(Originally published May 9, 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Okay let\u2019s rewind time (no pun intended) all the way back to 2015 when Dontnod Entertainment released \u201cChrysalis\u201d the first episode of its new episodic game series \u201cLife is Strange<\/em>\u201d this is after the last game Dontnod released, \u201cRemember Me<\/em>\u201d had bombed. This was at the time most likely the last game that was going to be released so Raoul Barbet and Michel Koch pitched a 5 part episodic game titled \u201cLife Is Strange<\/em>\u201c. However, the head of Dontnod insisted that they use a time element as previously seen in \u201cRemember Me<\/em>\u201d they said yes and they and the team started work on the first episode which was released at the end of February. Impressively this was less than a year after the announcement of the game. I remember doing a spoilercast for each episode of Tales From The Borderlands<\/em> from Telltale Games, and my former writing colleague Adnan would bring up the issue that we eventually got more information last year about Telltale games about it\u2019s issue with releasing games on time. By the time we finished the Tales From The Borderlands<\/em> spoilercast all five episodes of Life Is Strange were released. So for you reading this that\u2019s Dontnod releasing a five part episodic game in eight-nine months while Telltale released a five part episodic game in nearly a year. In the Slack chat that we talked in Adnan and another writer Chris would also sing the praises of Dontnod and So in Life Is Strange you are placed in the shoes of Maxine Caulfield a student at Blackwell Academy which so happens to be a very prestigious school and I discovered that one of the game director\u2019s went to art school and wanted the player to be an art student which fits perfectly as the game starts out with a dream about Max in a very intense storm and once you wake up you end up taking a selfie which sets everything in motion. You are *supposedly* a hipster who doesn\u2019t care about what other people think and after witnessing a tragedy in the bathroom you go back to class. I don\u2019t think I presented that well, you rewind time and reverse time all the way back to the beginning of the game and Max is the only one with the knowledge of what happened in the bathroom. You end up setting up the event in motion when it comes to cause and effect and actually prevent the tragedy from occurring. It is once you leave the bathroom where you get your first choice. In a Telltale game you would make a choice thinking things would change but in reality everything is predetermined without your knowledge. This happens in EVERY GAME Telltale did post The Walking Dead. It was either adapt or die and they chose to die. But back to Life Is Strange, unlike Telltale\u2019s games your choices actually have consequences. I won\u2019t mention the first big one that shows up in Episode 2. But it is a matter of life or death. The end of the game is similar but on a grand scale. To quote Mr. Spock from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan \u201cLogic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few<\/strong>.\u201d All that aside this moment, the ending of Chrysalis to be specific had me hooked since:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Life Is Strange<\/em>. So once the game went on sale I bought it on Steam and PlayStation 4 to try and support the developers of the game and I did the same with the prequel to Life Is Strange<\/em> titled Life Is Strange: Before the Storm<\/em>. So fast forward three and a half years and I am creating content for the Los Harrow Games YouTube channel, (would you kindly subscribe<\/a>?) and the only ongoing things I have are Star Trek: Evolution and Telltale\u2019s The Walking Dead<\/em>, so I figure,\u201dI have nothing to lose and I have been hearing great things about Life Is Strange<\/em> so I decided to record each episode for the channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n