Life is Strange is an episodic action adventure game developed by Dontnod Entertainment, developers of Remember Me. The game has you controlling a teenager Max with the powers to rewind time. The gameplay is similar to Telltale Games point and click releases. Max is a teenage girl that left Seattle after 5 years to live in her home town of Oregon. There she reunites with her childhood friend Chloe and has to readjust her life. She is an awkward, shy teenager facing a complicated world. Her friend Chloe on the other hand is rebellious. She smokes weed, gets angry a lot and is quite the opposite of Max. The game includes the usual rebellious teenagers, angry adults, bullies etc. The characters are well detailed and the world is full of life.
When Max witnesses a murder in a bathroom, she discovers her time rewinding powers. You can rewind time for some time to change your decisions thereby altering the story of the game. The behavior of the characters around you change and the environment reacts differently each time. You get to see the consequences of most of your actions immediately. This makes the game much different from other games in its genre.
You get to attend classes and answer questions in them as well. You witness numerous confrontations and you have to pick sides in some of them. Your actions have consequences bearing on the rest of the game. But if you feel you made any bad decision, then the time rewind is there to rescue you. You can only rewind time up to a certain point. So, some choices you made in Episode 1 might end up having some dire consequences in later episodes.
Apart from the murder incident, the most serious story plot is the posters of a missing girl lying all around the school. No one is interested in finding her apart from you. A major problem with the game is the stereotypes are just too much. The game tries to emulate an average teenage girl, but they kind of overdid it. The characters didn’t have a new unique feature to them. They felt too unreal and a bit boring. There wasn't really a character to which I could take a liking to or maybe want to know more about. I could only empathize or relate with Max. But this didn't stop me from having fun with Life is Strange.
Watch Life Is Strange Episode 1 Full Walkthrough
Watch Life Is Strange Episode 1 Full Walkthrough