Repost: My thoughts on Minecraft Story Mode Season II. – Minecraft: Story Mode - S2 Review

Hello Telltale Games, If you're listening, today I would like to share my honest opinion about Minecraft Story Mode Season II. When I completed Minecraft Story Mode Episode 8: A Journey's End, I really honest to Goodness thought that the story was over, seeing as the ending of the game sort of leaves what happens next up to the player's imagination. It was all very satisfying to see these characters return home and be friends and keep adventuring. Then, around June 2017, I heard that you were making a sequel. But the first thing I saw involving MCSMS2, was not a promotional artwork, or a basic premise, it was a release date. No lies, 3 weeks after I first heard of the game, it was released. I bought the game, thinking that I'd really like it, seeing as how good the first game was. No less than 5 minutes the game I noticed the following problems: 1: Ivor & Harper, two fan-favorite characters, were gone, only mentioned once, showing no signs that they would ever come back. And by the time Ivor came back it was too late, and Harper was still gone. 2: Distracting Visual Glitches were all over the place, making the game look very sloppy and like it was made in a hurry. Later on, I noticed more. 3: We Didn't really get to know Jack or Radar very well before they were thrown at us, basically saying, "You don't need Petra, Lukas, Ivor, Axel, & Olivia anymore." Instead of the good old crew, we were stuck with a guy who cares about no one but himself, and some guy who has the voice of a 7 year-old girl. 4: So The Admin nearly destroyed Beacon Town, Tortured and subjugated Petra / Jack to his will, and tried to kill Jesse on numerous occasions, because he was lonely? That's not a great villain motive. I would much rather have Herobrine than The Admin any day. 5: Why was Petra keeping secrets from Jesse, when in episode 2 of the first game, Jesse was the only one she trusted with her secrets? And why was she swooning over Jack like fangirl? Petra is supposed a tough young woman who can take care of business and is fiercely loyal to her friends, not some fangirling liar. 6: Despite the option to continue the story started in Minecraft Story Mode, this game takes place so far after the first game, that it literally has nothing to do with MCSM, almost like it created its own canon. I did not like this, as it sacrificed everything good that I did in MCSM to tell its owns story, destroying all the progress I made. 7: If Romeo, Xara, & Fred are the supposed “Creators of everything”, who created them? Humans do not have celestial power, we cannot create things from nothing, only One self existing, almighty being could create worlds, universes, Etc. Humans also cannot have God’s power and knowledge, as it would be too much for a mortal being to handle. I don’t know who’s idea The Admin was, but it was a terrible idea. 8: In MCSM, Beacon Town & Champion City are in Oak Valley, about 300 miles away from Redstonia, on the east coast of the continent. However, in MCSMS2, the two cities are unexplainably moved 1,220 miles to the northwest. And as if that wasn’t enough, the entire continent was screwed up. There were things in the central part of the continent that were not there in MCSM. I know how plate tectonics work, and such drastic changes to the land do not occur in only 7 years. I don’t know who thought no one would notice the massive geographical errors, but I noticed. If anyone of you at TTG took basic geology, you’ll know that plate shifting takes millions of years. To summarize: 1: The game feels rushed out, glitchy, and incomplete. 2: I was not expecting beloved characters like Ivor & Harper to get so carelessly discarded from the story. It almost feels like how Hicks & Newt from Aliens were killed off so carelessly in Alien 3. It's not right. 3: The new characters feel like they're being forced on us, and Radar is annoying. 4: The main Antagonist's motives were not well written. 5: Beloved characters personalities were very far from what they were in MCSM. 6: The game takes away all the good things from MCSM to tell its own story, sacrificing all the player's progress. 7: The game’s idea of Theology is messed up and offensive. 8: The landscape of the Overworld seems to have changed dramatically in only 7 years. Fyi, the scene with Jesse & Petra in episode 4 was a pretty interesting to finally see (Because I kinda like M Jesse & Petra), but it wasn’t executed quite right, and really only satisfies those playing as M Jesse, leaving the players who like F Jesse & Lukas nothing. My sisters (who like Lukesse, or whatever it’s called) were extremely annoyed at this, as they wanted the choice to pair up with Lukas, and I’m sure many more were also very annoyed at what was a jerk move on Stirpe’s part. With that said, you should probably just remove the choice system from MCSMS2, as it serves absolutely no purpose in the game. Why am I saying this? Because the centerpiece of all Telltale games is the option to craft your own story, and if F Jesse players can’t choose the option to be with Lukas, then they have no reason to play the game. Now don't get me wrong, I love Minecraft Story Mode. It has inspired me to write Minecraft Story Mode: World Of Chaos for my siblings. But I'm afraid that me and my family were disappointed by MCSMS2. This game is disappointing not just to people who like Minecraft, but to those who like Fantasy. You have to pay respect to writers like J.R.R Tolkien who made Fantasy what it is today, and MCSMS2 makes a mockery of the Fantasy Genre. So, all in all, I respectfully give this game a 0/100 rating. I will look forward to your next game. Until then, I’ll play games I actually enjoy, like Kingdom Hearts, Minecraft Story Mode, The Walking Dead, and Middle-Earth: Shadow Of War. Thanks Telltale, I hope you read this. (: -Nick
Review by Han@$$holeSolo on Minecraft: Story Mode - S2.