You control a trio: Anu, Octavio, and Fran.
Though developed by Gearbox and not Telltale Games, if you’ve played any of these branching narrative games, you’ll feel at home here. New Tales From the Borderlands is, per its name, a spiritual successor to Tales From the Borderlands. You might not like all of the jokes (I, for one, did not care for a particular fart joke), but by golly, there are enough of them here that some just have to land.
In the roughly 10 hours it took me to complete the game, I lost count of the pop culture references somewhere between Babe and OnlyFans.
Its script, excellently delivered by the game’s voice cast, maintains a cadence of jokes that rivals Veep for sheer frequency. New Tales From the Borderlands is eager to please.