I was honestly disappointed. Had been enjoying the season up until ep 6, but I dunno. It was just bitter without any sweet to go along with it, and pretty much nothing was resolved. Forresters get massacred regardless of who you picked to survive and lead them and regardless of how you decide to play the situation in ep 6. At least Talia and Ryon got away. One of those goddamn Whitehills survives no matter what, so that sucks. AND they win the war and destroy your house.

The North Grove plotline is still wide open, we get pretty much nothing in terms of what's so incredibly important about the place. Some vague "there's a great power here that we don't understand" doesn't cut it, I'm sorry. I expect more after the place was being set up from the very beginning of the first episode. Warg dude and blood magic lady being Lord Forrester's bastards isn't enough of a revelation to make up for the North Grove itself ending up meaning absolutely nothing within the context of this season.

One thing I DID like was Mira's story, even though that ended poorly for me and ties into me being salty about how fucked the Forresters are. But I don't mind Mira's story ending up with her losing her head after doing everything in her power to help her family, while at the same time still being too honorable and well-meaning to navigate King's Landing successfully.

Fuck you Littlefinger lite, my Mira accepted her fate with grace and dignity. Iron from ice, Mira. Iron from ice.

This is the first Telltale game where I was strongly disappointed in the ending. Everything was an exercise in futility. I mean, yeah choice in these games is an illusion or not. But the Foresters were boned from the outset and nothing changed that.

Ethan and Roderick struggled to hold Ironrath together, and in the end, the keep is aflame, conquered by the Whitehills, and its people scattered or dead. This cannot be stopped
Mira's efforts to secure some sort of alliance at King's Landing utterly fails. Her attempts to stop Lud's sellsword army form being formed is too little, too late. And unless she sells herself to one of the very people out to destroy her House, she ends up with her head cut off
Asher's job of securing an army for the Foresters is always going to be inadequate. It cannot compete with Lud's army.

Gared's story arc is the only one that could be said to "succeed" in that he finds the North Grove. But why it's so important continues to elude us. Amd his own fate is as up in the air as any of the (surviving) characters.

At least in TWD, Lee is able to save Clementine.

I'm left to wonder, like others, if this ending is just sequel bait. But given the number of characters who could be alive or dead (Roderick, Asher, Mira, Lud, Gryff, Duncan, Royce, Tom) I don't know how that's possible.

So, as I said, very disappointing.

I feel the only possible way to make the choices mean something in the second season would be to have the new season focus entirely on new protagonists (barring maybe Gared), and simply changing some cameos here and there and referencing certain choices made in Season 1 from the perspective of the new characters. A pseudo Mass Effect 3 style, if you will.

Knowing Telltale though, they'll probably just kill off all the determinant characters, create a scenario where every choice leads to the same outcome, and then create an entirely new set of meaningless choices in season two. Definitely going to watch the second series online before I decide whether to buy it or not.

I got to make Asher gut Gryff from nave to chops.