I write this post while I listen to a bit of the soundtrack of this game, which is really one of the things that I like the most, because the genres/styles are quite similar to the music that I like, today I will tell you about my experience in this game which would be the second part of “Life is strange” but with a new story and new characters, Life is strange is an adventure and decision-making game that I really liked at the time I played it, although it was already A long time ago, it is one of those games that you can never get over and it was the first time that I tried a game with this dynamic, making decisions and thus changing the future, just like life itself.
Normally I usually make my gaming post by parts, this time I want to make a general summary, wait until I finish the game to be able to tell you my opinion, it was a whole week playing it only 1 or 2 hours a night, so the game really wasn't that great. length.
To start this new adventure, we meet Alex (alexandra) which I loved because it's similar to my name haha, this girl begins her story in her psychologist's office, apparently Alex, she has many burdens on her, a pretty sad past and in addition to that a rather peculiar secret.
In a few minutes the scenes change and we can see that Alex moves to a small town in Haven Springs Colorado, where apparently he would get his brother Gabe Chen, who he had not seen for years, from the moment Alex arrives in this town I fall in love with the landscape, the cinematic was incredible, take some photos while enjoying this beautiful place.
Arriving at this place was basically a presentation, there was nothing really interesting, I met all the characters that would be part of this story, one of them that later would be important for the plot or situation that develops in Have Springs would be Jed lucan, a old man who everyone respects and knows for being a hero, as well as being Gabe chen's boss and owner of the bar.
Capturas de pantalla tomadas por mi/ Screenshot taken by me.
Capturas de pantalla tomadas por mi/ Screenshot taken by me.
Capturas de pantalla tomadas por mi/ Screenshot taken by me.
Capturas de pantalla tomadas por mi/ Screenshot taken by me.
During this first chapter you meet many characters and places, such as the record store, the flower shop and the bar, we meet my brother Gabe's stepson who will also have an important role in this story according to the options I chose, when I arrived in town I had I had to inspect a little, the posters that surrounded the entire city, in addition to seeing my cell phone and finding out everything that was happening in this town thanks to a social network, so I understood that in this town there is a company called Python which makes explosions of mines in the area, just that night there would be an explosion in the mines.
When meeting little Ethan (stepson of my brother Gabe) the boy in some part of the conversation with Alex, mentions that he will go to the mine tonight to explore, he asked me to keep the secret but knowing the danger he was running I decided to tell my brother what this child was planning, is here where I don't know if keeping the secret to myself would have changed something or what was coming simply couldn't be avoided.
Basically from now on my brother takes care of this child and meanwhile I am relating to my new home, during the game we make decisions that some seem unnecessary, but as we already know everything influences the game, like the butterfly effect.
In one of the scenes that are also important for the future, we see Alex and Gabe enjoying their new home, listening to music and dancing, suddenly someone knocks on the door, it's this boy named MAC, boyfriend of the owner's daughter. the flower shop, riley, mac comes in to beat up my brother and this is where we first find out what's going on with alex, a kind of red aura shines around mac, which means he's extremely upset, so alex feels all that energy of Mac in her being, reaching the point of losing control, Alex has a gift, a gift in which she can feel the strong emotions of the people around her and reflect it in herself, reaching the point where she can not handle it anymore and it explodes and that's how it was, Alex, pounces on top of Mac and hits him so that his fists bleed, just to get him away from his brother Gabe, in this attempt for his sister to calm down Gabe ends up receiving a fist in the face hahaha, here we got a uncomfortable situation and in the end, I am alone in my new apartment.
Capturas de pantalla tomadas por mi/ Screenshot taken by me.
After the fight, I worked as a waitress for Jed, I was able to talk to some clients, among them there would be a Python worker, then I talked to Riley about Mac and told him everything that happened, that caused Riley to break up with Mac.
This was part of chapter 1, where if we explore a lot we get many clues and information of interest, in this chapter we also meet Steph and Ryan who will later be our love interest as we choose, Steph is very similar to one of the girls in the first installment of Life is strange, only with brown hair xD,
In order not to make everything so long, let's continue to the other chapters, here are some of the things I did in the first part, the decisions I made, I still don't know the result of how everything would be if I had made other decisions, but perhaps soon I will be encouraged to do it.
From now on everything turns gray and I don't know if I made bad decisions but we ended up at night in one of the mines looking for little Ethan, in this place was Alex, Gabe and Ryan, I had to use Ethan's comics to find out where he was until we found him on a cliff that only had ONE STICK TO CROSS, I mean I don't know who came up with it but well, in this part I was very stressed about having to save this child, Alex used his Don to know the exact words to say to Ethan to cross back, finally the boy was safe, but an explosion that supposedly was not going to happen because Gabe had previously called the company to prevent the explosion, occurred.
The explosion happened and this is where my brother dies, at this point it bothered me because I felt it was my fault hahaha, although it is not correct I think I would have preferred to sacrifice that child.
Gabe dies and this is where it all starts, the funeral, the people's rejection of Mac because he was the one who answered Gabe's emergency call and still didn't prevent the explosion, from this point on everything becomes a bit boring, really I expected more action, but the story was still slow.
I attended a LARP event, which really got interesting when we started seeing everything from Ethan's imagination.
Alex discovers that Mac was not to blame for the explosion that was Python and from there she swears that she will do justice, she along with her friends Steph and Ryan who try to investigate Python's dirty laundry, at this point the insinuations of the game begin to choose to a couple, between Steph and Ryan, while my brother Gabe's girlfriend lives in a state of constant anger blaming everyone including her son Ethan for what happened, in one of those scenes Alex goes into the feelings of this woman and sees all the accumulated anger that she carries inside, they gave me two options, calm her anger or just leave, I preferred to leave and not force things.
Finally the day of the flower festival arrives, this is where Alex must decide who to give a rose to, which practically meant declaring his love, honestly I didn't like Ryan very much and Steph gave me much better vibes, so I chose her.
Capturas de pantalla tomadas por mi/ Screenshot taken by me.
After an amazing night, Alex talks to Jed and tells him about the whole problem with the Python company at this moment Jed's face changes, he tells Alex to show him something and takes her to the mines, where after a while with a suspicious attitude shoots Alex, making her fall into a void, from here on everything is confusing, Alex appears at her psychologist's office but she is alone, you have to inspect all the objects around and look for the exit, Alex begins to see his past to remember the history of his family in the company of his brother Gabe, there we can understand well what happened to these boys when he was little, Alex's mother was sick and finally died, his father was a coward, he ran away from home leaving them alone, they ended up in orphanages where they spent a large part of their lives, after a long time reliving these memories, alex reacts and appears at the bottom of this mine, it turns out that the bullet only grazed her and injured her, she gets up and tries to get out of there, and It is here that he discovers some secrets from Jed and Python that would make sense of everything that happened that night.
At this point we find out that Alex and Gabe's father lived in this town after leaving them, he worked as a miner with Jed and one day Jed let Mr. Chen and 7 other men die in that mine, leaving that place they invented a heroic story where Jed would be the main hero of the story and that is why the whole town recognized and respected him.
Capturas de pantalla tomadas por mi/ Screenshot taken by me.
When Alex managed to get out of that mine alive, he went directly to the Bar to tell everyone what JED and the company were hiding, some believed him and others did not, this is where Alex gets into Jed's mind and makes him feel miserable. and guilty. This scene was quite good because they do a close up on the old man's face and he looks quite disturbed, finally Jed admits everything and is taken to prison, from now on there was only a couple of decisions to make, where Alex must decide if he Does she go to town with Steph or stays with her there, Gabe appears with Alex and they start talking about her future and what would be best for her, to leave or stay, I decided to go with Steph to travel the world away from that town haha.
Las partes buenas puedo rescatar lo que ya mencione, los gráficos, el sountrack, el amor entre Alex y Steph, la historia podría ser excelente solo si hubiese habido mas acción y aventura.
Although the game is amazing in terms of graphics (or at least better than the first installment of this game) the story is a bit slow and can get boring at times, we also have a bit…incoherent reactions, like for example that everyone She is sadder for Gabe's death than Alex herself, I don't see it with much sense, she tries to comfort all those who are in mourning, when she should be the first to sink into sadness.
There isn't too much action, Alex's power I think could be a little more extreme, I literally live calming everyone's anxiety and also exploring absolutely everything to give continuity to a scene, characters that I really didn't like and that I would like to eliminate.
The good parts I can rescue what I already mentioned, the graphics, the soundtrack, the love between Alex and Steph, the story could be excellent only if there had been more action and adventure.
Siento que me exxtendi un poco pero queria que se entendiese un poco el contexto de la historia de Alex, cuentame, ¿ya has probado este juego?
I feel that I extended myself a bit but I wanted the context of Alex's story to be understood a little, tell me, have you already tried this game?
I have to admit that the game looks spectacular, I didn't remember Life is Strange this way. I don't know why Alex's face reminds me of a character from another game, I understand that True Colors is not a DLC but a separate game, right?
I always found the Butterfly Effect interesting, it was thanks to the base game that I came across this term and I've always found it a rather fascinating subject. That the flapping of a butterfly can cause a tornado is something quite... crazy XD.
Hahahaha I also feel that Alex's face reminds me of a character, but I don't know who, I think it's a DLC I'm not sure.
About butterfly effect, it is a really complicated and profound theme, I feel admiration for these things and since I understood its meaning, I relate it to all the decisions I make in my life.
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Wowwww que buen resumen del juego Alexa que trama tan buena .. ya me dió ganas de jugarlo . Haz hecho alguna de Horizon ? Me encanto este post ❤️
No bb no he jugado ese, es bueno?
El juego se ve muy bueno, la historia me parece atrapante por lo que comentas, y visualmente no se queda atrás. No lo jugué pero me encantaría hacerlo ✨
Si tienes la oportunidad pruébalo 😃
Siempre he sido fanático de las aventuras gráficas, son quizás de mis géneros favoritos y más si son de Square Enix. Este juego en particular me parece demasiado bello, siempre me ha llamado bastante la atención por todo él en sí y como logra llevar el desenlace de toda la historia, me gusta mucho. Recuerdo haber visto algunas cosas en youtube hace años, es uno de los que tengo pendientes, la trama del comienzo por lo que leí me atrapó bastante, le daré una probada a ver que tal :)
Sii, son bastante entretenidos la verdad, además que es interesante ver qué camino va tomando la historia mientras juegas, pruébalo 😀 aunque recomiendo jugar primero "life is strange" y luego este que sería como una nueva historia, la primera es más emocionante!
I see this game and DLCs everywhere and never try to play that. Nevertheless is a game that wakes my curiosity, I had never seen this part of the history of this game, and it remembers me a lot of an incredible movie called: The warmest color is blue. Thanks for sharing this!
You should try to play it and see what you think 😃 it's fun to know that you have control of how the story will unfold, also this one in particular once you finish it unlocks a new game but this time with the story of the second girl (Steph) I haven't played it yet but I'll check it out soon 😀 thanks for comment!!
I used to pkay this game when I was in college. I think it was my first role playing based games. I couldn't finish it though lolz. The kept crashing after some level. I think an android version is available now but need to pay to unlock chapters.
I think it was the first role-playing game of many people (including me) it was something quite new for me and now that I play this version after so long, it has awakened in me more desire to try these role-playing games
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Great post! I've heared so many good things about this game. I should give it a try some day.
Yess you should try! thanks 😁