In the first episode Jesse’s group were a bit scattered after their encounter with the Witherstorm. A great evil has been unleashed onto the world and it is up to them to find the heroes of old, the titular Order of the Stone, and get them back together to fight it. Within that structure we follow Jesse, a boy or girl depending on your choice, and his/her band of friends. Instead it sits firmly in the middle, presenting a group of friends inside of the Minecraft universe, with all of its video game quirks and strangeness, but still portraying that world as realistic, and important.

It is also not a story of a bunch of friends playing Minecraft. It’s not the grand origin of the strange universe that millions of players have enjoyed. Minecraft: Story Mode tells a sort of quasi-Minecraft tale. However, that shorter wait has unfortunately left us with a sparse episode that feels like the first half of something better. With a shortened wait time players can dive right back into the adventure that they began in the first episode. Now, less than two weeks later, Episode 2 “Assembly Required” is already available, breaking from the usual months long wait between Telltale episodes. Minecraft: Story Mode got off to a rocky, but overall enjoyable start with Episode 1 “The Order of the Stone”.

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