14 DAY TRIAL // Clementine, the small girl who'll be the protagonist of The Walking Dead Season 2, will offer a different experience to players who are used to controlling various invincible heroes, as she won't have access to that many ways of directly confronting the undead, instead relying on tricks and her agility.
The Walking Dead Season 1 tasked players with controlling Lee, a full grown man who took care of Clementine, a small child, during the zombie outbreak.
While Lee was able to use guns and physical violence, Clementine in the new series won't have access to that same repertoire of moves, even though she learned to use a gun back in Season 1.
Telltale's Mark Darin, the writer and designer of the new series, has talked about Clementine as a video game protagonist with PC Gamer, and emphasized just how different she was from other heroes.
"I think choosing Clementine as a protagonist let us really experiment in the way that the gameplay plays out. It lets you experience--like you said, child protagonists are not generally used that often--but it provides us a unique perspective on a world that you’ve already seen," he said.
"You spent a lot of Season One playing as Lee bringing up Clementine in a way that you think is going to be best for her. Now, putting you in her shoes and seeing how that plays out, that’s something that really resonated with us."
Darin also revealed that, unlike other game protagonists, Clementine would resonate with regular human beings as she's doing everything she can to survive.
"For me, one of the things that is really special about it is that she is not special. She’s just a little girl dealing in this world of paranoid and intense people with zombies running around, and she has only herself to get through it. She isn’t special. She’s not running around with guns. She doesn’t have any magic powers. She’s just doing everything she can to survive, as any one of us would."
The first episode of The Walking Dead Season 2 launches next week on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.