One defining criticism about Dontnod’s old rivals at Telltale Games was that their video games had lengthy delay in between each episode release. The time between release dates was far, far too long Absolutely ridiculous. This is also touched base on throughout the game, as the main focus of the game is the journey the two brothers embark upon attempting to cross the border into Mexico.Īs the title and introduction suggested, this game was an absolute mess. This is further put into place when Sean and Daniel’s unarmed father is wrongfully killed by a police officer right at the beginning of the game.
The story is, in a nutshell, portraying the struggles of being a minority family in the US. The video game itself draws from a good zeitgeist inspiration and does a good job touching base with it in the modern day Embark upon a journey to Mexico from Sean’s perspective! Without providing spoilers, ultimately, no matter how your relationship and general interactions with Daniel went, the game essentially ends off the exact same way, which is a huge spit in the face of the player and somewhat ruins this otherwise good trait of the game itself.Ģ. While this is nice, and would probably have saved this game from being a complete failure, it ends up all crashing down at the last decision made in the game, and doubtlessly the most important one. Even minor decisions made in this regard will change the way Daniel acts, talks, and treats his power as the season progresses. As Sean, the main character and the one the player controls, attempts to protect and raise Daniel while travelling to Mexico on foot, the ways the player opts to actually raise Daniel can change the plot up in some pretty significant ways. “Life is Strange 2” sort of offers actual weight to a player’s decisions. One key criticism of Telltale Games that plagued them towards the end of their time in the limelight was that their games only offered an artificial, fake feeling of significance to the game’s critical choices whatever the player did, oftentimes, the end result was the same, with only some insignificant differences off to the side to show for it. Your choices (kind of) actually do matter An important character to monitor throughout the game. Such strong words demand an explanation, so let’s start off by nitpicking at what the game managed to not mess up with:ġ.
There are not many games that disappoint quite as much as this heavily-awaited video game. So, how did it go?Ībsolutely abysmal, unfortunately. After watching their only rivals at Telltale Games fall, this game was Dontnod’s chance to firmly establish themselves as the undisputed titans of the interactive story-telling industry. Recently, Dontnod put the finishing touches on their initially hyped sequel of the “Life is Strange” interactive video game.
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