the council

Here we are then. After five episodes of varying quality and length, we reach the end of Big Bad Wolf’s The Council in the form of Episode 5: Checkmate. While this is a review of Episode 5, it’s best that we view it in the wider context of the whole […]

The Council Episode 5: Checkmate – PS4 Review

January 2, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged branching narrative / episodic / illuminati / the council / the waxen pith by Ian

Still reeling from Episode 3’s revelations, we found ourselves knocked on our backs by the twists and tribulations The Council Episode 4 threw at us. Burning Bridges takes what we thought were the paranoid rantings of a madman and runs with them emphatically. We’d tell you what they amounted to […]

The Council Episode 4: Burning Bridges – PS4 Review

October 9, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged episodic / french / the council / waxwork by Ian

The Council’s third episode, Ripples, was released in July and so we’re a tad late but with the fourth episode just landing, we’re doubling up. After episode two (Hide and Seek) we’re happy to report Ripples is definitely a return to form after the previous instalment. As opposed to episode 2’s […]

The Council Episode 3: Ripples – PS4 Review

October 9, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged adventure / intrigue / the council by Ian

Coming a couple of months after episode one, the second episode of Big Bad Wolf’s Gallic tinged historical adventure The Council is upon us. Hide and Seek carries on immediately after the events of The Mad Ones with your first task being to investigate the events that led to episode […]

The Council – Episode 2: Hide and Seek – PS4 ...

May 22, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged episodic / french / the council by Ian

The Council is the debut game from Bordeaux based developer Big Bad Wolf Studio, who are by no means novices as this game shows. This being the first episode of a five part narrative based series, you’d be forgiven for writing it off and assuming it continued in the same […]

The Council – Episode 1: The Mad Ones – PS4 ...

March 22, 2018 in PS4 tagged episodic / story / the council by Ian