With the fourth episode; A Block and a Hard Place, Story Mode wraps up the ‘Witherstorm’ portion of its tale and leaves the season finale to begin a new chapter, rather unprecedented for a Telltale game. That, along with forging a narrative out of an extremely popular title that has no real story, and releasing nearly this entire season in half of the time it took for Telltale to release the finale of Game of Thrones, Telltale has made Story Mode a clear sign of intent for the future.
Riding the success and critical reception of the third episode, the latest episode of Minecraft: Story Mode really continued to push a well thought out story combined with great, interesting and lengthy gameplay. A Block and A Hard Place does almost everything right, articulating the story and wrapping up an arching story line.
The story of Jesse and his companions in Telltale Games' Minecraft: Story Mode comes to a conclusion in the series' fourth episode, with DualShockers reviewing Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place.
Travis Bruno of Capsule Computers writes:
"Minecraft: Story Mode has had many highs and lows throughout the few episodes that have been released so far but Telltale Games has managed to produce a fairly satisfying title up to this point. With a faster release schedule than usual fans of the series have been able to look forward to a new episode without waiting around too long and now we have the fourth episode, Minecraft: Story Mode: A Block and a Hard Place. With the core storyline set to come to an end this time around, have the developers managed to pull this one off successfully?"
