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Minecraft: Story Mode

Minecraft: Story Mode is an episodic point-and-click video game developed and published by Telltale Games, based on Mojang Studios' sandbox video game, Minecraft. The first five episodes were released between October 2015 through March 2016 and an additional three episodes were released as downloadable content (DLC) in mid-2016. A second season consisting of five episodes was released in 2017.

Gameplay
Minecraft: Story Mode is an episodic interactive comedy-drama point-and-click graphic adventure video game. It was released as a number of episodes similar to Telltale Games' other games. Players can collect items, solve puzzles, and talk to non-player characters through conversation trees to learn about the story and determine what to do next. Decisions that the player makes affect events in both the current episode and later episodes. However, Minecraft: Story Mode is intended to be a family-friendly title, unlike Telltale's previous games, which tend to carry more mature or emotional overtones (including the death of major characters). As such, the decisions are intended to be pivotal and emotional but not to involve mature imagery or themes. The Netflix version of the first season (excluding the Adventure Pass episodes) was fully pre-rendered, using an enhanced version of the Telltale Tool, uses limited choices and the second version of male and female models, and re-created as an interactive series. ==Synopsis==
Synopsis
Setting Minecraft: Story Mode takes place in an interpretation of the world of Minecraft, known as the "Overworld", where its the extent of the characters' universe, and the characters are unaware that they are in a game. The main character, Jesse, is an inexperienced resident of said universe who sets out on a journey with their friends within the world of Minecraft to find The Order of the Stone (Gabriel the Warrior, Ellegaard the Redstone Engineer, Magnus the Rogue, Soren the Architect and Ivor the Potion Brewer and Enchanter), five legendary adventurers who saved the Minecraft world. Minecraft: Story Mode includes settings that are normally difficult to access from within Minecraft, including the Nether and The End. Other main characters within the Minecraft: Story Mode world include Jesse's friends Petra (voiced by Ashley Johnson), Plot This is a broad overview of the plot. Certain decisions made by the player will alter the details of specific events. Season 1 (2015–16) In a flashback, the Order of the Stone, consisting of Gabriel, Soren, Ivor, Ellegaard, and Magnus, defeats the Ender Dragon. In the present day, Jesse, his friends Axel and Olivia, and his pet pig Reuben prepare for the EnderCon building competition. The Ocelots, a rival team, attempt to sabotage their build, spooking Reuben. Jesse is attacked while rescuing him but Petra saves them, who convinces Jesse to help her sell a Wither skull. The buyer, Ivor, tricks them and escapes with it. They pursue him and discover that Ivor plans to attack Gabriel using a Wither Storm. The group tries to stop it, but are unsuccessful. After recruiting Magnus and Ellegaard, they then head to Soren's lab, hoping that his Formidi-Bomb can destroy the Wither Storm, which Jesse uses, although either Magnus or Ellegaard dies in the process. However, the beast reforms in three clusters. The group, joined by Gabriel or Petra, escape. After that, Ivor takes the group to his lab to enchant a weapon which can destroy the Command Block. Jesse builds the enchanted weapon and destroys the command block, ultimately killing the Wither Storm, but not before the beast kills Reuben. Soon after, the group finds an enchanted Flint and Steel, which Ivor reveals that the "Old Builders" created it and supposedly the "Eversource", a chicken that lays spawn eggs. Jesse, Ivor, Lukas, and Petra return to the temple and open a portal, leading them to Sky City. The group eventually finds the Eversource, but Aiden, the leader of a rival group called the Blaze Rods, steals it. Jesse defeats Aiden, who is imprisoned in the new Sky City. Jesse's group retrieve the Flint and Steel and try to return home through another portal, but find themselves in a portal-filled corridor. While travelling between them, they arrive in a graveyard with an invite to a supposed party in a nearby mansion, in which they meet others who were lured into it, among them Cassie Rose. After three of the attendees are killed by traps, the group discovers that the culprit is Cassie, who is then imprisoned in her own trap. Jesse and their companions meet the computer PAMA, which has the ability to put Redstone Mind-Control Chips on mobs and humans, which are put on Petra and Lukas. Jesse and Ivor escape from with aid by Harper, the scientist who created PAMA. She takes them to her lab to retrieve something to deactivate PAMA, where Jesse frees either Lukas or Petra from PAMA's control before Harper gets kidnapped. After finding Harper's headset (which allows the user to control PAMA's forces), Harper directs Jesse to PAMA's core and tells them to remove the block powering PAMA: the Redstone Heart, before she is captured and chipped. Using this information, Jesse infiltrates PAMA's core and deactivates three of its processing towers (Harper being freed from PAMA's control after destroying the third). After ripping out the heart, Jesse frees Petra/Lukas and the rest of the citizens under PAMA's control. Back in the portal corridor, Harper reveals the Atlas which can help Jesse's group return home. The Old Builders, consisting of Hadrian, Mevia, and Otto, imprison Jesse and force him to compete in games to win his friends' freedom, but Jesse makes a deal with Otto to free his friends, before battling and defeating Hadrian and Mevia with the aid of Harper and the other imprisoned fighters, allowing them and the group to return home. Season 2 (2017) While adventuring with Petra, Jesse, now the mayor of Beacontown, encounters a bottomless pit with a mysterious Prismarine gauntlet inside, which attaches to Jesse's hand. They are joined by Jack and his villager friend Nurm to an ocean monument, which they narrowly escape. Jesse closes up the pit, and the Admin, appearing as a Prismarine Colossus, tracks them to Beacontown. Jesse defeats the Admin, who returns as a snowman. The Admin challenges Jesse and their friends – joined by their new intern Radar, Stella, the leader of rival town Champion City, and Lluna, her pet llama – to retrieve a giant clock at his ice palace. After tackling the challenges and destroying the clock, Vos, Jack's supposed old friend, reveals himself to be the Admin the whole time, and imprisons Jesse and their friends at the Sunshine Institute. After saving Xara, one of the former Admins, and escaping the Institute, the group heads below the bedrock to the Oasis, her old town. Xara reveals that the Admin's real name is Romeo, and that there was a third Admin, Fred, who, prior to his death, created a weapon powerful enough to strip Romeo of his powers. After helping the people of the Oasis, Jesse, Petra and Jack head back up in preparation to fight Romeo. As a show of power to the residents of Beacontown, Romeo, who has impersonated Jesse, either destroys Champion City, or if Jesse had not given Xara her bed at the Oasis, strangles her to death when she attempts to attack him. Romeo begins to cover the world in bedrock, the group arrives at the "Terminal Space", the home of the Admin, where Jesse obtains Fred's gauntlet. Jesse fights Romeo, and strips him of his powers. Jesse can either leave Romeo for dead or take him for redemption; if they had left Fred's people for dead, Romeo would distract the monsters in Terminal Space, allowing Jesse and their friends to escape at the cost of his own life. With Nurm or Lluna saved from the Sunshine Institute, and if Jesse chose to save Fred's people, Radar returning from the Oasis, Jesse can either stay as mayor of Beacontown, or leave, potentially leaving Radar as mayor, to go on adventures with Petra. == Episodes ==
Episodes
Season 1 (2015–16) The main Minecraft: Story Mode game was separated into five episodes for its first season, released in one month intervals. Three additional episodes were later released. Season 2 (2017) In July 2017, the first trailer was released for the second season, along with a release date of July 11. ==Development and releases==
Development and releases
The idea for Minecraft: Story Mode came around the end of 2012 when Telltale Games was engaged in work for Tales from the Borderlands, an episodic series based on the Borderlands series. The idea of developing stories around other established video game franchises led the team to brainstorm the idea for a Minecraft-related game, given that Minecraft: Story Mode was essentially a "blank canvas" for storytelling, according to Job Stauffer, and would create an interesting challenge. Other primary characters are loosely designed around archetypes of common player-characters for Minecraft, such that those that engage in building, fighting, or griefing other players. Minecraft: Story Mode did not attempt to provide any background for some concepts in Minecraft, such as the creepers, as to avoid the various interpretations that fans have done for these elements, though they are elements of the story. Its first trailer was released during the Minecon 2015 convention in early July. Telltale also released it for the Wii U, only a month after the original Minecraft first came to a Nintendo platform. It was also the first time a Telltale title had been released on a Nintendo platform since Back to the Future: The Game. The series released for most systems on October 13, 2015, with the PlayStation Vita and Wii U versions to follow at a later date. A season pass was available for purchase on October 27, 2015, which allows the player to access the other four episodes once they are released. Amid troubles related to the bankruptcy of Telltale Games in October and November 2018, sufficient staff remained with Telltale to complete work on this version, which was released onto Netflix on November 27 and December 5, 2018. It was removed on December 5, 2022. Season 2 The first episode of Minecraft: Story Mode – Season Two was released on July 11, 2017, for Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, iOS and Android. It continued the story from the first season, with the player's choices affecting elements within Season Two. Patton Oswalt, Catherine Taber, Ashley Johnson, and Scott Porter were confirmed to continue voicework for the new season. Minecraft: Story Mode supports the new Crowd Play feature that Telltale introduced in Batman: The Telltale Series, allowing up to 2,000 audience members to vote on decisions for the player using Twitch or other streaming services. On August 3, 2017, Telltale announced that the second episode, "Giant Consequences", would be released on August 15. The rest of the episodes were released on September 19, November 7, and December 19, 2017. Closure of Telltale Games In November 2018, Telltale Games began the process of closing down the studio due to financial issues. Most of its games started to become delisted from digital storefronts, including Minecraft: Story Mode. According to GOG.com, they had to pull the title due to "expiring licensing rights". The Minecraft team stated that even for those that had purchased the titles before their delisting, the episodes would no longer be downloadable after June 2019. Because the Xbox Live Marketplace does not allow for removing games from sale while at the same time allowing existing owners to download Minecraft: Story Mode, each episode of the Xbox 360 version was repriced to in the few weeks ahead of the delisting to deter users from purchasing them. Following the closure of Telltale, Antimo, one of Minecraft: Story Mode's composers, has stated that there is currently legal confusion as to where the rights to the soundtrack lies, leading to the soundtrack only being available for streaming on SoundCloud and YouTube, where they were released before the closure of Telltale. == Soundtrack ==
Soundtrack
Minecraft: Story Mode features an original soundtrack composed by American duo Antimo & Welles, consisting of Skyler Barto (Antimo) and Andrew Arcadi (Welles). The soundtrack for the first season consists of 42 tracks, while the soundtrack for the second season has 51 tracks. On December 21, 2018, during the closure of Telltale, the duo released Story Mode Archives, an album consisting of 18 unused tracks. Several more tracks were re-released in late 2021. ==Reception==
Reception
Minecraft: Story Mode received "mixed" from critics, with the Nintendo Switch version earning a weighted average of 67 based on 5 critics. Season 1 (2015–16) "Episode 1: The Order of the Stone" received positive reviews. Aggregating review website Metacritic gave the Windows version 71/100 based on 25 reviews, 77.50% for Wii U based on 4 reviews, 73.53% for the PC version based on 16 reviews, and 73.29% for PlayStation 4 based on 21 reviews. "Episode 2: Assembly Required" received mixed reviews. Metacritic gave the Windows version 59/100 based on 13 reviews, the PlayStation 4 version 67/100 based on 8 reviews, and the Xbox One version 76/100 based on 4 reviews. "Episode 2: Giant Consequences" received mixed reviews. Metacritic gave the PC version 74/100 based on 8 critics and the PlayStation 4 version a score of 73/100 based on 4 reviews. On GameRankings, the PlayStation 4 version has a rating of 65.00% based on 2 reviews and on the PC version, it has a score of 72.86% based on 7 reviews. "Episode 3: Jailhouse Block" received mixed reviews. Metacritic gave the PC version 71/100, based on 8 reviews, and the PlayStation 4 63/100 based on 4 reviews. "Episode 4: Below the Bedrock" received mixed reviews. Metacritic gave the PC version a score of 74/100 based on 5 critics. "Episode 5: Above and Beyond" received mixed reviews. Metacritic gave the PC version a score of 78/100 based on 4 critics. ==References==
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