Posted on: June 24, 2020

animegramma

Spiele: 3021 Rezensionen: 1

Great, atmospheric adventure game

Note: At release, there was a bug affecting some people (myself included) that stopped the game from launching. This has thankfully been rectified. Life is strange is a very atmospheric adventure game about a meek hipster girl (Max) re-uniting with her old best friend, who is rebelling against a world she feels is against her (Chloe). Together, you work to solve the mystery of Chloe's more recent best friend's sudden disappearance. The events play out in a Telltale-style adventure (though the player is given slightly more agency here), where you make lasting decisions that may affect large chunks of the story. While this might work on its own as a compelling adventure game, what truly elevates it is Max's ability to rewind time, allowing her to rethink the things she says and does, as well as alter the course of events in pretty far-reaching ways. The game presents you with some pretty interesting and difficult moral dilemmas, and oftentimes Max's time-bending doesn't make the decisions any easier to make. Tying together this intriguing narrative is a standout art style that makes use of a lot of stylized hand-drawn art to give the game a dreamy, nostalgic feel. Add to that a brooding indie rock soundtrack, and you have a game that drowns you in atmosphere, and adds up to an experience you won't soon forget. (The dialog can be cringe, occasionally trying too hard to sound like "hip teen" lingo, but I think it helps fully realize the game's already idealized vision of what an American art school must be like. If you think this will bother you though, you can knock one star off my score! It is worth looking past the occasional "hella"!)

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Posted on: June 14, 2020

Spiele: 0 Rezensionen: 1

This game will give you an emotional

This is one of the best story-tellinf video games available! I have downloaded the first episode on STEAM when it was free and let it sit in my libary for +3 years until couple months ago, and glad I did. It made me a 26 years old adult cry! The story, characters and setting is so well made after when you are done playing you will enter a sad state of mind. Every character in this game is somehow relatable to once own life.

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Posted on: June 16, 2020

polysquirrel

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Spiele: 285 Rezensionen: 28

This is something else

This is not really a game. Puzzles are few and simplistic, you can't die or fail, and, bar a few selected places, you can (and often are expected to) rewind the time to try different conversation options and select a path based on their immediate consequences. You can't even role play, as there aren't really 'good' and 'bad' choices - even having seen all variants play out, no gain comes without a sacrifice and long term consequences are never clear. Neither it is a visual novel however, with very few final world states - it is the road that counts, not the destination. To criticise it for elements which could be automated (i.e. mandatory clicking) is to fail to see their purpose: the fact that Max can walk freely and the player actually performing those actions serves to increase the immersion. This is crucial, because 'Life ...', despite featuring time travel and a cataclysm, is not an action story. Nor is it a mystery or horror, despite the whole plot being centered around sleuthing for a dissapeared girl and becomes only darker with time. In order to really experience it, you must be able to empathise with normal people and their problems, and this includes teenagers, antiheroes like drug dealers and school bullies. If you can't see the person behind the character, you will discount it as a teenage drama, filled with boring, everyday issues. Talk with any NPC in the game though, and you will find that even extras with no role to play are more than cardboard standouts. By its interactive nature, LiS strikes the points much more strongly then a film would, and it will leave you moved on many occasions, with some of the most powerful moments in gaming. Despite its small scale, the story is far from simple. The mystery is well constructed, far from obvious, but doesn't feature plot twists for the sake of surprise alone. The nature of Max's abilities results in recursive time travel more complex than any you've seen, and is above what one expects from this medium.

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Posted on: October 15, 2020

mintee

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Spiele: 799 Rezensionen: 122

cumbersome pc port, nice story

Had to abandon the game as using keyboard and mouse is just too cumbersome, unneccessary steps to just read flavor texts, her body blocks using the mouse action most of the time which makes timed events impossible. Very clunky movement and constantly swinging camera angles. I just cant be arsed with it anymore. What I saw of it was a nice immersive albeit teen angsty drama llama story which would have been great to explore though I found the time control gimmick tiring for the most part. I enjoyed the music. will pop on a lets play and just watch it.

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Edited on: October 19, 2025

Posted on: January 3, 2021

ERISS

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Spiele: 3133 Rezensionen: 209

Braking story game

The rewind time feature brakes the immersion, so rather play the 2nd game, Before the Storm, which I greatly prefer as devs removed the rewind: maybe thay saw their fault.

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