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To be honest I really hate watching cut scenes in any other games and I tend to skip them but that’s the thing I don’t see this as a traditional game but rather an interactive story and it wouldn’t make sense to skip pages in a book same can be said with this. Life is strange is very story oriented and despite it not being a typical game that I would even consider playing, for some reason I decided to play this albeit with downloading the demo first. The demo gave me a taste of what the game was about, it was really amazing to play something so different and nicely contrasted the games I usually play. The gameplay was nice and the rewind mechanic was also an interesting part of the game but what really is the star of the show is the story and how well it is told eg how the game is presented the art and music all come together in such a way you forget you are even playing a game, which isn’t a bad thing as previously mentioned I don’t see this as a game and it feel more like a movie at times which honestly could be a good or bad thing depending on what you are looking for. I can’t really say to many negatives with the game as I know the negatives in the game are limitations the game developers had and I’m assuming with more resources and time they would have changed these things


Positives in no particular order
1soundtrack (really scene setting and creates the environment and atmosphere perfectly)
2Characters (I feel like the characters are given enough time to develop but some are neglected)
3 Art style (really nice look they chose to go with the game)
4atmophere (I really enjoyed the feel to the game and camera shots when you interact and sit down in the game)
5story (really well done)
6 voice acting (all the characters voices are on point and really brings the characters to life)
7 pacing (not much to say here)
8 interactions (so much content in this game)
9 repayable (provide so much gameplay time)
10 freedom of choice (quite nice amount of choice provided to the player

Neutral

1mystery
2unanswered questions
3 not everyone’s type of game
4 Emotional roller coaster
5 a few triggers for some people content wise (family issues, drug use, lesbian themes)


Negatives
I’m getting pretty nit-picky at this point but I’m just mentioning things that I Afeel could make the game perfect
GRAPHICS: (there are certain points where it just looks low quality despite playing on max graphics I know this problem isn’t intentional but rather just a limitation placed on the game devs)
Ai (in some occasions the AI doesn’t react to your character when they should they just ignore you as if you aren’t there)
Decisions (not directly being able to see your decisions outcome without taking part in a second play through)
Music (having a bit more music in just normal game play not cut scenes would make it far more atmospheric don’t get me wrong the music in the game is all amazing that’s why i feel sad that i can only really listen to it when I sit down in the game or the lucky few cut scenes its a shame having such an amazing soundtrack but so few occasions to hear the music in game)
Lip-sync (horrible my god)
Vicoria Chase
leaflets ( for the most part really useless)

the worst part i have with the game and the main reason most people thumbs it down

THE ♥♥♥ VOID ( after the finishing the game you feel so ♥♥♥♥ like reallly ♥♥♥♥ like a pet died or something it feels as if you lost somthing special you arnt able to live or see how things play out it honestly the main negative but I think having this feeling is perfect and but horrible it means the game was impacting and this feeling is proof of it in total amazing game


I R8 8/8 m8
no but seriously i rate like 10/10 games amazing

ps (the demo really doenst do the game justice you really need to just play chapter one playing the demo would be like smelling chocolate it kind of gives you an idea but it isnt the same as tasting it please consider playing this amazing game)