#Tales from the borderlands background movie#

The whole scene pivots easily between character-based humor and, I’ll say it, moments of the sublime awe of manned-space travel that are on par with any movie about NASA. With a few deserved The Right Stuff references, they blast off to sneak into the orbital headquarters of Hyperion, corporate overlords of Pandora. Out protagonists have, with the power of elbow grease and a helpful, illicit mechanic, refitted a caravan into a spaceship. All of the musical choices in the game are good, but “Escape Plan Bravo” is nothing short of perfect. A little bit of gameplay to whet your appetite, and then a music montage. Sure, they’re mostly doing it because they fucked up so badly that the only way to get out of their current predicament is to fire themselves into space with a couple of mafia babysitters - but the fragility of their alliance just makes you more invested.Įvery episode of Tales from the Borderlands begins the same way. So, naturally, the beginning of episode four, “Escape Plan Bravo,” is the first point that our rag-tag group of grifters, fuck-ups and corporate stooges truly band together, planning to stick a finger in the eye of the capitalist monster that keeps them down. Our protagonists, Rhys and Fiona, their allies and the forces that are allied against them, and the events (and mistakes) that have lead them to the tight corner they currently occupy. Telltale takes three of the five episodes in Tales from the Borderlands just to lay out all the major players of the game have been introduced. are trying to save their own skins from problems they created, but all they manage to do is make everything worse for, well, literally everyone on the planet. The story of the game even has a framing device that lets us know, definitively, that Rhys and Fiona and Co. It’s about a group of untrustworthy characters who are thrown together by the whims of fate and are forced to trust each other, even to learn to care about each other. Tales is a story no less compelling for its familiarity. But the moment I think of when I think of the best of Telltale is the opening of “Escape Plan Bravo.” In the wake of what seems to be the implosion of a company with a long and beloved back catalog, many fans have shared their favorite Telltale game moments, as a way of thanking the newly out-of-work creators who made them.Īnd, sure, I’ve dabbled in The Wolf Among Us, and I’ve played a bunch of Telltale’s Batman and thought it was very good.

I haven’t stopped thinking about it since the company’s layoffs were announced. It’s the moment I realized that I would die for every single one of these stupid, self-sabotaging fictional characters. The intro montage of the fourth episode of Tales From the Borderlands, “Escape Plan Bravo,” is a special one.