The gist of that — the controls are adequate for adventure gaming, but are clunky, and you’ll have to use the trigger buttons to cycle through possible interactive objects rather than trying to get Sam to face the right way. The big change is that Max’s Toys of Powers were destroyed at the end of Episode 4, so you won’t be going into the first-person perspective to enact psychic toy mayhem on anyone.

Imagine being trapped in an old diner, surrounded by zombie hands breaking through the doors. In between gunshot blasts out the windows, a family squabble is adding to the drama, and at the centre of it all is the reliable gumshoe, trying to think his way out of yet another awful situation.

In adventure games, inventory items were made to be combined, and that was always easier done with mouse-based inventory management. Since this is a console experience, Tell Tale has managed the best that it could; one button opens up the inventory menu, then you highlight the item to be used. This goes into a sub-menu that allows it to be combined with another object in your inventory or in the active game. It sounds clunky, but there’s no real way around it. PC-style inventory management simply doesn’t work smoothly on a console environment, though Tell Tale has done its best to try to make it streamlined and accessible.