Walking Dead, The - A Telltale Games Series (Japan)
PlayStation 3
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Reviewed in 2012
88
✪ Reviewed on March 1, 2026
82
Exceptional quality narrative adventure game by Telltale. Difficult moral choices, oppressive atmosphere and deeply likable characters. Walking Dead Season 1 redefined the narrative game genre for this generation.
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Adventure1 player18+
Description
Narrative adventure by Telltale Games adapting The Walking Dead with Lee and Clementine. Published by Telltale Games, released in December 2012 in Europe, North America and Japan. Lee Everett former condemned professor protecting Clementine young orphan in zombie apocalypse, narrative adventure gameplay with decisive moral choices influencing story and survivors, five episodes A New Day, Starved for Help, Long Road Ahead, Around Every Corner and No Time Left, signature Telltale cel-shading comic book aesthetic, English voice-over with Dave Fennoy as Lee, soundtrack by Jared Emerson-Johnson.
Walking Dead, The - A Telltale Games Series review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
MAX
Story
★★★★★
"Masterful"
The art direction turns the interface into a staging element. Decisions display on the image itself: the dialogue wheel and its ticking timer, the action cursor placed on the set, and above all the banner that surges up to warn that a character will remember. This dressing, far from a neutral menu, becomes a recurring graphic layer that inscribes guilt on the screen.
The score refuses the language of horror. Where the genre expects shrieking violins and sonic jolts, the music chooses elegy: low strings, muffled timbres, mourning melodies that accompany loss rather than fear. The undead get no fright theme; it is the grief of the living the orchestra underlines. This against-the-grain stance treats a zombie apocalypse like a chamber drama, and makes each farewell heavier than any scream.
At the heart of a zombie apocalypse, a man with a murky past watches over a little girl he learns to protect as his own. A choice-driven tale of rare emotional force, it makes human relationships, not the undead, its true stakes. Its harrowing ending redefined what a narrative game could be.
Gameplay
"Solid"
Fun
"Pleasant"
Addictiveness
"Obsessive"
Settling wrenching dilemmas where each choice bears on what follows turns this narrative adventure into a tale whose outcome you absolutely want to know, episode after episode. The relationships that form and break pull the story forward. Its interactivity stays limited, but the strength of its writing and its characters makes every episode's end hard to leave.
The Japanese version of Telltale's The Walking Dead, a choice-driven narrative adventure, a release a bit less common than the Western editions. This edition appeals to fans of Japanese runs of an interactive-storytelling milestone. Its interest lies in this local run rather than strong value.
Is Walking Dead, The - A Telltale Games Series still worth playing in 2026?
Telltale's The Walking Dead is a narrative adventure game of exceptional quality that redefined the genre this generation. Following Lee and the little Clementine in an America ravaged by the zombie epidemic, it places harrowing moral choices and human relationships at the heart of the experience, far more than action. The shattering writing and the deep attachment one develops for the characters deliver an emotion of rare intensity. The minimalist gameplay serves the story entirely. For anyone seeking a striking interactive story, where every decision weighs, this first season remains one of the finest ever made.
