Zaziuma

Finished the first episode of Life is Strange: Before the Storm just now, minor spoilers in here. So, I have watched Video Games Awesome's playthrough of the first game, and it was odd, because at first, I liked it and the people playing it liked it, but then as it continued, it had a lot of flaws, it was rather cliched, that the creators only had a vague understanding of teens and American culture, and didn't make much sense, and the ending didn't really feel satisfactory to either of us, but I still enjoyed watching them play it, and recently they played through the first episode of Life is Strange 2, and so far, that game seemed like a huge improvement in a lot of ways, and as they never played Before the Storm, and as it's on Xbox Game Pass, I gave it a go, and interestingly, I didn't really like how it started, but it got better and better, the whole backtalking mechanic is interesting, though maybe too easy so far, and at the end of the episode, I was surprised at how engaged I became. It may have some issues here and there, some of it felt like filler a lot of the time, but could be setting up for something later too, I feel conflicted on Chloe, obviously she is an angsty teen, and with that comes some negative qualities, but maybe they are not placed properly, but maybe that's the point, and then she ends up being nice and happy and having fun with others, helping others, which doesn't seem like what she would do, but I guess player agency can't help that, so that's weird. Still, I liked her more as it went on, especially when she actually contemplates things, how she has a moment with her mom that is genuine and how a teen would actually act, realizing that she is trying to do her best under the circumstances. There is a lot of good in here, and I feel like it's written much better than Life is Strange was, at least in retrospect, and as I haven't played it personally, that is probably a downside too, but yeah, I'm gonna play the other episodes since I enjoyed the first one, I think that they benefited from going away from the sci-fi stuff, though I would assume that there will be something there eventually, would be odd if they just left that out completely, but I guess I'll see.