E3 has come and gone, recently wrapping up, and with an announcement of this game’s sequel (prequel) and PS Plus providing this as a free game this month why not give this well awarded and reviewed episodic story a go? I went into this game with higher than normal expectations since I feel like I have heard about it so much. But man I’m sorry to say, I just didn’t enjoy this game at all and felt like I couldn’t finish it fast enough, even though it is already a relatively short episodic game. If you have listened to our podcast then you know that I have major issues with Telltale’s games and Life Is Strange looks, feels, and suffers from the issues those games tend to come with: Horrible lips syncing, sometimes not even moving at points, clunky and static characters animations, etc. As for the story, I found it to be extremely predictable and slow. For the most part, nothing really matters until the end of the 4th episode and by the time the 5th and final episode came around I couldn’t care less about the outcome of anyone but our two main characters. I found almost nothing redeeming about this game other than the inventive ways you get to use Max’s time powers. Plus my ears felt like they were going to starting bleeding from the severe overuse of, what I presume the developers think college freshman talk. Using phrases like, “hella,” “ubercools,” “for reelz,” and “wowser.” I just finished college a little over a month ago, so, for the record, no one talks like that.

But luckily for all you trophy hunters out there, just like Telltale’s games, this is a super easy platinum trophy to get. All you have to do is use a guide to find and take all ten optional photos in each of the five chapters.