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  • Summary: Minecraft: Story Mode is like a playable TV show based on the Minecraft game, where YOU are the star, and your choices and actions decide how the story is told. You assume the role of Jesse, and you and your friends are thrown into an adventure to save the world. While visiting EnderCon,Minecraft: Story Mode is like a playable TV show based on the Minecraft game, where YOU are the star, and your choices and actions decide how the story is told. You assume the role of Jesse, and you and your friends are thrown into an adventure to save the world. While visiting EnderCon, your crew stumbles on something dreadful. Terror is unleashed, and your only hope is to track down the “Order of the Stone”, a fabled group of adventurers who slew the legendary Ender Dragon. But where are they? In a race against time, you will travel across the over-world, through the Nether, to The End, and beyond. [Telltale Games] Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. 80
    Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 4 continues the momentum from the previous episode in true Telltale fashion. Many of the series flaws remain, but many more have been fixed. The accelerated pace of the narrative really helps here as well, with the story of the Wither Storm coming to a close in both fun and surprisingly dramatic ways.
  2. Dec 23, 2015
    80
    Episode 4 makes Story Mode as a whole easy to recommend, and it will leave you itching to find out what the writers have planned for the final chapter.
  3. Jan 7, 2016
    78
    Despite the grievances I have with the action and impact on the story, this is an enjoyable and evenly paced episode that effectively wraps up the Wither Storm arc for Minecraft: Story Mode, and delivers an ending that tugs on players’ heartstrings.
  4. Dec 28, 2015
    72
    The fourth episode digs deeper into the characters, revealing their conflicts and secrets through a more mature storytelling. Looking back at the season knowing what we know now, we could recommend it to a wider audience.
  5. Dec 30, 2015
    65
    While an improvement upon the series and as adequate a closure as Telltale could muster, Minecraft: Story Mode's finale can only ornament a dying tree. The good news is that the withered green is perennial and came to an early close.
  6. Jan 11, 2016
    60
    Although the game itself can’t be saved, it is necessary to admit, that the penultimate episode of the series is the most successful yet.
  7. Jan 5, 2016
    40
    This episode could very well be considered the finale for the first season. It wraps up the Wither Storm saga, it answers the questions about the Order of the Stone, and it delivers a semi-happy, hopeful ending for the crew. If only it did that without an utterly boring first half and the clumsy insertion of mandatory Telltale story elements, it might have also been a good ending.

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  3. Negative: 1 out of 2
  1. Jan 12, 2016
    9
    Episode 4. Dang EPISODE 4!
    Now, this episode was stunning. While your decisions in this chapter didn't seem to impact much, this chapter
    Episode 4. Dang EPISODE 4!
    Now, this episode was stunning. While your decisions in this chapter didn't seem to impact much, this chapter bought your past decisions into play (Some minor and some that really rocks your friendships) and your past experiences. The intro starts off right where you ended last episode and get ready for a lot of QTE's.
    The middle portion is... Slow, unfortunately. Interesting... A little. You do get to see something spectacular but for now you'll be asking "Are we there yet?" Or "Is it over?"
    The ending... The god dang ENDING! Is fantastic! You *Insert spoilers*. Well, this ending is amazing anyways. Yes, you might die a few times (I did...) but it's a fun experience and one that might toy with your emotions...

    All in all, this episode is easily the best of all of them so far. I love this episode and i can't wait to see what Tell Tale brings us in episode 5 "Order Up!"
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  2. Jul 5, 2018
    1
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    Made as the final episode, but there is still 5 + DLC, it is not clear yet why, but still as the final episode, then complete crap,
    ENG RU
    Made as the final episode, but there is still 5 + DLC, it is not clear yet why, but still as the final episode, then complete crap, Peter live healthy, although in the frame it does not flash almost the entire episode, the order of faith was **** like all its representatives, and the main bastard, was quite a good person, puzzles that can be solved to listen to the grumbling of a crank, go through a stupid maze with an inconvenient camera. The most important Rofl, with a pig that pisses off all the episodes, making dissatisfied faces, and in General, the **** is not needed as a character, and still so stupid drain, type see children what a sad ending to our cool game!
    Сделан как завершающий эпизод, но есть еще 5 + DLC, не понятно пока зачем, но все равно как конечный эпизод, то полная хрень, Петра живая здоровая, хотя в кадре она не мелькает почти весь эпизод, орден на веру оказался фуфлом, как и все его представители, а главный гад, оказался вполне хорошим челом, загадки которые решить можно послушать ворчание чудика, пройти тупейший лабиринт при неудобной камере. Самый главный Rofl, со свиньей, которая бесит все эпизоды, корчит недовольные рожи, да и в целом нахрен не нужна как персонаж, так и еще так тупо сливают, тип смотрите дети какая грустная концовка у нашей крутой игры!
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