10-02-2018, 03:09 AM
Beat the original Life is Strange. There are times that I look at someone's trophies and wonder why someone dropped it. This one I can understand. This is a very slow game with some exciting bits thrown in periodically. It's mostly about Max's school life and reconnecting with her best friend after five years of no contact and time powers and a missing persons investigation are involved. It's mostly about the story and the more exciting bits don't come until episode 4 IMO. That's fine though. The characters and the backgrounds of everything was still enough to keep me hooked on to see how everything played out.
I love how not easy the real decisions are. You can choose to shoot someone only to find out the gun has no bullets and piss off the person or you can choose not to shoot and get the gun stolen. You can choose to steal money to help Chloe out of her debt or not because stealing is wrong. You can report the student with the gun to the principle or not because said student has a very powerful family name and nothing will be done about it. The big difference between this and something like The Walking Dead is that you are actually effecting the story instead of giving me the illusion of choice because your going to kill off both characters anyway. I'm pretty sure I skiped a few puzzles because I wanted to be the best person I could.
Ok. Now for the part that will get everything I say discredited. I really don't like how this game looks. It tries to go for a cel shaded realistic look and it makes everything look really ugly. Max's hair looks like it's made out of playdough and moves similarly. A lot of the clothes look like they were just modeled onto the characters without any idea of how they should realistically move. The water color pictures are either very creative or very ugly, without any in between. I'm willing to say it's just the PS4 version that makes everything look bad, but I can't imagine that it would look too much better on the PS3.
That being said, solid game. It took me until Episode 4 to really get into it, but I've never really been into mellow drama teen shit in the first place. Probably the first role that I think Ashly Burch did a great job on and didn't sound like Hey Ash, herself, a bad Rise impression, or like she was bored. The first episode is free, so might as well try it out if you haven't.
I love how not easy the real decisions are. You can choose to shoot someone only to find out the gun has no bullets and piss off the person or you can choose not to shoot and get the gun stolen. You can choose to steal money to help Chloe out of her debt or not because stealing is wrong. You can report the student with the gun to the principle or not because said student has a very powerful family name and nothing will be done about it. The big difference between this and something like The Walking Dead is that you are actually effecting the story instead of giving me the illusion of choice because your going to kill off both characters anyway. I'm pretty sure I skiped a few puzzles because I wanted to be the best person I could.
Ok. Now for the part that will get everything I say discredited. I really don't like how this game looks. It tries to go for a cel shaded realistic look and it makes everything look really ugly. Max's hair looks like it's made out of playdough and moves similarly. A lot of the clothes look like they were just modeled onto the characters without any idea of how they should realistically move. The water color pictures are either very creative or very ugly, without any in between. I'm willing to say it's just the PS4 version that makes everything look bad, but I can't imagine that it would look too much better on the PS3.
That being said, solid game. It took me until Episode 4 to really get into it, but I've never really been into mellow drama teen shit in the first place. Probably the first role that I think Ashly Burch did a great job on and didn't sound like Hey Ash, herself, a bad Rise impression, or like she was bored. The first episode is free, so might as well try it out if you haven't.