new thread since me and my gf have been playing Life is Strange series together. i had beefs with the ending of the first game, but on to the prequel Before the Storm, which promises to be even gayer…
we just finished Episode 1 and the lesbianism is just off the charts (i am of course choosing the gayest possible dialogue options). act 1 already feels stronger than the first game - more cohesive and natural, wittier, we actually laughed out loud at several of the dialogue choices and interactions. (the backtalk and the graffiti are really landing for us, humor wise.)
i love chloe’s characterization, her writing is so snappy and she’s so likeable - it’s great to be inside the head of such an outwardly prickly character and see what a softie she actually is. it’s a real treat to get to roleplay as this character and decide when to backtalk, how to insult and bluster your way through difficult situations, when to let your guard down. it’s hard as the big gay dyke that i am not to just fall in love with her.
rachel… does not have great characterization too far, she kind of feels like a manic pixie dream girl without the pixie cut. there’s an unevenness to her characterization — the game paints the relationship between the two as this sudden and intense connection right away, and that lands half the time, but the other half it feels like, “no this girl just has some serious issues to work out,” and chloe should be smart enough to see that. we’ll see how it develops i guess, i don’t want to pre-judge, but I don’t love rachel yet — and her rationale for being interested in chloe lacks some true-to-life-ness. (yes i know the word is verisimilitude but what am i, a nerD??)
so far the game is actually giving me a ton of trans grief feelings? >tfw you will never get to be a punk girl falling for her new friend type of thing. my lesbian yearning is in overdrive. it says something for the game that it can evoke those emotions so strongly, but it also makes it something of a difficult play thru - albeit one that i’m really excited to just binge through. game is messing with my head lol.