Topic: User Impressions/Reviews Thread

@Yousef- Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed reading it. It's a hard game to talk about without any spoilers considering how much of the game is anchored around one major event early on in the game, so I'm happy to hear you felt like I didn't give anything away.

@Tjuz Excellent review! I enjoyed reading your thoughts, even though it sounds like I enjoyed the game more than you did. I do agree with a lot of your criticisms though. In fact, I like how you’ve explained some of the issues because it has helped me understand why I did feel that Alex as a little emptier and less relatable than many of the other LiS characters. I finished True Colors a month ago so it’s fresh in my mind.

As for the issues with pacing and holding Alex’s backstory hostage until the late game, I think maybe the writers were hoping that the climax would hit harder when it’s revealed that Alex’s dad was one of the miners who died. I do agree with you that they could have carefully done the tragic backstory at the beginning and saved the piece about the father going to be a miner and it still could have had the same (if not better) emotional impact. That’s a fair observation and didn’t occur to me until you mentioned it.

I also felt the romance was a little forced, but it ended up okay for me. I did go with Steph as she seemed the more interesting character than Ryan, but seeing how the narrative goes with Jed I would have liked to see how being Ryan’s romantic interest changed how the climatic reveal plays out. As it was, I was able to keep in Ryan’s good graces and he defended my version of Alex at that reveal moment, but there’s an interesting narrative opportunity to be had if Alex and been dating the son of her dad’s killer.

As for the music, I thought it was pretty good, on par with the series. But it’s a genre of music that I don’t usually listen to and so I’m probably not a good judge of the indie music scene.

Overall, I was closer to a 7/10 for the game, or even 8/10. I think Before the Storm is probably my favorite, although they are all fairly close and parts of each entry resonate uniquely with me. Like you, I’m looking forward to Double Exposure and getting back into Max’s storyline.

@Th3solution I can't agree. I saw the 5/10 score from @Tjuz and didn't even read it then.

Seriously though, we can't all agree. True Colors is right up there with the original for me, with Life is Strange 2 being easily the weakest imo. I did enjoy Before the Storm more than most as well, which is at least partially because I actually like the Chloe character.

I guess one thing that helped is I had no issues with the romance portion of the game, but I also went with Steph. Oddly enough she was probably my favorite character in the game, so it seemed like a logical choice to me.