Life is Strange, Never Alone
I finished the second episode of Life is Strange. Hoo boy.
So Chloe and Max hang out in a junkyard and play with guns, because that's a reasonable thing to do, right? I have to go on a fetch quest to get five bottles, one of which is on a boat that's too high up, and one that is tucked between a bunch of cars that took me forever to find that her little "clue" dialogue happened a good four or five times, to which I responded "I know, I know!" I also saw that weird deer again, and tried to take its picture and of course it doesn't exist, but this goes without comment for some reason.
Anyway, after another set of game-y play in which you dangerous shoot at literally everything, including a car that comes crashing down from atop a pile of trash, some douchebag shows up and starts demanding his money, because of course he does. For reasons, Max has the gun during this scene, and she...pulls it on the asshole, and then the game gives you the choice of shooting or not. Now, given the circumstances, I figure the correct answer is NOT to commit murder, but the jerk managed to get ahold of the gun and promises to use it if doesn't get his vig.
Then there's this scene that involves someone getting trapped on a train track, you know, like you do. It was, in fact, the least exciting thing to happen in the episode, which is a feat. Because you go back to school (I guess all of this happened before 11 a.m.?) and screw around a bit, helping your nerdy boyfriend with his science homework, and talking to the photography teacher, who I'm starting to suspect is up to something. Class finally starts*, but then it becomes clear that shut has gone wrong when someone pokes his head in, says something's going down at the girl's dorm, and it's pretty goddamn obvious what happens next.
Yep, Kate Marsh is going to commit suicide, and you are just too late, she jumps just when you arrive, but you really push your time powers and manage to freeze time and get onto the roof to talk to her. Only one problem; you are out of juice. Your time travel powers are spent for now, so this is your only chance. Which is...admirable, that they make such an important point the ONLY time when you can't fix your mistakes.
Because I made them. I'm not sure exactly where I went wrong, she was clear that I was her friend and cared about her, but she just couldn't deal with the video, and me telling her everyone would forget about it was not convincing, so she jumped. It was...nuts, and of course I thought "Maybe that happens no matter what," but NOPE, it is possible to save her, I just couldn't do it.
So we are in the principal's office with all three of my least favorite people (I guess they couldn't figure out a way to get the douchebag drug dealer in there as well), and I essentially am given an opportunity to get one of them in trouble. So I tell on the jerkass security officer and get him suspended, because screw that guy. But this means that Nathan gets off scotfree, apparently, even though he ALSO did something wrong, but whatever.
And then epilogue, in which sad stuff is said and scenes about town are shown and there's this weird part where it appears someone is collecting books of all the missing or dead girls in town, and yeah, good impact, game. Good work over all. I could have done less with the parts of the video game that felt like a video game, which is WEIRD, but enjoyable.
Oh, and I got Never Alone for free, so I played that for about fifteen minutes, and while the attention to detail is nice, going to a game where you run away from a bear by pushing right and jumping just didn't feel quite right. Also a lot of jumping puzzles, which end in some poor creature crying if you mess up, which I don't like. Then I got to a part where some goblins are whatever are throwing rocks at me, and I just had to stop. I don't know, I hears it's really short and cute, so I'll finish it here shortly.
*There is this really nice moment in the class where you get a text from Chloe, and naturally you click to go see what she said, only for the teacher to YELL AT YOU for trying to look at your phone during class, because of course you can't do that. Just a nice bit of mechanic and story tension, I love those moments.
I finished the second episode of Life is Strange. Hoo boy.
So Chloe and Max hang out in a junkyard and play with guns, because that's a reasonable thing to do, right? I have to go on a fetch quest to get five bottles, one of which is on a boat that's too high up, and one that is tucked between a bunch of cars that took me forever to find that her little "clue" dialogue happened a good four or five times, to which I responded "I know, I know!" I also saw that weird deer again, and tried to take its picture and of course it doesn't exist, but this goes without comment for some reason.
Anyway, after another set of game-y play in which you dangerous shoot at literally everything, including a car that comes crashing down from atop a pile of trash, some douchebag shows up and starts demanding his money, because of course he does. For reasons, Max has the gun during this scene, and she...pulls it on the asshole, and then the game gives you the choice of shooting or not. Now, given the circumstances, I figure the correct answer is NOT to commit murder, but the jerk managed to get ahold of the gun and promises to use it if doesn't get his vig.
Then there's this scene that involves someone getting trapped on a train track, you know, like you do. It was, in fact, the least exciting thing to happen in the episode, which is a feat. Because you go back to school (I guess all of this happened before 11 a.m.?) and screw around a bit, helping your nerdy boyfriend with his science homework, and talking to the photography teacher, who I'm starting to suspect is up to something. Class finally starts*, but then it becomes clear that shut has gone wrong when someone pokes his head in, says something's going down at the girl's dorm, and it's pretty goddamn obvious what happens next.
Yep, Kate Marsh is going to commit suicide, and you are just too late, she jumps just when you arrive, but you really push your time powers and manage to freeze time and get onto the roof to talk to her. Only one problem; you are out of juice. Your time travel powers are spent for now, so this is your only chance. Which is...admirable, that they make such an important point the ONLY time when you can't fix your mistakes.
Because I made them. I'm not sure exactly where I went wrong, she was clear that I was her friend and cared about her, but she just couldn't deal with the video, and me telling her everyone would forget about it was not convincing, so she jumped. It was...nuts, and of course I thought "Maybe that happens no matter what," but NOPE, it is possible to save her, I just couldn't do it.
So we are in the principal's office with all three of my least favorite people (I guess they couldn't figure out a way to get the douchebag drug dealer in there as well), and I essentially am given an opportunity to get one of them in trouble. So I tell on the jerkass security officer and get him suspended, because screw that guy. But this means that Nathan gets off scotfree, apparently, even though he ALSO did something wrong, but whatever.
And then epilogue, in which sad stuff is said and scenes about town are shown and there's this weird part where it appears someone is collecting books of all the missing or dead girls in town, and yeah, good impact, game. Good work over all. I could have done less with the parts of the video game that felt like a video game, which is WEIRD, but enjoyable.
Oh, and I got Never Alone for free, so I played that for about fifteen minutes, and while the attention to detail is nice, going to a game where you run away from a bear by pushing right and jumping just didn't feel quite right. Also a lot of jumping puzzles, which end in some poor creature crying if you mess up, which I don't like. Then I got to a part where some goblins are whatever are throwing rocks at me, and I just had to stop. I don't know, I hears it's really short and cute, so I'll finish it here shortly.
*There is this really nice moment in the class where you get a text from Chloe, and naturally you click to go see what she said, only for the teacher to YELL AT YOU for trying to look at your phone during class, because of course you can't do that. Just a nice bit of mechanic and story tension, I love those moments.
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