Review: Minecraft: Story Mode (Steam)

In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named ‘Jesse,’ you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.

Pros:

• HD Minecraft graphics.
• Full controller support.
• Steam achievements.
• Telltale Account to enable separate cloud saves and allow you to view information on the web.
• Classic Minecraft UI.
• 6 Character skins to choose from with a female or male protagonist.
• Compelling story.
• Humour through out the game.
• Craft items at the crafting table, Look at recipes and create weapons and items.
• Fast build structures in a quick time event.
• Mashes many game mechanics together like QTE, free roam, Puzzles.
• Fighting is a lot more involving with you able to move around, Time your own attack patterns.
• Choices you make determine how the game plays out, Not only in this episode but also in future episodes.
• Full 5 star cast of voice actors. From Pee Wee Herman to Goonies to The Walking Dead, The voice acting is just superb.
• Classic Minecraft sound effects.
• Couple of hours play time for episode 1.
• A lot of replayability as you can replay the game and pick from the different actions and do things a little different.
• Teaser trailer of episode 2.
• On screen prompts for button presses.
• Child friendly with no swearing or violence in the game.

Cons:

• Not a lot in the way of video options outside of resolution and high or low graphic settings.
• Puzzles especially at the end don’t really explain themselves very well.
• Some of the QTE controls are awkward and challenging.
• A small bit of cheese sneaks into the story.
• Few instances of stutter and lock up.