Life is Strange 2 Review

• Originally written for a video review on YouTube, between December 17th, 2019 to January 3rd, 2020
• Light spoilers for Life is Strange 2: Episodes 1 to 3

I played Life is Strange (2015) in the summer of 2017. I fell in love with Life is Strange (2015); the characters, the world of Arcadia Bay, and the gameplay. The ability to rewind time and see both sides of most of the choices is pretty neat. Life is Strange: Before the Storm was a neat prequel game but suffers from being a prequel. The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit was a nice hold over until the full release of Life is Strange 2.

Leading up to the release of Life is Strange 2, it was taking a different approach. Moving away from the previous characters and introducing new ones in Sean and Daniel Diaz, latino-american brothers living in Seattle with their father. It was the logical move to switch to new characters to make this game new and interesting. Throughout these five episodes, you follow the two brothers on their journey to Mexico. The first episode is honestly a pretty strong start. It still had the Life is Strange vibe and did a good job introducing to the Diaz brothers and their objective for the whole season. There were definitely a lot more politics sprinkled throughout this episode and the season in general. The second episode was okay but did show signs of repetition that could…