New Tales from the Borderlands

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  • Summary: Take a stand against ruthless corporate overlords in this narrative-driven adventure! Within the perpetually war-torn metropolis of Promethea, you'll control Anu, Octavio, and Fran on the worst day of their lives. Help these three lovable losers as they endeavor to change the world (andTake a stand against ruthless corporate overlords in this narrative-driven adventure! Within the perpetually war-torn metropolis of Promethea, you'll control Anu, Octavio, and Fran on the worst day of their lives. Help these three lovable losers as they endeavor to change the world (and maybe even save it)! Face down a planetary invasion, vicious vault monster, and cold-hearted capitalist in this cinematic thrill ride where what happens next is up to you! Meet a motley cast full of misfits, assassin bots, and talking guns in this race to the top! It's time to fight back against exploitation and corporate greed. It's time to make Mayhem your business. … Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 60
  2. Mixed: 30 out of 60
  3. Negative: 4 out of 60
  1. COGconnected
    Oct 20, 2022
    92
    New Tales from the Borderlands is immensely entertaining, exceptionally well written, and acted with pitch-perfect attention to character. I wish the action wasn’t so restricted to quick-time events, because a full-on action game with such quality of humor and characters would be a hands-down GOTY contender. After replaying the original Tales from the Borderlands, it was obvious how much the new game improves on the first. Any gamer that appreciates great writing, fully dimensional characters, and a wide gamut of humor will love New Tales from the Borderlands.
  2. Player 2
    Oct 20, 2022
    83
    A well-scribbled note in the margins of the Borderlands universe, that should elicit a chortle or two from anyone still drawing breath.
  3. Digital Trends
    Oct 20, 2022
    80
    New Tales from the Borderlands risked ruining this series by focusing on a completely different set of characters and not really following up its predecessor at all. Thankfully, Gearbox Montreal proved that the Borderlands universe is still full of unique and interesting stories to tell, whether it does so in a first-person shooter or narrative adventure game format.
  4. Eurogamer Italy
    Oct 20, 2022
    70
    New Tales from The Borderlands follows the step of its predecessor, with a well written story and a cast of protagonists that will entertain you for hours. The cell shading style and the filmmaker direction make the whole package well worthy of your time.
  5. IGN France
    Oct 21, 2022
    70
    Pleasant to play, visually beautiful, full of humor, we are delighted to be able to return to the world of Borderlands in the manner of a TellTales. Unfortunately, the additions of gameplay and the wobbly side of its scenario do not play to its advantage.
  6. PLAY! Zine
    Dec 13, 2022
    60
    New Tales from the Borderlands is so overblown with all sorts of different kinds of humour that it is choking the comedic timing it could have had - most of the funny moments involve side characters and not the main ones. The story is good, but the choices don’t feel that important compared to the other games in the genre.
  7. Destructoid
    Oct 20, 2022
    30
    I wish I could say I nailed New Tales of from the Borderlands with a bad score because I was holding it to a higher standard because it was developed by Gearbox, and that it had a lot to live up to by following the original Tales. Those things may be true, but this game is a soulless slog regardless of who made it or what series it’s a part of.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 26
  3. Negative: 14 out of 26
  1. WendyStamps
    Dec 18, 2022
    10
    This game was a ton of fun good jokes and good characters to make a kick ass game
  2. Ray6701
    Oct 23, 2022
    10
    The humour is top notch the characters are likeable and its story is interesting
  4. KinimodYunmi
    Nov 24, 2022
    8
    Ich fand das Spiel wirklich sehr gut!

    Es war echt witzig und die ganze Zeit über echt unterhaltsam. Ich fand Episode 1 bei weitem am besten    Ich fand das Spiel wirklich sehr gut!

    Es war echt witzig und die ganze Zeit über echt unterhaltsam. Ich fand Episode 1 bei weitem am besten und dann etwas abfallend, aber am Ende immer noch gut, die Soundtracks haben gut gepasst und der Borderlands Humor war auch vorhanden.

    Ich habe alle Telltale Spiele auf Steam gespielt und es gab ein paar, bei denen ich nach einer Episode noch eine gespielt habe, aber nicht all zu viele, normalerweise spiele ich eine pro Tag, aber hier wollte ich dann doch noch mal dran bleiben und mir 4 Stunden am Stück eine interaktive Story reingezogen.

    Ich fand dieses Spiel auch von allen bisherigen Spielen dieser Art am flüssigsten, das bezieht sich jetzt auf die Gegenden, in denen man sich frei bewegt. Das mochte ich nie besonders, aber hier hat es mir echt Spaß gemacht.

    Anu ist sehr gelungen DEVICE!, Fran ist überraschend cool geworden und Octavio ist jetzt nicht so ganz mein Fall, regte mich manchmal etwas auf ^^

    Zu bemögeln habe ich aber leider auch etwas und zwar hat uns Telltale seit Jahre bzw alle Games seit Jahren vermittelt, jedes Quick Time Event zu machen und zu schaffen, hier ist es allerdings so, dass man mit gemacht oder nicht gemachten Quick Time Events ebenfalls Entscheidungen trifft und das finde ich wirklich blöd, weil es nicht immer sofort ersichtlich ist, vor allem nicht in der Geschwindigkeit, du hast ja keine Zeit um kurz darüber nachzudenken... und was sollten diese Minispiele? Ist das ein Test, ob E auf der Tastatur noch funktioniert? Da hätte man sich was deutlich besseres einfallen lassen können!

    Insgesamt aber trotzdem 8/10 Skateboards!    … Expand
  5. haha_yes9
    Sep 3, 2023
    3
    This game is considered a meh in my opinion. because without the telltale its just does not have any soul?. I mean sure some of the jokes wereThis game is considered a meh in my opinion. because without the telltale its just does not have any soul?. I mean sure some of the jokes were ridiculous nonetheless this game is meh… Expand
  6. Erupt50
    Oct 22, 2022
    1
    This game is not a Borderlands game. Bad characters, bad story and no humor. Very disappointing, especially if you were a fan of the originalThis game is not a Borderlands game. Bad characters, bad story and no humor. Very disappointing, especially if you were a fan of the original Tales from the Borderlands game.… Expand
  7. DeenaxD
    Nov 3, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is bad. I finished playing the first one and it was amazing funny interesting it wasn’t boring. So after that I started to play the new one and it is awful not like the first one at all. Boring the new characters are ugly the guy you play as has the exact same hairstyle as the bad guy in bl3… they try to make jokes and it’s just cringey it’s not even a little bit funny it’s not even like weird wacky borderlands it’s pure and utter cringe. One of the other characters you play as released some wild animals because she doesn’t want them being experimented on yet she has one of them in her lab in a glass cage that she experimented on… it’s so stupid doesn’t make any sense at all. From what I played of it so far its really really bad I don’t know how they went so wrong with this and Rhys it’s like they changed his whole personality hes crude and unlikeable now which he wasn’t in the first one he’s nothing like he was before. So over all this game is very bad if you liked the first one I wouldn’t recommend buying this one a waste of money.… Expand
  8. gum11
    May 8, 2023
    0
    I liked the story and the characters..this is a solid adventure game with great jokes too

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