It just sets the tone for the entire series, the song is dripping with style and swag, and it really hammers home the feeling that there’s a whole adventure ahead of you. Then there’s the musical opening, and while all of them are particularly great (shout out to the slo-mo rocket launch sequence from episode 4 - the entirety of the penultimate episode is nothing short of excellent, honestly), but episode 1’s heavy beat and funky synth banger “Busy Earnin'” by Jungle is will be one of those gaming moments I remember for the rest of my life. There are still bits from this game that I quote to this day, and don’t even get me started on the finger guns fight in Episode 4. Compared to New Tales‘ slow, clunky exposition dumps, the original Tales’ sharp, focused writing is all the more noticeable. The dialogue is smart and snappy, and perfectly paced while also giving us exposition at the same time. The story gets rolling right away, and it never really slows down after that. It opens with this mystery of who kidnapped Rhys, one of the player characters, and after a few quips, he launches into a narration of how he got to where he is in the first place. But the conclusion is the same, and it seems to be unanimous: Tales from the Borderlands is still one of the best stories ever told in a game. New Tales from the Borderlands was so bad, it actually made more than one of us return to the original to make sure we hadn’t created some kind of false, reverent memory as a coping mechanism. Turns out Alice Bell over at Rock Paper Shotgun and I think alike, because she had the exact same idea. Before I even finished the first episode of New Tales, I knew I had to go back and see if the original held up in the way that I thought it did. The whole time I was playing, I couldn’t stop thinking about how awesome I thought the first game was, to the point that it is one of my favorite games of all time. Or maybe even better…Ī couple of weeks ago, I had the displeasure of reviewing Gearbox’s New Tales from the Borderlands. I try to give every game I review the benefit of the doubt, but this game just kept letting me down again and again and again, and in the end it turned out to be a pretty miserable experience - and I gave it a 3/10. Just go play it, because that’s basically the conclusion of this article, anyway. The following feature contains a spoiler for Telltale’s 2014 title Tales from the Borderlands.
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