Life Is Strange (2015)

#64

Game está na Steam

Na plataforma GOG há a versão "Complete Season" Valor pago R$ 7,39
A data de compra se refere a plataforma da GOG

Pros and Cons
Pros:
Interesting art directions
An interesting attempt at time travel narrative

Cons:
The time travel concept is done horribly.
The writing is HORRIBLE.
Your choices don't matter IN THE SLIGHTEST
It isn't a video game

At first, when I played this I thought the writing was satire but apparently, people think this is actually well written. It's realistic, it's how college campus students actually talk, but it's so annoying and unlikeable.

The Time Travel mechanic makes no sense. Why does Max get a nose bleed before Kate kills herself? PLOT. Why does Chloe's death and nothing else that Max does affect everything such as answering the question in the beginning? Also, why does Max get her powers? Why can she suddenly travel through time through pictures? NONE of this is explained.

CHLOE IS A TERRIBLE CHARACTER. She's an annoying histper character that the creators ACTUALLY try to make us care about. If they made her intentionally annoying and we are only supposed to like her because Max likes her and because this is Max's point of view, like a good video game would, then it would be good writing, but this isn't a good video game. It's barely a video game. More on that later. All the characters are trash. Max is bland and uninteresting. Warden is a cuck. Victoria is other there to be the b*tch character and Nathan is other there to hate. Nathan does become kind of good character after he releases he done diddley goofed and Mr. Jefferson is well written though, I will give them that as well.

And the choices, oh the choices. The "game" tries to be a telltale "game" (don't know why you would want to) and gives you "choices" such as WATERING YOUR PLANT. And saving a girl from suicide. A girl that is inconsistent to the plot. The game tries to tell you that these choices matter. You are told this for 4 episodes. Then it becomes clear that you were just lied to and the game takes a massive steamy sh*t on itself and gives you two choices. Two. Save the annoying c*nt Chloe or kill everyone else. This really shows how effortless of an ending it gives you. Plus, the ending where you save Chloe is like 3 minutes long showing they REALLY didn't care
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And finally. The game isn't a game. You walk around with an absurdly annoying shoulder camera and collect f*cking bottles and hold down a button to rewind time and then click one of four options to say. That's not a video game.

All around Life is Strange has a few good moments such as the twist that Mr. Jefferson is the killer and there are a few funny moments but that's all hidden behind terrible storytelling and even worse writing. Episode one is free on steam. If you want to check that out and quickly discover how terrible it is. The bathroom scene is honestly what did it for me.

The presentation and pacing are modeled after Telltale's episodic adventure games such as Walking Dead, but with even more emphasis on story and characters over puzzle solving. This is more of a Story Exploration type game than a traditional graphic adventure, which suited me fine. Gameplay mostly consisted of using a time-rewind mechanic to solve puzzles and move the story forward. There were quite a few difficult decisions to make which had real repurcussions on the subsequent story. Each episode ended with an interesting cliff hanger that pulled me into the next.

Elevator pitch on the story: Gossip Girl meets Butterfly Effect meets Twin Peaks.

While Life is Strange belongs to the growing genre of modern adventure games, it does a number of unique things that set it apart. It feels genuinely earnest and young, surprisingly similar to a quirky slice-of-life indie film, and in doing so manages to come across as very different from the bombastic norm of modern video games.

Ultimately the ending is a little muddled and its handling of player choice ranges from brilliant to awkward, but it's full of impacting moments and a singular sense of uniqueness. The result is a game that is absolutely worth the asking price and the time it takes to play it.