"You're not a little wolf anymore. Never forget who you are, never."
I wasn't a big fan of the original LiS, I felt like the narrative was completely restricted by overly careless characters and annoying gameplay, so the prospect of playing it's sequel was a far thought in my mind for a long time, at least until I booted up the first episode.
Life is Strange 2 exceeded my expectations and for once, made me feel respectful of this series, maybe even a tad little bit more respectful for it's predecessor, though I still have major gripes with that game holding back from me giving it anything over maybe 3 and a half stars.
However, this was just a much better experience all around. Better characters, better story, better atmosphere, better gameplay. Everything was pretty well done and got some emotional kicks out of me. I much prefer the narrative style being an adventure rather than contained in one central place, constantly revisiting locations for 5 long episodes. This was a much more welcome change of pace and made it a lot easier to tag along with and enjoy thoroughly.
Sean and Daniel were instantly likable characters and a lot of the twists and turns were completely unpredictable (compared to the glaringly predictable twist in the first game.) I was sad to say goodbye to the characters, and the bitter sweet ending I got left me a little bit depressed too, as the first game should have achieved with it's ideas but cockblocked with it's reckless, unlikable characters who cared about themselves more than anything else... this game offered a new perspective, handled the lesson proper and presented it better. Instead of leaving an off putting taste in my mouth about the morality of the characters, Life is Strange 2 confronts them more naturally and shows just where selfishness can get you.
I strongly recommend this title, more so over the first, especially given the fact you don't really need to know anything about the first game to understand this. Would have been a much better starting point into the series, maybe would have made me like the first game more if I had.
I wasn't a big fan of the original LiS, I felt like the narrative was completely restricted by overly careless characters and annoying gameplay, so the prospect of playing it's sequel was a far thought in my mind for a long time, at least until I booted up the first episode.
Life is Strange 2 exceeded my expectations and for once, made me feel respectful of this series, maybe even a tad little bit more respectful for it's predecessor, though I still have major gripes with that game holding back from me giving it anything over maybe 3 and a half stars.
However, this was just a much better experience all around. Better characters, better story, better atmosphere, better gameplay. Everything was pretty well done and got some emotional kicks out of me. I much prefer the narrative style being an adventure rather than contained in one central place, constantly revisiting locations for 5 long episodes. This was a much more welcome change of pace and made it a lot easier to tag along with and enjoy thoroughly.
Sean and Daniel were instantly likable characters and a lot of the twists and turns were completely unpredictable (compared to the glaringly predictable twist in the first game.) I was sad to say goodbye to the characters, and the bitter sweet ending I got left me a little bit depressed too, as the first game should have achieved with it's ideas but cockblocked with it's reckless, unlikable characters who cared about themselves more than anything else... this game offered a new perspective, handled the lesson proper and presented it better. Instead of leaving an off putting taste in my mouth about the morality of the characters, Life is Strange 2 confronts them more naturally and shows just where selfishness can get you.
I strongly recommend this title, more so over the first, especially given the fact you don't really need to know anything about the first game to understand this. Would have been a much better starting point into the series, maybe would have made me like the first game more if I had.