By far the worst app I’ve ever bought – Life is Strange: Before Storm Review

I downloaded this app just a couple days ago and bought all episodes because I am desperately in love with the LiS series, but this app alone is starting to ruin it for me! I downloaded the app on my brand-spankin’-new iPhone XS, excited to play, only to find the main menu covered in glitchy pixelations all over certain objects, which unfortunately continued throughout gameplay. I only made it to the scene with David in Ep. 1 when the glitches became so out of control that I decided to start over on my iPad Pro instead (also, WHY can’t you sync progress across devices??). The app was running perfectly fine on the iPad, except for the issues with David’s jaw unhinging and eyes rolling around, to my horror, that other reviewers have described...I could live with it though. After a few hours of gameplay, I finished the first episode and started to download episode 2. Then it crashed. I reopened it only to find the app permanently frozen gray Illuminati startup screen, no matter how many times I restarted the app, restarted my device, even offloading the app and reinstalling. You would think to just delete the app, reinstall, and start where you left off, but this app does NOT save any progress made through GameCenter or the cloud or whatever. I went to extreme lengths to fix this app, like you don’t even know.... I attempted to edit the game files on my computer and put them back on my iPad and even I did a factory reset and restore, but nothing. I had to play the entire game over again to pick up where I left off, and then made it to episode 2 without problems. I turned my iPad off for about 20 minutes, I came back to play and got a message— my save file was corrupted and it asked if I wanted to restore it, which I obviously answered yes to. It then proceeded to tell me that it could not be restored and it deleted all my save data because it was corrupt. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? I am NOT going to play this thing again for the 4th time just to have it ruined again. This app needs serious fixes, and it’s a shame that such a good game would be released to iOS users in such a bad way.
Review by Alise_Claire on Life is Strange: Before Storm.