The first "new" game that I've played since mid 2022 (being Skyrim SE), as in something that I haven't played before in my Steam library, instead of re-playing something I've already done. Life Is Strange is basically an interactive movie, where the story comes first and gameplay is second; however, it's nice to play such casual games from time to time. Sadly though, only the first episode is available for free, with the other 4 episodes needing to be bought, which I highly recommend y'all to do so through the season bundle during a sale. Unfortunately, I also can't really review this game in-depth like others because that would spoil the story, which would defeat the purpose of playing.

All I can write is that this game has an excellent story with enough puzzles, obstacles, and choices that will make you remember this for years to come. Much like the TellTale games, what you do may impact the story later on, although unlike those you almost don't have to deal with any QTEs. There is the time rewind mechanic, the main "gimmick" of Life Is Strange, where you can go back and change the outcomes of specific events and even your own decisions. Although some of the cooler feats are only achievable during cutscenes or specific parts of the story, it's still cool to be able to redo things to see how events would've played out had you done things another way.

You'll meet many different unique characters with well fleshed-out backgrounds, and explore iconic locations throughout the small town of Arcadia Bay over the course of an in-game week. Let's just say that when the plot allows for it, you can travel to different realities and even further back then what was assumed to be impossible. Life Is Strange is actually quite easy, save for a few parts due to memorization and/or areas being too freaking dark, so casual gamers rejoice because you don't need to git gud. At least for Windows and maybe Linux, it's better off to just have a Nvidia GPU as PhysX is not only embedded, it's also absolutely required for this game to work or it'll simply crash.

pretty good

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