This Game is INCREDIBLE – Life Is Strange Review

Alright, so I’m very hard to please when it comes to most RPG’s, and I was skeptical going into this game. But I decided to give it a shot since the first episode is free and if I wasn’t into it I could always delete it. And then super quickly, the design, gameplay, story, and characters got me hooked. I finished episode one and was like “screw it let’s go all in” and I bought the Season Pass. That was all yesterday. I just finished the game after about 4+ hours straight of gameplay. And I hardly EVER get so invested into anything that I spend so much consecutive time on it. As a whole, the story is incredible. The twists really kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. The characters are pretty dang well designed and written. Max is, right off the bat, a likable protagonist and I loved her character throughout the story. I also loved Kate and Warren. Chloe took some time to grow on me but I did get attached to her as well. And there’s just so much detail and effort put into this game and it’s incredible. Now I’ll admit, the end of episode 4 and pretty much all of episode 5 had me reeling and I’m still not sure how I feel about it all... It was creatively executed and kept me on my toes, but it was just so all over the place a couple times and gave me a bit of anxiety lol. But I lived. Unfortunately, [SPOILERS] Chloe didn’t. Which brings me to the ending. I’ve only played the ending where Chloe dies so far, but I swear that was a freaking emotional experience. So kudos to the developers. You made a game that really gets people emotionally invested and that’s no easy feat. Now if I could nitpick just a bit, there are few things that could possibly be tweaked. One general thing is that there are some glitches throughout the game like the sky flickering or controls bugging out or whatever. But I think the main gripe I have with the game is the amount of profanity. I mean, I understand the use of profanity, even used frequently or heavily or whatever. But I feel like it’s a bit overkill here. It was almost as if swearing was inserted randomly to make characters sound cooler or more hip or whatevs, but tbh it was a bit out of place sometimes and sometimes a bit much even for my accustomed ears. Perhaps the AMOUNT of profanity could be toned down, or there could be an option to mute profanity in the settings (y’know, just in case I wanna play around my family without headphones). But again, just nitpicking. Not a dealbreaker. All in all, likely the best mobile game I’ve ever played!
Review by trabo2601 on Life Is Strange.