Choices matter games are an undying and ever-loving genre. Telltale Games is at the top of this sort of interactive fiction. Though the company faced trouble and had to put down all beloved projects, The Wolf Among Us is being revisited and will renew for a second season.
The trailer for The Wolf Among Us Season Two was released by Telltale Games in February 2022. While we anticipate what's next for Bigby and the other well-known fairy tale characters, let's recap the toughest decisions you can make in season one.
Story Spoilers Ahead
6 EPISODE ONE: Tell Beast About Beauty
This is a smaller decision in the first episode. What you decide to do does not greatly affect the story in any way, but it's hard to make nonetheless. One of the more famous fairy tale couples, Beauty and the Beast, is clearly having relationship troubles when you first meet them.
The way you catch Beauty sneaking away and the way that Beast comes across as aggressive and animalistic, you can't help but assume Beauty is having trouble at home and needs to be protected. Without knowing what's really going on, deciding whether to tell Beast or not weighs heavy. Throughout the episodes, you're able to tell Beast what you've seen Beauty doing and each time you can lie or tell the truth.
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No matter your choice, what happens is not integral to the story. Beast will assume Beauty is cheating on him, and they will realize for themselves that it's not the case towards the end.
5 EPISODE ONE: Choosing To See Toad or Prince Lawrence
Multiple different dialogue choices can be made as you play through a Telltale game, but only some decisions are story-changing. In The Wolf Among Us, this is shown by Bigby looking at two options beside him. When this happens, what you decide as a player affects everything going forward.
You get an emergency call from Toad and an important lead on the victim. A lot of players choose Toad because, on the outside, his predicament is current while Prince Lawrence can wait. This is incorrect. As you know, by the time you reach Toad, the immediate threat is long gone, and he asks you to leave.
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Go To Toad's First |
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Go To Prince Lawrence's First |
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No matter who you go to first, you'll have the option to go to the other location next. Whatever you find at Toad's can be found regardless of time. Keeping Prince Lawrence alive is on a timer.
4 EPISODE THREE: Burn Aunty Greenleaf's Magic Tree
Aunty's magical tree is what provides black market glamours to the poorer people of Fabletown. What officials may deem immoral and illegal, others find helpful and trustworthy. This is one of the toughest decisions because a lot of people who can't afford rent are relying on the use of this tree - Aunty Greenleaf's career is in this tree, and Snow White is not backing down.
Whatever you decide to do with the tree does not fully affect the story. It's more of a decision based on your ethics and morals and the good of the people in Fabletown.
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Burn The Tree |
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Offer Greenleaf a Job |
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3 EPISODE ONE AND FIVE: Send Colin To The Farm
Colin may seem like a lazy old brute, but he's obviously one of Bigby's best buds if his only friend at all. The idea of being trapped in an animal's body and surrounded by mundane animals that don't have the intelligence and power that you have sounds like a fate worse than death or jail. Imagine being a magical being with the intelligence of a human, but having to trot next to mindless pigs for the rest of your life.
Whether you send Colin to the farm or not doesn't affect the overall story of The Wolf Among Us in Season One, but we may see consequences in later seasons. The decision to send Colin away is mentioned in Episode One but only in Episode Five of season one do you see those chosen being sent off to the farm. You could be a true cop, following the rules with no hard feelings, or you can take the human approach and keep Colin in Fabletown.
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2 EPISODE FOUR AND FIVE: Send Toad and TJ To The Farm
If sending Colin off to the farm wasn't painful enough, try sending a single father and his child, too. This is a much harder decision than if you were to send Colin. Colin can be seen as a sleazy adult who piggybacks off of Bigby. Though Toad is aggressive, and his parenting skills are very questionable, he has a child to take care of at the end of the day. It's one thing to send an adult to a worse form of jail, but sending a child too?
The choice to declare sending them off can be made in Episode Four, but you won't see it happen until the last episode. Making Toad pay for his bad parenting shouldn't come at the cost of giving TJ more trauma than he already has.
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Send Toad and TJ To Farm |
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Let Toad Stay/Give Him Money |
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1 EPISODE FIVE: Kill Crooked Man or Give Him Trial
Once you find the mastermind behind the whole story's charade, what you decide to do with him weighs heavy on the town. Do you kill the Crooked Man in a fit of rage or do you adhere to government laws and lock him up for good?
Your decision here affects how all of Fabletown sees you at the end of the game. All the Fables have always had a grudge against you. The good Fables have a sour history with the big bad wolf, and the evil Fables have a current bad history, what with Bigby busting their crimes and all. It seems there is no winning when you're playing a bad guy trying to get good.
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Kill The Crooked Man |
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Arrest The Crooked Man |
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Throw Him Down Witching Well |
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