Do you like playing as Clementine?

ShaneWalsh

So now that we've played 3 episodes as a cute but potentially psychotic little girl, do you think it has been fun playing as her or do you think it was better to play as an adult like Lee?

Not taking anything away from playing as Clem but imo I prefer to play as an adult as I think there is a lot more in what you can do when you played as Lee compared to Clementine. No matter how badass you'd want Clem to be she still looks too cute. :)

Green613

YES!

Clem_is_awesome

I FUCKING love playing as Clem.

Milkshake541

It makes the adults seem so lack lustre but I don't care. Keep on the legacy of lees back pocket!

PerttuLaulaa

I like playing as her more than playing as Lee.

I STILL LOVE LEE!

HisNameWasLee

Yes actually but I feel more responsible playing as her more than protecting her (As Lee) that because I'm always trying to keep her on lee's path and to remember what lee taught her :''(

Lunyyyy

Play as Lee was more emotional i think. Why? Because you had to protect someone. Your choices could cause danger for you but also for her. Now, it's under your control. Fully under your control. That's cool. You can be a litlle badass. :D

But i miss that feel when i was playing as Lee and i thought "What decision is better for Clem?" You know what i mean.

When something happened to her in season one i was like "Lee what have you done?! Oh my god!" now it's like "well, she's dead, i have to play this sequence again... "

(My english is bad. Sorry.. :)

loop hole

I would have preferred if clem was an npc like in season 1 to be honest. For one it would have made for more nerve wrecking moments worrying about where she is and fighting to save her which makes for a more emotional game experience. That fear of knowing she could die at anytime and the game could go on without her because she is not you. Controlling her makes her pretty untouchable as a character because I'm controlling her and I know she can't die until the end of the game and probably won't die at all because the playable character was killed in season 1.

I'm not scared to put her in dangerous situations like I was when we were escaping the meat locker in starved for help since i know where she is at all times and she is not afraid of her environment anymore. Even by default her facial expressions and stance has become warrior like. "Let's take em". Although the dialogue is optional in some cases there are default mannerisms that I find inconsistent with the clem at the camp fire that christa was concerned about and burdened by.

Think back to how we felt in starved for help running downstairs to stop clem from eating human meat or when we were running to save her in the drugstore in season 1. That heart beating adrenaline rush. Now we have become sarah's protector in the way we was once Clem's but the role doesn't suit clem as much as it would an adult. Also I would have felt more proud of her seeing clementine make decisions on her own based on how Lee taught her in season 1 instead of making her play the same way I would have made lee play.

It's about consistency at the end of the day. Kenny is the same kenny, love him or hate him. He has the same personality and mannerisms as he did in season 1. He wouldn't if he was the playable character he would be as robotic as clem can sometimes be with her responses in this season.

Cazabubu

Nice read :)
I do kinda agree but Thats Why telltale Put Kenny in and a new group,TellTale wants us to make a connection with one of them and then fear for there safety,just like Lee did with Clementine.

_Juice_Box_

Duh. Clem is awesome.

Omid's cat

No. Clem is too strong. 11 year old girl can't kill agressive zombies, twice as big as her. She has to do most chores while adults (Carlos, Nick, Alvin) do nothing. That is unlikely. She's young, still learns and still needs a teacher. I'd like to play as adult person; Luke, Molly or Jane would be good protagonists imo.

Firewallcano

I like it but some situations arn't very logical in the amount they expect clem to do. That said they did attempt to do it this time with clem being the only one the platform would support.

Kenny_impersonator

Christa already taught her shit for 16 months+ got it memorized?

Megami_Kizukanai

Her hatless version.

thebigbad

I'll admit that I wasn't quite sure what to think when it was announced that we would be playing as Clem, the thought of playing as a young girl was....strange to me, I guess. But as soon as I started playing I found that it was less about playing as a young girl, and more about playing as a character that I had grown to love during the course of season one.

So yeah, I love playing as Clementine.

Clayton_Boylan

I enjoy it, but I miss the ability of talking to people, they just need to add in more conversations.

kiwi_walking_dead

Two words I gotta say to this....HELL YEAH!

drunkendramaqueen

I agree that Clementine being the protagonist opens up a few illogical manholes, but there's something so endearing about the connection between her youth and the influence it has on the player. At the forefront of all the gory mess is a provocative character examination of a young girl the player is given full command of moulding. Clementine is engaging and fully realised: I can't remember a child character being written nearly as well and carefully as she has.

Having Clementine as the playable protagonist was always going to be a gamble after the overwhelmingly positive reception to her influence on her predecessor; but as a harrowing coming-of-age tale in the zombie apocalypse, I think Clementine's story is being told rather well through the episodes thus far.