The player takes double protagonist duty as the luckless Rhys, who has been sacrificing much of his humanity for a shot at a top-level position within the antagonistic corporation Hyperion from Borderlands 2, and the stylish confidence woman Fiona, who works with her sister Sasha and adoptive guardian Felix to pull a multi-million con on those same Hyperion bigwigs. The Borderlands games all invariably involve a "vault key" McGuffin and a hunt for the lock it pertains to, and early on Tales From the Borderlands is no exception. It's insinuated that the first brought the latter two, and that those with money were drawn to the planet due to many legends of untold wealth and advanced technology hidden within its alien vaults. All right, so there were plenty of assholes on Arrakis too so let let me rephrase that: it's a version of Arrakis that attracts a few specific brands of asshole, specifically cold corporations, merciless mercenaries and psychopathic scavengers.
The Borderlands games are loot shooter-RPGs set on the remote desert/wasteland planet of Pandora, which is sort of like Arrakis but for assholes. I'll figure out how to split the final three episodes between Indie Game of the Week entries to come.
This week's entry will cover the first two episodes: Zer0 Sum and Atlas Mugged. Since the start of 2017, I've been pondering a way to cover it within this Indie Game of the Week feature of concise reviews while still giving each chapter an ample amount of discussion and elucidation, similar to how I covered Life is Strange at the end of 2015. While I've never been particularly impressed by the storytelling of either Telltale or Borderlands, I'd heard enough good things about this joint venture that I picked up the PS4 version some time last year. I've been wracking my brain for a while about how best to write up my take on Tales from the Borderlands, Telltale's episodic adventure game based on Gearbox's Borderlands universe. Indie Game of the Week 15: Tales from the Borderlands
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