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Hm…didn’t watch all of it as it would spoil too much, but it does look interesting. It’s out on the 30th, so not long now.

Never read comments. They’re usually full of troll baiting drivel.

I like the artstyle. It’s a blend of realism with a vibrant palette that sits closer to a cartoon. It gives it a unique look. The acting is okay, but from what I did see (which was very little), it did have a weird jolt from the storm scene to the mundane school life. Still, if these episode are released within a short amount of time like mentioned above, that’s already a huge plus. Telltale seem to be tumbling around badly in that department.

I found this game for the first time on Steam the other day and judging by the pictures i do expect this to be a good game I’m quite excited for it, Shame not much publicity has been shown towards this game.

PaullieeTV - 27 January 2015 01:30 PM

I found this game for the first time on Steam the other day and judging by the pictures i do expect this to be a good game I’m quite excited for it, Shame not much publicity has been shown towards this game.

I’m hoping it’s a case of wait and see. If the reviews are good after episode one, it might start a bigger publicity campaign from the publishers.

Cool it with the constant negativity and hostility!

Chrissie has every right to mention that you’re basically barging into this thread by posting about an unrelated game (and even encouraging others to talk about that one instead). And she didn’t even scold you, nor was she impolite, so there’s no need to throw a tantrum, and especially not an insulting personal attack.
What you just did is unacceptable here. If it happens again, you’re gone.

As for that other thread, that has nothing to do with your reaction here. Besides, your criticism of anything remotely classic point-and-click was what derailed that thread, not her talk of action hybrids.
Frankly, I’m starting to wonder if you even like adventure games because I hardly ever read anything positive about them from you…

This game’s producer did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit just a few hours ago.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2tu8zx/life_is_strange_reddit_ama_with_the_dontnod_team/

Some quotes that stood out to me:

On the game’s length.

This is the type of game that really depends on the player. In the playtests we find that a standard first time playthrough of the Episode 1 takes approximately 2 hours but many players explore every single bit of environmental storytelling or want to know every outcome before they make their final choice, using the rewind mechanic. Some players have taken 4 hours to get through Episode 1 so the length is really dependant on how you choose to play ! All of the episodes are around the same length too.

Will the game’s story revolve heavily around the supernatural?

Life is Strange is heavily anchored in reality, the down to earth elements like isolation, social issues, friendship, family issues, missing student… are keys to Life is Strange, it is our starting point and we are not telling a sci-fi story, but a realistic story with supernatural elements on top of it. However as you will be playing all the episodes and go deeper inside our game and story, you’ll discover daker themes and a growing importance of the supernatural elements. And yes the tornado is an important element of the game

On the game’s gameplay/puzzles.

In Life is Strange, we’re going for story and character development over puzzles.

However, we also want to have modern point’n’click puzzles which are simple puzzles with a twist: the rewind ability. And all of them are tied to the main plot as we want them to always tell something about the narration.

So both narration and puzzle solving will move players on but this is most definitely a modern narrative driven game that has puzzles. Not a puzzle game with a good story!

Who will Life is Strange appeal to?

I don’t want to spoil anything, but we think that we have an interesting story with very dark and mature themes. This most definitely isn’t a high school drama – it just so happens that there is a high school in the game! People are clearly not expecting the journey we have created for sure. We’re looking forward to see how people react when they realise what we have created for you. All I can say is that people haven’t often played a game that deals with the issues and topics we’ve included. It’s a first for games in our opinion.

To be honest we also really think that the gender of a main character is quite irrelevant when creating a good story, it really depends on how you write your characters in relation to the themes you are dealing with. Life is Strange is starring a teenage girl, you’re right, but it is clearly not only a teenage girl story and we really think that both male players and female players will relate to this game and enjoy this adventure.

To be fair, Normad does have a point about not getting fair treatment in those incidences. All I can say though is next time it happens, report it and let the mods sort it out.