This review contains spoilers
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This is the start of me reviewing every game I've rated on here, so let's start with one that's deeply personal.
Life is Strange is a game about a bunch of French dudes sitting together in a writing room and making up dialogue for teenagers in Washington. In the game you walk around and talk to people. Sometimes you use your time travel powers. I mean, whatever, that stuff isn't super important.
Life is Strange made me want to be a better person. I had flashbacks to my first reading of the His Dark Materials books back when I was in middle school. In a lot of ways, the game made me feel oddly nostalgic. It reminded me of my teenage years, back when it felt like everything mattered and yet nothing bad could ever happen.
Life is Strange is a game about loving yourself. Accepting the consequences of your past actions without judgement, both mechanically and narratively. You can go back in time and change events, but to what extent? There's a cost to going back in time, to dwelling on what could have been, that eventually destroys a whole town/takes away your best friend.
At the start of Life is Strange, an old friend, now turned acquaintance, is murdered in front of you. Shortly after this, you gain the power to turn back time, which you use to save your friend's life. Over the course of the game, you learn a lot about this friend. She's lonely, she feels like you left her and betrayed her, her home life is terrible. She's a shit person, but the game never judges her for that. Over the course of the game, she matures and grows, becoming something of a role model. The climax ends with her accepting what has happened to her. She pleads with you to go back in time, back to the moment she was murdered. She asks you to watch and do nothing, let what has happened happen. Let her die an angry and confused person.
That was really hard.
Life is Strange teaches you to cherish what time we have with each other. To love, even when there doesn't seem to be a point, because sometimes that's what people need. Even if that person you love is yourself.
Or maybe I'm just looking too deep into this and it's really just a game about two weirdo teenage lesbians who say "hella" too much, idk.
This is the start of me reviewing every game I've rated on here, so let's start with one that's deeply personal.
Life is Strange is a game about a bunch of French dudes sitting together in a writing room and making up dialogue for teenagers in Washington. In the game you walk around and talk to people. Sometimes you use your time travel powers. I mean, whatever, that stuff isn't super important.
Life is Strange made me want to be a better person. I had flashbacks to my first reading of the His Dark Materials books back when I was in middle school. In a lot of ways, the game made me feel oddly nostalgic. It reminded me of my teenage years, back when it felt like everything mattered and yet nothing bad could ever happen.
Life is Strange is a game about loving yourself. Accepting the consequences of your past actions without judgement, both mechanically and narratively. You can go back in time and change events, but to what extent? There's a cost to going back in time, to dwelling on what could have been, that eventually destroys a whole town/takes away your best friend.
At the start of Life is Strange, an old friend, now turned acquaintance, is murdered in front of you. Shortly after this, you gain the power to turn back time, which you use to save your friend's life. Over the course of the game, you learn a lot about this friend. She's lonely, she feels like you left her and betrayed her, her home life is terrible. She's a shit person, but the game never judges her for that. Over the course of the game, she matures and grows, becoming something of a role model. The climax ends with her accepting what has happened to her. She pleads with you to go back in time, back to the moment she was murdered. She asks you to watch and do nothing, let what has happened happen. Let her die an angry and confused person.
That was really hard.
Life is Strange teaches you to cherish what time we have with each other. To love, even when there doesn't seem to be a point, because sometimes that's what people need. Even if that person you love is yourself.
Or maybe I'm just looking too deep into this and it's really just a game about two weirdo teenage lesbians who say "hella" too much, idk.