Why did Max got the ability to rewind? Spoiler

[One Winged Angel]

Obviously there are spoilers in this thread.

I wonder for what reason Max was granted the power rewind...
If you consider the ending where Chloe survives I would say for sure that the sense of her power was to save Chloe...

But if you look at the other ending where Max doesnt intervene Nathan killing Chloe... In this case her power was useless ... except that Max knows that Chloes death was for the greater good. Does that mean that the only reason she was blessed to rewind is just to know this? And that she can accept Chloes death?
I still believe that this ghost-deer was Rachel's spirit who gave Max the power. So that she understands how Rachel was killed and also knows the sacrifice of Chloe...

I get a very strange feeling thinking about this. I'd love to hear your thought about this.

[bryrk]

There were a lot of theories about htis during the game's production, the main one being that Rachel gave her the powers to find her body and get Jefferson taken down.

[bb]

looking at the leaked images for the new life is strange game your theory might not be that far off. The first game didn't even try to answer this question, it only gave us clues that Rachel probably has something to do with Max's abilities.

While playing I thought Rachel also had the ability to rewind like Max but abused her power and got trapped between timelines. The doe was Rachel trying to reach out to Max to avoid the mistakes she made, I was then positive that she was alive till episode 4 came:<

[One Winged Angel]

Originally posted by Taco B:

While playing I thought Rachel also had the ability to rewind like Max but abused her power and got trapped between timelines. The doe was Rachel trying to reach out to Max to avoid the mistakes she made, I was then positive that she was alive till episode 4 came:<

Thats very interesting ... Makes me want to play it again to focus on that.

[Day Walker]

Maybe we will get to know that in season 2

[man_without_eyes]

because Max sleeps in class

[Jeckenn]

Originally posted by man_without_eyes:

because Max sleeps in class

Yeah and I don't know about you but when I sleep I dream and dreams are pretty much ALWAYS weird for one reason or another.

[talemore]

If life is a dream, I must be dreaming. An animal can be fooled to believe them are capable the do things them physically aren't able to make. If Max have powers, then who's been watching Max above her shoulder. Max have powers because she been given the powers by the creators and it's all a cruel experiment to see what she will be doing with her newly gained abilities.

Arcadia Bay is a sandbox, the game ends when she leaves the town. You can make the simple concept of ( Time = Space) and the world is possible to be reversed if everything of the world is a giant complex machine with infinite amount of peices working together. The reason why it's possible is because she's a virtual character in a videogame. The game doesn't label itself like cyberpunk but the game in whole approves the idea of "re;wind;ing" time by using memories and there's too many similarities in how both Max and Nilin limbs their ways forward by the beginning of the game.

[J']

Arcadia Bay is the reality and Chloe Price is the dream. When you choose Arcadia Bay, Max return to reality which mean she wake up and continue her normal life. And if you choose Chloe Price, Max keep dreaming and continue her strange life. Which in other words Arcdia is the light and Chloe is the shadow. That remind me this: zerochan. net/1121226
Garry is Arcadia Bay and Mary is Chloe Price. So Chloe is just a lie. Well Albert Einstein said:"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.". You can choose your illusion, the dream or the reality doesn't matter. If anything is real for you let it be.

[My Name Is Mud]

the doe is not affected by the rewind power

Just thought I'd drop that in here

[Clord]

Idea that Max Caulfield experienced dream world due shock would actually explain a lot.

Anyway, it's probably that Rachel died and she somehow gave her power to Max.

[dnru]

She gets her power because life is weird like that.

[Battlekruse]

Max Caulfield got the rewind ability in order save Chloe Price.

For some odd reason Chloe Price is cursed and doomed. So In order to spare her, Max Caulfield is gifted with a rewind ability .

The price is heavy toll late in the game when you have to sacrifice whole Arcadia Bay in order to save Chloe Price.

[Banecroft]

Why do people assume she was given these powers?

[talemore]

Originally posted by Banecroft:

Why do people assume she was given these powers?

Max say her powers may not last forever. Max guesses she was given the powers from the gods. Or do you suggest that her powers will one day reach the menopause because what we seen is nose-menstruation and next season is going to be the 2nd period, what we been experiencing is Max Caulfields PMS.
Having these powers comes with a price, you live shorter because you are consuming lifetime when using rewind to live a life in the past. The old lady just happened to use the same quote Max used by the end of the game.
Another doll who was expired and thrown in the trash, you see how the game believes in fate and there were only gods who had the power to seal the fate of man in the ancient times. There's more than one example of how "Fate" is destinied to happen and it's not all about chloe even if it seems like the next game will be chloe-worshipping. LIS on other hand have a couple of characters in the game who are fated.
Max Caulfield is not allowed to be friend with Victoria because them are meant to be enemies. Maybe it's Caine who drives Max to her destination or a neverending story where we are not meant to derail from the goldenpath who leads to the wizard.

[Brewski]

You should mark the subject with spoiler tags, since you give away the ending right away in your post.

As for why Max gained her powers in the Sacrifice Chloe ending, I've always enjoyed the fan theory that the butterfly represents Chloe's spirit travelling back in time from the coffin to the bathroom to grant Max her powers. In this theory, Max isn't given her powers so that she can change anything permanently, but instead she gains them so that Chloe and Max are given the opportunity to reconcile.

So instead of dying without ever knowing Max was there, or that she came back, or what really happened to Rachel, Chloe and Max get a week to live out an adventure together before returning everything to the original timeline.

So although nothing is changed permanently, both Chloe and Max are given that bubble of time to finally reconcile, and they get the memories togehter. (In this theory, Max may also realize the truth at the very end, which is why we see an almost smile while she looks at the butterfly.)