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What a weird episode. After the high energy of The Last Place You Look, this one slows down the action shortly into it, and it doesn't really pick back up until the very end, which feels like the end of a season. But then, there's still another episode after this.
It's hard to fault Telltale for switching up the formula a bit, but it feels like the first season is essentially complete at this point, and anything that could happen during the final episode will just be a lead-in to the next season. It might be better if this were just a four-episode series.
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?"
