Max is as likely to use her powers to save a classmate from social embarrassment as to rescue Chloe from mortal peril.
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This left them free to focus on developing emotionally resonant situations as Max and Chloe rediscover their friendship, search for a missing girl and try to puzzle out the meaning of her apocalyptic dreams.Īrcadia Bay and the Blackwell Academy are crammed with opportunities to learn more about the characters and their world, from emails to matchbooks. However, Dontnod scaled down the peril by explicitly building the power to rewind time and try again into the game world's narrative. And instead of a combat-trained operative, the action centres around Maxine “Max” Caulfield, a student who discovers she has the ability to turn back time when her childhood friend Chloe is shot in front of her.ĭontnod has clearly taken notes from Telltale’s award-winning, big-selling approach to updating the point-and-click adventure to the age of fully explorable 3D environment. Instead of Neo-Paris, the settings is the Pacific Northwestern town of Arcadia Bay. Life Is Strange, their contribution to the burgeoning episodic adventure genre, is a very different beast. Before this year, Dontnod were best known for the action-adventure title Remember Me, which despite a novel setting involving mnemonic burglary in a futuristic Paris offered relatively familiar third-person combat and platforming.
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