[DE] Thoughts [Spoilers]
I had played the first life is strange a lot and was so excited to have another Max Caulfield game. I’ll give a quick rundown on an opinion I have. The character building and the world around her is what I wish they stuck to anyway for 2/true colours. It is really cool to demonstrate other people in the world have powers, however they do that anyway in this game. I wished they’d expanded on Max life more before hand because I feel like this game series has so much untouched lore as to what’s going on in this world. I’m talking about how did these powers actually manifest? Is there a main threat/ entity and is it the storm? I’d imagine the storm is sentient tbh especially since it seems to be a recurring villain/ not an intentional one as the true villain is consequence I guess.
I’ll bullet point these points to make sure the post is not too long
. Really enjoyed the soundtrack because they obviously but a lot of attention into atmosphere adds to the character too when you feel the character listens to these songs, like with the ear phones in the first game.
. Pressing the rewind button at the start and the dialogue saying she hasn’t been able to do that for a while I really liked. Something simple and a “hmm nice”moment but it’s cool they did that for context also like a callback.
.I loved how background characters had their own storylines. I feel like this game is trying to get you to slow down and listen a lot and not rush through it. Gives you hints for that by fun story nuggets.
. They are building the lore regarding powers and are giving more characters powers too. I like this I wanted to see Max interact with other powered people before.
.grey cat yellow eyes, my favourite.
What I didn’t like
.Feel like the romances weren’t balanced. Vinh has more involvement in the story however has another person they can end up with and you get more negative consequences picking him than Amanda. Amanda doesn’t show up as much but is distant to the story so much that she’s in my opinion the better choice maybe they give her more involvement in the next one (haven’t played it). She’s not got a past with your friend or a crush on your student. She’s more chill too one choice is more fun but Amanda is the one that seems less sketchy to me.
.Doesnt feel like the ending had a satisfying conclusion. Ending is very much just for leading of to Reunion. They had a potentially interesting villain with the detective and they killed him off. I do appreciate it’s not nice to have not every villain be a serial killer too but Lucas seems so small fry compared to Jefferson. It doesn’t feel like they really lost anything. Again maybe it’s because this is the first part to a larger Caledon story.
. Story is a bit confusing, they should have let you play as Safi for a section to explain how her powers actually work. Maybe a flashback or something. She is Mystique then suddenly she’s Jean Grey. The photo bit makes Safi sinister but she’s not actually like that when she goes gun mode she’s more angry than evil.