I love 💧the Life Is Strange series. The first game was my favourite – I thought the central gameplay mechanic of turning back time to change the flow of events, and the fact that you had to see the effects of your changes on other people’s lives, were fascinating. The second was very good as well, touching on bigotry, homelessness, and again, the effects of your actions on people’s lives.
In fact, choices and consequences are the core themes of the Life Is Strange games. In every game, you or someone with you have a mysterious power, and the way you use it affects other people. In Life Is Strange: True Colors, you are Alex Chen, a young Asian woman with the abil🍬ity to feel and 🤡affect other people’s emotions. You start the game leaving a foster home and meeting your brother, Gabe Chen, in an idyllic town called Haven Springs. It’s a mining town, with many of the people around you employed by a big corporation called Typhon.
I don’t want to say much more about the game because the story is the whole point, but the game touches on emotional disorders, grief, and corruption. It’s an excellent story, and Alex Chen ꦅresonated deeply with me, as I am also a bisexual Asian person who has the tendency to feel things far too deeply and, as a result, react strongly. Did I still cringe at her lyrics? Yeah, but we’re all a little cringe, really. Will she resonate with you for the same reason? Maybe not, but there are plenty of reasons to love this game.
The strength of this series has always been in its writing. True Colors occasionally falls short in its dialogue, but its actual ﷺplot is moving and heartfelt. The open world is small, but full of life. It looksℱ great, and every character has their own story to tell, and their own changing relationship to Alex. There’s been a lot said about ‘choices matter’ games and whether or not choices can actually matter in this medium, but I do remember sitting and thinking very, very hard about certain decisions before making them. What impressed me was that I wasn’t thinking about these decisions entirely in the mindset of how the choice would affect my gameplay and result later on, but whether it was the right thing to do. It had me considering, in a very non-abstract way, whether it was morally right for me to do certain things, and that’s what I love about this series.
Life Is Strange: True Colors was only on Xbox Game Pass for a year, but hopefully plenty of people got to experience its creative gameplay and themes. There’s something to be said here about the neverending churn of Xbox Game Pass games and how good games get taken off the service all the time, but I don’t have to articulate it because 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:our own Eric Switzer already did. What I will say is that True Colors has already been out for a year and a half, so just look out for a sale and you won’t have to pay the full price for a good game. If you have 12 hours to spare before April📖 15 and a hankering for a hell of a story, you can catch it for free – if not, your money will be well spent anyway.