Life Is Strange

Life Is Strange is an episodic graphic adventure video game developed by Dontnod Entertainment and published by Square Enix for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The game was periodically released in five episodic parts throughout 2015.

Plot
Maxine "Max" Caulfield returns to her hometown of Arcadia Bay, Oregon, where she witnesses childhood friend Chloe Price being shot in the bathroom. The incident triggers Max's abilities to rewind time, allowing her to save Chloe from the gunman. Max begins to have visions of a violent storm approaching Arcadia Bay as she begins to use her powers to help Chloe locate her missing best friend Rachel Amber. Max and Chloe eventually learn Rachel was murdered by photographer Mark Jefferson and Max's wealthy classmate Nathan Prescott. As the storm hits Arcadia Bay, Max realizes that to avert the devastation she must choose between saving Chloe or the entirety of Arcadia Bay.

Why This Game Is Not Strange

 * 1) Great storytelling for a Square Enix game, which is considered to be the best of all Square Enix games, in fact, the plot feels like you’re watching an anime, which is neat.
 * 2) Like how Back to the Future has an amazing use of time travel, here, it has a decent use of time traveling in a video game, similar to Sonic CD, as Max uses her powers to lead her choice to enact the Butterfly effect.
 * 3) Nice use of comedy, drama, sci-fi and romance.
 * 4) The voice acting (while not amazing) is pretty decent, with the best arguably being Ashly Burch.
 * 5) Nicely done and beautifully composed soundtrack by French composer Jonathan Maroli, who also composed May French films like Möbius or Les Adoptés.
 * 6) Likeable characters, including Max Caulfield, Kate Marsh, Joyce Madsen, Warren Graham, among others.
 * 7) Beautiful graphics that uses an artstyle that of a watercolor palette making it look as if the world was a painting.
 * 8) The remaster improved the graphics and textures and makes the characters a lot more expressive.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Padding:
 * 2) * Looking for bottles in the junkyard in Episode 2. They are scattered all over the large area, and there's one near the bonfire that's extremely well-hidden.
 * 3) * The Nightmare sequence in Episode 5. It contains several interesting moments and tidbits, but it's ultimately inconsequential to the plot. It could be removed from the game and not really change anything.
 * 4) The expression of the characters are static and hardly ever change outside of cutscenes. The lip-syncing is also horrible, even for 2014 standards.
 * 5) The dialogue in the game is terrible as many characters will use a bunch of dated teen slang like "Wowser", "Shaka-brah", "Poser", and "Hella". This comes across as if the writers are trying to pander to teens but in the worst way possible.
 * 6) The tone is inconsistent as it'll have a serious moment in one scene only to transition to a scene with a lighter tone that has no bearing on the plot at all.
 * 7) While the graphics look nice it makes a lot of things like look off given the low textures.

Complete Season

 * Metacritic
 * PC - 83/100
 * PlayStation 4 - 85/100
 * iOS - 83/100
 * Xbox One - 85/100
 * OpenCritic - 81/100

Episode One

 * Metacritic
 * PC - 77/100
 * PlayStation 4 - 75/100
 * Xbox One - 77/100
 * OpenCritic - 78/100

Episode Two

 * Metacritic
 * PC - 77/100
 * PlayStation 4 - 78/100
 * Xbox One - 73/100
 * OpenCritic - 78/100

Episode Three

 * Metacritic
 * PC - 80/100
 * PlayStation 4 - 81/100
 * Xbox One - 80/100
 * OpenCritic - 80/100

Episode Four

 * Metacritic
 * PC - 76/100
 * PlayStation 4 - 81/100
 * Xbox One - 74/100
 * OpenCritic 82/100

Episode Five

 * Metacritic
 * PC - 83/100
 * PlayStation 4 - 81/100
 * Xbox One - 80/100
 * OpenCritic - 82/100

Critical Reception
Life is Strange was met with positive reception from critics and gamers with praise for it’s time traveling, voice acting, graphics and the emotional tone, but was criticized for it’s uses of slang, lip-syncing and the inconsistent tone.

Phil Savage of PC Gamer gave the game a 77/100, calling it "beautiful, touching and messy. Life Is Strange is good not great but I'd recommend it to anyone. In addition to being a well-told story, it's an important game because it means so much more than it first seemed. It's a product that makes a point of pushing hard and exploring the player's emotions, making him feel while playing -- or rather, feeling a lot more than playing. At least there was the courage to do something different. And this could be the beginning of a new way to consume video games."

Famitsu gave for PlayStation console versions "two nines and two eights" (34/40). Game Informer's Kimberley Wallace said the game's tackling of "subjects that are usually taboo for video games" was impressive.

Despite this however, many YouTube critics have given the game negative reviews criticizing the characters, the relationship between Max and Chloe, dialogue, the logic of the time travel, and etc.

Commercial reception
The game’s first episode had become one of among the most top selling PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 video games of February 2015, in July that same year, the game received one million sales worldwide, even having 1.2 million players, the sales for both the Complete Season and the Season Pass were considered to be “extremely strong” for Square Enix. Meanwhile, in the UK, the game’s retail version made seventh place in the top ten UK game sales chart for the week ending on 23 January 2016. On Steam that same year, it was one of the top 100 best-selling games on Steam.

As of May 2017, more than three million copies have been sold.

Reviews
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Walkthrough
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External link
Life is Strange: Complete Season on Steam