The Wolf Among Us Episode 2: Smoke & Mirrors is however still as engrossing as it’s series opener. It all depends if you want to go back to pick up the odd achievement that you may have missed. If you want to drag a bit more time out of the game then of course you can, but I mentioned earlier that the game plays out like the best of films or the most engrossing of books and by going back over old ground I’m sure some of the ‘first time magic’ will be lost. This episode is also a fair bit shorter in length and even with me going through everything I could find with a fine tooth comb, I still managed to max out the story at 90 minutes, a full half hour shorter than I managed to complete ‘Faith’ in. Thankfully, with only one real QTE of note I didn’t have the same feeling I got last time around in that the quick time stuff was a bit too random. That’s not in any way a bad thing as it leaves the door wide open to a bit more of the fun investigation work and there is most definitely a lot more interrogation going on. There are far less cut scenes and quick time events in this episode than previous. There has been much more of an emphasis on the whole ‘glamour’ thing this time round though and a few unanswered questions I had from the first time are slowly getting responded to.
There’s no doubt they are great additions to the story, but on the whole the fables found in Smoke & Mirrors have already been introduced previously and we still haven’t managed to learn an awful lot more about them. I was expecting a few more characters to be brought into proceedings this time round and am slightly disappointed to see only a couple of new fables hanging around ready for Bigby to get to know and quiz.
It is however a lot darker than ‘Faith’ with Bigby finding himself visiting The Pudding & Pie strip joint (owned by a certain Mr Georgie Porgie), a brothel and much seedier parts of town than those oh so lovely places found in the opener. Let me tell you now, it’s no less dramatic and just as absorbing as chapter one and so it should because this is the same game, just split into five separate parts. So, taking into account that you have played through the first two hours of the series ( and read our thoughts), you’ll be looking forward to what the next chapter has in store.
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