With the astounding success of Telltale's first season of The Walking Dead the developer hopes to tide fans over before Season 2 with an additional look into this apocalyptic world. 400 Days is a series of vignettes, centered around different characters jumping through the first 400 days of the outbreak. With this DLC Telltale endearingly boasts of their immense talents as they tell intense and wonderfully crafted stories in roughly 15 minutes chunks. These small stories are each better than entire fully featured games and that is both impressive on Telltale's part and disappointing for the state of the industry. 400 Days allows you to play as any of 5 characters, with the ability to experience them in any order you want. This DLC seems very experimental but regardless Telltale doesn't skimp, and 400 Days delivers the same high caliber of storytelling the award-winning series has become known for.
It's difficult to talk about any of the events in this package without the risk of spoiling to much, as stated above each standalone story is fairly short and thus every moment is precious. Which brings me to one of the highlights of this DLC, 400 Days takes advantage of its conceit and amps up the intensity to jaw-dropping and palm sweating intensity. It's incredible that Telltale is able to deliver the same level of attention to story and characters even in these smaller episodes. Even the timed decisions that punctuated Season One are thrown at you with such speed you will struggling to keep up; an appropriate response for the situation these characters find themselves in. Telltale promises that the actions you make in this DLC along with those from the entirety of Season One will follow you into Season 2. I will be very interested to see how they tie these two disparate experiences into one cohesive season next go around, but suffice to say, I'm eagerly awaiting Telltale's next foray into The Walking Dead.
(5 out of 5)
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