The Walking Dead: Michonne - Episode 3: What We Deserve

The season finale of The Walking Dead: Michonne is easily the best episode of the entire miniseries, and Telltale Games has once again delivered a compelling narrative with fully realized characters.

The combat is fast paced and really gives the player a feeling of desperation.

The Walking Dead: Michonne is tough game to swallow because it makes you think about all of these elements in ways you probably haven't before, but that's also what makes it so great.

This has been a worthwhile deviation while we wait for season three of the main series.

What We Deserve is a great end to the series, but some technical issues and a few story choices make it the weakest of the three episodes.

The strongest episode in a mini-series that feels much like Fear The Walking Dead. It will tide over hardcore fans but ultimately, despite its top notch production values, it fails to create the palpable tension and soul-clenching misery that is the franchise’s hallmark.

After a wobbly start, Michonne's mini-series returns on the right path. This last episode is, literally, What We Deserve: a story focused on the characters and not on the fan-service, a touching tale of revenge and forgiveness.

This episode is stronger than the previous two, but it can’t support the trilogy by itself.

'What We Deserve’ is a solid ending to The Walking Dead: Michonne saga. Though it’s far from perfect, it does tie up the series nicely with a satisfying conclusion.

While the idea of a Telltale miniseries is a welcome and novel one The Walking Dead: Michonne suffers because there’s already too much Walking Dead in the world, and also the invulnerability of Michonne means you never worry about her the same way you did Lee or Clementine.

The Walking Dead: Michonne Episode 3 – What We Deserve offers a solid and focused finale story-wise, but a lack of impactful choices and a far too brief length hold it back from being a highlight of the franchise.

Whether it was because of the shorter format or because the developer was tied to comic canon, The Walking Dead: Michonne doesn't quite hold the same emotional resonance as Telltale's own original take on the series. But as a Michonne story, it does a great job of providing a window into this character's fractured soul.

After two toned-down episodes, The Walking Dead: Michonne finds its ending with an enjoyable third one.

The ultimate downfall of Michonne's tale is that the writers attempted to shoehorn what should have been a ten-hour narrative into three hours.

What We Deserve is an action-packed conclusion, but I wouldn't necessarily call it satisfying. It's interesting, because this Michonne series in general hasn't been the best side project, but it's far more satisfying than say, Jurassic Park, which was a failure all around. Grab it all on a sale if you really like the first two seasons.

After two episodes, The Walking Dead: Michonne successfully developed its main character at the expense of the rest of its cast. In Episode 3, the trade-off doesn’t feel quite worth it — it’s so concerned with drawing explicit connections and tying every thread together that it isn’t that satisfying as an ending. A critical reveal redeems it somewhat, but once the episode begins to over explain that, too, the impact sadly fades.

The Walking Dead Michonne isn’t a bad game, but it’s too similar to the other titles of the series. We need new narrative solutions, a new game engine and a smarter storytelling to bring again The Walking Dead on the top of the videogames market.

Confirms all the issues that have emerged in the previous episodes. With very little character development for secondary characters and villains, uneven pacing and short total play time, The Walking Dead Michonne fails to become a truly compelling experience.

The third episode of TWD: Michonne has many ups and downs, but the worst part of it is a plot not as interesting as we expected. Unless you want to know more about Michonne, this series has very little for the player.

By the end of What We Deserve, Michonne and her companions find themselves basically right back where they started, right before the credits roll with a song that actually fades out before all of the names even finish rolling, creating an uncomfortable silence. Yes, this episode almost literally goes out not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Much like the classic storybook wanderer, The Walking Dead: Michonne ends up just like its titular heroine, a little battered, more then a little bruised, and with a little less closure then she was hoping for.