• EoFF's Life is Strange Video Walkthrough



    Hi everyone!

    I've recently played through DONTNOD and Square Enix's newly published interactive novel Life is Strange, and I thought I'd record it for the site!

    I decided to go for commentary-less, as it is a heavily cutscene driven game, and I didn't want to blabber over the top of it too much. Obviously, spoiler warnings ahead! I also went ahead and tried to look at everything, as I heard that there were some cool Easter Eggs. Which ones do you see?

    Hope you enjoy!



    Meet Max, a weird socially awkward kid with a passion for photography. Back in her childhood home of Arcadia Bay, she wakes from a nightmare to find that she suddenly has the ability to rewind time. What kind of crazy hijinks will she get up to?

    This is part one of Episode 1 - Chrysalis, covering the first 20 minutes or so this interactive story from DONTNOD and Square Enix.
    This article was originally published in forum thread: EoFF's Life is Strange Video Walkthrough started by Shauna View original post
    Comments 102 Comments
    1. Pumpkin's Avatar
      Pumpkin -
      Oh nevermind then xD
    1. Shauna's Avatar
      Shauna -


      In the final segment of Episode 1, Max reveals all to Chloe. How will she take the weird stories about time travel? Speaking of time travel, we have the optimal time for using it, as we climb a stormy mountain to reach quite the cliff(hanger).


      hay guess what was released yesterday?

      Yep Episode 2 is out just in time for me finishing uploading this! I am good at this sort of thing.
    1. Freya's Avatar
      Freya -
      Nice Timing! I was wondering if you were going to be up for episode 2. Just saw it was released!
    1. Psychotic's Avatar
      Psychotic -
      I hope Chloe gets awesome sauced away in that tornado
    1. Laddy's Avatar
      Laddy -
      The writing is very flawed but I find it endearing considering it's written 30-something French men writing about teenage American girls. It's not perfect at all but I think the general thinking patterns and reaction to things are strong, all things considered. I never felt like it was a story of how "Max is too different and no one understands" considering that two of the people she seems to like the most in her school are a religious girl and a cheerleader. I think it's just teenagers being teenagers and looking too much into how they and those around them are defined. Plus, the acting is very strong even with the awkward writing.

      Definitely better than Heavy Rain and arguably even the first season of The Walking Dead. I just feel like the visuals and soundtrack are amazing and the choices more nuanced. I very much enjoyed it and want to see what happens.

      Episode 2 is just excellent. And, to avoid spoilers, there is a huge challenge in the game that requires you to pay attention and talk to people in order to solve it. It's very profound, personally.

      EDIT: I get the feeling the writers spent a lot of time on tumblr and it both helped and hurt them considiering a lot of that slang is used but just not that often or in that manner.
    1. Loony BoB's Avatar
      Loony BoB -
      Just popping by to say that whenever I see this thread title it misleads me for a moment. "EoFF's Life is Strange" is the full title of something being walked through in video form when I read it.
    1. Shauna's Avatar
      Shauna -
      Well, EoFF's Life is Strange. Videoing it could be a tad creepy though.


      On the topic of this, I do have Ep2 ready to go. Just need to upload it! I have just been a bit under the weather recently, but I'll get it moving this week.
    1. Shauna's Avatar
      Shauna -


      Max is back in action after her crazy premonition of the tornado destroying her home. She gets right into the action of trying to figure out how to stop this by consoling her friend who's going through a tough time, having a shower, confronting some bullies and awkwardly not realising that her friend is asking her on a date. Oh, she also chats to the weirdo groundskeeper about spirit animals. All in a day's work for a time travelling high school girl.



      No opening comments from me, my throat is still a bit tickly due to that ol' cold I had. Just right into the action.
    1. Psychotic's Avatar
      Psychotic -
      Why does everyone hate poor misunderstood quirky Max?

      Because she is a creepy weirdo who rifles through their stuff and makes stupid comments about every single god damn item.

      And emoji (that are really emoticons) I guess.
    1. Shauna's Avatar
      Shauna -
      But she's so quirky.

      Thinking about it, she's also a true RPG hero, looking at people's things, hoping to find something useful.
    1. Laddy's Avatar
      Laddy -
      Am I the only one who wants a Persona-style High School JRPG about kids with special powers...but set in America?

      Anyway, Max is fine. She's likable to me. I don't go through people's stuff but I catch myself making weird comments to myself about every little thing I see.
    1. Shauna's Avatar
      Shauna -
      I think she's fine too. I just like poking fun.
    1. Endless's Avatar
      Endless -
      I've gotta commend SE for using ∆'s Something Good to open that episode. Good choice.
    1. Shauna's Avatar
      Shauna -
      I do really enjoy the musical choices in this game!
    1. Shauna's Avatar
      Shauna -


      Max heads to the diner to meet up with Chloe to talk about her time travel abilities. While she's there, she runs into Chloe's clearly annoying and obnoxious mother who was perfectly friendly and served her delicious breakfast. Chloe eventually arrives and they start testing out Max's powers - but things don't appear to be as good as they initially appeared.
    1. Psychotic's Avatar
      Psychotic -
      What the trout is going on xD By Neptune's Beard! Have a super day, eh? Getting my coffee on before I cut class and surf some rails! Of course I'm baked. Amazeballs.

      smurf me who wrote this episode xD

      oh trout the old nosebleed too much time travel trick.
    1. Shauna's Avatar
      Shauna -


      Our valiant heroes head to Chloe's secret place, which is a bit of a dump. No, it's literally a dump. Luckily, there are plenty of things here for them to shoot up, because that's safe.

      Not everything is good, though. Max finds herself feeling a bit faint again, and they have a few dangerous run ins - namely with a dangerous acquaintance of Chloe's, and a high speed train.
    1. Shauna's Avatar
      Shauna -
      There were some technical issues that have now been resolved. Enjoy!
    1. Psychotic's Avatar
      Psychotic -
      Chloe has some Final Destination trout going on, I tell you what.

      I didn't think this was a stronger section, very much filler. Like, hmm, search a junkyard for five bottles for no specified reason? I mean, if Chloe wanted to test Max (even more than she already had) they could've at least just have the bottles there rather than a pointless fetch quest accompanied by awful Max commentary of "This item used to be used by people now it is not".

      Still enjoyin' the vids tho'!
    1. Shauna's Avatar
      Shauna -
      Yeah, I didn't get the point of more testing. Was all that nonsense at the diner not more than enough? Other than to get the two of them to a quiet place near some railroad tracks to they could get held up at knifepoint and then have to deal with that entire train thing.

      I think that the episodic gameplay actually hurts Life is Strange. It's going for this longer arching story and it's just not going fast enough for any kind of payoff. Overall, in Episode 2 nothing really happens until the finale (sorry for "spoilers") - which has a slow build/burn throughout the episode with hints here and there dropped - and it just feels like... well, what was the point the rest of it? If I look at it in comparison to say, TellTale's Game of Thrones - yes, the things we do will likely have an effect down the line, but you're also seeing some effect now within the length of the episode. This does happen in Life is Strange, but it doesn't feel like it happens enough.
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