Playing the game The Walking Dead Season one I went through a series of emotions while playing it. The game was very interesting, depressing, and kind of scary in many different ways. I thought the ending of season one was very frightening and sad because you had to decide whether or not Clementine shoots her best friend Lee or for Lee to convince Clementine to leave the situation. I choose to have Lee try to get Clementine to leave because Clementine and Lee had this ultimate connection throughout the game  that I thought could never be broken nor did I want to be the person who killed their relationship. I also choose this decision through strategy because Lee was one who was really loyal to Clementine throughout the whole game so if something did happen to the group I knew that Lee would always be by my side. Lastly, why I choose this decision was because Clementine has already been through enough with losing her parents and going through an apocalypse and topping it on with killing her best relationship through all of these events I don’t think that she would ever be able to recover from all the loses that she has experienced. But in the end anyway Lee does end up dying anyway which made it a really emotional moment for the whole group especially Clementine. Even though that Lee dies anyway I’m still glad that I choose this because the memories between the two of them will always be the same and that nothing ever came in between them.

I would change a one decisions that I have made when playing this game because since it is a game I knew the things wasn’t real and only in the video game and since it is a game there is always going to be bad decisions made to fit the plot. For example the decision when to push Ben down or not and a lot of people (based on the class discussion) didn’t and realizing that he was going to die later made think that I maybe should have pushed him just knowing now that he was going to die later anyway no matter what. Other than that I don’t think I would have changed any other decision because I tried to make the most strategic smart moves that were best for the whole group rather than being selfish and making decisions for who I do and don’t like.

The most non-player characters that effected my decision making was quote “The most frequently cited moments involved the death of NPCs with whom players had spent considerable time during gameplay. Players wept over losing valued and trustworthy companions.” Because you got to watch the players interact and form relationships with each other which connect to your personal self as well. Once you see these relationships build you don’t want them to end or have anything bad happen to them. I thought it was interesting the game was unique to everyone’s experience and how people liked more relationships then others that effected there decisions in the game as well.

Overall, throughout this game it took me through many emotions and thought it the last episode was very emotional. I also enjoyed playing this game because it was a game that I wouldn’t really think about playing because I didn’t watch the show before this and not the type of game that I normally play. But the plot twist and decisions kept me interested in the game which made me really enjoy playing it.