Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series (2015)

Let me be clear I adore Telltale Game, and I find Minecraft to be an enjoyable relaxing experience. So merge them and it'll be great, right?

Well actually no, or at least I don't think do.

You play a generic square boy/girl in the Minecraft universe teaming with your friends to go on an adventure. And along for the ride are all the blocks, zombies, spiders and token Minecraft tropes you'd expect.

So what went wrong? Well for a start I struggled to take it seriously, being in the Minecraft style it just didn't sit right with me. Then you have the story which was about as interesting as a 5hr lecture on toenails.

To make matters worse the gameplay just wasn't engaging. Sure it's Telltale so I use the term gameplay loosely but still! When you take over as your character and potter round this little world the puzzles and engagements simply aren't very enjoyable.

The game does have a great voice cast and has it's moments, but when a certain bad thing happened to a certain character (No spoilers here) it angered me more than it should. That was just bad writing.

Story Mode for me is a swing and a miss, certainly a contender for the worst Telltale game.

The Good:

Telltale charm

Great voice cast

The Bad:

An adventure in that square universe just doesn't look right

Not very interesting plot

Dull interactive sections

"That" scene