Thicker Than Water successfully ramps up New Frontier’s story in a way that will certainly lead to a tense and thrilling finale. While it is a narrative success, some of the dialogue choices are confusing at best, and almost the opposite of their intent at worst.
Joan? More like Groan.
Up until now Telltale actually handled Season 3: A New Frontier very well, developing a new protagonist while simultaneously giving us a continuation of Clem’s story. But while Telltale may have delivered mostly solid episodes this season, it seems they couldn’t keep up the quality and decided to deliver the most underdeveloped villain I’ve seen since Malekith the Accursed from Thor: The Dark World. I’d like to say the villain was the only thing wrong with this episode, but I guess if you’re going to crash, you might as well burn too.
Middle of Nowhere Gaming writes "The Walking Dead: A New Frontier Episode 4 unfortunately continues the downward spiral started from the previous episode. Though “Thicker Than Water” starts off well with momentary character development, that quickly shifts to shallow plot devices solely meant to progress the story."
Thought: It took four episodes of Telltale's The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, but things finally happened and are at least mildly interesting.
