Comment on Mid game review: Life is Strange 2 (2018) PS5
Ashtear@lemm.ee 1 week ago
This was ultimately my least favorite release of the series, but I agree that the “choices matter” element of the game is quite strong. I always appreciate a lower budget game like this really going for it in that realm.
The story hasn’t aged well for me–this game’s initial plot hook would have looked a lot different after 2020–and it’s sad that the atmosphere of the game feels quaint today. A lot of what the two go through is disturbingly commonplace among persons of color in the US, but then they have this cult chapter of the story that stretches suspension of disbelief well past the breaking point. I’m still annoyed at its inclusion, which I think undercuts the (very important) greater message the story was trying to tell.
frozengriever@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
The story definitely felt like it was aiming to cover all the hot-button political issues in the U.S. at the time, such as immigration, racism, police violence, drug counterculture, and religious extremism. But I feel the developers’ French background limited them to a more surface-level treatment of these themes. The cult subplot, in particular, comes across as how a more secular European perspective might view the American evangelical movement as a sinister threat in the same category as the other societal ills the game covers.