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    Life Is Strange | [NO SPOILERS] Still very happy because LiS1 limited edition is rarer than BtS one

    October 12, 2020

    Life Is Strange | [NO SPOILERS] Still very happy because LiS1 limited edition is rarer than BtS one

    [NO SPOILERS] Still very happy because LiS1 limited edition is rarer than BtS one

    Posted: 12 Oct 2020 08:39 AM PDT

    [NO SPOILERS] Chasemarsh Monday: Doing couple things (by commandershepardd)

    Posted: 12 Oct 2020 06:52 AM PDT

    [S1 E5] Finale by Ilya Kuvshinov

    Posted: 11 Oct 2020 04:58 PM PDT

    [NO SPOILERS] Chloe and Rachel are ready for Halloween!

    Posted: 12 Oct 2020 11:42 AM PDT

    [No Spoilers] I tried Square Enix after Many attempts. Sent them THIS Message. I hope the portable LIS games get sorted. I've seen so many terrible reviews on multiple stores.

    Posted: 12 Oct 2020 12:54 PM PDT

    [ALL] was convincing my friend to replay the game, unloaded some random stuff people can miss in just one playthrough

    Posted: 12 Oct 2020 12:21 PM PDT

    [No Spoilers] Life is Strange inspired song covers.

    Posted: 12 Oct 2020 09:54 AM PDT

    So I had heard this song before briefly before playing LiS2, and when I heard it on the game I didn't think much on it. I heard it again though and thought about the game. I couldn't get it out of my head, so I decided to do a cover. I don't usually post my covers, and this is very different than my usual YouTube stuff, but if you wanna check it out, that would be awesome. Here is On Melancholy Hill. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/8b6SOepP548

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    [NO SPOILERS] Hopefully They Can Listen To My Message.

    Posted: 12 Oct 2020 11:35 AM PDT

    I contacted Dontnod Support and sent them a very long message. Went into detail about the issues I've had and others have had too. Hopefully, they upgrade their LIS Android and IOS Ports🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

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    [All] Continuity problems in Before The Storm

    Posted: 11 Oct 2020 07:30 PM PDT

    I love Before the Storm, but I do have some problems with the game in relation to the first game. Here I will explain the problems i had with BTS and why I think Deck Nine did not understand the characters. This is very long, if anyone has the time to read it all, I'd like you to finish to the end!

    PSA. The majority of the post came from the LIS wiki page canon inconsistencies

    1. Continuity issues
    • Rachel's parents. I always got the feeling Rachel's parents were neglectful, which REALLY showed when Chloe said they are in denial that Rachel is missing. Rachel having neglectful parents and Chloe having an abusive stepfather and abuse enabling mother, would show just why Rachel and Chloe wants to leave Arcadia Bay. What happens in BTS? Rachel has kind and loving parents and a bio mom that is a horrible representation of drug addiction(everything about how D9 wrote Sera sends a horrible message, wtf D9?) and all of sudden James just pretends that Rachel isn't missing? The fuck? Also, Rachel's parents are not called James or Rose. Rachel's student information we see in Episode 3 about her parents is not readable, but he Initial letters of the names written within the Parent(s) field on Rachel's file do not appear to match the names James or Rose (or even Sera)

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    • Rachel's address. Rachel's Blackwell Student Information Sheet shows Rachel's home address. Rachel Amber has an address of "6 Sa(?)u/n(?)tle Road, Arcadia Bay, Oregon". There is a piece of paper covering the Home Address field, but we can make out a "gon" from the end of "Oregon", so we know it is within the state. As her address in the top-right corner is different to what appears to be the dormitory address on the other student files, we can assume that "6 Sa(?)u/n(?)tle Road" is implying her home address (just like on Chloe's file). However, in Before the Storm, her home address is 2420 Blackfriars Road, Arcadia Bay, Oregon.
    • My friend/one of my Amberprice favs thelittle-scribbler​'s idea of Rachel's parents makes more sense. "the idea I had of Rachel is that she was a relocated student from Cali from a very problematic absent family who didn't give a fuck about her, coz well they gave up looking for her! And if her dad was the city da, he would have never gave up on the search and also, he would have known about her being involved with drug dealers. Unless he got his ass fired after hiring those guys to kill his ex wife lol"
    • Chloe's blue hair. In Episode 3 of Before the Storm, Chloe is shown dyeing her hair blue for the very first time. However, we know that in Life is Strange, Chloe had been dyeing her hair with a blue streak on or before her 16th birthday (two months before Before the Storm takes place). indicating that Chloe had already been using blue dye in her hair by the time of her 16th birthday. It would have made more sense if we had seen Chloe with a blue streak in Before the Storm Episode 1.

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    • Max's contact of Chloe. "You were happy to wait five years without a call, or even a text." In Before the Storm's Episode 1, "Awake," Chloe's phone clearly shows that Max has been texting her during her time in Seattle and had even initiated text messaging after admitting to being "bad about emailing". Max has texted Chloe on the following dates in November 2009: 2nd, 13th, and 28th. Max was supposed to have not emailed, called or text Chloe ever since she left for Seattle, it should end in 9/28/2008, but it began again a year later.
    • Joyce and David's relationship. In Before the Storm, David and Joyce are currently unmarried and had started dating not that long before the game's events that are set in May 2010 (Chloe is 16 years old at this time). David is also about to move in to the Price household, which is seen happening by Episode 3. But in Life is Strange, a chronological timestreammontage shows that Joyce and David were already married before Chloe's 16th birthday. A picture of a married Joyce and David appears prior to an image of Chloe on her 16th birthday in this timestream montage

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    • The Blackwell problem. Victoria Chase's sole reason for being at Blackwell is Mark Jefferson. Jeffershit is not in BTS. Victoria is introduced as a sophomore at Blackwell Academy in Before the Storm and wants to be in theater for…reasons, but the age for Victoria in the first game suggests she should be a freshman in BTS. Warren is a Blackwell student at age 13. Max is said to be a sophmore with Chloe in her own school in Seattle at the time, but problem there is Max turned 14 in 2009 after the September 1st cutoff date. This means that she wouldn't be starting high school until September the following year (fall 2010). The normal age requirement to start high school as a freshman is age 14 (i.e. turning 14 before the September 1st cutoff). It is currently unknown why Max has advanced two grades in 2010. She has a 2.8 GPA on her 2013 student information sheet, which suggests she is a low B / C / high D student (not an exemplary student). Her GPA is also said to fluctuate and she acknowledged in 2013 that she should be doing better. and there's the fact that Chloe is in Blackwell with some of the characters in the first game and dialogue (or text messages) between these characters seems to suggest that she did not know them as fellow students or even classmates prior to the original game's events. For example, Stella is in Chloe's class photo, problem with that is that Stella doesn't even know who Chloe is, she just refers to her as "some girl" Warren. Warren does not know who Chloe is at the beginning of Episode 2, yet in BTS class photo he is seen with Chloe. Other dialogue gives the impression that Warren does not know Chloe beforehand. For example, the text messages Max receives from Warren in Episode 4 if she kissed Chloe/but declined Warren's invitation to the drive-in or didn't kiss Chloe/ but accepted Warren's invitation. There is no mention of the fact he knows Chloe from when she was going to Blackwell, her complete change of appearance, or that he's surprised that Max knows her too! There are also a couple of points in Life is Strange where, if Warren knew Chloe from the past, he would have likely opened a dialogue with her about that it's good to see her again or even asking how life is outside Blackwell. Not even Chloe seems to recognize Warren, as she refers to him simply as "your friend" to Max. Justin. When Max encounters Justin at the Blackwell Campus in the first episode of Life is Strange, "Chrysalis", she has the option to talk with him about Rachel and "her punk friend", as Max does not yet know the identity of the blue-haired punk girl that she had saved in the bathroom earlier. "I can't remember her name… But she was hot. Tats. Blue hair. Hardcore. She stopped hanging out with us after Rachel disappeared… or ran away." As we see in Life is Strange, Justin refers to Chloe in a very vague way as Rachel's "punk friend" and as though he only knows her second-hand through Rachel. Yet the Before the Storm prequel game puts Justin in the same Blackwell student photograph as Chloe (standing directly in front of her), furthermore implying they are in the same classes. He would have had frequent contact with Chloe as a classmate of just that handful of students. Also in Before the Storm, Chloe interacts with Justin at Blackwell and they seem very familiar with each other. Justin refers to her as both "Chlo-ee" and "Price", so he definitely knows both her first name and surname. They also are texting with each other in Before the Storm. Then again, they ARE friendly with each other in episode 4, Justin not remembering who she is in episode 1 might be the case of him being blazed and just narratively teasing Max of the girl she saved. Nathan. In Life is Strange Episode 1's Cliff chapter, Max will ask Chloe about Nathan. Chloe will tell Max:"I met him in some shithole bar that didn't card me. He was too rich for the place and too wasted. And he kept flashing bills…" in Before The Storm, Chloe knows Nathan from Blackwell. but the way she describes her predicament to Max sounds like she is describing her first impressions from the first time she ever met or had one-to-one dealings with him (i.e. no previous encounters before that).
    • Chloe is left handed in the first game and right handed in BTS. Yes she does use her left in some points, but Chloe's dominant hand in the first game is her left hand. Throughout BTS, Chloe smokes and drinks with her right hand, lights the Amber House candles with her right hand and even writes graffiti with her right hand. In the first game Chloe smokes and drinks with her left hand and lockpicks with her left hand. DONTNOD confirmed she was left handed. I am just baffled by this decision. The only time I remember Chloe using her left hand as her dominant hand in BTS is when she burns evidence for Damon.

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    • Chloe is expelled in 2011 in the first game. Chloe is expelled in 2010 for BTS. Max looks at a report card in Chloe's bedroom which shows that Chloe was still attending Blackwell Academy up until the end of her junior year, which was in May 2011. BTS gives us the choice to defend Rachel and get expelled or suspended if you don't. There is also no mention by the Principal of a recent suspension for "spray-painting graffiti in the parking lot" as was clearly mentioned on her school file in his office in Life is Strange, nor any mention of the "police reports." Although the suspension is temporary and she is to be hopefully reinstated in the fall to start her junior year on condition of her good behavior, the suspension was not over graffiti. Being expelled in 2010 completely contradicts the circumstances of the original game, and the suspension (although being the least non-canon consequence) is over the wrong reasons. Even if Chloe was suspended, it is not unreasonable to believe that she would be expelled anyway over the extensive graffiti she left in the bathroom.

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    • Chloe being good at chemistry. It is never stated in her report card in the first game if she were ever good at chemistry. Chloe comes off as someone who doesn't care about getting grades, hell Chloe seems only interested in the Arts class as shown in her report card. A friend pointed out to me it kind of feels like "BtS took away a lot from Warren, as if it were a "competition" "Warren is good at chemistry" and so the BtS crew thought "Let's make Chloe good at chemistry too!" Another point is also that Warren has green as his personal color, and in Farewell Chloe he wears a green shirt. Chloe in episode 1 uses Warren's phrase "Power". I don't know, I felt like they took things from Warren to give to Chloe, and that really pissed me off."Plus, Chemistry wasn't even one of the classes Chloe took in the first place

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    • Chloe knows about Pompidou's name despite not knowing the pupper's name in the first game. Also "The only way you know my dog's name is if you broke into my RV." Why would he say that if he told Chloe Pompidou's name?
    • Frank was just a drug dealer to Chloe and who she and Rachel hung out with in the past. Now Frank kills someone to protect Chloe. Chloe and Frank are not friends.

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    1. The first LIS game told a different story for Chloe and Rachel's relationship

    Chloe's "Rachel was my angel" comment showed a lot to how Chloe loved Rachel and how much she meant to her. Chloe tells Max that Rachel entered her life when was at her absolute lowest and that it was she who helped her deal with the grief of having lost her father but the entire game is centered around Chloe being the one who is supporting Rachel as she deals with a serious family drama of her own. What Before The Storm should have been. Rachel helping lift Chloe through the worse point of her life. If Rachel had stopped Chloe from committing suicide… as was the commonly believed interpretation to what happened between Chloe and Rachel up until BtS, then Chloe's ""she was my angel" would have meant it was truly special and real. But instead they bump into each other at an illegal concert and Rachel distracted some thug who works for Damon and we spend the game finding out who Sera is in a reveal we all saw it coming and only to have Rachel taken out of the third episode where Rachel never talks to her and makes the whole thing feel pointless. What the game should have been was Chloe and Rachel together having fun rocking out, becoming girlfriends and Chloe starting to live again and show that Chloe Price loves Rachel Amber and Rachel loves Chloe.

    1. Deck Nine did not understand Chloe.

    I don't feel that Deck Nine did Chloe justice. The writers attempt to evoke empathy with Chloe feeling grief which is done via exactly one emotion- which is a very childish understanding of how loss and coping works. She had no character arc, considering she was the exact same character that we already knew in LiS Episode 1 (A bitter disaffected teenage youth with no regard for authority) so we didn't get to see Chloe evolve into the character we loved in the first game. She just already was it. The gameplay undid the narrative we were given about Chloe being a loner in that you can talk to and make friends with pretty much anybody and they all acted like they liked and were genuinely happy to see Chloe. Very rarely were there interactions with Blackwell students that ended with Chloe's presence not being welcomed, only Wells, Victoria and Nathan showed contempt for Chloe(even with Nathan that goes away when he claps for her at the play) The reason this is done is because the game wouldn't be fun if Chloe actually was a loner. The core mechanic of Life is Strange is being able to talk to people and experiment with your surroundings. A game where nobody wanted to talk to Chloe works against the core mechanic. But in making her the main character it undoes the weight of the narrative of Chloe being alone until Rachel/Max. I just strongly feel that Deck Nine did not understand Chloe as a character and did not do her justice. We should've gotten Chloe at her lowest, evolving from Max's best friend to the character we know in the first game and Rachel helping lift Chloe through the worse point of her life. Chloe and Rachel together having fun rocking out and Chloe starting to live again and show that Chloe Price loves Rachel Amber and Rachel loves Chloe. Chloe losing Rachel and showing how Chloe has to deal with Rachel missing, how she became in debt to Frank and how she got involved with Nathan and how Chloe ends up in the bathroom.

    1. There is no plot...until the last minute

    The biggest problem I have with BTS is there is absolutely no plot. In the first game we absolutely KNEW what the plot was. There was a storm, a missing person/serial killer and all of our friends have problems that Max has to help them with. In Before The Storm....there really is nothing. We go to a concert and because we ruined an asshole's shirt, we were threatened and saved because Rachel was there. Then the rest of episode 1 spends on spending time with Rachel. Same with episode 2. They only gave the plot at the last minute cause Deck Nine probably went "oh shit, we just realized we don't have a fucking plot" then we spend the majority of the game trying to get the identity of the woman Rachel's scumbag father was seen kissing. Turns out the girl is Rachel's biological mother! James and Sera's story doesn't make any sense. He still loves her, gives her a final goodbye kiss and then orders some drug dealer to kill her because she was a drug addict?! Damon was hired to kill Sera and protect Rachel, but stabs her instead?! He wants Sera to die because she was a former addict....despite Sera wanting to be clean and Sera doesn't want her to ruin Rachel's life???? What kind of fucking message is that to send to people struggling with addiction??? They dropped the fact that Sera was supposed to have powers and it was passed down to Rachel and that Rachel is the storm. Hell, Rachel was taken out of the final episode 90% of the fucking episode. Damon was a lazy thrown at the last minute villain. The first game shows you what's at stake right away, with Before The Storm there's no clear danger, conflict or mystery. We only get it halfway through the second episode and even then it's a bad mystery and conflict and if it takes that long to add conflict or mystery, then I really think they failed the game. The best parts about the game are Amberprice, episode 2, Steph, Mikey & Drew and Samantha. But that's kind of it. Before The Storm was kind of a disappointment.

    1. Forced to give David a chance

    Deck Nine doesn't understand that Chloe does not have a good relationship with David, or even Joyce. Deck Nine forces us to be nice to David and every time we choose to pick the most Chloe like choice we are punished. The game outright makes us look like jerks for being true to Chloe's character regarding David. Deck Nine screwed up everything when it came to Chloe and David. Before even meeting David in episode 1, Chloe's only complaint is he calls her "girly" that...that's it? The only thing I felt they got right was his comment about "vacation from not having a father figure" and saying he'll show what a stable home is like. The way he said that he can FINALLY show Chloe what a stabilized home looks like…..like she didn't have a stable home when her father was alive. That really got under my skin. But let me explain, Deck Nine did not understand Chloe's relationship with David and did their best to villainize Chloe for not giving him a chance. I do not want to feel bad for David. Stop trying to make us feel bad for this abusive piece of shit and make Chloe out to be the villain for not giving this asshole a chance. He emotionally, mentally and physically abuses her and joyce normalizes it, violates her privacy, installs cameras in the house without her or Joyce's knowledge cause he will not trust her and Rachel, David makes Chloe feel like a prisoner in her own home. David getting a job at Blackwell makes her want to get expelled, whenever he is around she does not feel safe. He makes her so afraid that she feels like she's living with a Nazi. They are not meant to have a good relationship. As for Joyce. The fandom likes to paint Joyce as this great mother to Chloe, and she was when William was alive but she chose her own happiness and interests over the safety and well being of her own daughter. Joyce enabled an abusive stepfather and ignored her daughter being hit and verbally abused (and there is a word for that: culpability. Joyce is guilty of child abuse. If we do not back up Chloe in episode 1 and we tell Joyce David hit Chloe, Joyce just brushes it off like it's not a big deal…and this is who the fandom perceives as a good mother? What Deck Nine should have done is have it open with it stated that Joyce and David are married. Chloe's life is a living hell. David does not understand nor does he care about Chloe's depression and grief for losing William and Max moving away. Show that David physically, mentally and emotionally abuses her. Joyce normalizes it like saying "you keep pushing him, what did you think was gonna happen" you might think that's out of character for Joyce, but she put her own interests over the safety and stability of her own child. Joyce didn't want to be alone anymore, so she settled down with the first guy that came her way. The abuse is normalized in their household and Chloe's definitely internalized it. Keep in David's comment about "vacation from not having a father figure" David violates her trust and feelings and boundaries and bosses her around and calling her a loser who has no friends and burdens her mother. Show why Chloe is terrified of him to the point where she labels him a Nazi and to the point she feels like he will kill her if he finds Max in her room, so make a hint that David starts to put surveillance around the house because of his unwillingness to trust Chloe and Rachel. Chloe and David do not have a good relationship and fuck Deck Nine for making us feel bad and look bad for not giving David a chance. Fuck you.

    1. The choices D9 made with Nathan make no sense.

    I already explained why Nathan being in Blackwell with Chloe doesn't make any sense, but the choices Deck 9 did with Nathan doesn't explain anything about the character he would become in the first LIS. If Nathan had to be in the game, I don't think Samantha should've been in the game. Nathan's social circle is Rachel, Victoria and Hayden. There is no missing persons posters in Arcadia Bay aside from Rachel. Samantha being the first Dark Room victim does not hold up. And that's the problem, we don't get to see Nathan being friendly with Rachel, Victoria or Hayden. We see him being bullied by Drew North. Wouldn't it make much more sense for Nathan and Victoria to be bullying Drew and Mikey and Chloe and Steph defending them and Nathan and Victoria trying to get Chloe expelled for that? Okay if what they were trying to do was a timid Nathan who slowly gets to become the king of Blackwell who was being mentally and emotionally abused by Sean and Jefferson, it did not work. We never see Nathan with his friends. We never see Nathan with Rachel aside from one picture. We do not get to see Nathan and Hayden. Nathan and Victoria are as close as brother and sister, we never get to see that and I think that's where BTS failed Nathan. Hell, if they were to keep Nathan's character as it were in BTS, I think Chloe and Nathan should have been friends. I cannot find the video because the person who made it deleted their YouTube account, but a few years ago when BTS was first out, someone made a video suggesting that Chloe and Nathan could've been friends in Blackwell. The video was SO convincing that I was so on board with the idea and Samantha pointing out how similar they are. If Hell Is Empty wasn't a bad episode, maybe they could've gave Chloe and Nathan a chance to talk. depending on our choices it could go good or bad. If it goes bad, then they remain on bad terms. But if they are on good terms depending on our choices, you are given a choice to choose to become friends with Nathan. They bond over their similar music taste, their mutual love for Rachel and find common ground with everyone expecting the worst out of them and their abusive father/stepfather. And Nathan could thank Chloe for stepping up for him. And they share a smoke together. I think Chloe and Nathan being friends before their lives goes on a downward spiral and hits rockbottom would've been nice and sure as hell would've been better than giving Chloe, Stalky McFuckboy as a "friend" instead

    1. Deck Nine does not understand Rachel Amber

    I don't feel that Deck Nine understands Rachel Amber as a character or understands what made the fanbase love her from the first game. Rachel is a character shrouded in mystery. The vibe I got from Chloe indicates that Rachel Amber saved her at her lowest and made her feel like she could live again. I also got the vibe that Rachel had neglectful parents who cared very little of her and Rachel was tired of the pressures of being little ms perfect and the bullying she suffers at Blackwell. So Chloe and Rachel wanted to be free from Arcadia Bay. Chloe wanted to be free of an abusive step-father and her mother who allows the abuse to go on and Rachel wanted to be free from everything at Arcadia Bay. Started a knew life as a model in LA. It was their Santa Monica Dream. The characterization of Rachel Amber in BTS just feels like D9 does not understand Rachel. Rachel Amber is meant to be a morally grey character. There are hints that she wasn't this perfect angel Chloe thought she was and then backed away from that perspective out of fear fans would be angry at their depiction of Rachel. Rachel Amber who I knew in the first game was just not there. She had no interesting perspective or enlightenment to offer to Chloe or be the positive force to Chloe or even showed why she was this mysterious chameleon who fit in so perfectly with everyone who was adored by everyone. She was just a pretty looking character model with a great voice actress that would sometimes say very wistful, wide-eyed things. She would also quote boring poetry. Rachel in BTS has no aspiration to be a model and instead of Rachel helping Chloe deal with her grief, the game makes it about Chloe helping Rachel with her family drama. We never get to see Rachel meet Joyce(Joyce in LIS makes it seem like her and Rachel got along) we never get to see Rachel defending Chloe from David or Rachel as this ambiguous character. She's portrayed as this character that must be protected at all costs, like she's neither ambiguous nor does she have any agency. It is perfectly okay to show her drift away from Chloe. Yes they were in love and had this great relationship and they loved each other. It's important to see and know the people we romanticize are not who we thought they were. Rachel was looking for a way out of Arcadia Bay. She first thought both her and Chloe can escape to LA together. But over time she did not think that was possible anymore. Chloe dodges her car payments and her family is in debt and Chloe is in debt to Frank. She still wants to leave with Chloe, but Rachel needed an alternative way so she and Chloe can escape. So Rachel turned to Frank, she used him for her drugs because as time goes on, Rachel turns to drugs to numb the pain. She parties with The Vortex Club and as Nathan said "Rachel partied like a fiend on her own." Hell, she was so desperate to leave Arcadia Bay she even asked the trucker to take her to LA. Then, Rachel meets Mark Jefferson. Rachel saw him as her way to LA. She wanted to have her pictures modeled by a professional, which he was, but Rachel never saw him for what he was. A sheep in wolf's clothing, a monster. He saw her as the perfect subject. A human chameleon with many visual possibilities and he felt they had a connection. Manipulating her into believing that he is the father figure that James never was for her. Rachel wrote a letter to Chloe in the shack but discarded it. She feels that he changed her life but the discarded letter shows that she felt ashamed about the whole relationship. Her shame indicates that she was apart of the Dark Room. At first she just saw it as a big photography project outside of school, but then Rachel started to look into Jefferson's past models and figured out something was wrong. In Jefferson's own words "Not like Rachel, who was always looking in the wrong places. Poor Rachel." Jefferson of course finds out because The Dark Room is under 24 hours surveillance. So out of fear of Rachel telling everyone, Jefferson kills Rachel, doses Nathan and poses Nathan's unconscious body with Rachel's lifeless body. The vibe I got from the first game is that Rachel and Chloe have this very important and special bond. But Rachel just wanted to be free of Arcadia Bay by any means necessary. Rachel would go far to get what she wanted. Someone who is willing to lie to the people she cared about to satisfy her own needs and goals. Personally, I see Rachel as being okay with manipulating everybody BUT Chloe, which gives everybody a foothold to try and gaslight Chloe and Max about her, trying to get them to doubt that Rachel genuinely cared about Chloe. Rachel wanted a way out and she thought she had her way out, but in the end she played with fire and got burned.

    1. The last episode

    It was lazily thrown together. The actual GOOD aspects were cut altogether. Rachel does not dye Chloe's hair. Chloe and Rachel do not work on the truck together. Rachel does not stand up for Chloe against David. Rachel and Chloe do not kick Eliot's fuckboy ass. Rachel has to be taken care of instead of Chloe and Rachel working together to save Sera. All the good Amberprice stuff is in the montages. Hell Is Empty was a huge disappointment.

    1. Unlike Max, Chloe has no agency in defeating the villain of the game.

    The difference between LIS and BTS is the player has a hand in defeating their villains, while in BTS, we do not. Max Caulfield who was tied up and was about to be killed, guides David in defeating and capturing her abuser and villain of her story Mark Jefferson. Max is instrumental in defeating the villain of her story. Chloe Price is knocked unconscious and saved for doing nothing while Frank kills Damon Merrick off screen. Chloe is not instrumental or has any agency in leading to the defeat of the villain(the rushed villain at the last second) of her story

    1. Farewell.

    While Farewell is cute and tragic to play, it ultimately does not make any sense. If this is the same day as Max's last moment with William and before Joyce comes home to tell Chloe the news of William, WHY are Max and Chloe in different outfits? Wouldn't it make more sense for this to be Max's last day in Arcadia Bay instead of the last day of William? I feel this especially cause in the BTS Graffiti side of the notebook, it is shown that there is one final episode under episode 3, I kind of feel like this was meant for Farewell and it was meant to be Max's Farewell, but something changed. It also kind of comes off as wanting the player to hate Max for not staying to say goodbye. What I would prefer is this takes place on Max's last day in Arcadia Bay and despite William's accident, Chloe wants to do her best to make sure her best friend gets the best damn send off before her farewell. And Max and Chloe part on good terms instead of Max's asshole father preventing Max from saying goodbye lol

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    [NO SPOILERS] Hope Everyone Had An Enjoyable/Emotional Storm Week!

    Posted: 11 Oct 2020 01:31 PM PDT

    [ALL] Does anybody know if the developers did this on purpose as theory bait????

    Posted: 11 Oct 2020 10:04 PM PDT

    [NO SPOILERS] Are the life is good games on ps4 good ports?

    Posted: 12 Oct 2020 03:12 AM PDT

    Or should i play pc? I'm a physical video games guy but i'll do PC if the gameplay is THAT much better. Don't care THAT much for better graphics.

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    [S1] A neat little LiS-related experience of mine :)

    Posted: 11 Oct 2020 01:23 PM PDT

    Hi everyone! I've got a story about a neat LiS-related experience I had that I think you all might appreciate :)

    Years ago I was taking a road trip through Oregon during LiS week, October 7 through 11, and to celebrate I visited a couple LiS-related landmarks. One was Heceta Head Lighthouse (I think I read somewhere at the time the lighthouse or bay in the game was inspired by it? Or at least similar to it?)

    When I arrived, it was a clear, sunny day. I walked up to the lighthouse and was enjoying checking it all out, and then I noticed some storm clouds way off in the distance. I didn't think much of it at first, but pretty soon I realized they were coming my way fast XD It was raining a little by the time I started hurrying back to my car, and by the time I got back it was REALLY storming hard, pouring down rain and super loud thunder. I waited it out in my car (and put on Obstacles while I waited :D), but within like ten minutes it was completely gone, and it was a clear, sunny day again.

    And that was one of the most awesome experiences of my entire life :) Like the universe saw what I was doing visiting the lighthouse and made a little Life is Strange reference for me :D Which was especially meaningful for me because I had only recently played it for the first time, and it changed my life in really significant and positive ways that at the time I didn't feel comfortable telling others about. So to feel that way, like the universe was telling me "hey, right on :)", was just really affirming at a really critical time. I mean, it was probably just dumb meaningless coincidence, XD but still, it was cool :)

    Anyway, that's my little story :) Thank you so much for reading it, and I hope you have a wonderful day!

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    [NO SPOILERS] Android Port of BTS REALLY needs an update.

    Posted: 11 Oct 2020 06:05 PM PDT

    I am ticked off. I recently downloaded the android port of Before The Storm, as I got a new phone. Paid the full season, including the bonus episode. Downloaded the first episode. DOESN'T WORK! IT started off bad, as the home menu was black, not the beautiful scenery of the park. Getting into the episode, the sound played but there was no picture. No Chloe. No Train. I really hope for them to update it. Want to do a play through for my channel.

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    [NO SPOILERS] �� Hi I'm new here...made a fan art of Max

    Posted: 11 Oct 2020 12:25 PM PDT

    [NO SPOILERS] after seeing The Ted Bundy film with Zac Efron he is my one and only pick for Mark Jefferson

    Posted: 11 Oct 2020 02:34 PM PDT

    [All] Some weird stuff has been happening today

    Posted: 11 Oct 2020 04:34 PM PDT

    Today is the day the storm hit Arcadia Bay in LiS and its been a weird day. It's raining really hard right now where i live and the tornado sirens have been going off for the last hour. Is anything strange happening to anyone else today?

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    [NO SPOILERS] what order do I play in

    Posted: 11 Oct 2020 07:59 PM PDT

    hi recently I've wanted to play life is strange but what order do I play it in

    thanks

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    [NO SPOILERS] Listen to "By Your Side", a Custom LIS Song. This reminds you of Joyce and William, two people who loved each other so much���� Miss William��

    Posted: 11 Oct 2020 04:11 PM PDT
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