It’s a game with beautiful graphics, nice songs and it has a very touching story. It’s about lives and choices, about love and hate, about truths and lies, about life and death, about friends and enemies, about past and future, about trust and betrayal. About everything. Really. Start playing it. It’s a good decision… 🙂

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 nosebleed 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 GAME RANK IS ABOVR 10/10, OUTSTANDING IDEAS, AN ALTERING POINT ON GAMING HISTORY.

EVERY GAMER SHOULD PLAY.

Game of the year

TLDR: Game with great story, real life problems and little bit of challenge

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As a fan of HAWP I found about this game very late and even then it took me a lot of time to pick it up, but damn I don’t regret single bit.

True gameplay isn’t anything new or revolutionary, but story makes up for it. Never thought I would enjoy story with real problems and, apart from timetravel, is mostly grounded in reality. The thing I disliked most was the cheesy lines, but I can forgive those.

I have to compare telltale games to this, because similarities are obviously there. Telltale games have more choices and they really matter, but life is strange is a bit more challenging.

It’s also funny to see how this game has some similarities to Final Fantasies.

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I think the main messages of this game are:
No one is black and white and life is like a road with plenty of crossroads and any moment is a chance to change it.

This game has the best story, I have ever experienced in any video game. The atmosphere, the music and everything about it is amazing. Currently I believe that this game is best evidence, that video games has grown up and should be taken seriously.

A charming game about life, love, remorse, morality, and the consequences of playing God.

Really good and really emotional game.
Love this game, i can clearly say this is one of my most favourite games. You really get into the story and you will feel like your there 🙂

Wow guys this game is hella rad! My stepdick doesn’t like me playing video games so when he heard I was playing one he tied my dog to a brick and threw him into the sea. Haha regardless this game is good if you’re so busy crying your eyes out over your dead pets that you didn’t notice the terrible voice acting, garbage dialogue, dreadful lip-syncing, dumb story, unlikeable characters, meaningless choice-based gameplay, boring as sin puzzles and tacked-on teleportation powers as a mechanic that only apply when the game says they do. Well anyway great game, 9/11 by which I mean Killary did 9/11 and ISIS isn’t real.

This probably is the only game I likely reviewed. This game is the game that made me crying. You can almost feel the characters feeling and it will also makes you miss “Arcadia Bay” at the same time. The choices are the best part of this game. Being able to choose things differently really changes the games sensation. And of course the rewind feature is the main idea in this game. In my opinion this game is superb since it relies on content rather than on next gen graphic sh*t. It is a MUST BUY 🙂

It’s hard to discuss this game without mentioning any telltale games. But I can honestly say of this style, this would not be at the top of the list. If you want to use time travel as a plot device, you need to play it very carefully and this is where Life is strange falls short. Choices became less important (except for maybe 2) as you could check the repercussions of each action, with even a little bio forshadowing events. However, most of them did not seem important. For example, you are given an option to keep your weapon or get it stolen, however, later on there is an option to get the gun back anyway. You are randomly given the option to have a dog killed, and in the end nothing you do really matters. I also had a strong cognitive dissonance with chloe, where she would do things, or not do things that I felt were in character such as take photos.

In terms of graphics, the game definitely looked better than some tell tale games. I felt like looking around which was good for a game with viewable object and exploration puzzles. Soundwise was a mixed bag, the music was nice but there were often times where you would lose control entirely to listen to music with panning shots. Voice acting worked sometimes and not so well other times.

I also ran in to a couple of bugs with characters not moving or lips not moving, which can take you out of such a story driven game.

Overall an ambitious title that doesn’t live up to the expectations.

I normally dont play this type of game, but I certainly enjoyed this. Its crazy how good this is