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I will not make a review on my own, because I’m not good at that. I can just say that I agree with Falanca’s post in every point… except those which I will comment right there. I will make personal notes to, at the end of the post, but just a few of them! Please just excuse me for my English.

Originally Posted by Falanca

It's good to know that some developers go with knowing what they like and what they want to make, unlikely to some other developers that have became fanbase SLAVES going only with fan feedback and hd graphics or other bullcrap. It's not art, it's making money.

Ok. But you’re saying yourself later in your review that sometimes (and I think that’s quite often) Telltale’s making fan service. And they actually read the forums a lot to know what we think about the plots, the characters and everything. And I think it’s sometimes necessary to give the public what they’d appreciate, or at least, not giving them what they do not want. And it would be not about money but having a nice feedback.

Originally Posted by Falanca

Because there is now no throwaway gags back from Season 1 and 2, unlike how Telltale Games handled the entire Season 2, they went with creating ALL of the material for their new season in one go, rather than borrowing elements from previous episodes (although some are apparent, mainly as cameos).

The end itself depends of the two previous seasons to be properly understood!

Originally Posted by Falanca

Your enemy is an impenetratable space gorilla, not to mention the GENERAL of a space fleet. Beginning was so strong, made me expect more. (...) Skun'ka-pe is a great character, a true villain I WANTED to see for the entire 2 seasons. As I stated before, Skunkape can easily outmatch any of those previous villains.

I hated Skunkape. I thought of him like a dumb, too-evil gorilla. It was almost a big cliché, totally Manichean, like Clayton in Tarzan. Yeah, he totally remembered me Clayton (and it’s quite ironic, by the way.) He is totally the reason I didn’t like that much the 301.

Originally Posted by Falanca

In Season 1, story wasn't that full of hype so all the villains were underperforming and weak, but at least they had distinct characteristics.

Weak? Hugh Bliss is my favourite villain! He almost blew the entire universe! And I LOVED the fact that those villains had those distinct characteristics. It had its charm!

Originally Posted by Falanca

The entire season was a mockery, and the big revelation of the main villains was a last minute write-in (which was also parodied by theirselves where they released a video in which the entire season's main villain was revealed to be Homestar Runner, depicting that you could just make any character sit on that throne and let an evil laugh out).

… No. Oh God, no! Please! Don’t say that! I loved the second season, and the scenario was great. And I truly appreciated the fact that the Soda Poppers were the main villain and that anybody could be the main villain because that’s what I thought the universe of Sam & Max was about. Nonsense. Surprises. Mindfucks. This was just the spirit of Sam & Max for me!

Originally Posted by Falanca

But Skunkape, he's just pure EVIL, and it's so apparent they didn't want us to figure it out by ourselves, they just gave the information of his villanious deeds in the first cinematic and then kept other characters skeptical about it. I can't say much for this episode. It was a subtle start.

I didn’t understand why you found it subtle (sorry Telltale Team. No offense.)

Originally Posted by Falanca

It was nice to see more of Jurgen, a.k.a "Mr. Noone-truly-knows-me". I didn't like him very much in Season 2 as he was only a parody of pop culture.

Oh yeah. I couldn’t agree MORE (yeah I know I said I will comment what I disagreed with. I lied.)

Originally Posted by Falanca

Oh, and, well, Papierwaite is a great character. His revelation of being pretty evil was predictable, but it's a delight to see (and better; HEAR OF) both of his good and evil personalities.

I so agree with that too. Thank you so much for that, Telltale.

Originally Posted by Falanca

although I can't figure out how they... figured out to make use of Max's brain in such a convoluted way RIGHT AFTER THE SECOND they decided to unite their powers.

That’s weird you find it weird. I mean… they have both great powers and had time to think about how they would proceed!

Originally Posted by Falanca

Insanity truly began in Beyond the Alley of the Dolls. (...) The episode was just FULL of weird

Yeah, because before, all was perfectly normal.

Originally Posted by Falanca

In a sense, this episode reminded me greatly of how Telltale wanted a Sam and Max series so new and breathtaking.

Originally Posted by Falanca

This episode has SO many twists. The revelation of Papierwaite's anti-heroism was a good twist as it again shows how much Telltale cares for their characters with not keeping them uninteresting and instead keep adding new stuff over and over.

Amen to that!

Originally Posted by Falanca

His plan was extreme, but villanious, and his theme was REALLY spooky, it didn't feel like I was playing through the same ol' Sam and Max.

Spooky’s the word. I was really afraid. I’m afraid of clowns and talking puppets. But yeah, something changed there.

Originally Posted by Falanca

Abe Lincoln as his concrete body seems to be restored

And WHY? Ok, I know there’s plenty of inexplicable things on the S&M’s Universe, but that just… intrigued me. I know they’re plenty of people asking for answer but I would be sooooo curious about this one.

Originally Posted by Falanca

It was seen by many people from the VERY start of the season that Narrator would come in as a character, the main villain, even (thanks to Telltale for turning us such paranoid zombies, we're kind of able to see plot twists from months ago now), but it was also unusual to see that there is actually no villain for the finale whatsoever!

Yeah, that’s what I was saying in another thread! And SO, I thought that Telltale couldn’t have chose the Narrator as the mastermind and I finally had been surprised.

Originally Posted by Falanca

In the end... Well, it's too generic, but no matter how we try to unleash our inner psycho, we're humans and sometimes, in a pretty ironic way, a cartoony fiction about a dog and a rabbit can come and remind it to you. Yes, it can teach you even better than Eisop's tales, maybe.

… I didn’t get caught into this philosophical message, really. Because I thought that the return of past Max showed that they had been no real consequences to Max’s Death. It was just… anecdotic somehow.

EDIT (@Cheri) :

Originally Posted by Cheri

and ~FACIAL EXPRESSIOOONS~! I love it!

Heeeeeeeeee, they already had facial expressions!!!

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Here are my complementary notes. First of all, I hope I wasn’t too mean or something in my commentaries. Sometimes I just sound mean but it’s just that I don’t really know how to express what I meant. Second of all, it could seem, ready my commentaries, that I didn’t like the season. I love the season and I agree with Falanca for the parts of the text I didn’t comment.

I do have something to say about Max. On the first and the second seasons, you could have said he was like a rabbity child. I would have agreed. Yes, Max had a taste for destruction, but I thought he was sometimes really kind (like when he was a fan of Hugh Bliss.) In the third season, Max had become quite “mature”. He really made a selfless act at the end of the 305. That was beautiful. That was great. But the Max who comes out the elevator is awfully disturbing. He actually says with pleasure that he had destroyed the gigantic Sam. Sam & Max aren’t just friends. They’re more. And Max isn’t just a demonic heartless lagomorphs. He’s more. So WHY? That just unnerved me (no offense again Telltale Team.) That deceived me somehow.

Another note. You developed Sam’s psychology on a remarkable way and I thought Sam Jr. was an interesting way to show it. I think it was quite an important character for Sam. Buy how could he possibly leave him on the Max’s Brain and have like… no thoughts or regret about it? (I did save Sam Jr. but it’s possible to leave him and that’s just so weird.) I mean: if you try to put him everywhere, Sam never wants because he cares about him too much. But he’d just leave him on the Max’s Brain? Come on.

Last point: the credit thing was just SO sadistic. I love you guys.

I hope that if someone from the Telltale Team read that, he’d understand that I’m not like hating what they’d done or something. I loved the season much more that any other game. I just ant to be clear about that.