My main problem with the game is the story, it started of being pretty generic, and screwed up by placing quite a climatic moment right near the beginning. Then it got really good and I thought "hey this might actually be a good game" but then it decided to fuck it all up with the last 15 ish minutes.
I don't like writing spoilers in reviews so I won't go into any specifics, I'll instead focus on my problems with the game itself in the rest of this log.
I'll start with a minor issue, the graphics. It's a minor issue because I can play games with bad graphics, and maybe we're focusing too much on photo-realism lately, but life is strange, the original, came out in 2015. The same year everyone was shitting on fallout 4 for having disappointing graphics. Like what??? The remastered edition I played in 2022 has comparable graphics to what rockstar and naughty dog were making back in 2008.
Now onto the gameplay.
A lot of annoyances that only served to cost me a lot of time. I'll start with the saving, which is only done automatically. This was likely done to stop players from save scumming with save files but each chapter is 3-5 hours long and I'm not doing that in a single sitting. which means whenever I leave and come back I have to go through about 2 minutes of gameplay I already played. And this is only compounded by my next gripe, there's no way to fast forward or skip a cutscene you haven't seen before. which would save a lot of time whenever I get back to the game, but also in case if there's a crash which did happen to me in one of longest cutscenes in the game. There should also be a way to fast forward dialogue just a single line even if it's your first time seeing it, I swear half of my playtime is waiting for the characters speech to catch up after I already finished reading the subtitles. still on the topic of saving time you can't rewind time in the middle of a conversation or cutscene, you have to wait for the game to give you control of that. This is really annoying because sometimes you'll make a decision that has pretty immediate effects and instead of being able to rewind immediately because you didn't like that decision you have to wait another minute before the game hands control back to you. This all just makes for a really frustrating experience. Game devs need to learn to give the players more control and stop restricting us to whatever their intentions are, we bought the game, it's our product, we'll take responsibility if we fuck our own experience of it up, so stop fucking it up for us.
I don't like writing spoilers in reviews so I won't go into any specifics, I'll instead focus on my problems with the game itself in the rest of this log.
I'll start with a minor issue, the graphics. It's a minor issue because I can play games with bad graphics, and maybe we're focusing too much on photo-realism lately, but life is strange, the original, came out in 2015. The same year everyone was shitting on fallout 4 for having disappointing graphics. Like what??? The remastered edition I played in 2022 has comparable graphics to what rockstar and naughty dog were making back in 2008.
Now onto the gameplay.
A lot of annoyances that only served to cost me a lot of time. I'll start with the saving, which is only done automatically. This was likely done to stop players from save scumming with save files but each chapter is 3-5 hours long and I'm not doing that in a single sitting. which means whenever I leave and come back I have to go through about 2 minutes of gameplay I already played. And this is only compounded by my next gripe, there's no way to fast forward or skip a cutscene you haven't seen before. which would save a lot of time whenever I get back to the game, but also in case if there's a crash which did happen to me in one of longest cutscenes in the game. There should also be a way to fast forward dialogue just a single line even if it's your first time seeing it, I swear half of my playtime is waiting for the characters speech to catch up after I already finished reading the subtitles. still on the topic of saving time you can't rewind time in the middle of a conversation or cutscene, you have to wait for the game to give you control of that. This is really annoying because sometimes you'll make a decision that has pretty immediate effects and instead of being able to rewind immediately because you didn't like that decision you have to wait another minute before the game hands control back to you. This all just makes for a really frustrating experience. Game devs need to learn to give the players more control and stop restricting us to whatever their intentions are, we bought the game, it's our product, we'll take responsibility if we fuck our own experience of it up, so stop fucking it up for us.