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Recent gaming: Life is Strange
Jan. 12th, 2026 03:45 pmI finished the first Life is Strange last night and... man.
This series wasn't even on my radar until recently when one of the games came up in my Amazon recommendations, and after reading a bit about it I figured I'd check it out from the beginning, so I picked up the Arcadia Bay Collection release on Switch.
I've always enjoyed classic-style adventure games (though I still have to play some of the classic-era PC adventure titles), so the gameplay was fun, and past knowing a bit of the basic premise I went in largely blind and managed to remain spoiler-free throughout the playthrough, so it definitely went to some unexpected places and caught me by surprise more than once: ( Spoilers )
The last decision point, ( Spoilers ) actually made me say "oh, Jesus Christ" out loud and then actually spend several real-world minutes thinking about it before making my decision, and I really can't think of another decision in a game that had *that* strong an effect on me.
At any rate, I ultimately decided to ( Spoilers )
So, yeah, I thought this was fantastic. I'll probably let the first game marinate a bit, but sometime soon I'll play the prequel (Before the Storm) since that came with the original. After that I may cut ahead in the series to Double Exposure, since that's a direct sequel to the original and follows Max several years later, then go back eventually to Life is Strange 2 and True Colors, which are both new stories with new characters.
This series wasn't even on my radar until recently when one of the games came up in my Amazon recommendations, and after reading a bit about it I figured I'd check it out from the beginning, so I picked up the Arcadia Bay Collection release on Switch.
I've always enjoyed classic-style adventure games (though I still have to play some of the classic-era PC adventure titles), so the gameplay was fun, and past knowing a bit of the basic premise I went in largely blind and managed to remain spoiler-free throughout the playthrough, so it definitely went to some unexpected places and caught me by surprise more than once: ( Spoilers )
The last decision point, ( Spoilers ) actually made me say "oh, Jesus Christ" out loud and then actually spend several real-world minutes thinking about it before making my decision, and I really can't think of another decision in a game that had *that* strong an effect on me.
At any rate, I ultimately decided to ( Spoilers )
So, yeah, I thought this was fantastic. I'll probably let the first game marinate a bit, but sometime soon I'll play the prequel (Before the Storm) since that came with the original. After that I may cut ahead in the series to Double Exposure, since that's a direct sequel to the original and follows Max several years later, then go back eventually to Life is Strange 2 and True Colors, which are both new stories with new characters.
