Life turns into odder than ever within the third episode of Life Is Strange 2, launched in the present day. Our lads are nonetheless on the lam, reaching the redwood forests of California and–uh oh!–you recognize who’s present in forests: hippies. And me. Often me. But it’s hippies they’re hooking up with this time as they proceed to trek cross-country and, y’know, come to phrases with puberty and superpowers and hormones and all that.
Squeenix blast the next blurb to set the episode up:
“Episode 3, ‘Wastelands’, continues Sean and Daniel Diaz’s journey to Mexico, as they reach the towering redwood forests of California. Falling in with a community of drifters on the fringes of society, the brothers are exposed to new experiences, encounter new friends and new challenges, and must confront much about themselves in the process. New relationships cause friction between the brothers and raise doubts about their unity. Can they stay together, or will their journey together end here?”
I reckon they’ll do it. If this isn’t ringing many bells after a four-month hole between episodes, you may discover Brendan and Alice Bee’s verdict-o-chats about episode 1 and episode 2 useful refreshers. Perhaps even entertaining.
The full season of Life Is Strange 2 is £32.45/€39.95/$39.95 on Steam. You may buy episode 1 separately for £6.49/€7.99/$7.99 then add on further episodes individually for a similar. That additionally means sure, you possibly can skip episodes or play them in any order, by which case the game will randomly generate a save state to begin the episode. Why. Why is {that a} factor. For whom. Why. What.
If an unlawful wacky baccy farm within the redwoods appears unusual to you, what with California having legalised marijuana in November 2016, do do not forget that the game begins in October 2016. And regardless of legalisation, illicit farms within the woods are even now an issue causing great environmental damage.
Episode four is scheduled to observe on August 22nd, with episode 5 ending the story on December third. That’ll make the sequence have taken fourteen months in all, a good bit longer than the 9 months of the primary Life Is Strange. That stayed recent in my head over the months, my mind nonetheless remembering what occurred and my coronary heart nonetheless related to characters, however any longer than that and an episodic story schedule doesn’t actually work for me. Maybe I’ll have a go at Life Is Strange 2 as soon as it concludes.
The first Life Is Strange made me spam Pip with messages like “MY HEART…!” in any respect hours of the day throughout 2014 however I’ve actively averted the sequel thus far. Quite a lot of how I felt concerning the first was tied up in who I used to be then and relationships I used to be in and… I’m comfortable to depart that in reminiscence and never muddle it by smashing in ideas of two. Take that, Dontnod: you made a game I appreciated sufficient to not need a sequel.
