The Wolf Among Us 2 has been in the oven for a while. Either seven years—if you trace its start back to its announcement in 2019—or 12, if you go by the cliffhanger ending of The Wolf Among Us 1’s final episode, which released in 2014.
Fans have been hanging on the telephone for news for a long, long time whichever way you slice it, so this year’s Summer Game Fest announcement that we’d finally get the new chapter in Bigby Wolf’s adventures next year was a pretty big deal. But a question remains: will The Wolf Among Us 2 hew to the original series’ episodic release format? One last series of little waits after our years-long big wait?
A new interview with Telltale CEO Jamie Ottilie and PM Studio (The Wolf Among Us 2’s co-publisher) CEO Michael Yum by GamesIndustry.biz gives us our best hint yet, and it sure sounds to me like we’re gonna get all of the game at once.
“Publishing-wise, defending multiple release dates… We would probably approach it like the modern streaming model, where you drop all the episodes at the same time,” said Ottilie. Though he does admit that Telltale likes the episodic model “philosophically”.
Yum is more circumspect, but only very slightly: “We live in a Netflix era. People can’t wait. We should probably give the people what they want all in one go.” It sounds like something would have to come up for Telltale not to drop The Wolf Among Us 2 all at once—”It’s whatever makes sense at the time. If there’s a time crunch and we can’t wait, we can pivot. I wouldn’t say there’s a definitive answer to this, but we’ll try something that gives everyone something right off the bat.”
After such a long wait, it’s probably best not to make fans endure another, arbitrary series of waits right at the final stretch, but I do wonder just how terrible it’d be to get the long-awaited sequel in dribs and drabs. Dispatch’s episodic structure (which had much shorter waits between episodes than the Telltale of old) went down a treat, and while Yum and Ottilie gesture at modern streaming’s ‘drop it all at once’ model, it’s not like there aren’t well-loved exceptions to that rule.
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