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: 1 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 12
  3. Negative: 3 out of 12
  1. GamersRD
    Oct 25, 2022
    75
    New Tales from the Borderlands can be considered a sequel rather than a Spin-off of Tales From the Borderlands. We will love its main and secondary characters, the new mechanics added to the genre and its evolved technical section. Its narrative rhythm is a wind-up toy but it can be fun and interesting.
  2. PlayStation Universe
    Nov 1, 2022
    70
    A roster of uncanny characters and their interactions is enough to detract from a well-trodden, predictable story. New Tales from the Borderlands is chock full of mini-games, laughs and great performances throughout. With cameos from well-known, returning characters and that distinctive art style, New Tales from the Borderlands is definitely worth playing, especially for Borderlands fans.
  3. Softpedia
    Nov 1, 2022
    70
    In New Tales from Borderlands the freedom of choice is just an illusion, but unlike in case of other representatives of the genre, here I actually enjoyed being fooled by that illusion. That is until I wanted to see the different endings. The developers trying to extend artificially the time we spend with their game is downright annoying. It is like they did their best to distract us from something they felt they needed to hide. And it is a shame really, since the game, leaving aside all the unnecessary distractions, is not bad at all. It is worth exactly one playthrough, more risking to be a waste of time.
  4. Dexerto
    Oct 25, 2022
    60
    As a huge fan of the original, I went into New Tales From The Borderlands wanting to have my mind blown and regaled with a story for the ages. Gearbox delivered this in some parts as they harnessed the crazy energy of the Borderlands universe to offer up exciting new characters and a coherent story. But the overeagerness to deliver a laugh a minute and the ludonarrative dissonance of its mini-games and QTEs take away from the game in droves. If we do get a third game, then I’d love to see Gearbox move away from all this and focus on delivering a heavy, gut-punching narrative sprinkled with that insane Borderlands energy we love so much.
  5. GameOver.gr
    Nov 18, 2022
    50
    Poor in substance, soft in impact, slow in pacing, annoying in characters, lacking in gameplay / choices, The New Tales from the Borderlands is just a distant foggy echo of the first, vastly superior game.
  6. Games.cz
    Nov 8, 2022
    50
    A game that is barely a game. New Tales from the Borderlands would like to continue the tradition of Telltale Games but misses quite a lot of the necessary ingredients. Your decisions don’t matter, the script just bombards you with ceaseless jokes and pop culture references, the main trio lacks plausible motivation. The voice actors are great, but how does that help a poorly written game?
  7. Push Square
    Oct 22, 2022
    30
    We can scarcely recall an occasion where we were more disappointed by a sequel than New Tales from the Borderlands. We wanted to love this. We'd have accepted liking it. But we hate this game. This is a ten-hour narrative adventure that feels four times as long as it needs to be, with dreadful characters, and appalling, relentlessly unfunny jokes. It's a spectacular misfire, its only success to speak of being the rare example of a sequel so bad that it ruins the original, too.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 6 out of 12
  1. Sazeracattack
    Nov 2, 2022
    10
    It is an interactive comedy movie. If that that's not your thing, than shut up and continue to shoot each other in MW2. I don't yuck on your yum.
  2. Dstamps
    Nov 10, 2022
    10
    this game was an amazing continuation to tales from the borderlands and it pulled off
  4. WendyStamps
    Dec 18, 2022
    10
    The story was good the characters were funny and likeable and the visuals are amazing
  5. onemorelevel_1
    Oct 25, 2022
    4
    STORY, GAMEPLAY AND CONTROLS
    New Tales From The Borderlands is not sequel to the first game, it only does belong to the same universe. There    STORY, GAMEPLAY AND CONTROLS
    New Tales From The Borderlands is not sequel to the first game, it only does belong to the same universe. There are completely new characters; Octavio, Fran and Anu, which are the only three playable characters. In the game, player does control them one at time, making choices based by their point of view. As the previous game, New Tales From The Borderlands is very much alike. It is choice-based and the gameplay has quick-time-events. All the choices player makes in the game will affect all the outcomes and the ending specifically.

    The game starts with Anu, who is Octavios big sister, and she got fired from her job of being inventive scientist. She had just invented a device (a “gun”) that doesn’t kill, but does heal people. Together with her brother Octavio and his boss Fran (who owns a frogurt shop) they try to make the healing device to the markets, but the corporate overlords comes to their way and try to steal the invention from them. So, their narrative-driven adventure begins.

    The story was OK and the pacing was fast enough to keep me entertained throughout the whole game. What I didn’t like, was the horrible overacting and over-reacting to, literally, everything that happened. I don’t know was it the base game (Borderlands), which New Tales From The Borderlands belongs to, the reason to this, because I’ve never played those games (except Borderlands 2 VR -game which I have played). I think Borderlands -series is rather over-the-top, but still the acting in New Tales From The Borderlands was more of annoying than funny. Even the jokes didn’t hit me at all.

    What comes to the gameplay; it was a big improvement from the previous game. New Tales From The Borderlands did run much better than the previous game (and all the other TellTale -games). The previous game was more slower and little bit sluggish, even the QTEs were dull. Moving the characters around was also a much imporved. Basically, everything in New Tales From The Borderlands were much faster and fluent.

    The game also had mini games, which to my dissapointent, were a fail-proof. Only thing I had to do was to hit X-button. Then there was a Vaultlander fighthing mini game. It also was just hitting the X-button to do damage and QTEs to dodge. There was no difficulty in the game nor in the mini games, which was rather boring to play.

    New Tales From The Borderlands also had lots of costumes, whici could be bought in-game currency. I did enjoy changing the clothes of my characters every time I came up with the changing booth.

    FINAL VERDICT
    Even though the game was badly overacted and all the minigames and QTEs were overly easy, making the game have no difficulty whatsoever, I did enjoy little bit the New Tales From The Borderlands. The game was about 10 hours long, so it does have some playing value. Is it must play? No it isn’t, but for the series’ fans this will be a fun little addition.    … Expand
  6. Yo_Hit_This
    Oct 26, 2022
    4
    I made an account for this but I just really think that Gearbox doesn’t know who their audience is anymore. This is not what we remember.
  7. Gamm0n
    Oct 30, 2022
    3
    You can tell Telltale didn't make this and the new Overly sensitive people behind the wreck that was BL3 had a heavy hand in the story. BadlyYou can tell Telltale didn't make this and the new Overly sensitive people behind the wreck that was BL3 had a heavy hand in the story. Badly written storyline Lacks the offensive humour BL has always had.
    Doesn't feel like a tales game at all    … Expand
  8. Kells_ExE
    Oct 30, 2022
    0
    i love the Borderlands series, been playing it since the original Borderlands 1 on xbox 360, but this is utter garbage.

    The Humour is awful    i love the Borderlands series, been playing it since the original Borderlands 1 on xbox 360, but this is utter garbage.

    The Humour is awful and out of touch and just plain unfunny bordering on trying to hard to be funny, the voice actors and characters in general are annoying and boring and just plain stupid, playing as a stupid buck tooth man child like octavio is really getting on my nerves, i mean if you wanna make him dumb go ahead, but he has the IQ of a 1 year old.

    Fran is trying so hard to be Ellie from Borderlands 2, this game should have never been told, also whoever told the Animators to make their faces look like a used condom when they're expressing themselves needs to be fired.    … Expand

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