Played through the latest Game of Thrones episode...not a fan. Part of it is that the game loses a bit in comparison to Life is Strange. The other is that no matter what choices you make (and it's debatable how much impact these choices have), it feels like you are fully fucked. I guess that's to be expected in a GoT theme game...but it was especially in your face this episode; it's a total bummer.
That KIND of sounds up my alley so I bought the GoT game when it went on Daily Deal today. I would imagine a feeling of being completely fucked would not only be as you said, expected in a GoT theme game, but also that that feeling would peak during episodes 3-4.
I played through episode one of the Borderlands TTG game last night and found it surprisingly good. The gimmick of having an eye that can scan things is underwhelming to use, but ends up being an interesting way to progress through the story. The characters are good... Not Lee/Clementine/Bigsby good, but "I want to play more of this" good.
I was surprised at how it was ACTUALLY funny. There's a good chance the 2.5-3 hours it took me to play episode one, I laughed more than the 10+ (I forget) hours it took me to beat the Borderlands 1/2 games.
Life is Strange is superior to these games. The time limit to select conversation choices can be interesting, but very often isn't. It's also just plain more entertaining to explore the world as Max, with maybe the exception being Wolf Among Us's better/more interesting moments. The time rewind is also a good mechanic for both enjoying what you can get out of each conversation and for getting through game events without the immersion destruction of a game over screen.
Edit: Okay, so I played through episode one of GoT and I think I'm getting your criticism a little more now lol. Clearly even more then other TTG games, this one is telling a story and you're just kinda there for the ride. I am having trouble seeing where this story could go in the scheme of GoT. Killing plot central characters in the books/television show just isn't going to happen so any kind of resolution would have to come in a way that would not have any impact on the plot of the source material. It COULD still be a good story.. I'm not convinced it'll make for an especially good game, though, but that's not really something TTG has done well in the past to begin with.