This was Disappointing

[The Night Wolf]

There are a few good things about this game but there are so many things that just disappoint me.
This series could and should be so much better with just a bit more work put in. No Spoilers. Over all I just sad, I want them to be good. There not bad in the way most sequels are bad where they make you angry with what they did to something you love.
I love this series but the more games that come out the more disappointed I get.

1. We don't really get a story. Things happen but they don't feel connected enough to make one though line story.
2. The first 2 episodes are the best by far. Which explains why they released these 2 early to get good review.
3. There isn't a real villain. There is a bad guy but not a villain. Something this series seems to struggle with. At this point I would say Mark Jefferson is the only villain in this series so far. The rest are bad guys.
4. The Cat DLC is maybe 6 min of extra content, and you don't even get to keep it at the end.
5. Offit packs don't match together. Your hair could be blonde or purple but then you outside outfit doesn’t match. This just feel lazy.
6. This story doesn’t need Max. I am happy that Max’s story continued, and the skeleton of the story could have worked. But if you bring back a loved character like this you make sure she has a profaned effect on the story.
7. No Chloe. I was curious how they were going to handle this. Turn out they went for the laziest way. Just a few flashbacks scene a couple of texts, hell even a nightmare would have been apprehended. But no interaction between the 2.
8. Choices Don’t matter. I still remember some of the choice in the first game and wondering how it will come back to bit me. After playing this one tho, there were no hard decision and no choices that I was thinking "ok in my ultimate play thought I must do that again". Honestly, I can’t really remember any big choice and or conscience.
9. None of the other game in the series matter. Would it be so hard to have a poster in the Turtle of Alex and Steph’s band if the went traveling. A news report of the attack on the border wall if Sean and Daniel didn’t surrender.
10. We learnt nothing about any other survivor from Arcadia Bay. We know Max and Chloe survived. David and Victorian. And that’s it. David survived so maybe a few police officer survived because they raided the bunker together. Also, Jefferson was at the bunker to so he’s alive in both endings, how does Max feel about him being alive and know else. What about Kate if she doesn’t kill herself the last time we saw her she was in the hospital. Her parent could have picked her up or the hospital might be on the outside of Arcadia Bay so there is a way for her to be alive, but we still don’t know.
11. It only took me 15 Hours to complete. I played through the entire series before this game came out as a re-fresher. Life is Strange Remastered 24.3 Hours, Before the Strome 19.2 hours, Life is Strange 2 22.3 hours, Ture Clolors 19 hours. It is the sortest game in a series of sort game
12. No major differences in ending. Small changes Probably to make it easier to make a sequels but still. One thing this series is missing is a bad ending. People would play thought these games make the meanest, stupid, evil choices just to see how bad the could make there connected world. Only life is Strange 2 has a Bad Ending where Daniel is a Super Villain in the making and Sean is dead. But all the games could and should have one.
13. There are plot hole and forgotten storylines. Alderman, Abraxas, Yasmin involvement, Maya just comes out of nowhere, Max’s Job, the storm, the Cat…
14. We did get enough time with any characters to really care. There should have been a lot more time spent with… Safi, Moses, Amanda and Vinh. I know nothing really about these characters. But we are meant to be all such great friends. I felt like these 4 characters had real potential, but not enough time spent.

In a game like the story and choices have to mean something. You don’t have game play in these sorts of game. So, interacting with people doing puzzles working on the mystery should be good but it wasn’t. There was a really cool twist and a few really well written parts, but it feels like there are huge part missing and small bits stretched out. Like I said the foundation was a good start but what was built on it was disappoint. Not “o god this suck and it a pain to play” just disappoint. This series could be so much better and since they up their cost then the story telling and time to completion should be getting better.
Overall, when I think of this fancies there is more I dislike then like at this point. I really want to love this series.

So, in order
Life is Strange Remastered 8/10 .
Life Is Strange: True Colors 6/10
Life is Strange: Double Exposure 4.5/10
Life Is Strange: Before the Storm 4/10
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit 3/10
Life Is Strange 2 2/10

[alex010300]

Chloe can actually come back if you are friends with her in future games.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by alex010300:

Chloe can actually come back if you are friends with her in future games.

With the sales and player numbers this game has i very much doubt any "future" games will be made.
This has worse numbers then True Colors which already was considered a disappointment by Square Enix.
And this game took way more time and budget to make.

[alex010300]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by alex010300:

Chloe can actually come back if you are friends with her in future games.

With the sales and player numbers this game has i very much doubt any "future" games will be made.
This has worse numbers then True Colors which already was considered a disappointment by Square Enix.
And this game took way more time and budget to make.

Then they will just make True Colors 2.

[spice_]

Before the storm was still pretty good tho.

[Iggy Wolf]

As usual, perhaps Square Enix shouldn't have been so confident in there being a sequel to this game. But even more so, that they thought a sequel with Max AGAIN needed to be made. Look, I get it, she's popular, and time travel always has some ways to make it different, but unless you let the player actually control any of the other characters, then giving OTHER characters powers is pointless unless it leads to a better story.

If they cared so much about creating a "universe", then they should have found a way to incorporate Alex from True Colors into the game. Not just randomly hand out powers to whoever apparently experienced a "traumatic event". You'd have to give then almost EVERYONE by the end of this game powers, since almost ALL of them almost got their brains fried by Safi.

[alex010300]

Alex is going to show up in future games looking at the lore of this game. No idea what powers Diamond has yet.

[john doe]

i have absolutely zero interests in playing this game a second time.

[☣ Real men have vaginas ☣]

You summarised it pretty well.

[Boody]

Yeah, I'm glad I didn't wasted money on that

[daevera]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by alex010300:

Chloe can actually come back if you are friends with her in future games.

With the sales and player numbers this game has i very much doubt any "future" games will be made.
This has worse numbers then True Colors which already was considered a disappointment by Square Enix.
And this game took way more time and budget to make.

What do you mean this game has worse numbers than True Colors? The player peak was higher in this game than True Colors.

[Barny600]

Originally posted by cache:

What do you mean this game has worse numbers than True Colors? The player peak was higher in this game than True Colors.

It has just 500 players more than True Colors at its peak according by SteamDB numbers, but I assume Square was expecting a little bit more than being barely higher than TC, considering the marketing hyped up the return of Max Caulfield, the iconic protagonist of the original game.
People already pointed out that the game sales fell off a cliff in less than a week on the Steam world charts, on top of being the lowest rated LiS game by both critics and audiences. We don't have clear console numbers, but it might not do too high there as well if the Steam relase is an example to look at.

[Topy]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by alex010300:

Chloe can actually come back if you are friends with her in future games.

With the sales and player numbers this game has i very much doubt any "future" games will be made.
This has worse numbers then True Colors which already was considered a disappointment by Square Enix.
And this game took way more time and budget to make.

Square Enix is ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Final Fantasy 16 is their flagship game and it failed miserably. They already cancelled like 3 big western IPs namely Tomb Raider, Hitman and Deus Ex. Dont think Life is Strange has a future (under SE and D9). Hell even Dontnod is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ if their next game won't sell. This is Telltale 2.0

[john doe]

Originally posted by Topy:

Originally posted by Ogami:

With the sales and player numbers this game has i very much doubt any "future" games will be made.
This has worse numbers then True Colors which already was considered a disappointment by Square Enix.
And this game took way more time and budget to make.

Square Enix is ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Final Fantasy 16 is their flagship game and it failed miserably. They already cancelled like 3 big western IPs namely Tomb Raider, Hitman and Deus Ex. Dont think Life is Strange has a future (under SE and D9). Hell even Dontnod is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ if their next game won't sell. This is Telltale 2.0

dont insult telltale.

[Topy]

Originally posted by john doe:

Originally posted by Topy:

Square Enix is ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Final Fantasy 16 is their flagship game and it failed miserably. They already cancelled like 3 big western IPs namely Tomb Raider, Hitman and Deus Ex. Dont think Life is Strange has a future (under SE and D9). Hell even Dontnod is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ if their next game won't sell. This is Telltale 2.0

dont insult telltale.

telltale imploded years ago. im speaking from the financial perspective not the artistic one. as far as i know it was taken over by the comic book publisher but really its a shell of its former self

[Drendari]

Agree