The Council Episode Two Review – Hide and Seek

The Council has so far lead us to the estate of Lord Mortimer in hopes to find out what happened to your mother. Playing as Louis De Richet you learn of a secret society known as the Golden Order, with a twist on every historical figure we’ve learned about, leaving you more puzzled than you could possibly anticipate. And that’s a good thing as it create a unique story that is controlled by you.

The Council is the heart and soul of the Telltale Games concept with a bit of a twist. Rather than only relying on a few interactions and decisions made by you, The Council integrated a unique RPG element that makes every decision more challenging, personalizing the narrative and only allowing you to perform skills you’ve unlocked throughout each episode. The end of episode one truly defined “The Mad Ones” depending on the direction you’ve taken. Now we embark in the second episode, “Hide and Seek.”

The plot in our story begins at a high note, discovering the death of Elizabeth Adams, the women I ignored in my story at what appeared to be a critical moment, a decision I immediately regret. Now, finally meeting with Lord Mortimer, he’s requesting you to find out how she was murdered. My only disappointment with meeting Mortimer is his pecking order to solve a murder, not the disappearance of my mother.

You’re now detective Richet, not really, but you are required to search room by room to find clues that may lead to finding out who’s indeed is the murderer. I’m pleased to have acquired skill points and utilized them to help with investigations and translating documents as it’s made interrogating the Golden Order a bit easier than imagined.

It all felt like a live interactive version of Clue and all the suspects were in front of me; but would I make the right decisions? I truly hope I did as nothing happened after my decisions were finalized. After a while of diving into the chapter, hide and seek became most apparent as I was sent on way too many goose chases for my liking. The ongoing searches became a little too tedious.

However I truly loved the history and how you had a genuine Sherlock Holmes moment, seeking for notes left between your mother and another individual (no spoilers) inside of a room based on characters in the Bible, each clue requiring you to find the right verse in the Bible in order to reveal their conversation.

The wasn’t nearly as much action as episode one but I thoroughly enjoyed the mysteries and shorter puzzle solving in Hide and Seek. You definitely can tell episode two was created as a filler with documents practically everywhere.