Tales From The Borderlands: Episode 4: Escape Plan Bravo Review: Hilarious

Telltale has released the trailer for Tales From the Borderlands: Episode 4 – Escape Plan Bravo, which arrives on Xbox 360 and Xbox One tomorrow.

In this penultimate episode of the season, captured by Vallory and her goons, Rhys and Fiona are forced to continue the search for the Vault beacon – at gunpoint. Sure, there’s a major choice to make at its conclusion, but after the third episode’s subtle hints at an insane character reveal, it’s slightly disappointing that nothing here will leave you on the edge of your seat.

Let’s get the bad news out of the way before lifting your spirits with tales of the Butt Stallion and Face Pizzas: Episode 4 of Tales from the Borderlands is technically the weakest offering from this marvelous series so far. But what would the life of a Vault Hunter be without that constant threat?

Escape Plan Bravo is Tales From the Borderlands meets Oceans 11 or The Italian Job.

You once again get to experience some great interactions with secondary characters from the franchise, such as Scooter, as well as Janey Springs. We aren’t any closer to finding out how Rhys and Fiona got to the events of the framing device, which is frustrating considering that we only have one episode left. This episode features even more twists and turns, which is surprising given how many loops we’ve already been thrown for during this game.

This episode relies little on action sequences, and primarily focuses on conversational choices to keep things moving. There’s also the fact that Handsome Jack himself is now in Rhys’ head.

Escape Plan Bravo is one of those divisive episodes that some will love and some will hate. While there’s plenty of flashbacks and wonder as to what’s going to happen next, the climax doesn’t come almost as close to winning you over as some of the other moments in this episode. I’m very curious to see where the next episode takes things after the ending of this episode, and I imagine you will be too.

Actually, with this Tales From the Borderlands release, both of TellTale’s current series are about to wrap-up, and the developer is about to make a slight detour by adapting the ultimate sandbox game, Minecraft, into an adventure game.

Since The Pre-Sequel was a considerable disappointment (and 2K and NVIDIA seem to be taking their sweet time porting it to SHIELD hardware in any case), Tales from the Borderlands is the only game in town for the massively popular shooter IP.