Welcome to LIFE IS STRANGE week. If you aren’t familiar with the DONTNOD videogame series, they’re choice-based narrative games where the decisions you make matter more than they ever did in your MASS EFFECTs, and they’re all centered around the traumas endured while navigating one’s tumultuous teen years.
It is worth noting that all of these games deal rather frankly with a range of unsavory and traumatic actions and conditions, such as abduction, abuse, familial death, suicidal thoughts, and more. I’ll be assigning content warnings to each post but, if you’re sensitive to such matters — believe me, I am and I probably shouldn’t even be replaying these games right now — you may want to skip these entries.
If you want a primer, I’ve created a YouTube playlist:
The first post will be for LIFE IS STRANGE (2015) on Feb 20th! In the meantime, you can take bets on which is my fav.
UPDATE
Since the week is over, here’s a list of each post!
- LIFE IS STRANGE
- LIFE IS STRANGE: BEFORE THE STORM (narratively predates LIFE IS STRANGE)
- LIFE IS STRANGE: DUST / WAVES / STRINGS
- LIFE IS STRANGE: TRACKS / COMING HOME / SETTLING DUST
- LIFE IS STRANGE: BEFORE THE STORM – FAREWELL (narratively predates LIFE IS STRANGE: BEFORE THE STORM)
- LIFE IS STRANGE 2: THE AWESOME ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN SPIRIT
- LIFE IS STRANGE 2
- LIFE IS STRANGE: TRUE COLORS
- LIFE IS STRANGE: TRUE COLORS – WAVELENGTHS (narratively predates TRUE COLORS)
- LIFE IS STRANGE: STEPH’S STORY (narratively predates TRUE COLORS and WAVELENGTHS)