Life is Strange: Episode 1 - Chrysalis

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...

Life is Strange is an endearing adventure title where time folds naturally around two good friends trying to uncover a dark...

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...

Beautiful, touching and messy. Life Is Strange is goodnot greatbut I'd recommend it to...

Life is Strange elegantly meshes time-travelling with nostalgia-riddled teen drama, producing a sympathetic debut.

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.

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.

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.