Editors Liked
- Engrossing Story
- Great main character
Editors Didn't Like
- Unskippable cutscenes
- Awful writing
Life is Strange: Episode One - Chrysalis
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Expert reviews and ratings
By Absolute Gadget
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Teenage years. An often excruciatingly awkward period of your life where you might frequently find yourself wishing you had a rewind button to retry more embarrassing conversations. But what if you got exactly that?Dontnod's episodic adventure Life is...
By Games Radar
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Life is Strange fails to execute in critical spots, but its beautiful world, fun time-reversal, and honest look at adolescence makes it a game worth remembering. A diamond in the...
By New Game Network
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Life is Strange is an endearing adventure title where time folds naturally around two good friends trying to uncover a dark...
By Bit-tech.net
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It's easily the best conceived character partnership since that of Lee and Clementine in the first season of The Walking Dead, and its nuance and earnestness helps it power through the odd bit of cloying sentimentality, or a wince-inducing use of...
By PC Gamer
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Beautiful, touching and messy. Life Is Strange is good—not great—but I'd recommend it to...
By PC Authority
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A slow, but deeply rewarding gaming...
By PCGamer
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Life is Strange elegantly meshes time-travelling with nostalgia-riddled teen drama, producing a sympathetic debut.
By IGN
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Life is Strange suffers from awful voice acting and writing that doesn’t do its characters and world justice. Dontnod has created great scenarios for a story I’m eager to learn more about, but the moment-to-moment interactions with people in Max Caulfield’s life are pretty painful.
By Polygon
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This is the thing about popular commercial art. It can make mistakes and it can fall short of the ideals of critics, but it can still be fun and admirable. By the end I felt like the inhabitants of Arcadia had stories to share that I wanted to hear.
By HardcoreGamer
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It’s very tempting to dismiss Life is Strange out of hand as the same pretentious pabulum that it emulates, but the affectations of hipster cinema prove essential to its narrative goals. DONTNOD’s sophomore effort aims to capture the voice of today’s youth, and outside of a few heavy-handed moments it succeeds.
By GameInformer
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The next episode will surely define what Dontnod is out to accomplish, but Life is Strange’s introduction is a good look at the characters and dilemmas. It did its job of getting me interested. I have some minor concerns about how original the subject matter will turn out to be, but the focus on realistic problems is refreshing and the care put into Maxine’s world and the relationship-building holds plenty of promise.
By Trusted Reviews
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That having been said, if you are a fan of point-and-click adventures (or those Fighting Fantasy books from yesteryear) and a sucker for an intriguing, atmospheric yarn you'll be right at home here. In fact, it may be just the sort of entertainment...
By Destructoid
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Great: Impressive efforts with a few noticeable problems holding it back. Won't astound everyone, but is worth your time and cash....
By eurogamer.net
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It's difficult to think of a way to convincingly recommend Life is Strange without including a multitude of caveats. It's an interactive drama, but the story isn't always well-written and the dialogue is frequently clumsy. It strikes at an audience...
By Destructoid
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The third episode of Life is Strange releases this week, and it appears as if the embattled-teen story will really pick up speed with this next installment. That is, if this trailer has anything to say about it.Thus far, the first two parts of Life is...
By PCWorld
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We'll see how it develops though. For now, if you like that whole quirky indie scene—Juno, 500 Days of Summer, Away We Go, et cetera—you'll probably enjoy this. Or if you're just a fan of Telltale games like The Walking Dead or The Wolf Among Us and want something Telltale-esque, but less fantastical.
By Gamers
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Wer sich bei der Lektüre des Tests dachte, dass er sich sehr wie eine Liebeserklärung liest, hat damit den Nagel auf den Kopf getroffen. Die knapp 15 Stunden, die ich mit dem Titel verbracht habe, waren eine schöne Emotionsachterbahn zwischen Feel Good...
By Gamer.no
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I et svært sterkt spillår med titler som The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Bloodborne og Fallout 4 mener jeg i fullt alvor Life is Strange på sitt beste overgår dem alle. Det er et vist spill om verdige emner, hella fullt...
By pcmrace.com
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Tras su paso con un notable pero desapercibido estreno como fue el de Remember Me, el estudio DontNod Entertainment se propuso probar un nuevo género, creando una aventura gráfica fuera de lo que estábamos acostumbrados, en la que seremos los dueños de...
By game2gether.de
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So oder so: Life is Strange genießt unsere absolute Empfehlung. Zwar könnten ein paar Dinge besser sein, beispielsweise mit Hilfe von mehr Zeit oder Geld, dennoch liegt uns hier ein sehr schönes Adventure mit faszinierendem Stimmungseffekt vor.Alleine...
It’s very tempting to dismiss Life is Strange out of hand as the same pretentious pabulum that it emulates, but the affectations of hipster cinema prove essential to its narrative goals. DONTNOD’s sophomore effort aims to capture the voice of today’s youth, and outside of a few heavy-handed moments it succeeds.
As reviewed by HardcoreGamer