Our little Clem has grown up quite a bit since we last saw her in season two of The Walking Dead. A nice fellow named Jesus helped them clear it out, nice little tie into the comics there.Ĭlementine also played a decent part in the story of Javier’s fight against the New Frontier. They got to be in happy and healthy post-apocalyptic relationship, they have a real chance at rebuilding a life in the newly excavated safe zone that belonged to the New Frontier. In a surprising turn of events, the end to their story arc for the season was actually a happy one. They had already lost the innocent little beam of joy that was Javier’s niece (Kate’s stepdaughter) Mariana to the New Frontier’s ambush. When I thought Javier had actually lost Kate in a truck crash I was ready to set the controller down and not finish the rest of the game. Throughout the entire game, I wanted nothing more than for Javier and Kate both to make it to the end! They were a part of some of the most gut-wrenching storytelling and gameplay I have played in 2017.
Season 3 of Telltale Games’ flagship series The Walking Dead manages to pull off what Season 2 failed at, making players care about what happens to the characters. Javier and the gang try to stop it by striking a deal and of course the moment David is off the noose he causes a scene and all hell breaks lose. David, who was going to be publicly hung as a means to cover up some shady stuff one of the other leaders of the New Frontier was doing behind the scenes. David leaves and takes Gabriel with him which then forces Javier to make a choice, go after his brother and Gabriel with Clementine or stay with Kate and try to take back the former New Frontier safe zone from the zombies. Outside of that, the season is generally about cleaning up the mess that David set off at the end of the last episode. In order to keep the promise to their dad, I had Javier refuse to fight and instead keep telling David he loves him. Regardless David snaps and beats the unholy hell out of his little brother. Kate, of course, being his now ex-wife whom in her defense up until now thought David had died. It ties into a moment very late in the episode where David finds out Javier and Kate are in a relationship together. Javier has a conversation with their dear old dad in which he can promise to remain a loyal brother to David once their dad passes on (that’s what I chose to do). David, of course, gets angry and eventually storms off. The flashback covers a very sad moment where Javier and David find out their father has cancer and is refusing to seek treatment. The episode picks up immediately after the events of episode four, aside from a brief flashback at the beginning. To bring the scope down to just the finale of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, just for a moment, it does a phenomenal job of wrapping the story up for Javier and his crew.
The New Frontier even goes as far to kill Javier’s very young niece and wound Kate which set off a cavalcade of events that make an overall top tier experience from Telltale Games. All because of some pudding and gasoline Javier’s group needed to keep going. The group says Javier stole from them, kidnap him, burn down an innocent town and fill it with walkers. The entire season focuses on Javier and his group having accidentally crossed paths with some bad people called the New Frontier.
That phrase also sums up the entire New Frontier story arch. Nothing more could more accurately sum up the The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. By now you have probably asked yourself at least once, “What does that Sangre Por Sangre gibberish in the headline mean?” It is a simple phrase that means: Blood for Blood. The following review may contain spoilers for some readers! Sangre Por SangreĪl Capone once said, “You can get a lot more done with a gun and a kind word than with a kind word alone.”