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Life is Strange [5 episodes of Gone Home]

pippin

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WhiteGuts said:
SHITTY french movie, you should add. The thing was just an excuse for hot lesbian sex, so I guess it's okay.
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The movie is based on a french graphic novel and the author complained about how pornographic the sexual interaction between the characters was. It supposedly failed to capture the romance between them or something like that.

Trigger warning:

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Every time I watch videos of this game, I just feel cringe. Don't think I'll ever buy it, even if it goes on sale, and don't care enough to pirate it. That Borderlands game made by Telltale seems more interesting than this actually.
 
sqeecoo

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I tried it, it was pretty nice. Gave me a TLJ vibe in atmosphere and the time-travel gimmick was great. C&C was way, way better than the insultingly shitty C&C from TWD.
Hipsterish, yes, but I didn't get a feeling of propaganda from it, just that it was portraying the world of artsy college girls. Of course they are hipsters. Portrayal of men actually not so bad, there are ok guys (not only betas) and bitchy women. I wouldn't exactly call it SJW, although there is plenty of girl power stuff (but fairly realistic).

It's just too bad they made a "cinematic" non-game out of it, an actual game with that time-travel mechanic would have been great.
 
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GrainWetski

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What's the point of this game, anyway? You can get the same quality writing by going to random Tumblrs. Not to mention half of these Tumblrs will have GIFs of the characters getting fucked, so you're basically playing a better version of the game!
 
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Pre-episode 5 launch patch improves lip sync for all previous episodes which is great. Also a bunch of features that make replaying some scenes much less tedious.


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And can't fucking wait for the final episode.
 
Bliblablubb

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The game was actually pretty good, well good for some emo teeny coming of age story about a 18 yo girl that looks like a 12 yo boy what it is. Emoshunal engaging, choices that at least seem to matter, decent (or great depending on your taste) soundtrack, good cliffhanger and a lot of potential for a rewarding ending. But they blew it Mass Effect 3 style.
Heh, being spoilered saved me playing the last EP.

Green button: reset button, the whole game didn't happen and bluehaired punkgrrrl has to die in the toilet. Red button: let the whole town blow up and elope with punkgrrrrl, because friendship is magic

Why do developers get so lazy towards the end? Making an ending that got predicted by consoletards months ago should make them feel ashamed.
 
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I am a little disappointed there is no secret "Synthesis" ending, where you create a new masterrace of human-camera-hybrids, or at least marry your camera. So much wasted potential...
 
sqeecoo

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So I "played" through this thing, i.e. watched a no-commentary LP on youtube. Come on, this is a movie with occasional choices or puzzles, I actually find it much more fun and fluid without having to manage the shitty interface and simple puzzles.

Final verdict:
They fucked up the ending pretty badly (apparently they ran out of money too). Or perhaps they were incredibly subtle and subversive while running out of money. Happy to discuss it in more detail if anyone bothered to "play" this and is interested.
Choices and consequences don't matter much or at all in the end, except the significant last choice. But they do change a solid amount while you "play". Much less fake than TWD.

This is not a game, "gameplay" is retarded, and it's a shame a cool idea (time rewinding) and a solid story with a TLJ vibe was merged with this modern non-game atrocity. I would have preferred an actual CYOA digital movie. It was the TLJ feel that intrigued me enough to sit through it after seeing my younger sister play it.

The game is not hipsterish or SJW. The main character is a hipster repressed lesbian, but is ridiculed for it quite a bit. The pretentiousness and vapidness of the art world is shown as well, as well as a legitimate passion of the main character for photography. Men in the game tend to be violent assholes with a good heart, women tend to me bitchy assholes with a good heart. Pretty realistic, and I didn't feel it was preachy about any of it.

Finally, the story and choices and ending were engaging and thought provoking, even if much of that thought is on how stupid some things were or how much better it could have been. I was stimulated and entertained, and only minimally frustrated because I don't expect much from games today. Even an intriguing story with mediocre-to-poor execution and no gameplay is enough to make me post a mini-review on the codex, apparently :)
 
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I didn't like the finale and it's not just the ending that bothered me.

Jefferson's character turned out to be totally flat and shallow. I thought they will give a good explanation for his actions or develop his character. Nah, he's just evil. Way to flush a good character down the toiled. The episode was evidently rushed. They should've taken more time to work on the episode and even if they took a whole month, they would still release episodes on a way faster rate than Telltale does. The whole level in the Zeitgeist gallery was clearly unfinished. Normally a conversation would trigger a cut scene but here you talk to art critics and they just speak their dialogue without even turning their heads toward you. The thing that bothered me the most was Warren's reaction, or lack of, when Max told him she can rewind time. He just accepted it with a straight face. He didn't question it for a second, didn't even ask how she can travel through time (as far as he knows, she might be using a time machine) but right away he knew that she caused a tornado and started lecturing her on chaos theory lol. That one scene alone made me suspend my disbelief 1000x harder than any of the sci-fi time travel stuff. The trippy nightmare sequence was cool but it went for way too long and there were so many self references in it, it made the whole episode feel like a tribute to previous episodes rather than an episode that can stand on it's own. The best puzzle in the game was ruined for me when Max straight up told me the solution after a short time. I didn't even start solving it, I was just taking screenshots and shit. I guess Dontnod took the advice from stupid game reviewers. Let me quote Gamespot review of episode 4 for the second time in this thread: "When the puzzle began, I had no idea what I was looking for, and it was a long time before Max's voice-over offered any hints as to what I should be searching."

After jumping through timelines so many times and going through that insanely long nightmare sequence things just didn't feel real anymore so the ending didn't hit me as hard as it should have. On top of that it was predictable (players already predicted it after finishing the first 2 episodes), it erased all of your choices and it didn't provide needed answers.


Also half of the playerbase are genocidal fucks

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Definitely the worst episode. It didn't ruin the game for me but I expected a lot better. I give it 6.5/10

Episode 1 - 8/10
Episode 2 - 8.5/10
Episode 3 - 9/10
Episode 4 - 9/10
Episode 5 - 6.5/10

Life Is Strange Season 1 - 8.5/10
 
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pippin

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How are going to deal with a possible Season 2 if the whole town is destroyed?
 
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