Life is Strange: Episode 2 - Out of Time

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  1. Heisenberg93
    Feb 20, 2018
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I state right away that in my game run, Kate Marsh died. I wasn't even totally convinced that I could save her, honestly. I would have expected for her an epilogue much closer to Columbine or the more recent Stoneman massacre. But Kate preferred a path that, although more generous towards those who derided her, led anyway to a tragic epilogue. These are things that happen and in both cases they are events of our times.

    This led me to reflect on the title of episode 2: "Out of time". A great wise elder, no less powerful than a god, once said: "Three hundred lives of men I have walked this Earth and now I have no time". Being "out of time" might mean having all the time in the world – being out of it or able to control it in some manner... or just being out of sync, out of timing indeed. In few words: being late. For the first time since Maxine has this exceptional power, she experiences one of the biggest burdens of responsibility: impotence, negligence. Which lead to suffering and a sense of failure. The inability to help someone who needed it. Having used a power such as rewinding time to do many things, but not being able to use it to save someone. And when her power failed, she was not able to make the difference by her own. Events were already in motion, it was already "too late". Sure, Maxine saved Chloe, but it was a fortuitous case. She should not condemn herself because, in a sense, simply things have gone the way they did, and yet she endeavored to use her power at max - by blocking time itself, for a while. A power that seems starting to consume her, slowly. I like the fact that Max and Chloe have come together again and how she needed to tell someone about this power that was granted to her. However, Chloe's personality is unstable and I don't really like her, personally. She's a little girl who doesn't want to grow up, simply because in her mind time has stood still at her father's death and she's afraid of losing other loved ones like Rachel. Understandable is her behavior, not always justifiable.

    This episode seemed to me to last slightly less than the first, but it makes sense, given that "Chrysalis" was important to build a context, an incipit to the plot.

    The mystery deepens more and more and the truth is revealed in small doses. I like it, but I hope Dontnod managed everything with cure, because I have the impression that from now on things will only get worse – I refer to the vicissitudes in the plot – with the advent of that eclipse that established itself as an obscure omen.    … Expand
  2. rodericrinehart
    Apr 15, 2015
    9
    I love this game and want more of it and more games like it. I love sprawling and deep RPGs, complex turn-based strategy games, and fun open world games, but I also love a great "point and click" adventure game like this. This game is just a lot of fun.
  3. rodericrinehart
    Apr 15, 2015
    9
    I love this game and want more of it and more games like it. I love sprawling and deep RPGs, complex turn-based strategy games, and fun open world games, but I also love a great "point and click" adventure game like this. This game is just a lot of fun.

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  1. Polygon
    Mar 25, 2015
    85
    We are starting to feel the fiber of layered relationships and motivations and this is Life is Strange’s achievement.
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