Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two (2017)

Mojang Studios, Telltale Games

Main
9
hours
Main + Extra
10
hours
Platinum
11
hours

Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two continues Jesse's saga in a five-part, narrative-driven, episodic game series developed by Telltale in collaboration with Mojang and members of the Minecraft community. Though players' choices from the first season will carry over into season two, this new season will be accessible to both returning fans and newcomers alike. This second season will also include Telltale's unique multiplayer 'Crowd Play' feature, which allows friends and family to engage with the adventure together by helping to decide the direction of the story from any mobile device with an online connection. Now that Jesse and the gang have vanquished the Wither Storm, saved the world, and become totally super famous heroes, life has gotten a bit more...complicated. With more responsibilities and less time for adventure, old friendships have started to fade -- at least until Jesse's hand gets stuck in a creepy gauntlet that belongs to an ancient underwater temple. Together with old pals and new comrades alike, Jesse embarks on a brand new journey filled with tough choices, good times, and at least one temperamental llama.

About the story

Radar, Jesse's new intern, notifies Jesse of an upcoming adventure with Petra. Jesse helps citizens prepare for Founding Day before meeting her. Their meeting place self-destructs to reveal a bottomless pit, nicknamed the "heck mouth" where Jesse finds a mysterious Prismarine gauntlet that gets stuck in their hand; but they manage to escape. Petra finds Jack, a hero who can help Jesse remove the gauntlet and close the heckmouth. Jack reveals that the gauntlet is tracked to an Ocean Monument, and that a "Structure Block" can close the pit. Jesse convinces Jack and his villager friend Nurm to take them and Petra to it. At the monument's centre, after Jesse frees Jack's old friend Vos and collects a Structure Block the Admin appears as a Prismarine Colossus and attempts to kill them, but they and their companions escape. After Jesse defeats its Colossus form, the Admin returns as a snowman and challenges Jesse's group to reclaim the clock (later destroyed by Petra or Jack) in his ice palace, who they then head towards, later joined by Jesse's so-called "rival" Stella and her pet llama Lluna. However, Vos is revealed to have been the Admin the whole time, and he imprisons Jesse and the person who did not destroy the clock, while the person who did gets the gauntlet transferred to their hand and is warped away. The Admin teleports Jesse, Jack/Petra, Radar, and Jack's villager friend Nurm to the Sunshine Institute, a prison full of people the Admin has sent down. Jesse and Jack/Petra try to make a run for it but a Prison Golem reprimands them and knocks them out. Jesse wakes up in the Warden's office. There, Jesse has the option to work for the Warden and save Radar who is on the verge of suffocating to death or resist. After learning more, the group discovers a dangerous prisoner known as Prisoner X. The Admin comes to the prison before Jesse would have a chance to go down, demotes the Warden to a prisoner, and makes Petra/Jack fight Jesse. They both attempt to slash the Admin but he stops them and revokes Petra/Jack of the gauntlet before abandoning the institute and assuming Jesse's identity. Then, Jesse makes it down to Prisoner X and after discussing, she reveals her name is Xara and the Admin's name is Romeo. Xara agrees to help Jesse and the rest of the group, but her prison is rigged with TNT and pressure plates, if there is no one standing on them, the room will explode. Jesse then must leave either Nurm or Lluna behind to escape. After making it out and arming themselves, the Warden revealed Xara was a former Admin and Romeo took away her powers, before Xara kills him and helps lead the group to the Underneath, below the bedrock. Jesse learns from Xara that she and Romeo were not the only Admins; there was a third one named Fred who had created a weapon that could strip Romeo of his powers. Romeo found out and killed Fred, but not before the latter hid the weapon somewhere. Xara agrees to help fix the portal in her old town the Oasis while Jesse, Petra, and Radar go to Fred's Keep, where they meet the people living there and find a clue that hints the weapon could be located in Romeoburg. Before arriving, they are met by Ivor, who agrees to help Jesse before leaving. After completing a trial in Romeoburg, they find a journal that contains a password: "#POTATO451". Back at the Oasis, Jesse is given the option to give Xara her bed back, to which if they do, she stays behind to help hold off the monsters invading. Regardless, Jesse is forced to choose between letting Radar apparently sacrifice himself to distract a giant Enderman or leaving Fred's people for dead. After returning home, Jesse, Petra, and Jack come up with a plan to battle Romeo. If Jesse gave Xara her bed, Romeo destroys the neighboring Champion City, but if Jesse did not give Xara her bed, she attempts to attack Romeo only to get strangled to death. It is revealed that Ivor managed to free Nurm or Lluna from the prison. With Lukas's assistance, they arrive at the "Terminal Space", the home of the Admin. Jesse, Jack, and Petra reaches the Terminal Space, with Jesse collecting Fred's gauntlet after inputting the password and battling Romeo. Jesse successfully uses the gauntlet to strip Romeo of his power. Jesse then has a choice to either take Romeo back for redemption or leave him to his fate, and if they had chosen to rescue Fred's people, then Radar arrives to save them; if not, Romeo distracts the monsters of Terminal Space for Jesse and their friends to escape. Jesse's final choice involves them either choosing to leave Beacontown and go on adventures with Petra, or staying as mayor.

Platforms

Android iOS Mac Switch PC PS4 X360 XONE

Genres

Adventure Point-and-click

Themes

Action Comedy Fantasy

Languages: English and 7 more

Interface Audio Subtitles
French
English
Russian
German
Spanish (Spain)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Chinese (Simplified)
Arabic

Media

Critic Reviews

FNintendo

By Nuno Nêveda
60

Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two brings a competent work to the Nintendo Switch with an improved combat system, a simple but humorous plot and an overall good acting work. Nevertheless, the game doesn't fully stand out, as its adventure is rather superficial and the challenge level is not as high as it could be, with a lack of more eye-grabbing moments and some unsolved technical issues.

28 Dec, 2018 Read full review

Cubed3

By Josh Di Falco
70

Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two: The Telltale Series is another good inclusion to the Telltale library of adventure games, and is well worth checking out. It does tell an intriguing story with an almost child-like level of danger, as the Admin threatens the world with his petulant, whiny behaviour.

20 Feb, 2018 Read full review

GamingBolt

By Will Borger
70

Strong characters and a compelling narrative overcome some lackluster design decisions in a game that should appeal to fans of both Telltale and Mojang's work.

23 Jan, 2018 Read full review

Game Informer

By Brian Shea
68

Though your choices don't matter much in the end, and longtime Telltale players will note the trademark style getting staler, Minecraft's second season still tells an enjoyable, albeit meandering, tale

09 Jan, 2018 Read full review

NoobFeed

By Adam Siddiqui
85

Answers will be provided and new questions will replace them, coupled with uneasy decisions that alter the story as you progress, and Minecraft Story Mode: Season 2 provides more than enough reason to play after you're done.

20 Dec, 2017 Read full review

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