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I’m curious, is it possible to put Life is Strange on VHS? I know there’s some VHS games, but they’re very limited. But would it at all be possible to put Life is Strange on VHS? XD

Yesterday I drained and filled my 2007 Toyota Corolla’s trans fluid. This evening I noticed it was leaking out of the drain plug because the drain plug bolt itself had loosened? I know I put that sucker on tight yesterday. Unless I’m crazy, but how could it have loosened itself? Does it need to be tightened like ridiculously tight? I’m gonna check again tomorrow after I drive around to see if it loosened itself again. If so what could be causing that?

I can’t attach videos unfortunately, but I took one. I just got in my car and just as I turned it on, on the radio a song was just finishing up and Bros by Wolf Alice played. I was just so caught off guard. I can’t explain the feeling that went over me to suddenly hear that Before the Storm song play. Was such a nice surprise in the moment. LIS follows you everywhere

So I was chatting with someone in my last post about my Reunion review on the LIS subreddit here and they were talking about the Safi overlook paradox and how that she says in the game “I bet it she wasn’t even the one behind the trigger”. She being Max. and that it suggests that Safi was the one who shot herself. Which I took as, “so Safi in DE shapeshifted into Max and had Max take the picture and then Safi shot herself framing Max for her suicide? Why would Max agree to that? Or did she shapeshift into Max and then set the camera up on a tripod and took the photo herself? But then why when you photojump into it as Max in DE is she in her own body holding a gun? Then suggesting she was the one who shot Safi?” But then they replied saying that’s not what they meant and explained a completely different angle to me that I hadn’t thought of. They said that possibly when Safi shoots herself in Reunion in the overlook that she quite literally was the one on the trigger in DE. So this comment was suggesting it was a crazy time fuckery. Where even during the events of DE, RE had already happened in the future bc in the timeline that Safi died it’s because a future version of her had gone into the overlook in RE and pulled the trigger shooting herself which simultaneously made the gun’s trigger pull in the past while Max was holding it killing her past self too. While if she doesn’t, she continues on and is a living paradox? But maybe not also? Bc it was the Safi from the alive timeline in DE that was even able to make it to RE to make the choice, so from her perspective she never really died, just knew a different version of her did. So if she continues to not die, that’s not necessarily a paradox since she never was dead. Though,.. some version of alive Safi had to be the one to pull the trigger for a dead Safi to exist as well…. So it’s a weird version of a paradox where she herself isn’t a paradox, but her choice of not dying like her alternate timeline self or I guess at that point becoming her alternate timeline self *which is a whole nother can of worms* creates a paradox for events that happened in a completely different reality… can you have a paradox that itself isn’t contained to a singular reality? If a paradox occurs because you make an action that contradicts something in a completely separate reality, is it still a paradox for your reality?

I don't even know where to start with this... Never did I think I would see them again together. I found LIS when I was 11 years old on youtube. I remember waiting for my youtuber to post the next chapter all throughout the year. At the end of every chapter realizing I had to wait for an unknown amount of time for the next one. Then the last one. And then.. finally over a decade later at almost 23 years old. The Reunion. I just remember watching that reveal trailer at the beginning of this year with the biggest grin over my face sitting in a coffee shop almost crying when that first shot of Chloe appeared standing in front of her truck. I felt good this time pre-ordering Reunion. I had a feeling it was going to be done right this time after what happened with DE. Gosh I even remember making multiple posts here of asking the whole community if we wanted to boycott "DE 2". How I was like "even if they bring Chloe in, I don't know if it'll be enough"

And then you see her

And it all seemed ok.

I'm sitting here writing this as I'm listening to the vinyl soundtrack from the collector's box. I want to go over all of my goods and bads of Reunion. Because yes, ofc there's still some things that could be better. But thankfully the good way outweighs. So when I started the game I knew I had to choose at the beginning the most important choice. If Chloe died or lived. I had already sat a long time with this before the game came out. I felt it was only right to continue with what my ending was the first time I played Life is Strange. I actually chose Bay the first time. Something I've regretted ever since. I always choose Bae now ofc. But that first playthrough, she died. So for Reunion I felt it was right in my heart to continue my first choice. And I have to say, I think it only made it even more touching for a first playthrough. That she had really come back. Ofc I chose romanced Chloe and friends with both Amanda and Vin. Those were obvious choices for me. And I continued my DE playthrough choice as well and chose didn't stand with Safi. I was very surprised that as soon as the game starts you play as Chloe. So ofc as soon as she busts open that door in the Greenroom and you read that subtitle I had a huge smile on my face. But I kinda knew it was going to be her before she even opened the door as the environment just screamed Chloe. It was just.. so surreal to see her. To see those subtitles say "Chloe" above them as the speaker. And that's how it was the whole game for me. Like even multiple hours in sometimes I would just realize "It's really her, Max and Chloe are here, and I'm playing as them". Some of my favorite moments from the game are ofc the lake canoe scene, the mabon basement sitting on the steps scene, the hellerton scene of Max waking up and preparing the house for Chloe and then the conversation they have. Which ofc with my choice of Chloe dying, that conversation is really heart pulling with Chloe coming to terms that she's been dead for over a decade, asking about the funeral, asking herself if her memories of what happened after the storm or the week they spent in LIS 1 are even real, that they didn't happen to her, it was a different her that lived those... You spend this game with her, and there's another mystery. I wasn't sure about it about halfway in, but once you go to that mabon party and find the body in the basement it peaked my interest and I was like "Ok, no I like this". Which btw, I think the Mabon party is one of the best moments in the whole series. Not just the body you find, but tripping Max is just so funny. Literally laughing my ass off. I legit thought something was wrong with my game at first Batman Arkham Asylum scarecrow glitch style. Like when I saw that spotlight from nowhere over Safi in the crowd and then you get those blue streaks over your screen. But I then very quickly realized "Oh,.. nope Max is tripping balls ToT" and when you finally get out from the basement after Max started talking to the skeleton and she "shushes" it and then Chloe back to Max XD. You bump into Safi and she very quickly but silently notices Max is tripping balls as well and the whole time she's talking to Max she's looking over at Chloe like "You see this bitch? She's fuckkked up XD ToT". I've played the game I think 4 times at this point and I still laugh my ass off at that part every time. Definitely a highlight of the whole series for me. Hannah VA'ing a tripping Max is just so good. Especially with the Lisa easter egg, mirror max and just everything being weird in the room when you sit down. As you get towards the end of the game realizing I'm gonna need to make a choice of who I think did it... I really couldn't believe it. But I got everything right my first try. Just stressing out of my mind locking in my choices and then a couple minutes later getting steam achievement after achievement realizing I got everything right for once ToT. I even saved Safi. The scene of talking Safi out of... well. you know. Just so threw me back to talking Kate down from the roof. Every dialogue choice I was just pausing talking every one out to myself. And I did the same here. So scared to choose one. But I somehow saved her too. And then guessed Vinn right as well. I'm still not sure if it really matters what dialogue you choose with him once you're there at the Freemont House with him, if you're actually talking him out of it or if you choose to suspect him as Max that that is what stops it fully. Either way, chose right as Max and Chloe. I had a feeling that if you had to backtalk Ren that he is the one who does it, and then when you have to choose someone as Max and it gives 4 choices with Vin being one of them I really thought it through and was like "I know these other 3 are good, so it doesn't make any sense, but I guess that's why it has to be the correct one" and chose Vin. I just was in so much shock that I got everything right. Because I'm notorious for choose the wrong option in an end of game decision, which started with LIS ToT. I mean I played Resident Evil Requiem when it came out a couple months ago and chose destroy Elpis my first playthrough and suffered for that XD. So I was really shocked in my first Reunion playthrough that I got everything right. I remember finishing the game and it was the middle of the night, and I walked outside to the backyard, laid back on the raised bricks and poured the rest of my beer over my face in pure bliss XD. A decision I quickly learned to regret as I proceeded to cough up carbonated liquid from my nose XD. A very weird sensation. But I just remember thinking to myself, "I did it. I saved everyone..." At least... I had believed I saved everyone and chose everything right. Which I almost did. I decided to let Max choose with the photo at the end. Thus continuing my unfortunate cycle of choosing wrong endings first time. I really believed that she wouldn't do it. I talked it through with myself. "She had to go through loosing Chloe or the town if I chose that choice at the beginning of Reunion. She knows the consequences. And she now just finally got Chloe back. She wouldn't go back. *I trust her*. But apparently she does. I remember watching that ending photo montage with one of them being Chloe laying by herself on a bed and it confused me. It wasn't until I went on reddit and twitter that night that I found out it's because Max leaves. Then I realized Jenette died my playthrough. And I was like *WHO?* XD then remembered she was one of Max's students and thought to myself "There's no way Max left Chloe and went back just because of Jenette in my playthrough" but, nope apparently she did. I'm not even sure if you even do save everybody that if you give Max the photo she decides to stay and never go back. Maybe she does now after the newest patch? Either way I went back a couple minutes later and chose the other ending realizing how much better it was and hating myself realizing I chose the wrong ending the first time AGAIN. And I watched the new ending photo montage and legit did as Max said in LIS 1 in her notebook "I gasped and put my hand over my mouth all stupid like" because in the burn the photo ending you get that photo montage of Max and Chloe going back to Arcadia Bay. Man those photos dug deep. But it was that last one. Them kissing on the lighthouse bench,. That one broke me. As soon as it came on screen I legit choked on my own tears. In half a second, waterworks. I hope others had the same reaction as me. Just that whole photo montage I was like "Oh my god they went back.. and they went to the diner! And- oh my god they're kissing on the lighthouse bench ToT ToT" As I covered my mouth in shock XD. Oh yeah and there was also that montage of the first Life is Strange events at the credits. You know that thing when you're so welled up with emotion you can't even cry even when you're trying to, like you're stuck and can't sneeze? Yeah that was me when watching that final montage of the LIS 1 events listening to A Fitting End by Lanterns on the Lake. Just sat in complete silence and stared. Couldn't even cry. I think D9 did great with this game for once. So many good moments and serving the Pricefielders. The boat scene, basement scene, the hellerton house scene and ofc the Reunion scene. In Bay the fact they play Spanish Sahara when Max first sees her ToT. Even after 4 playthroughs I still grin ear to ear so much it hurts in that scene, especially in the Bay one with Spanish Sahara playing. I personally feel that this game actually works better if you chose that Chloe died. The vibe is more touching and there's some really good dialogue choices. Which flows good into another point I wanted to make about this game that I really think they did a good job with which is that they made the characters like Moses say and gave us dialogue choices of things that we all have been thinking about for years. They let the characters speak what we the player have been thinking. Like how you can ask Max as Chloe in Bay "what was the funeral like" or all of the things Moses lays out about questioning Max's powers like "what happens to the other person when Max rewinds?" "Does Max teleport basically?" Like the whole game I was like "Dude that's what I've been saying!". Now in terms of the music which is VERY important to me in games, especially in a LIS game. I am very pleased. It was so amazing that they brought back people like Daughter and Lanterns on the Lake for some scores. And the other ones like the title screen and especially Journal/Pause Screen theme was great. There are multiple nights I was playing this my first playthrough that I drifted off in a drunken slumber with my headphones still on with the pause music playing XD. It's just so mystical sounding. I think they did great with the music. I think Hannah and Rhianna did great. Which I think it's worth mentioning that Rhianna has actually technically now voiced Chloe officially more than Ashly at this point. They did good with the writing this time around, the moments, a proper journal this time and Max and Chloe ofc.

Now for things I would improve. I want to start off saying I do think that overall I think Reunion is great. But I do think it was a little short. I think there could have been more Chloe sections, and especially more back talk moments. I think they should have spent more of the game building up to the reunion, it felt a little fast. I think in the "Chloe died" option of story there should have been some different VA and motion capture for Max throughout the game. Especially in the hellerton house section. Given that for this Max Chloe has literally been resurrected from the dead and she hasn't seen her since that week. So she should be a little more distraught. Maybe have mocaped Max to be more physically stumbling, maybe fidgeting with her hands while she was talking to Chloe, maybe even having more of the scene of them talking with her sitting on the couch because she's in so much shock she can stand and has to sit down to talk to her. Just things like that. Just that Max literally hasn't seen her since that week in Arcadia and that she's been brought back from the dead. I'm still trying to make sense of how the memories from Chloe's perspective work. Since in Bay she states that she does know that she made Max choose to sacrifice her but also says she remembers being on the road with her? So from her perspective what happened after Max made the choice? Did she see Max vanish from in front of her as she photo hopped into the butterfly photo like how it's shown in the comics? If so then how does she have memories of being with Max on the road if Max wasn't in that reality anymore? So then if she vanished, did that reality still continue and bay got destroyed and Chloe along with it in the tornado? Or when Max jumped did reality get rewritten and that Chloe ceased to exist? So then in Reunion if you chose the Chloe that died, was Chloe in Bae timeline just had her consciousness taken over by Bay Chloe after the timeline merge in DE? Or did she just gain Bay Chloe's memories and actual Bay Chloe is still dead? Or did Bay Chloe literally manifest and then given Bae Chloe memories but her death was kinda blocked out so she didn't know she died and from her perspective was always alive? That last one is the most confusing since from a consciousness standpoint how could you be dead one second and then alive with memories from the past decade and not think you were dead the whole time? XD. It's not a gripe about the game at all, it's just something that i've been trying to get my head around for the past month XD. Curious what y'alls ideas are in the comments. I also was really hoping that there was going to be a big twist and the story was going to take a big turn like how the story did in Resident Evil Requiem. Like if the Abraxis mystery was solved and then something else gets thrown into the story or even we were lead to believe that the whole game was going to be about the Abraxis mystery and then halfway through the story is thrown off the rails. What I was hoping for was that we were going to go back to Arcadia. Either in the present or maybe even jump back through the butterfly photo again. Or you remember how we all were theorizing that Rachel was behind the fire and was going to make a return. Man... Well from a performance perspective, this game lags a lot for me at certain times in cutscenes. It seems at the end of a cutscene when it's about to go to a load screen. IDK if that's for anyone else. But other than that there weren't many graphical or performance issues for me. Except that even a month later there's always this graphical glitch when you load into the scene where Chloe goes to the turtle to accuse someone for the fire. When that scene loads and she's walking in through the door and it cuts to the wide shot there's this big mesh that stretches over the screen XD. Other than that, not really much else. Like I said, not many gripes.

Now it took me a month but I finally 100% the game 2 days ago. About a week ago I came down with this Fever and a Cold for two weeks, so I had to pause. Only got to play one day while I was sick as it was so bad, but playing LIS while sick is definitely a vibe XD. It took me 4 playthroughs. My second playthrough I really focused most on choosing the opposite of as many things as I did my first one. Different dialogue, chose Bae Chloe this time ofc and chose that I supported Safi. Kept friends with both Vinn and Amanda and romanced Chloe ofc still though. Idk who tf is playing with romanced Vinn and or Amanda or didn't romance Chloe XD. Whomever plays Reunion friendzoning Chloe with Amanda or ESPECIALLY VINN deserves to go straight into that observatory fire XD. But anyways.... it took me another two playthroughs to finally figure out how to fucking save Jenette XD. After all of this time it was literally right next to me on the steps up to the observatory at the end of the game. All you have to do it look at the bulletin board on the steps when you're going to the observatory on fire. Now it really upsets me how close I was to actually saving everyone my first playthrough. I missed the easiest one. IDK how I missed that my first playthrough. Guess I was just so locked in on saving Chloe. Because I explore my game environments really well thanks to growing up play LIS and Lego games XD. My first playthrough I got like 22 of the 29 achievements or something like that with getting all of Max's photos, Chloe's sketches *of which I really wish it was graffiti like in BTS instead of sketches, but I know she's older now and is better XD. She's too high and mighty to graffiti now. Remember being disappointed when you find her first sketch in the back of the turtle with the Lucas cow skull in the dumpster* of which just to say the line she says when she interacts with that is hilarious and so are most of the things she says in this game. I was very happy to see they did a good job of bringing back her BTS humor. I was laughing my ass off the whole game when I wasn't crying. Very tug and pull game this game is with the emotions ToT. But alas, it took me 4 playthroughs to get all the achievements. I just got the last two which were getting all evidence in one playthrough and listen to all podcasts in my final playthrough just a few days ago. And that last playthrough was very special as our lord and savior FrankDP1 released their LIS 1 skins for Max and Chloe for Reunion. And oh my god. I cannot believe I just get to download those for free. It was already surreal finally seeing Chloe back, but having a playthrough of her looking like her LIS 1 self... and Max. I felt like I was 11 again. It was one of the most special feelings in the world. And what was so cool is that they included multiple variants for shirts and such in the mod pack, so sometimes in the middle of the game I'd just exit to desktop and change their shirts XD. Like I was just able to choose what they looked like. Was so cool. So just a couple days ago my final playthrough I sat down at about 5pm and played through the whole game one last time in one sitting til about 4 in the morning getting to play as LIS 1 Chloe and Max. Just an incredibly special experience. That evening I had one of the hardest moments. When I finally had almost finished my last playthrough, I was at the turtle scene where you say goodbye to everyone. It just came out of nowhere, but I just broke down, waterworks for minutes. Had to pause the game and step away to catch my breath. I think it was because subconsciously I realized, this was it. This was the end. My last playthrough. That this was the end of Max and Chloe. Realizing I'm probably never going to see them again. And it hurt. This game was really special. They did so good with this one. Especially with what they had to work off of with DE. Apparently the original DE 2 was going to be very different and was already in production before it was changed to Reunion. So with how quickly Reunion came out after DE and the mess of a trail of breadcrumbs it left behind for the story and how they changed it mid production, D9 for once did great like they did years back with BTS. I knew they had it in them. I saw the pricetag for Reunion and thought, maybe this will be good, it's priced like an indie game, so hopefully it's written like one. And it was.

I guess I'll just quickly throw in my review of the collector's box in here as well. I was going to get it originally when it was available on the SquareEnix website, but I missed it and it's restock. So I had to get it off of a scalper on Ebay for 400 fucking dollars ToT. But I knew I wasn't going to miss this, I needed the Reunion collector's box. And I'm glad I didn't. Even if my wallet still hurts. Obviously my main want for getting it is the vinyl soundtrack, but the other goodies were cool too. I loved the Drugstore Makeup poster and guitar picks. I have a guitar pick holder on my keychain so they went straight in there, even though I only play fingerstyle with my guitar XD. The polaroid cards were cool too, but it would have been cool if they were actual polaroids. I guess that might be complicated and too expensive, but would have been cool opposed to the cardstock. And the vinyl felt pad with the rewind symbol is awesome. And for the vinyl, I think it's good overall. I do wish it was a 180g like the DE one was. But I know DE had more funding than Reunion unfortunately. And that the DE one was blue like Chloe's hair *like they were insulting us XD* while the Reunion one is orange for some reason. Maybe because of the fire or boat scene sunset. But I think the Reunion one should have been Blue. As for the tracks on it, I would personally change some. I think the Embers in the Sky should be the instrumental version instead of the vocal. I think the vocal is good for that scene at the end of the game when you all get away from the fire and watch it from a distance. But other than that the instrumental version is much better. Especially since that's the one you hear much more as it's played every time you open the game. I wish Past Life was the version you heard in game. They have a different version on the vinyl for some reason. I was even really looking forward to hearing it on the vinyl when I heard it in game too. It's the one that plays when you're in the hellerton house and you sit on the corner of the bed next to sleeping Chloe. I went on the apple music official digital soundtrack and on there there's Past Life and Past Life (Midnight Version). The one that's played in the game is the "midnight" version. So IDK why they didn't put that version on the vinyl. The one that's on there is still fine, I just like the one they play in game better and was expecting that one. I was listening to the vinyl and was like "YES! This song, been wanting to hear it" and then was like "wait why does it sound different..". I think Let it Happen Let it Go and Blood Moon are random additions on it as I don't really remember them in game. But Blood Moon is still cool. Having Spanish Sahara and Piano Fire on there is awesome though. Especially since Piano Fire is on like a $200 album. Apparently it's on a popular and or rare album? So it's nice to have it on vinyl. I mean,... ofc I'm still going to get it's original album one day to add to my LIS album collection XD. I personally would have added two songs instead of Let it Happen Let it Go and Blood Moon. I would add the journal/pause music since the journal/pause music for DE was on the DE vinyl soundtrack. I mean it was also the title screen music for DE and the journal/pause music for DE was the title screen music but just no vocals. But still, would have been cool to have it on the Reunion one since the pause/journal music is so entrancing in this one. I also would have added what I have deemed "Oomm Puah" *I really hope someone gets that before I explain what it is XD* In the turtle in Reunion there is a song that plays re-occurringly that is really good that I don't know what the name of it is and can't find any "snapping turtle music played in Reunion" like I was able to for DE. And it doesn't come up on Shazam either. Because there was also a song that played in the turtle in DE that caught my attention the same way. It was Choice by Far Caspian. What's funny is that both of these songs have a section in them that sounds a little like Max and Chloe's theme from LIS 1. Which I was very sad that it didn't play at all in Reunion. Or really any LIS 1 music except from the Reunion scene where either Spanish Sahara or Piano Fire plays. I guess that just makes the LIS 1 music more special and locked to it.. maybe they wanted to keep Reunion music all original or they couldn't afford licensing fees? IDK. Whatever it was, the song in Reunion that caught my ear that I can't find anywhere played in the turtle as well multiple times and I always jump up in my chair when I hear it play in game now and vibe out. It almost feels like it's scripted to play at certain moments I've noticed after a few playthroughs. It's got strong Chloe vibes and is kinda what I imagine her band's music to sound like. Which I'm also disappointed that we never heard any of her band's music in the game. I would have expected after she mentioned to Amanda that she was in a band and Amanda asked Chloe to send her some of their stuff, you would have heard one of their songs play overhead the next time you came into the turtle as Chloe, Especially since you see the Drugstore Makeup podcast poster up too. It's when you go to the turtle as Chloe to accuse someone for the fire. I would think one would play and Chloe would have an internal dialogue moment when it started like "hey that's one of mine!" but I can see how that would be hard to code given you don't know what the player is doing at that moment unless it was made to be during a cutscene. Anyways. long ramble short, I wish it was on the vinyl. And speaking of long rambles, I really should save you all from having to read anymore. I think I've been writing this for over 2 hours... yep, yeah over two hours. I've listened to the Reunion and DE vinyl soundtracks all the way through while typing this XD. I want to thank whoever put themselves through reading all of this. I've been thinking about making this post and what to write in it ever since I began my first playthrough of Reunion last month. Jeez,... it's already been a month since Reunion released. I should probably give my eyes and fingers a rest. Thank you for reading through. I look forward to replying to you all in the comments. I'm curious what y'alls feelings of what you liked and think could be improved in Reunion are. Much love to you all. Pricefield forever