Is "Life Is Strange" worth it?
It's on sale for 5 Euro on Steam rn. Do the choices matter? Is the story good?
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It's on sale for 5 Euro on Steam rn. Do the choices matter? Is the story good?
No spoilers pls
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If you're up for couple of hours of teenage drama with superpowers involved and you don't mind cringeworthy dialogue and illusion of choice, then go for it.
Well, if you already enjoy Telltale's games, you shouldn't mind this...
At least TT revolves around the topics I enjoy.
No. I recently played it for free, and I felt ripped off.
How the story is depends on what you like.
It's a game of high school teen drama.
I got sick of it before the first episode ended... others loved it.
According to Episode 5, they don't but unlike any Telltale games, it's WAY worse.
No. This game is full of teenagers with cringey dialogue and this story went NOWHERE, Episode 5 will have to tell you that.
Yes and Yes.
For only 5 bucks it is definitely worth it, if you don't dislike the teenager/timetravel setting.
They don't matter that much, at least not for the final ending.
The murder mystery is pretty great. Also the characters are well written and interesting and you really care for them. The dialogs can be a bit strange and cringy sometimes...but overall it's decent.
I don't care that much about the overarching storyline with the visions/storm and I am also not a big friend of the ending - but you can't say, that it is bad because it's consequent. There are many details in the world and the story also have traces of indian mythology - and much popcultural references - so there are possiblities of interpretation.
But the one thing I liked the most is the atmosphere of the game. The artstyle is pretty great and the gameplay is much better than any Telltale game after Back to the Future. You have puzzles (pretty easy ones), a lot of exploration and in one episode you can even combine clues to move forward in the mystery case (the only thing I've really missed from The Wolf among us - detective work).
So it depends on you, if you like a good mystery, exploration, the time-travelling twist inclusive the puzzles it's the game for you. But best thing is to check some (more) objective reviews from official print or online magazines and decide it for yourself.
You don't enjoy time travel and murder mysteries?
Time is money
It's a unique experience. I'd recommend it. Playing the first hour or so should be enough to know if it's for you or not.
Eh, it's an alright game. Choices matter and they show that really well until Episode 5, the original plot about the murder mystery is interesting and has a lot of good elements to it, and if you've ever dealt first hand with depression or betrayal, some of the plot elements can be very emotional. However the two protagonists are very badly written, Episode 5 is a trainwreck of bad, everything plot-wise from late Episode 4 to the final second of the game is just awful and a lot of the dialogue is pretty cringe-worthy, not to mention a LOOOOOOOOT of graphical errors.
But if you're looking for a fun little game with alright story, fantastic music, cool time travel puzzles and a unique art style, I'd say Life is Strange is definitely worth a look. (just don't think too hard about the time travel rules)
Aron, Telltale literally built up how much our choices would matter in TWD Season 3 for 4 years straight and to keep true to that promise they killed off every determinate Season 2 character in the first 30 minutes.
Depends on how forgiving you are of its flaws.
Isn't the first episode always free? Just try that and make your own decision
Well personally it's my favourite game. But I get that that's subjective. Either way it's like £4 in the steam sale so definitely worth the price.
Yeah but how are they supposed to make me care for those characters if they're so poorly written? Kate is a bitch who cares about romance over family, Gabe is a whiny little shitcock who stabbed me in the back for shooting Conrad and David is an abusive asshole who has been pushing his family right from the beginning. I wouldn't have saved neither of them.
What do Tripp and Ava have to say about that?
I say it is. I don't understand why so many people don't like the game. Just not their taste I suppose. The story was an emotional roller coaster and one of the endings made me cry like a baby. Although the dialogue is sometimes a bit akwardly written and could use some work, the character development is pretty interesting and there are big shock moments were you just think: What the actual hell is happening right now?! Atleast it was for me like that. So yeah, pretty much one of the best games I've ever played and also one of my favorites. It's better than some of the games of Telltale and I can totally recommend It.
Mysteries sure, but time travel? If done properly, maybe, but LiS was too cheesy and cliche for me.
No. Its not a good game.
When I played it I thought in my opinion it was game of the year for me my only real con with it was the final choice in episode 5 but the first episode is free so I recommend you try that first because it seems not everyone has the same opinion as me.
One of the greatest games I've ever played. Do it.
I agree with all of this. My argument is that you said that Life is Strange and their choices/characters are way worse than Telltale which is really incorrect.
They're determinate characters that have no effect on anything but minor dialogue options. Their deaths don't matter.
Well, none of the choices from the previous episodes affected the endings in LIS, they just disappeared. Even if choices don't mean shit in Telltale, they're still around to affect your feelings and actions, sooner or later.
Also, I just can't stand characters like Max and Chloe. Why couldn't the Max, in Max's dream in Episode 5 who talks shit about herself, be the protagonist of the game? She describes literally every issue Max has done through her whole story.
Yeah but at least the choices actually mattered in the first four episode. It took Telltale like 9 games and an extra 2 episodes to actually make choices matter and they only managed to do that in their worst game. LiS has choices that leave a huge impact on the story, your interactions with characters and how quickly you solve certain issues. Whether Kate lives or dies leaves a huge impact, whether you convince Victoria what's going on or not leaves a huge impact. Shit matters.
speaking some hot truth
Absolutely. People forget that not every game is perfect and even though I've been playing Telltale since around 2012, I've been sorely disappointed in their recent games and perhaps they need to take some inspiration from LIS. Your choices matter, the characters are generally great, and it's a fantastic story. It's also a beautiful game and features a lot of Easter Eggs/Extra Exploring.
I actually think the community is kind of jealous that Life is Strange has gained so much popularity and in a lot of ways is beating some of the more recent Telltale Games's quality... But that's just me. No, it's not a perfect game, but I mean...
It definitely isn't perfect, it has its flaws for sure, but I love it. If you like the sort of teen drama tropes, it's definitely worth a try.
Either the first episode is free, or there is a demo of it, atleast on the PlayStation Store, so go check that out and see for yourself.
Or maybe some of us just think the game isn't good.
In my opinion, the garbage ending absolutely ruins the game. Other than that the game is fairly entertaining.Try episode 1 first and see if you can enjoy it.
Seeing how it is on a sale, definitely yes. Don't expect much from the ending itself though and you'll be fine.
Asking a rival company whether a rival's game is worth it is not a smart move, especially if it is the die hard fans of TT. However as a 'fan' of TT and LIS, I think I can give a balanced opinion on the game.
We can start with the story, unless you are in the teenage years or been through some of the themes which the game covers, it may not be that immersive as a game for a fact that the game follows a specific route. Examples it covers is rape, drug abuse, murder, harassment. The story itself is very dark under the bright display of the graphics, however it is definitely not a boring one and atleast one you can remotely relate to unlike any of the TT games where the scenarios are unrealistic. If I had to rate the story on a scale of 1 to 10, I'd place it as a 6-7, there's definitely areas of improvement but in comparison to the recent years of choice games, there's a reason this one is known.
As for choices, unlike TT which pushes a bullshit agenda on choices mattering, the way you speak, whether you react and HOW you react makes an impact on LIS, it isn't an impact whicg will make the story do a 90 degree turn, however it is an impact, and yes your choices from episodes ago, will still matter later on in the story. This is the major difference with LIS and eg. TWD, in LIS, the choices you make have an immediate impact however in TWD, it may be impacted but only prolonged until TT decide to have their way anyway (eg. Ben from season 1). I'd have to give this game a 6/10 in terms of choice because I felt like the choices were more of a side affect with the delivery of the story being more important.
And lastly, characters. The protagonist, Max, is definitely the usual kind of nerd that once in her life gets live dangerously. She isn't in no way unique, but more of an average joe that you can shape to be in any way you want. The characters that are part of the story start to get more unique as you end up with the usual mean girl, the nice one, the bullied one, the childhood friend, the guy that likes you but is your friend one, they're all the generic character types that you would see in some average american show about a teenager. Yet what makes the characters so great? They're all essentially under your control, whatever happens to them is because of YOU and YOUR choices. For the character I will give the game 5/10 because generally, the characters are generic however they serve their purpose well enough to not have to be immediately put on blast.
As I said, it was bad to ask for an opinion here because well, its a rival company nor is it fair to compare a game with a company who had years of experience with creating these games and continuously making the same mistakes over and over again. And yes I am being much harsher on TT for the fact they've done this for YEARS.
Dontnod and Telltale are not rivals. Dontnod is not in the same business in making episodic point-n click adventure games like Telltale are. Hell, their next project, Vampyr isn't a point n click game, but an action rpg. I don't know why alot of people keep saying that their is some rivalry between them when its evident that is not the case.
No, just watch a walkthrough.
It was alright at first. I just don't like how they revolved the tornado around Chloe's prevented death.
not really it has a teen girl have a superpower but if you like deep story like me it may just be okay
Good point
In all honesty, it is a good game, it's like a Telltale Game but choices have a bit more impact, some scenes have allot of variety based on previous and current decisions, plus it has lots of hubs, puzzles and the episodes are 2-3 hours long. The only things I personally don't like are how some sequences are drawn out, the ending of the story and the bad lip-syncing.
I have never once forgotten that. The idea of something being perfect is simply subjective, it is objectively impossible for something to be perfect as their is not an agreed upon definition of perfection.
That is until the very end when none of your choices matter.
Except for Chloe, every one seemed pretty one dimensional and bland, even the antagonists often lacked character and sensible motivations (the only exception really being Victoria, but even then, she was pretty generic for the first few episodes).
Which takes until Episode 3 to really get going and takes a backseat to high school drama in the first two episodes, which are both well over 150 minutes long. I understand you need to establish characters, the world, and certain plot elements slowly, but Jesus does this game take forever to really get going, it doesn't help with the pacing at all.