{"id":16409,"date":"2024-10-31T11:39:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T10:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/life-is-strange-double-exposure-review-supernatural-drama-gets-caught-up-in-its-tangled-timelines\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T11:39:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T10:39:16","slug":"life-is-strange-double-exposure-review-supernatural-drama-gets-caught-up-in-its-tangled-timelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/life-is-strange-double-exposure-review-supernatural-drama-gets-caught-up-in-its-tangled-timelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Is Strange: Double Exposure review \u2013 supernatural drama gets caught up in its tangled timelines"},"content":{"rendered":"

PC, PS5, Xbox; Deck Nine\/Square Enix
<\/strong>There\u2019s much to enjoy in this sequel to the trailblazing female-led narrative game, but inconsistent characterisation lets it down<\/p>\n

In 2015, when I first played as Maxine Caulfield in the original Life Is Strange<\/a>, it was only the second time I had ever played a game starring a teenaged girl. (The first time was The Last of Us: Left Behind, which came out the year before.) It was an awkward game in a few ways, particularly its cringeworthy (mis)use of teen slang, but the intense, life-changing and sometimes conflicted relationship between Max and her (more than) friend Chloe rung true. It carried the whole game, actually, more than Max\u2019s time-rewinding powers or the murder mystery that powered the plot. I believed <\/em>in Max and Chloe. The end of that game forces you into a horrible choice between, as Max would put it, two shitty futures, proving that even time travellers must live with the consequences of their actions. The reverberations of that choice run through this sequel, nine years later.<\/p>\n

Grownup Max is now artist in residence at a prestigious arts college, placing her somewhere between the students, with their parties and dramatic breakups and secret societies, and the teachers in the faculty, whose pettiness and preoccupations with their own agendas rarely paint them in a flattering light. She abandoned her home town and stopped using her time-rewinding powers after the events of the first Life Is Strange. Now she is tentatively trying to form new relationships in this fresh place. And, as she discovers when one of her new friends is murdered, she has a new power, too. She can slip between timelines, investigating the murder both in the timeline where it happened, and in an alternative reality where it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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\nPC, PS5, Xbox; Deck Nine\/Square Enix There\u2019s much to enjoy in this sequel to the trailblazing female-led narrative game, but inconsistent characterisation lets it down
\nIn 2015, when I first played as Maxine Caulfield in the original Life Is Strange, it was only the second time I had ever played a game starring a teenaged girl. (The first time was The Last of Us: Left Behind, which came out the year before.) It was an awkward game in a few ways, particularly its cringeworthy (mis)use of teen slang, but the intense, life-changing and sometimes conflicted relationship between Max and her (more than) friend Chloe rung true. It carried the whole game, actually, more than Max\u2019s time-rewinding powers or the murder mystery that powered the plot. I believed in Max and Chloe. The end of that game forces you into a horrible choice between, as Max would put it, two shitty futures, proving that even time travellers must live with the consequences of their actions. The reverberations of that choice run through this sequel, nine years later.
\nGrownup Max is now artist in residence at a prestigious arts college, placing her somewhere between the students, with their parties and dramatic breakups and secret societies, and the teachers in the faculty, whose pettiness and preoccupations with their own agendas rarely paint them in a flattering light. She abandoned her home town and stopped using her time-rewinding powers after the events of the first Life Is Strange. Now she is tentatively trying to form new relationships in this fresh place. And, as she discovers when one of her new friends is murdered, she has a new power, too. She can slip between timelines, investigating the murder both in the timeline where it happened, and in an alternative reality where it didn\u2019t. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PC, PS5, Xbox; Deck Nine\/Square Enix There\u2019s much to enjoy in this sequel to the trailblazing female-led narrative game, but inconsistent characterisation lets it down In 2015, when I first played as Maxine Caulfield in the original Life Is Strange, it was only the second time I had ever played a game starring a teenaged …<\/p>\n

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