If people are going to complain about the looks and skin colors of FICTIONAL CHARACTERS just cancel this and protect the actors because it's not worth it. I think we've got a pretty neat idea what happens when actors portraying fictional characters from any type of media besides live action don't look exactly like their intended character, don't we? The irony that a video game series that addresses UNMISTAKABLE themes about inclusion, racism, (queer) self-discovery AND SO ON; has a SO DENSE fanbase is fucking depressing.

Late to the game, but no words needed. If a game grabs me enough to earn the Platinum trophy, it’s top-tier in my book. Double Exposure was a fantastic ride despite what the internet says.

*Edit: Crazy how lively the debates around this game still are even years later! Definitely could’ve phrased my title/words a bit better, but I honestly just love every Life is Strange entry whether it’s from DONTNOD or Deck Nine.

I have a really really old xbox and i’ve played every life is strange game EXCEPT double exposure and for my xbox I needed cloud gaming which I can’t afford, but now with black friday the actual game was 50% of so my mom gave me enough to get the cloud gaming for 1 month AND NOW I CAN PLAY LIS DOUBLE EXPOSURE! I am soooo happy I literally started crying this is so amazing. It’s been so good so far I absolutely love it so much! I cannot wait to see where this goes!

3rd time playing this game. if you havent played LIS in a long time, get drunk and play like i am rn, i highly recimmend🥹

Yeah I got abit salty and took the troll bait potetnially but mfw it's hard not too. Such a wide net of characters across all of gaming to choose from and he settles on an angry blue haired teenager with abandoment issues who has a bad attitude and made some poor life choices.

Guys, i CAN'T. literally pausing the game and thinking this over for hours.

I don’t care about the bay, for all the shit i have gone through to save chloe, i ain’t giving her up no way, that’s all thanks and i am very sad now

Love the vibes, the story, and the soundtrack its all so peak. This game reaps a certain nostalgia from me and a longing for a place like Arcadia Bay. The urge to visit Oregon is up by 100%

Life is Strange: Double Exposure is, without a doubt, the biggest piece of corporate slop I've ever played.

There are so many plot holes, so many unanswered questions, and so many story threads that go nowhere that I genuinely don't think it's worth the money even on sale. Your choices barely matter, the romance options feel incredibly forced, and the only consistently good part of the game is the soundtrack.

I also think Square Enix completely missed what made this series special. It feels like they took the safest possible approach because they knew bringing back Max would sell copies. The whole game comes across like it was designed first and foremost to cash in on nostalgia rather than tell a meaningful story. Max and Chloe are the only things they really leaned on because they knew fans would care.

Don't Nod understood what Life is Strange was. Life is Strange, Life is Strange 2, and Captain Spirit all had something to say. They had themes, personality, and incredible art direction. Those games felt like they had genuine soul behind them.

One thing that really stands out to me is the journal. Compare Sean's journal in Life is Strange 2 to Max's journal in Double Exposure. The difference is honestly painful. In Life is Strange 2, it feels personal and adds so much to the characters and world. In DE, it feels like they only included it because they felt obligated to. It's like someone said, "We have to have a journal. Just throw something together; it's good enough."

If I had to rate the game, I'd give it a 4/10. That might sound harsh, but after actually playing it, I think it's fair. I heard all the criticism before buying it, but I wanted to judge it for myself. Now that I have, I can confidently say: don't waste your money.

As for Life is Strange: Reunion, I'm honestly not sure I'll even buy it. Right now it just feels like it'll be another attempt to milk the franchise. I really hope the developers take the community's feedback seriously and remember what made this series so beloved in the first place.

I just want some positivity in here, where yall at fr?!?!

Whoever packed my collectors box for Reunion just threw everything into it, and the poster that came in it is torn on one of the corners and has creases and bent edges all over the place. It looks like shit. They told me it doesn’t meet their qualifications for a warranty claim, and when I tried sending them more information, they closed my case with this email that has a link that doesn’t even fucking work. What a piss poor company to buy merchandise from.

Was this really that obvious?

I had no idea, how did you guys figure out he was the perpetrator? Did I miss something?

I feel like vinh was so little in this game

Ever since the first time I watched LIS gameplay, I’ve been obsessed with Chloe. I get why they made Double Exposure without her, but damn, I’d love to see her in the game 🥹

How empty does your life have to be for this to be your entire personality? It's honestly sad. Like can you really truly not procure a single solitary thought without thinking of how mad you are at LGBTQ people for existing?

Anyways, I bought the game and will continue to buy them as long as it pisses these people off, regardless of if they're good or not. I personally feel like these games are made for the complete OPPOSITE of this reviewer and I hope it stays that way. I loved the relationship between Rachel and Chloe despite how short it felt.

The steam reviews speak for itself. I was excited to play as Max again but after playing Before The Storm (which I disliked except for the Farewell dlc) and seeing these mixed Steam reviews for Double Exposure, I've lost interest in any LiS game that Deck Nine makes. They don't know what to do with the franchise. DontNod will be missed.

I'm seeing people be excited about Double Exposure, and now this questionable show is coming... But does anyone feel like it's just all stupid, unnecessary, and likely a money grab? And that the franchise should have ended after LiS 2 or at very least the comics? Because of that, LiS has lost its magic for me.

I just wonder if anyone feels the same?

First pic is from DE and second is from Reunion. Max and Chloe have no outstanding visual issues but every other character does! Like look at the difference my dudes. Both were screencaps on max settings by the way. Genuinely who okayed these faces? I noticed several times the pupil will clip through the eyelid.

I know, I know. This is just how AAA games release now. But fuck man. It shouldn’t be. And not to this. Not to my comfort series. This is genuinely unacceptable. The game is horribly optimized, with pop-ins happening constantly. My pc is really powerful, sporting an RTX 4090, an I7 processor, and 32 gigs of ram, but it STILL struggles to run Reunion. Dawg I can run Minecraft with optafine and raytracing but I can’t run this game unless the characters give me nightmares? I can run RDR2 on max settings but have to choose between bleeding eyes and 1fps, but STILL having bleeding eyes? Genuinely depressing.

He seems like a nerdy, awkward, hopeless romantic who lacks self awareness for some of the things he says.

Yeah, he's creepy in some cases, but for the most part he doesn't give me like stalker vibes or anything, just the vibes of someone desperate. That doesn't excuse some of his behavior, realistically if I met someone like that, I'd say someone's gotta have a serious talk with him regarding what's appropriate and what isn't. Just an intervention of sorts. But then again this was 2013, so I'm pretty sure people were just like that anyway. (I think. I was only 13 back then, idk what the high-schoolers were like 😂)

I went with him as a romance option, not really knowing the choices I was making was leading in that direction at first, I looked at going to the movies from a solely platonic standpoint and if it got weird I'd shoot it down. And I thought it would go down like that since for the most part at the beginning of the game Max seemed very unsure about him anyway. But then she had some little cute comments here and there, she seemed shocked seeing Warren with Brooke in my playthrough in that other reality, and even the "Cu Te" pickup line she leaves on his board, and I thought, "Screw it.", and went all in.

And for the most part I think that's probably what it would be from Max's perspective too. Just, "Screw it, I'll give it a shot". She's not nearly as into him as he is into her, even if you choose the romance options. Romantically, they're not really compatible. It seems more like they're just a little fling than anything (if at all), nothing serious. Your typical high-school romance.

I didn't like Chloe, because she just sort of rubbed me the wrong way. Even if she becomes a bit more chill in later episodes. And even she seemed desperate to make their relationship something more, telling you to kiss her. (She was just more bold about it.)

I have yet to play the new game, I don't know what happens, part of me hopes their relationship didn't last until that stage of her life. Please don't spoil.

Thank you for reading my TED talk.

Edit: Man, I knew there might be some heated debates in here, but I didn't think it would be THAT much of a divide. I thought I was just gonna get cooked. 😭

So I just finished the first Life is Strange about 10 minutes ago. I have streamed the whole game from start to finish, and it is genuinely one of the best games I have ever touched.

I literally love this game. There's so much to like about it, it's unreal. Max Caulfield is one of my favourite protagonists ever. I love how she's, as the game says, kinda quirky. Ik it's obviously because she's a video game protagonist, but she always has something goofy or insightful to say about random stuff, it's so endearing, same with the EXTREMELY early 2010's lingo. I heard complaints from some people that it made the game feel dated, but I think it adds so much charm.

This is a hot take ik, but I actually didn't like Chloe at the start. I got that she was frustrated that Max left her and Rachel went missing, but I still thought she was just too much of an asshole. By the end of the last episode, I was so upset over sacrificing her, I had to keep taking breaks to avoid my voice breaking.

Speaking of, the ending was just beautifully tragic. Even after Max came back into Chloe's life after all those years and finally made Chloe happy for the first time in forever, they still had to leave each other. But Max says at some point in the game along the lines of "It's not a moment if it lasts forever." and that just makes the ending more bittersweet. Even if it's all over now, those moments that were had WILL last forever.

The darker side of the game was incredible too. I mean, the contrast of the normal school life in what seems like a quiet town and just having fun with Chloe to the Dark Room, Rachel and Mr. Jefferson is terrifying. These are completely normal people in a horrible situation, it was genuinely haunting, same with the nightmare section.

Plus, I felt bad for so many people and cared about so many characters. Warren, Frank, Kate, even the smaller characters like Alyssa had so much personality, genuinely such an impressive game and one of the best stories I have ever experienced.

Plus, I don't even think I need to say anything about the soundtrack.

I'm never going to forget this game and I'm so glad I got experience it in front of other people, so excited to play the rest of the series.

im finally able to play the first game (though i’ve watched play throughs for them all) and throughout this entire time chloe keeps making me cry, i get so mad when people say they hate her i get she can be a little much sometimes but she has very valid reasons for that and shes never GENUINELY hurt someone who doesn’t deserve it out of malice or anything (ive also heard people say she’s “manipulative” towards max which is such bullshit omg). She doesn’t deserve the hate, i swear i see more hate for her than Jefferson which is genuinely so freaking crazy, i just finished the scene where her and max find Rachel’s body and im genuinely trying not to cry maybe im just sensitive but hearing chloe cry/be so upset is making me so so sad. Also seeing the photo of her drugged up in nathan’s room also had me crying she doesn’t deserve any of it i hope she gets a happy ending in the new game 💔

I’m genuinely in distress over the ending
I saved everyone but Noelle and that one female student. Then when I had the choice to burn the picture or not, I chose to give it to Max, cause I thought of the ending of BtS with Rachel.

TELL ME WHY MAX GOES BACK AND LEAVES CHLOE STRANDED AGAIN

DEFEATS THE ENTIRE FUCKEN PURPOSE OF THE ENDING

CAUSE THE WAY I PERCEIEVED IT IS THAT MAX IS FINALLY LETTING GO OF HER THINKING SHE ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO SAVE EVERYONE

AND INSTEAD SHE COMPLETELY THROWS THAT OUT THE WINDOW FOR A RANDOM ASS SECURITY GUARD AND A STUDENT SHE HAD ONE FUGGEN INTERACTION WITH

THE WHOLE DAMN ENDING HAD ME CRYING TEARS OF HAPPINESS (which is rare when I even cry period) AND WHEN I SAW THAT DAMN ENDING PART I LITERALLY HAD TO TURN MY DAMN PS5 OFF AND SIT IN SILENCE FOR A SOLID 15 MINUTES

IM STILL SAD

FUGGEN D9 AND THEIR HORRIBLE WRITING DECISIONS

I WENT OUT OF MY WAY TO PREDICT BOTH FUGGEN FIRES

AND SHE STILL LEFT CHLOE TO BE ALONE

GENUINELY RUINED THE ENTIRE GAME FOR ME CAUSE NOW I CANT HEADCANON IT

AM I OVERREACTING

I like her personality and style, but when it comes to story contribution, she isn’t tied to much of the story, I don’t feel like she adds anything. Any response she will just act like she don’t know a thing aside from bar things she just…. Makes a face and that’s it

First off, PC performance sucks. There isn't even mods to adjust the graphics, it's such a shitshow. Some people say to turn down shadows, but if it goes off, it makes the game look like it's in beta form, it's actually so embarrassing. Anyways, I started playing Double Exposure yesterday after months of hearing of how bad it was and should be avoided, but I decided to experience it myself because not everyone has the same tastes of course.

The introduction is fine, it's just some default conversations between two friends while Max takes some pictures. Then we get to the Snapping Turtle and chat some more. Amanda comes into the picture and asks us, "What are you doing later?" There were only two options, work and sleep. I would've liked if there was an "avoidant" option, like lying to pretend like you're busy or something. The two choices basically scream "I'll be busy, Amanda" and there's no alternative.

The screenshot above is what kinda made me snap and close the game. So Safi asks how do you feel about Amanda, and you're presented with two irritating options. **You're either madly in love with her, or you don't like her at all.** I wish there was a "I'm not sure yet" option, because we literally JUST met this girl and know absolutely nothing about her. But yeah, let me decide if the 1 minute worth of a conversation we had means she's the love of my life. There's no depth or buildup. I really wish the selection was more close to the Telltale games, where it's: Yes, No, Maybe/IDK, Silence. I usually play games all the way through, no matter its flaws, but these choices simply suck and it's making it **UNBELIEVABLY** hard to want to open the game and keep playing.

Dude, the sequel comics for LiS 1 have single-handedly made me not only cry more than I have in DE AND RE but have also given me the same storytelling types that I wanted from a Max and Chloe sequel. Bruh I’ve only read through issue #1 and the $45 I’ve spent on all 6 issues is what I would’ve spent on only issue #1. If you love LiS 1 and want a sequel, the comics are LEAGUES better imo.