Honestly I don't know why I'm still playing Telltale games. There were some parts of this that were pretty cool and I respect that they were to able get many of the more popular voice actors from the show. It just feels like the games Telltale has been making seem to include fewer and fewer gameplay elements. Almost as if they're only hiring wannabe film makers who couldn't quite cut it for some reason.
In The Walking Dead, there were large gameplay sections where you would have to walk around and solve puzzles. Not that this was an amazing mechanic but it was a mechanic. In this one it's rare to even be able to walk. It's more common that they only enable the forward button and you have to hold it to get through a hallway. Fun. The fight scenes are pretty easy to get through and they've usually decided beforehand whether or not you should win the fight leaving your performance mostly irrelevant.
A bigger issue than the lack of gameplay elements is the lack of choice. There is some branching to the story but the branches almost always lead back to the same things happening anyways and usually don't take too long to do it. Whether or not you're a good handmaiden to Margaery doesn't matter, whether you're obedient or defiant with the Whitehills doesn't matter, how you treat Ramsay doesn't matter, I could go on. The same things happen either way. Your strategy isn't important.
These games are supposed to be like choose your own adventure books not like sitcoms. That's what made The Walking Dead cool. Watching a 5 minute cutscene then holding W for a little while before getting to the next cutscene doesn't constitute gameplay. Telltale needs to stop making these games so long and start focusing on making them good - polishing something shorter. This feels like mediocre Game of Thrones fan fiction.
