Tales from the borderlands vault of the traveler
In most of these games, all the important choices made, whether in gameplay or dialogue, contribute to the shape and tone of the endgame. Once the story catches up to the present day, things start coming together with a degree of natural, organic efficiency that I’ve never seen in a Telltale game.
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This leads to a series of quick time events that probably everyone saw coming, but is no less difficult to watch. And special mention goes to Rhys’ final showdown with Handsome Jack, which brilliantly subverts expectations by delivering a quiet, contemplative debate on what it really means to be a hero. It’s already a given that our two main leads survive whatever transpired on Helios, but it’s no less enjoyable to experience it it’s got a handful of intense, shocking, and hilarious moments to be more than worth it. Rhys and Fiona, still held captive by a stranger with a familiar voice, finally catch us up to their current predicament in the first half of the episode. Tales from the Borderlands has made excellent use of its story-within-a-story framework, and it pays off beautifully in Episode 5: The Vault of the Traveler. Oh, and Handsome Jack finally snapped, assuming direct control over Rhys through his cybernetic implants and his Echo Eye in a murderous bid to reassume the mantle of authority he once wielded over Hyperion. The good guys were no longer hunting the Vault for themselves they were hunting the Vault to stay alive. Not only were they deep in enemy territory, but they were under the thumb of the likes of Vallory, August, Finch, and Kroger. When we last saw Rhys, Fiona, and the gang, things weren’t looking good.