Sean and Lyla

[Hitomi]

Anyone else here who was dissapointed that there wasn't an option to be more with Lyla than just best friends, and that we didn't get to see her more?

I personally held off on romancing through the whole game, because my heart was really set on Lyla, and I just kept hoping to see her back at one point towards the end or at least keep contact online or something in case that wasn't possible. I understand that might not have been an easy thing to do considering Sean and Daniel were on the run and wanted, but I still kept hoping for a possibility towards the end.

I understand that they were best friends, but I really wish the option for more was there. I loved their chemistry together and unlike what a lot of people believe a lot of beautiful relationships do come from years long friendship. I felt so many emotions when Lyla would tell how she was doing and dealing with everything, and how after a year she would still have a profile picture with Sean because she missed him so much.

I personally really didn't want to romance Cassidy (probably because my heart was so set on Lyla) and I thought the character acted really desperate towards Sean at times even though I chose all options to not give her any ideas. I didn't even go in the water with her yet she still expected me to go in her tent (which I didn't). I really did all the options to not give her any ideas, but then the ending to the game I got (might want to stop reading here if you don't want to be spoiled to one possible outcome of the game) showed Sean at a beach together with Cassidy. I was a bit annoyed for sure. Of course I get it. They are both running and living out there, of course it can be just as friends, but it just left me feeling like my choices towards Cassidy didn't really matter at all in the long end.
Lol okay, I just read online that if you don't romance Cassidy Sean is supposed to appear in the picture alone. I can assure you I did everything to not give her any ideas, I even refused a tattoo from her. So why was she in my picture? If anyone knows the answer to this or if a different choice can also lead to this, please let me know! I'm curious now.

Anyway, anyone else here who was really hoping for more between Sean and Lyla?

[Bealla Donna]

Not every guy and girl friendship has to be turned into a romantic relationship.
She could've been gay. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Hitomi]

Originally posted by Kaliliyah:

Not every guy and girl friendship has to be turned into a romantic relationship.
She could've been gay. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I never said that, lol. I am a strong believer in guy and girl friendships. My own best friend is a guy, so yeah.
I just really liked the chemistry between them and would have liked to see it be an option.
Doesn't mean I think every friendship should be turned into one, that doesn't make sense.
And if you are refering to my "unlike what a lot of people believe a lot of beautiful relationships do come from years long friendship", I simply added this because a lot of people believe in being stuck in the friendship zone, which isn't always the case, just like a romantic relationship isn't always the case either. Both is fine.

[Fainse not on edible]

agreed with hitomi

[julian.varanel]

I will say one thing about "relationships" in video games. Not just LiS, BtS or LiS 2, but in general. It was nice that Cassidy and Finn were given as options. I'd be great if Lyla had also been an option for the people who really liked her. But, and I may be in the minority on this...I'm tired of having these options being included..but they never really matter to much of anything. If time is going to be put into including relationship options...have them matter. I mean REALLY matter. Weave them more fully in to the story. All too often, in these games and others..Dragon Age, Mass Effect e.g. ..they mostly become only an afterthought. A few tacked on scenes that don't directly impact the narrative at all. Relationships, for better or worse, are vital components of many people's lives. Either make them an important element to the story or leave them out and spend the time augmenting the story in other ways. At the very least they should be more than an afterthought.

[darkdisciple1313]

Originally posted by julian.varanel:

I will say one thing about "relationships" in video games. Not just LiS, BtS or LiS 2, but in general. It was nice that Cassidy and Finn were given as options. I'd be great if Lyla had also been an option for the people who really liked her. But, and I may be in the minority on this...I'm tired of having these options being included..but they never really matter to much of anything. If time is going to be put into including relationship options...have them matter. I mean REALLY matter. Weave them more fully in to the story. All too often, in these games and others..Dragon Age, Mass Effect e.g. ..they mostly become only an afterthought. A few tacked on scenes that don't directly impact the narrative at all. Relationships, for better or worse, are vital components of many people's lives. Either make them an important element to the story or leave them out and spend the time augmenting the story in other ways. At the very least they should be more than an afterthought.

This is correct in many ways, and it is true about a lot of aspects of games that seem "tacked on" (I use quotes because I prefer the phrase "duct-taped to the ceiling and nail-gunned to the floor" due to the heavy-handedness of the romance options in the games listed, as well as others).

I get that there are more people of varying backgrounds who play games now, and that developers try and please as many of them as they can. Unfortunately, in the attempt to appeal to everybody, they end up making the equivalent of a garbage pizza with anchovies, pineapple and jerk chicken combined on a crust stuffed with limburger cheese.

I'm all for romance options so long as they make sense and actually turn out to be a benefit to the game as a whole. But this current trend of throwing them in just to appeal to a certain demo (and I'm talking about non-indie games as well, not necessarily ones like Life Is Strange) is getting a little bit much.

I expect the next version of Tetris will have a romance option. One hopes that remains purely sarcastic.

[Bealla Donna]

Originally posted by Get Tunneled:

Absolutely not. I hated her the moment I first saw her.

For me, she's one of the lucky few characters I didn't dislike. Simply because she had limited screen time.
I feel meh about her. She's not terrible but she's not amazing either.

[alyava]

Yes, i agree with you! i don't really know why but i don't like Cassidy and Finn (?) so much as Lyla so i hoped Sean and Lyla will be together... i understand that they are the best friends, but i think the true love come from the true friendship (sorry for my english i'm too lazy to use translator )

[TargetLost]

You sum it up perfectly. Lyla was the girl for Sean. I wasn't really interested in the game compared to LiS1 it was just a flat boring and most time stupid story with no interesting characters and character interactions. (imo) So the one most interesting thing which keept me at least hopeing for something in the game was the Lyla and Sean relation. It's so clear to me that Lyla was interested to become more than BFF and Sean was simple blind to the one girl that could make a different world for him. Wondered if they would work on that in the story but nope they dropped her completly. Missed oportunity.

[El Diablo 2000]

I think somewhere deep down inside Lyla might have a strong feeling towards Sean. Even romantic. But we'll never get to know that. I do believe that in Redemption ending when Lyla is awaiting for Sean to come out of prison after 15 years, there is possibility that he would end up with her in relationship. It isn't shown, but I think that she had only 2 short calls with him after his disappearance. And then he was closed in prison for 15 years. They probably didn't have any contact. However Lyla remembered about Sean for all these years!!! We see them after a long time skip being 32/33. We don't know what Lyla's life turned out to be. Whether she found a boyfriend or not. If not, then I hope that she could invite Sean to live with her and help him to begin his life from scratch after 15 years in jail. Help to recover, find a job and to find happiness again. Then they would feel something more for each other and eventually become a couple. This is my dream ending. And I do believe this is what might happen after the last scene where Sean is partying ways with Daniel after a night camping in the forest.
I saw the interpretation that after they part ways in "Redemption" Sean sets out on solo trip around the world just like Brody had beeen doing that, which could be a really logical and big reference to Brody, as he was one of the friends who helped the most boys.