When you finally arrive at the wall – which has always seemed the natural end point of the story, even from the first episode – it’s all over surprisingly quickly and you must make your final fateful decision on how to end the game. It’s one of the least interactive parts of the whole game and suddenly being introduced to a bunch of new characters that Sean and Daniel already care about, but you’ve never met before, is confusing and ineffective (we kept thinking we must’ve forgotten something from Episode 4, it being so long since we’d played it). Although the main problem from a storytelling and gameplay perspective is that the first hour spent at the commune is so incredibly dull. Daniel seems quite happy to be there and it’s not really clear why Sean is so adamant on leaving or why his mother is so willing to help him. That’s obviously a gross simplification of how real parenting works, but the game still manages to get its points across relatively well.Įpisode 5 starts one month after the end of the last episode, where the pair have been living with their estranged mother on a sort of hippy commune close to the Mexican border. Throughout all five episodes you’re constantly influencing the way he sees the world and treats other people, moulding his personality to be more or less law-abiding and morally upstanding. As becomes clear by playing through each one the real theme of the sequel is the effect your decisions have on Daniel. Rewinding time does have its charms, but Max quickly learns playing with time can have disastrous consequences.You can read our reviews of each individual episode here, with Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, and Episode 4 (including a bonus interview with Dontnod).
All choices made by the player have an effect on the ending of the game.
The player has the option to rewind time and redo any choice, given that no checkpoint was made in between. Max and Chloe decide to investigate her disappearance. Unfortunately, Rachel disappeared in those five years on a mysterious way. Chloe then became friends with Rachel Amber who helped her with grieving. Upon returning back, she learns that the father of her best friend Chloe Price died in the year she left. The player controls Max (Maxine Caulfield), who returns to her hometown Arcadia Bay after being away for five years.
Life Is Strange is an episodic graphic adventure series.
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