Life is Strange: much better than its popularity.
- Zach Carlson
- Apr 5, 2017
- 2 min read
The ability to turn back time and save the life of your best friend or a save the town that you hate, Max make the choice. In life is strange you play high school freshman Max Cawfeild a photography student at black well academy. Not all is small town happiness radiates in this high school. Drugs riddle the school, students are going missing, and the preps still think they are the best. Max, who has been given the ability to rewind time, seeks to be the one to fix it. In true fashion of Chaos theory, meddling in time, has some major consequences. This game was published by Square Enix a very popular Japanese Game development company responsible for the Final Fantasy series and Kingdom Hearts, Hit-man, and many other games.
Being an active part of the gaming community my personal notice of the popularity of this game was only done by word of mouth there was really no huge marketing campaign for this game, like Final Fantasy, or Kingdom Hearts. That being said every person who has recommended this game to me, which is not a lot of people, had nothing bad to say. In my opinion you know a review is positive when you can tell when a person wants to tell you something, but they are noticeably holding back what they want to say. Besides word of mouth this game didn't see much publicity and i think because of this Square Enix launched the "everyday heroes competition" a competition that was an in game. This completion was a photography contest and the winner got Scholarship money from Square Enix. I think that was just a pronominal thing for this company to do.
A story this complex explores Chaos theory, suicide, time travel, and has deep character development based on your actions in game. This game was released in Five chapters. while you had to pay for each chapter, how the company did it built suspense. With this game it works. It makes you want this game more not being able to play it all the way through. Not knowing whats going to happen for maybe a month or two. then to have your mind blown by what the next chapter has to offer. From a Money making standpoint it worked for this game, for the story telling aspect, it worked. Now i know that most people hate how popular DLC ( Downloadable Content) because it is an obvious grab for more money and an excuse not to release a full game. For this game it works.
I love this game to no end, and i highly recommend this game to anyone who can get their hands on it.
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