In some instances, choices in dialogue alter and affect the story through short or long-term consequences. Once an event is reset, the details provided earlier are permitted to avail themselves in the future.
Dialogue exchanges can be rewound while branching options are used for conversation. The player can explore various locations in the fictional setting of Arcadia Bay and communicate with non-playable characters. Items that are collected before time travelling are kept in the inventory after the fact. The player can examine and interact with objects, which enables puzzle solving in the form of fetch quests and making changes to the environment. The player takes control of Max Caulfield, whose time rewinding ability allows the player to redo almost any action that has been taken. Life Is Strange is a graphic adventure played from a third-person view. Players are able to rewind an event within a certain window of time. An additional installment to the series, Life Is Strange: True Colors, was released in September 2021. A prequel, Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, was released in August 2017, and a sequel, Life Is Strange 2, in September 2018. It was purchased by 3 million unique players as of May 2017. Criticisms included the slang that was used, poor lip-syncing, and tonal inconsistencies in the story. Life Is Strange received generally favorable reviews commending the character development, rewind game mechanic, emotional depth and tackling of taboo subjects. Story and character arc serve as the central point in the game. Player feedback influenced the adjustments made to the episodes. The developers conducted field research on the setting by traveling to the Pacific Northwest, and subverted known archetypes to make the characters. It was formed with an episodic format in mind, for reasons both financial and creative. Fetch quests and making environmental changes represent the forms of puzzle solving in addition to using branching choices for conversation.ĭevelopment of the game began in April 2013. The player's actions adjust the narrative as it unfolds, and reshape it once allowed to travel back in time. The plot focuses on Max Caulfield, an 18-year-old photography student who discovers that she has the ability to rewind time at any moment, leading her every choice to enact the butterfly effect. A remastered version of the game was released as part of the Life Is Strange Remastered Collection in February 2022. It was ported to OS X and Linux in 2016 and iOS and Android in 2017–2018. The first installment of the Life Is Strange series, the game was released in five episodes periodically throughout 2015 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. Life Is Strange is an episodic graphic adventure video game developed by Dontnod Entertainment and published by Square Enix's European branch.
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