An Analysis of Life is Strange: Before the Storm
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No
Nah sorry chief
A Venn Diagram of people who think commenting ‘no’ under each pinned promo is funny and people who don’t get invited to parties would be a circle
I Only Liked The Xbox Showcase From E3
"No Kate, which means no Human Drone Strikes"
I feel bad for laughing my ass off holy shit
yo same.
Fucking lost it at that one XD
18:16
@Andrew Whiting the fuck?!
@Andrew Whiting in what world
@Andrew Whiting How does she suck?
" _The exaggerated saunter of an insubordinate teen_ "
You clever bastard.
Was looking for this comment
Timestamp?
@@leon-didi0759 3:29
Life is strange is my guilty pleasure game. I may not like everything about it and it has some cringy dialogue, but the story gripped me and the mix of powers and real-life relationships is something I did not know I wanted to experience.
This
You should watch the movie Chronicle if you haven't! It's very similar to what you just described
Same, I don't really play these games for the dialogue, I play it for it's interesting story, themes, characters, and warm art style. Plus it's introduced me to so many new types of music
Life of strange is my comfort game, I feel no guilt for loving a good story with real characters, is the dialogue a bit cringe, sure, but weren’t we all when we were kids
I'd say Far Cry is my guilty pleasure game. It's repetitive, sure, but is it fun? Hell yes.
“All who live will become her simp.”😂
sadly thats true…
Darksiders 2 reference. Never forget your roots
@@Whitelight eh nice! me wonders if you’ll talk bout LiS2…
The true powers of this game
@@Whitelight Your Darksiders 2 critique is TH-cam Hall of Fame worthy.
Wait... Rachel being abusive is some hidden detail that we're supposed to be hypnotized from seeing? I picked up on that aspect of Rachel's character after like... 3 sentences.
You'd actually be harder pressed to find a scene where Rachel ISN'T gaslighting someone or trying to get people to do unreasonable things for her through hollow promises, flattery, or negging. She's like mercury. She changes to suit her needs and is poisonous to anyone she touches.
Yeah, I just can't see why anyone would like her
exactly, and in Life is Strange we can see Chloe picking that behavior up..treating Max like Rachel treated her.
@@voluntarilylost I feel a lot of the manipulation was masked by entertainment value for us as players and sometimes maybe by chloe's need of a friend making it a net positive at first before you notice it becoming toxic. Kinda like how manipulation works in reality, I guess it all depends how easily players are manipulated themselves xD
Chloe and Rachel are both very toxic
As soon as she set that forest on fire and didn’t show remorse I found it impossible to see her as anything other than selfishly destructive. I kept waiting for the moment where she realized how many innocent people she hurt in her anger, how long lasting the damage she caused will be, but as far as I remember we never get anything close to that. We just get small optional firewatch updates through text and it gets brushed off at the end, and Rachel continues to do whatever she wants with no regard for how it will affect other people, even if it means burning down countless lives with barely a second thought
I think your characterisation of Rachel is very good. In before the storm and the original as you talk to everyone, you find out everyone thought their relationship or connection to Rachel was special and unique.
I don't think many people get that Rachel is using a survival mechanism. I've ways done the same thing. It doesn't mean you care less though.
@@jessied3696so she sets a forest on fire and faces no consequences for any of it. Yeah, she's dead in the first game, but knowing who she was, I don't feel the least bit bad for her
Wait, this is a whitelight video? I clicked for SKILLSHARE, but I'll stick around for whitelight.
Well, I mean, I have the same sort of problem with your channel. I go there expecting to find my Dad, but since I'm there anyway might as well watch some funny vids!
Nice marketing tactic.
The way you always speak so thoughtfull and restraint only to drop, without changing your speech a S C H A K A B R A H is like the best type of comedy
Daughter's music is one of the best original soundtracks i've ever heard. It so perfectly brought out the emotion in some scenes. And even now i'm still a massive fan of Daughter and EX:RE (dauhter singer's solo stuff). The game would be way worse without it. It speaks for the game way more than the original Life is strange's or the sequels music. I have hope that True Colours will have a good soundtrack, at least with what has been confirmed about it so far. Mxmtoon doing original stuff for the game and songs from artists like the amazing Phoebe Bridgers will hopefully be a great fit.
Angus and Julia Stone (the people who made the song Santa Monica Dream in LiS1) are the ones who are doing the OST True Colors. You can actually hear a song they made for the game in the Switch announcement trailer from this week.
Alt-J are supposed to comeback for True Colors, aren't they?
the soundtrack is incredible, and all the licensed songs which Daughter personally curated. I love Daughter
Any similar artists to Daughter? Any recommendations?
@@arianjamali6183 i think Wye Oak is kinda similar. but Daughter is wholly unique
There's also Lanterns on the Lake, who are on the Before The Storm ost. which is like a sister band signed to the same label
I think what annoyed me about the story, is that parts of it didn't line up with the original game. Now it was mostly the background details, rather than major plot points, but it reflected badly. For example according to the original, Victoria shouldn't be in Arcadia Bay during this time.
They really had a hard time handling their own source material
According to the original game, Victoria should’ve never known who Chloe and Rachel were since they should’ve been in different grades. BtS fleshes out LiS1’s inconsistencies even more when you actually line up the dates.
@@Woeismyhoe They actually weren’t in different grades! Max, Chloe, Victoria, and Rachel were all in the same grade despite their ages not really matching up fully. But the BtS inconsistency comes when you remember Victoria, like Max, only came to Blackwell for her senior year because of Jefferson’s teaching. Rachel was dead/missing for her last year and Chloe was expelled which is why they weren’t at Blackwell that year.
@@sydniestanton4035 The problem is that Blackwell is a senior only school. Also Rachel is a year ahead of the rest of them
@@leahdavis9434 I don’t remember which game this was explained/made canon but Blackwell wasn’t a senior school only until the Jefferson program was made (and Max joined.) Which is really stupid and doesn’t make sense in a lot of ways especially with the dorms but... alas. Also, when did they say Rachel is a year above?
3:30 "The exaggerated saunter of an insubordinate teen." I see what you did there
I don't, what am i missing?
@@4crafters597 It's a play on the "exaggerated swagger of a black teen" line, that some journalist used to describe Miles Morales.
@@chintex_ who the hell says that?
@@noblesseoblige319 Some game journalist reviewing the Miles Morales DLC for the PlayStation Spiderman game
@@MrTurtleThief ah, gotcha. Looked it up, was a pretty funny bit of nonsense, thanks for pointing that out to me
33:39 that scene for me is very manipulative "I will not grant you freedom but I will give you excitement and we will be great together" excuse she will use every single time you will demand freedom
In the nutshell: "I promise you freedom if you stay my slave"
Interesting that you didn't mention the other game mechanic that is unique to Before the Storm (compared to the original LiS); the _Intimacy_ system. Based off of your choices, Chloe's intimacy with Rachel affects both the dialogue and the available options throughout the game. Here's some examples from the first two episodes of moments that affect, or are affected by, Intimacy:
When Rachel is changing and she asks Chloe for her belt - A: throw the belt to her like some neanderthal, or B: hand it to her while she's changing (+1 Intimacy)
This instance affects what Chloe says on the train. If you picked option A and pick the dialogue option about the weather, Chloe will _actually_ comment on the weather. If you picked option B, Chloe has become more intimate with Rachel and her shy brain takes the wheel and she goes *"Nice Rachel we're having"* and visibly cringes a millisecond afterwards.
Your Intimacy level also affects Rachel's reaction to either of the "Friendship" or "Something more" options. If you have zero intimacy points but choose the latter, she is surprised as literally nothing indicated Chloe was interested. If you choose the former with intimacy points, she will also be surprised as she has picked up on some hints that Chloe was interested.
Another example of Intimacy affecting dialogue options is found in the night-time neighbourhood walk after the Tempest play in Episode 2, where Chloe asking for "A kiss" is only available if have chosen enough dialogue options that increased the Intimacy level to 4 or higher. In fact, the entire kiss scene has _several_ variations depending on your Intimacy level and your past options (mostly the choice between "Friendship" or "Something more"), including one where Rachel straight up admits to holding back on the kiss so she has something to bribe Chloe with later if she changes her mind on leaving Arcadia Bay.
its a retrospective scavenge hunt for the fans and not an explicit system like "backtalk"
there is no way for the players to know this at his first playthrough
Well when I played it, Rachel macked on Chloe for like thirty seconds, so the intimacy must've been off the charts.
@@Senumunu In that sense, it's way more realistic. That's how things happen in real life, how small little moments affect your relationship to someone a lot, and only in retrospect can you see how they were important
That's not a gameplay mechanic.
I wonder if you think QTE's are a gameplay mechanic.
@@Leonard_Wolf_2056 Insightful.
I get the symbolic relevance, but taking it from a more literal angle, when I saw those fires start, the winds rush past her as she screamed, I was sure she had some sort of power she was keeping hidden or didn't fully know about. The sequels have shown Max wasn't the only one.
I thought the same thing. Kinda weird, but it reminded me of Heathcliff from back when I read Wuthering Heights for high school. It was like a decade and a half ago so I don't remember it very well, but I remember getting the feeling that he was somehow supernatural, in tune with the birds and the wind and nature itself.
I was fully convinced that was the case as well. There's a scene either before this or after this, with Rachel heavily focusing on the flame of a candle. Really seemed like they were hinting she had some sort of untapped power.
I could seriously listen to you talk for endless hours, its soothing
you don't know how many times i rewatch his videos, and i absolutely hate rewatching videos normally
Why dont you marry him????
Same dude
that’s kinda sus my dude.
@@FaithLuvUnbroken It would be kinda hard to share him. :c
As someone who was around the age of the characters and also from the pacific northwest when the first game came out, I always found it funny when people called the dialogue cringe or a bad imitation of teenage slang because like. That's just how people talked where I grew up. Maybe it was a bit exaggerated but that's just the shit I heard all the time. (I also never played Storm so I dont know if my statement holds up).
Which isn't to say that the overall writing of the games arent a hot mess, but as far as dialogue went, everyone sounded like the exact brand of idiot teenagers they were supposed to be.
Honestly yeah, I was actually in a photography class at around Max's age and hung out with art kids- it's not that far off lol. Also the game is translated from french IIRC so I cut it some slack for that
for BtS, it gets criticized for cheesy cringy dialogue between rachel+chloe a lot, but me and my gf (both gay women) were just cringing bc it 100% accurately reminded us of how we were in our early relationships w girls at that age ahdsgjsg
@GiRayne i think at least a little, yeah, i think people misinterpret the sentimentality of the characters and the fact they're teenage girls to mean that the games are not as intense/important/serious as they are, so they dismiss them
You’re right, teenagers really are as cringe as Life is strange portrays them as; that does not mean the dialogue in LIS is not awful, it is, it just means both it and real teenagers are cringe inducing to listen to
I didn't know flipping off inanimate objects and talking like an idiot was teen behavior. The dumbest and cringiest thing I can remember doing as a teen was putting "gamer" on my gametags.
All this game managed to convey is Rachel being a master manipulator.
fucked up how rachel is soo manipulative when she's 15... can't even imagine her as an adult
Sad people didn't dig deeper to see how she is in fact not deliberately manipulative. People need to recognise both her positive and nevagive sides
"Divergent" killed me
this game made me cry multiple times and not because it was overtly sad but because every time chloe and rachel would share a sweet moment i would be reminded of the fact that in less than 3 years rachel would be dead and chloe would feel abandoned all over again. before the storm is truly just meant to be a character study of rachel and chloe for the slightly masochistic fans of LiS that were craving more pain after the original game.
Fr man, i just finished it a couple days ago and I had to think about that the entire time, even now. They had such a great friendship, sad to see that getting destroyed in such a dark way.
@@timkrone4951 Racheal wasn't really her friend. Racheal seemed to see people as tools for her own ends, hence why she ended up cheating on her. She reminds me a bit too much of a psychopath in the way she manipulates people, and is deceptively destructive. I mean the first act has her setting a massive wild fire out of rage.
@@NeiasaurusCreations That's a lie. Rachel was pretending to be with Frank so she can run away with Chloe. Almost everyone thought that Rachel was in love with them. Nathan, Jefferson and Frank did. But keep in mind that only Chloe know about the situation between her and her dad. Frank didn't know that. She's consistent with Chloe. In BTS she mentioned running away with her. And she's still the same with LIS. But that was cut short due to the unfortunate drugging of Nathan. Coloring her as psychopath that manipulates people is just you being an incel.
@@alvinsmith3894 Nah its literally being observant, she obviously manipulates people constantly. So if I take what you're saying as fact, you actually prove this point very well. She manipulates 'everyone to think she loved them'.
As for psychopath, thats' pretty opinionated. I can see some signs of it, but I think she's more likely a sociopath. As she has too many feelings to be a proper psychopath. But in most context, people don't mean a "literal" psychopath, as in the psychology version. Just someone that acts immoral, and often hurts other people through callous neglect. Which can definitely be said about her. Is she evil? Probably not. But one doesn't need to be evil to the core to hurt other people, or to be not so great humans.
Calling me an incel doesn't actually refute anything I said. And considering I'm usually the first to jump out the window to defend female characters, its a bit ironic. I adore female characters in most games, I mean...Who wouldn't, women are great. But I also won't disregard a character's destructive nature because of them being female, either. I think that type of dishonesty is not my cup of tea. I'm not a fan of deception.
@@NeiasaurusCreations Ah yes because liars = automatic psychopaths. Not necessarily. If the act of lying alone equates to psychopathy that would mean all people are psychopaths. If a child lies to her kidnapper so she can escape, does that mean she's a psychopathic child?
Grow up.
There are a bunch of funny quotes here so i'm posting them here
"You know what they say about guys with long videos. We've got massive... problems with the fundamentals of DSLR Photography."
"The Great Equaliser. Some say it's guns, but i say it's Skillshare."
"I have learned how to become 100%. Funnier."
"You can say my jokes are shit but you are scientifically incorrect."
"Why did the Chicken cross the road? Because it's depressed."
What about the “that’s not white chocolate that’s your BRICK”
"Put away the 9, Chloe. And shoot the bullet of knowledge into your mind"
18:15 "No brook, means no drones strikes. No kate, which means no human drones strikes".
This made my day. Holy shit, if I were drinking a coup of water, I would 100% spit it all on the computer.
This is such a weird one. The first episode of this game came out as I was going into university. Today as this video is released, I have finished my last piece of work for university. Funny how things work out
Life is funny.
Life is strange.
Well done on your degree!
@@tarynb5599 thanks mate
I’m gonna make a channel called Fleshlight where I review your reviews and give them 10/10’s
Would subscribe
Do it lol
this guy's commentary is the most calming thing iv ever heared
Very true. I love falling asleep to these so much
This makes me want a Night in the Woods Whitelight vid
Hey Whitelight! I'd love to see your take on Sleeping Dogs! Lots of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation in the combat and the story is great too!
Good idea! I think this game was thrown around in the comment section for years!
YES!! PLEASE
And he should do Valhalla
Fuck yes! Sleeping Dogs is always going to remain one of the best in my heart and I hope we get a remake or a sequel but the studio's long gone now.
Sleeping dogs is what got me into Yakuza years later, so I’d love to see what he has to say about it.
Rihanna Devries is actually the mocap actor for both Life is Strange games, that's why she's so good, she already knows Chloe intimately.
Devries mocapped only in BtS, Gabrielle Hersh was the mocap actor for Chloe (and Victoria and Joyce) in LiS 1.
This dude straight up turning a game review into a Shakespeare like piece of art
What, you egg?
**Stabs him.**
Exeunt pursued by bear
(stabs you)
he has killed me mother
surprised you didnt mention the dlc episode with Max and Chloe as kids. WITH the original actors! i remember it being pretty good.
Farewell is the best episode in BtS, period
Ah, the whitest light, sleeps successor, I never would have dreamed that you’d revisit life is strange...
I love Life is Strange despite all its flaws.
Can't wait for the inevitable Life is Strage 2 analysis. That game.....certainly exists.
indeed! i read some reviews on the XB1 port, its certainly something… and its Funny As Hell!
Is that the one with the fat chick?
@@danielz-v4083 lol I don't remember there being a fat chick in it, but its the one where you play as a pair of Latino kids trying to escape to Mexico in a hilariously racist portrait of America.
@@UnBR0k3enAngel wtf lol
@@danielz-v4083 I recommend looking up a longplay of episode 1, or trying it yourself. Its free, as far as I remember
literally watching anything related to life is strange makes me so damn emotional. that game wormed it's way into my brain when i was 13 and it will not leave
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omg same. i was 11 or 12 then though lamo
it makes me so emotional every time. nostalgic af for those moments and emotions again. i really need to touch some grass haha
Playing through Life is Strange was one of the main reasons that got me into writing and one of the reasons that pushed me to run away from the mundane to venture in a forest that'll inevitably burn down, or in other words, stay true to myself, escape high school to pursue a life that needed to burn to start ablaze.
Wow, I think this is the first time I've been awake for one of these. Why am I even up? It's 3AM...
Go to sleep now
@@justsomeguywithaforeheadmu6209 Sorry man, but I totally didn't
I’m making that mistake right now lol
@@initailo1536 If you make the most of your time, it isn't a mistake buddy. I believe in youuuuuuu!
"In small town Oregon. The worst possible setup for a video game."
*Laughs in Days Gone*
Laughs in the simpsons hit and run.
That play scene is both endearing and painful because you know both of them will be dead in a year. When you're a kid you have so many dreams, hopes and aspirations, but things just always turn out so different from what you expected, and often the ending to the story we imagined is a tragic one.
Flaws aside, this game is just amazing.
Chloe doesn't die
@@thefinalroman uhhh she does?? Nathan kills her
@@baconofburger8784 only if u let that timeline stand.
@@thefinalroman But thats still a possibility
I never thought you'd review this game
Fucking great suprise
“Max, Chloe, Rachel - they are never all together.” In the recent comics, Max went to an alternative timeline and met Rachel and her Chloe. It’s just as interesting as you’d think it be.
That sounds like a really convoluted timeline.
@@icravedeath.1200 It's the fanservice timeline watch out!
This series’ interpretation of young people’s slang made NadSat look like Oxford Standard. Otherwise, pretty good.
I live in the PNW where this is set. This is how millenials spoke as kids in the areas of Oregon and Washington I lived in lol
also that blue haired girl was a terrible person and i hated her during my entire playthrough lol
The nostalgic flashbacks of me and my friends learning and speaking fluent nadsat and thinking we were cool.
@Chaos Culture {Killing Chaos is my NEED!} they literally are tho. I talked like that all throughout middle school and so did everyone i knew
@@t.k.abrams4720 these people aren’t in middle school
I think problem of Rachel Amber is we dont really see her point of view. Being best student, attending past-school activities like Theatre club, that takes alot of effort and only little of free time for herself. We would understand why she wants to hang with someone like Chloe, who doesnt give shit about anything a lives free of expectations.
At beginning of the game, we see bit of that Rachel in the Mill, but after that, we will see Rachel only when she has time, we never see her struggle with weight of expectations crushing her.
Thats why lots of people thinks Rachel is just using everyone, but i dont think thats right. It has lots to do with fact BtS has only 3 episodes and there isnt much space to show "everyday Rachel". In LiS, we learn alot about Chloe from interactions, text messages and Max's diary, way more than we learn about Rachel from all sources in BtS. She is there, when she has to be and thats it. Chloe's flirty text messages to Max said something about her without being present. Max's diary is great source of additional informations about Chloe and world around her. Chloe's diary on other hand doesnt do it that well, first few pages are about her feelings about Max, but then its just moreless recap of 'last chapter'(previous scene).
Story focus heavily on Chloe, but Rachel should be that second half and thats biggest problem of BtS, because she is just another flat NPC. We dont get feel for her, same way we did for Chloe in LiS and thats sad.
As a person burdened by expectations myself, I dont think Rachel Amber's actions are justifiable. Im not saying that everyone has to react the same way I do; we're all different in our own way. But there's no doubt in my mind that Rachel Amber is a master manipualtor. She asks the world for something and she gets it. She gets impulses on a day to day basis and does with them what she will- not caring for the pain she might inflict on those around her once they figure out. And that all is so- called "justified" in the game because Rachel Amber is Rachel Amber. A perfect girl with undeniable charm and a craving for chaos.
In my opinion, Rachel Amber is best left alone as a Mary Sue. A mystery; an untouched gem. We didn't need to know abt her toxicity or of the darkness inside her.
@@slushiesloosh Little spoiled? Yes you could say that, but manipulator not. What we know, she got along with entire school hierarchy. From elitists in Vortex Club, all way down to Daniel Da Costa or Justin. What should she be getting helping out Justin with math exams, or posing Daniel? She didnt need them to be popular, there was nothing to gain being nice to 'losers'.
I dont like cross-referencing those two games, because one was written after another and in reverse order, but you could guess her relationship with Chloe(and everything hapenned in BtS) had positive impact on her which would somewhat explain her change.
But i still stand behind poor writting as reason why people think of Rachel as manipulator, than anything else. Why would she go to lumbermill concert late in night, other than wanting to have some fun in her life. I think it would be better for story, if roles were swaped. Chloe being one who saves Rachel, who is out of her place. That would be better start of story and better insight into Rachel, than out of nowhere "punk Rachel", which is her side we never see again. And it would be really easy to write her from that point on, girl everyone see as perfect but struggling to find way how to "not give a shit" with Chloe as something like mentor for her(initially). If you can read between lines, it is hinted a bit, its just not told very well and build upon.Thats why is everyone confused what Rachel's motivation really is.
I never noticed that in the beginning train 1337 was coming for her
Praying for a true colors review eventually, feel like they really improved on the style of the game, super amazing addition to the series
When before the storm retrospective is 45 min and mirror's edge is 41 min. A man of culture
Chloe and Rachels relationship directly compare to chloe and max’s in the first game. Rachel a siren in the prequel, and chloe only learning from her, being max’s siren in the original game.
Rachel charms with popularity while chloe charms with nostalgia.
Both chloe in the prequel and max in the original are pulled along by both.
I like this title for what it is. It was an odd choice, to remove the time travel, arguably LiS's most captivating features, and to replace it with this, "argue' mechanic. But they did some good world building.... for the most part. And I still cared about the characters, even if I didn't particularly like them or agree with their goals.
I very rarely comment on videos, but man this guys effort just can’t go un praised. This and all your videos are just amazing, the way he writes and narrates blows me away. Whitelight makes me feel smarter just by talking, truly amazing.
Even before I watch this video I will say this: I despise Life is Strange, but I love your style. I think Firewatch would be a good candidate for your retrospective. This is also a game about people, their problems, and how they cope with them before addressing them head-on.
I too would love a retrospective on Firewatch!
LIS will always have a special place in my heart. Even if it’s not the best technical wise, or maybe the writing can off as cringey, but Arcadia Bay is genuinely the most charming worldspace in any game ever. It feels like home. And I don’t know if I’ll ever get the characters that inhabit it out of my mind.
i agree
I love the quality of your script and the ideas you put forward but your voice is just something special, Whitelight
Got into LiS recently and loving all of it...the atmosphere,the music,the reality of life.....Got me into a lot of different youtubers and musicians.....Koethe's LiS inspired music and Whitelight's detailed videos make me happy :)
White light where have you gone??!
He’s making a new video
Yay! This makes me so happy :) finally, a retrospective of one of my favorite games
Thank you for spending the time and effort to make your reviews so thoughtful and wonderfully built
Literally my favourite video essay channel, keep up the good work man! I always rush to press play when I see one of your videos.
White light thank you for sharing your entertaining videos with me even though me and my brother who is in the military are miles away we can both love and talk about your videos letting us relate to each other with a large barrier in the way
That's lovely
Whitelight is great at making a Skillshare ad sound like a trailer of a movie about a world ending disaster.
This man’s videos are way too good! Each of them a little masterpiece. Thanks you
what a masterpiece of a video, thank you so much for being so good at describing my favourite videogame and a piece of me as a person
Whered ya go?
Also may I just say, mid watching
Daughter is an amazing band and I’m so glad this game introduced me to their music
Been waiting for this one. Thanks dude :)
Holy shit I've been waiting for this. Thanks Whitelight!
Loved your first LiS video for it's fairness regarding the games silly writing, yet who can resist getting pulled into this charming series? You inspired me to make and release my first video essay sir. Keep up the good work
There were videos every month, are you taking a break or doing something big?
I was rewatching previous Whitelight videos while waiting for this. Another great video my dude
Your videos are so well made/cut/edited, and the script is witty, smooth, and has some life to it, making the long format video very engaging and go by in a flash! Can't forget that smooth narrating voice too! Keep up the good work!
I love how some of his best jokes are the ones that prevent him from getting demonitzed
Looking forward to your "Watch Dogs Legion review/1 year later" video after Bloodline DLC (Aiden Pearce DLC) comes out.
Tbh, you made the right decision by letting Ubisoft actually complete the game instead of checking out the early access version.
I have waited for this video for so long, my favorite video you've made was your previous life is strange vifeo. Good stuff lad
Why in the previous game, did I get the impression that Chloe was the toxic one and that Rachel was supposed to talk to Max in the nightmare sequence instead of the altrenate Max?
I hope the remasters don’t fix them too much
Same
@@Ben10man2 it’s be nice if before the storm had the original voice actors tho.
I know this might be creepy but I fall asleep every night by playing your life is strange videos.. Just sooo soothing
I love ur reviews and I was looking forward to this one I'm so happy
Thank you so much for revisiting Life is Strange! This is another masterful video. I really appreciate how you like to take a moment every now and then just to let the mood take over.
loved Life is Strange for the fact that it's presenting people, emotion and trauma. Would love to try others like it. Any recommendations?
a year later but id suggest Night in the Woods, Spiritfarer, or the other lis games
Such an interesting perspective (par for the course on this channel). My memories of this game were far closer to the tail end of this video: cut corners, aspects like Rachel Amber who were *worth* exploring but just felt like they fell flat in execution, and odd moments of attempted character growth that were undermined by virtue of being a prequel. All of that sorta blinded me to the positives, so I was rather taken by surprise by the glowing praise at the start of the essay!
Ultimately though, after watching the essay, while you brought up a lot of interesting points about what Rachel meant to Chloe... I'm sorta left back where I started. The third act matters, sticking the landing matters. Having something to say matters. Part of me just feels like this was too ambitious an idea, to make Amber believably meaningful to all of Arcadia Bay in just three episodes, but that perhaps it was still worth the attempt.
Mate your editing is on point!
Been hoping for this :) I loved your LIS video!
This is hardly an analysis it’s more criticism on both the games
this one of my favorite single player game experiences i loved every minute of it
Thank you for the video I needed to see LIS and LIS:BTS two of my favorite games of all time to be presented in my favorite youtube channel. I wish you could include the bonus episode: farewell too in this episode but who knows maybe another time. Hope you continue the Life is strange series.
Didn’t expect you to finally get around to this game, but I’m happy you did.
That joke about divergent detergent works on so many levels, it should be in an art museum somewhere
Yo I just realized that the background music at around 29:00 is from Far Cry 5, not from LiSBtS. Blended in magically.
Love the videos, keep up the quality content.
I dont think you get enough credit for how well written your scripts are. good shit man keep it up
"Fire blinds us, just like darkness. But darkness blinds with absence. With loss."
"What does fire blind with?"
"Beauty."
is such a beautiful interaction and very true
*insert napalm bombing*
*I am going to burn this fucking game with a molotov*
I guess I wasn’t blinded by the intense heat or bright flames. It was the beauty of the burning nightclub.
(posting this before I watch the video so sorry if I'm repeating something that gets said) Maybe it's just me, but I love Life is Strange 1 and 2, and really hate Before the Storm; to me it's not just the graphical downgrade of the whole VA strike debacle though, it's that I find it's existence in the first place so contradictory to the ideas that made the 1st one really resonate with me. The 1st game, for me, is so much about missing years and the grief that it can cause; Max moves away from her friend, comes back, and they lived a whole life without her, and once Chloe's gone that that story gone forever, Tears in Rain (I don't think it's a coincidence they watch Blade Runner before one of Chloe's potential deaths). same with Rachel Amber; Max will never know her as nothing more than conflicting stories and a picture. Max leaves, the world changed, and when she got back she has to learn to accept what leaving meant to those around her, and that that past will remain a mystery forever.
Before the Storm just goes "Here's the story you missed" and it just paints everything so odd; the weird rushed relationship with Rachel that sees her on the same day properly meeting her, running away with her, and then has them arguing like they've known each other for years; the way they shoehorn in an idea that maybe Rachel is the storm rather than just being more metaphorical for the dangerous consequences of being unable to let go. I like the dream sequences and BtS isn't made without passion or ideas, and perhaps seeing them move away from preestablished stuff with True Colours is the right thing for them; but to me BtS is just nothing more than fanfiction, and at least for me it feels like that far too much to be something I could ever get behind.
Nice vid, thanks for creating it.
I will not stop being amazed that this game once shaped my view of the world.
Before, when I was younger, I couldn't look at Rachel from that angle, adult point of view. Now, of course, I agree with your thoughts, but damn, this game! It’s like your beloved person - forever in your heart with all its downsides.
And the Daughter music is the deepest in my heart.
Before the Storm made me feel so much empathy for Chloe.
For me it made me dislike her more.
@@coletrainhetrick Honestly the worst part of the first game, loved everything else about it though.
@@coletrainhetrick I dislike her personality overall, but her as a character is good, mostly by how much you can relate to her (in your respective circumstances), the thing I like more about her character is that she found resolution at the end of the first game, wanting to sacrifice her life for everyone in Arcadia Bay (I like that stereotype/profile in characters, like Nero from Fate/Extra, always selfish and reckless through her life, but at the end realizing the error of its ways), thing that is easily took away of her character by deciding to sacrifice the Bay (thing that I would neeeeeever even consider in doing), because that would be leaving Chloe pretty much the same character as she was in the first game, without any real development at the end (at least not a real influencial one imo), and let Kate, Warren, Pompidou, Joyce or even Frank that actually got a decent amount of development through the game is a big no for me, but anyway, I know this is not gonna be the opinion of most people because 50% of players saved her, so I just wanted to share my thoughts on the matter, and again, good character when it comes of her fitting into the story, but bad personality, for my liking that is xP
@@strangelife2244 yeah, I agree with you a ton. My biggest problem is ironically the fact you have a choice at the end of the game.
From what I gather i think a substantial reason people save chloe is because they either don't recognize thst she's a terrible influence for max or they don't realize that the game literally makes no sense and justify killing hundreds of people because they think it's not guaranteed to work... why would they offer a choice if it would allegedly not work? Its not as if any of this makes sense and the literal time gods or whatever are saying it would work.
@@coletrainhetrick Indeed, indeed, I think most players just wanted to give Chloe a "2nd chance" in life (even tho she pretty much wasted and made her whole life-actions a mess while putting the blame on literally everyone except herself, even William; that was the part that pretty much made me dislike her character ngl, also emotionally blackmailing Max to ignore Kate's Call literally a scene before), and it's somewhat understandable depending of the player if you don't mind all the selfishness that decision comes with, there's a similar case with a game called Chaos Rings 2 (Mobile RPG, also made by Square Enix) where you, Darwin; the protagonist, literally have to sacrifice the 5 people you want to "protect" the most (a little bit more complicated than that xP), and you have to do it, for the sake of all the lifes on the planet, and once you accomplish it and you are at the end of this ritual, you have the choice of ending the ritual so the sacrifices of everyone through the campaign aren't wasted (which would be the morally good choice), OR you have the choice of going to the depths of the place you're being held captive to defy the one behind this history of rituals to "save humanity", to give it the middle finger and save those people that are more dear to you than humanity itself, and Spoiler, the latter is the good ending, but in this case, the game makes sure to justify your decision if you decide to go for the 2nd choice, unlike LIS where it's pretty much up to mostly the player relatability of Chloe's character, which itself leaves this abyss between people's opinions about the ending, and about Chloe itself, it's a real rollercoaster xP
Hot damn, why is TH-cam never showing me notifications for people I have all notifications on for! I can’t believe I nearly missed this.
Divergent joke got me good. you got a sub for that alone. your content is great too!!
Oh my god i was literally watching your video about life is strange the original so many times this month, this is like Christmas lol
The Raven symbolize death ,who follow Reichel and Chloe,.I think it's a reminder for the player that he/she is there only to get to know about Chloe and Reichel, not to change them fate.
3:57-4:00 Ive replayed this part at least 20 times and the line delivery still makes me burst out laughing
Yessss I was hoping you were gonna do this one, its one of my favorite games of all time and one that means a lot to me emotionally.
Whitelight is just getting better and better.