Telltale Games·Released May 29, 2017·Single player
Javier and the others are faced with great sacrifices to salvage what remains. "From The Gallows", retitled "Episode 15", is the fifth and final episode of Telltale Games' The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Some odd dramatic choices and a less-than-satisfying conclusion wrap up the New Frontier season of The Walking Dead.
Clementine is The Walking Dead, and by showing her transition into womanhood A New Frontier is just about a must for fans. But while it lays the foundations for new regulars in Javi and Kate, the fact is that all of the season's other story threads come to an abrupt and unsatisfying end in Episode 5: From the Gallows. There have been many good moments over the course of the season, but the finale does little with them, and the journey feels like a waste of time as a consequence.
“From the Gallows” makes good on the gamble of season 3 in shifting focus to a new main character and making me care about Javi as much as I cared for Lee and Clem back in season 1. The fifth episode encompasses both what worked and didn't about A New Frontier — namely, the ideas of allegiance, love, and family for the former and erratic pacing and an inability to make the overarching story of much interest in the latter. But the season finale spends much more time on those successful aspects, capping A New Frontier in satisfying fashion while setting up a potentially exciting continuation down the road.
The season ends with some intriguing and satisfying developments, but just like the rest of the season, it doesn't maintain an even quality throughout
