amazing prequel
could play before or after the first game
never cried so much in my life
please play it

As opposed to the first LiS which largely focused on Max's powers and the mystery surrounding Rachel's disappearance, this game seems to shift its focus more towards teenage drama and bonding between Chloe and Rachel. If that is your cup of tea, great, but I quickly got irritated with it through episode 1, and it didn't help matters how unlikable Rachel was - her actions towards the end of episode 1 even made her look a little psycho. Cannot recommend this game to anyone who mainly loved the first LiS for its mystery and playing around with Max's powers since that is absent in this game. I was hoping for a strong, intriguing plot and interesting character interactions to make up for the expected lack of any time powers but didn't find those here.

Played original few times, and finally bought remaster. This game will always have a special place in my heart.
It always hurts me to see how Rachel's and Chloe's life can be easily torn apart in a matter of seconds.

ouch

I shouldn't feel depressed after beating a video game because i'll never get to see the characters again but for some reason with the LiS games I do, that's how you know it's good.

The first Life is Strange is a guilty pleasure for me. It's not perfect but I enjoyed it for what it was. BtS is a mixed bag. It has a few good moments but is otherwise a prequel that doesn't fully justify its existence to me because it's a story that only ever covers the relationship between Chloe and Rachel, your enjoyment of it hangs on that dynamic. I didn't find it all that engaging.

This game attempts to answer things that could've easily been left unanswered. I think so much of the appeal of Rachel's character in the original game was that she was this mysterious entity that we never really got to know, and whose intentions were ambiguous.

Life is Strange described Rachel as a social chameleon who could fit into any social group, but we never see that in BtS. We only ever see Rachel Amber through Chloe's perspective, which conflicts with my perception of her from the stories we hear of her in the first game.

Chloe is obviously in love with her and we already knew this. I would've loved to see Rachel interact with other characters from the first game. The game never goes into how she met Nathan Prescott, or her relationship with Jefferson. Rachel never comes off as charming or particularly charismatic to me, but I'm supposed to believe this girl was the school's idol somehow. I actually like how normal she appears at first, but it doesn't really match how she's described by everyone in either this or the first game. She's a naive, dumb and occasionally selfish teenager.

At one point she wants to leave Arcadia Bay with barely any money and no car and even Chloe seems taken aback at how odd the suggestion is. She came off as a somewhat aloof teenager, not a master manipulator or social butterfly. It's possible she wore other personalities to charm people other than Chloe, but that's never shown in this game.

I'm still uncertain if Rachel even acknowledged that Chloe loved her romantically. By the end, it does appear that way, but the events of the next game sort of imply that she got tired of her and moved on to Frank and possibly Jefferson. Either way, this ambiguity and three year gap between BtS and LiS means that we never know the real Rachel Amber. I find that fascinating in a way, but I also think her being a total mystery worked fine in the first game. BtS never explores her motivations and relationships with characters like Frank, Nathan and Jefferson and that seems like an odd thing to avoid touching when all three of those characters clearly had a massive impact on her.

The bonus episode Farewell is the best part of this game. It's a short segment detailing the events after Chloe's dad leaves the house to pickup her mum. Max wants to tell Chloe that she's moving in three days time and by the end of the episode we finally get to see the immediate aftermath of the car accident. It's a tragic and emotionally devastating part of the game.

Personally, I felt a bit underwhelmed by BtS. It's not all bad, but the whirlwind romance between these girls doesn't lead to any riveting insights about Chloe or Rachel. The stuff you do learn about (outside of Rachel's troubled family life) are things you could've inferred on your own after the events of the first game.

it's literally a perfect game the atmosphere is great between Chloe and Rachel i totally love it. I love how they both notice each other and the way to start a romance is heardwarming in my opinion. even the thing's around them fitting really good in to the story. There aren't many Games i've played in my live in which I felt for the characters or even shed a tear.

This Game it's totally worth it.

all LIS is good 10/10

A perfect prequel to the original Life is Strange. Builds upon an already amazing and complex main character. It also ends with a perfect lead in to the original game and makes you appreciate both games even more.

I broke the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wheel