quick time event scenes that look stylish and break up the gameplay but our kind of half empty in the grand scheme of things I had only one scuffle and smoke and mirrors so it seemed kind of thrown in there especially since it had nothing to do with one of the murder suspects or at least that's what I think right now I used my xbox controller and notice that once or twice I'd hit the wrong button but Big B would still execute a punch or dodge an attack I saw the same thing in episode 1 so it kind of sucks to have something unpolished like that still around the other thing is that the storyline focuses almost entirely on the snow white storyline and not the faith murder we invested ourselves in in episode 1 and even though I understand everyone's playthrough of the game will be different I didn't see much of my decisions from episode one carrying over to episode two for example why didn't i get to hunt down Tweedledum and why wasn't there a payoff for coming to mr. Toad's aid in episode one this time I mean God my decision from that got another guy killed just kind of you know a loose end that I didn't get to see tied up but despite that I still see the wolf among us as a strong franchise for people who want a break from running and gunning or wandering around in an MMORPG episode 2 doesn't explore multiple storylines or threaten us with new bloodthirsty characters as much as episode 1 did but it does an excellent job developing Big B and setting us up for more plot twists with its cliffhanger ending by the game for its storytelling and for its visuals just don't expect any brilliant gameplay innovations alright so to learn more about the wolf among us head over to our website gamers Nexus net we've got written reviews of episodes one and two and get yourself some brownie points by liking this video leaving a comment and/or subscribing to our Channel we'll see you guys next time Joe