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I think an after the storm game could work. 1st episode would focus on Max + Chloe dealing with their grief. Not 100% on the timeline, but I'm pretty sure they went to Canada (Biff national Park) and Michigan (Lake Superior) which are two of the most beautiful places on earth and would be an added bonus to the game. 2nd episode could focus more on Chloe's time in Haven point where we learn more about Steph and Gabe + see the pride parade Steph talked about. 3rd episode would be 1/2 in the away camp where we learn about David and Karen more, but we know Chloe and Max got into a huge argument which opens into the second half in New York where we fully experience the downfall of their relationship. Then a 4th (bonus) episode dedicated to the Bay option where we see Max and others deal with the grief of Chloe's death. This could also hammer in how no one knows about Max and Chloe's recent relationship, with characters blaming Max or just being confused on why she's so hung up about it; just so people who sacrificed Chloe get their fair share of guilt. I feel like this kinda solves the main problem of canonizing one ending by only dedicating 1 1/2 episodes to Max and Chloe and having the other half of the game be more focused on side characters who we didn't get to fully experience. And of course the bonus episode makes neither ending officially cannon, but if they had 3 full Max + Chloe episodes and slapped on 1 bay episode on top it would seem pretty lazy.

I really enjoyed the addition of the background music for this video. Im glad to see the production quality of your videos get better and better overtime

4:58 nope, that’s curlys id card. he was originally not supposed to shown pre-crash but they scrapped that last sec

If they think that LGBT characters harm the series brand, they've seriously mistaken their audience.

I NEED that Rocky Mountain Record Trader hoodie!

I've been dying for a Before The Storm season 2 for years ever since that post credits scene. Desperately clinging to the idea of Rachel being the protagonist and the game taking after Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me, showing us everything leading up to Rachel's disappearance.

Another nod to Chloe in the game is behind the record store (I think) you can find a table with the same red Oregon ashtray that Chloe uses

i really just want the series to stay an anthology with different stories every time, i loved true colors and think decknine could do great just doing their own stuff. let these characters rest, damn 😭 life is strange isn't about the powers or continuation, but the feelings and vibes

I just want max and chloe back together bruh 😭

What happen to Drew after BTS? was that ever mentioned in any of the older games?

Me like to see a life is strange like the comics.

They should plant the seeds yes that's right.

I like to go back to go to Blackwell Academy.

I think double exposure was a fabulous game but I would like a life is strange after the storm like the comics.

if we are talking sequel for DE, i just don’t want the teasers at the end to be for nothing, like how max isn’t going to run away from chloe anymore, maybe in bae ending she could have some plot relevance or even a cameo where max just calls her or something happens and chloe helps, because otherwise i don’t understand what that teaser was for then. also maybe seeing alex and daniel again, unfortunately probably not sean since he died in one ending

ur cute

I feel like the true colors spin off book was based on a scrapped sequel cause it reads like a LIS game more then Steph’s prequel book did. I’d love to see them create it as a game

I haven't played double exposure myself, so I don't have strong opinion on that. For me, Chloe is a big selling point of the fandom, and yeah breaking up made it equivalent to the sacrifice one, they should be aware that erasing Chloe will definitely lose the amount of the fandom because of it, especially if the writing felt like it was just a cover up to make double exposure makes sense. But, take it as a grain of salt, considering I never played the game myself, only saw a footage of it. I love life is strange to death (especially 2), so i really hope the future of the game won't flop, but i feel like the games have lost its charm when Decknine was in control.

Honestly i think they will do a direct sequel first thing first, they would have not put the text "Max Caulfield will return" if they didn't wanted to continue with this story. I quite liked DE, to be fair. I don't think Max is written badly or anything, and the game was overall very fun despite its problems. The thing that i really don't like of DE is that i feel like they splitted the game original history in two parts just for the sake of money and not really for a narrative purpose. I mean, DE has a lots of problems with its history as it is, and i don't think people should play a direct "fix it" sequel that makes sense of things in retrospect to really understand what was going on in the first one...this is bad writing at best, a very slimy marketing tactic at worst. Plus, I really hope the sequel will not bring back all the previous Lis protagonists like some sorts of Avangers. It would be weird, plus if people didn't like the way they handled the Bay vs. Bae thing i can't imagine what they will do to the endings of Lis 2...so yeah i really hope the sequel will continue to feature only Max and her current gang. I feel mixed about the possibility of Chloe being back because tbh i think it's obvious they are keeping her specifically to appear in the sequel. The teasing they did before the release of DE, the ambiguous way they responded to questions about her current abouts...this also feel like a marketing tactic to make people buy en masse the next game.

i dont want there to be a next Life is Strange

Not returning Max and not continuing Safi's story will kill the series.

I disagree, have it be set up similar to how they ask about Chloe. Maybe while going though her things from Arcadia Bay and the player could’ve chosen what happened.

You look like an older version of Chris lol

There's a UA-camr the name of I can't remember who had a really nice script of a new Life is Strange game with 2 antagonizing protagonists

Have you made a Life is Strange comics story telling?

brilliant video! only thing i want to add is that if you talk to warren after agreeing to go to the movies with him he says that he has to tell brooke he’s not going with her anymore (or something along those lines) which i think largely contributes to people pushing the ‘warren is a player’ narrative. it’s very heavily implied that he asked brooke almost as a back up, so that he’ll have a girl to go to the drive in with regardless of whether max says yes or no. aside from that sidenote i think this is an excellent analysis of his character!!!!

Square-Enix and even Deck Nine are for-profit entities it is their goal to reach as broad a market as possible, I don't think we should be surprised that the executives running said companies wanted to crush the idea of the Gay game while in development or wanted to nix a Trans character but when it became clear that being the Gay game would make money immediately jumped on the bandwagon. Their goal is not to make a good game, their goal is not to make an inclusive game, their goal is to make a profitable game, that's it. Individual developers or writers might want to make an inclusive game, but they probably also want to make their paycheck. CAPITALISM it's slavery with extra steps! In regard to Zak Garris, it all sounds very circumstantial; it also sounds like he was under a lot of stress from Square-Enix and could have exploded for that reason. I used to work a swing shift, 3pm-11pm, with women in their early twenties, and obviously, at the end of our shift, I would offer to walk them out to their car. I'm a big guy, and it was a bad area that's just what you do.

Kate Marsh texts in de would have been too challenging if the player did not stop her from jumping in lis 1

I worry that, to the extent they had planted seeds in DE for "DE2" that would've made DE better in context, Square's new plans for LiS may abandon those seeds, and I'll still be left wondering how the original Deck 9 devs would've made "DE2."

Lovely video as always, i love hearing your theories❤️ tbh as much as i miss the wolf brothers, i don’t think anything will ever be done with lis 2..i feel like i’d just be too hard to do justice to all 7 endings especially the lone wolf one..as much as it hurts lis 2’s story is better the way it is

They must be doing an ensemble game next. They would have said, "Max Caulfield will return" in the end credits stinger if they weren't.

Hello :) I’m worried about Life is Strange’s future, not gonna lie. As someone who liked Double Exposure, I don’t want to play a direct sequel. I don’t like the way the franchise is going, and I’m afraid the flaws of the game would be even more prominent in a next game. ESPECIALLY if other Life is Strange protagonists appear in it, because it would require to retcon the various endings of the games. I would rather play a game with a different protagonist, honestly. To be fair, I absolutely loved Max in Double Exposure, and I wouldn’t mind to see some other, minor characters again (let me romance Riley from True Colors, please ;D), but at the same time, it would likely feel like cheap fanservice. Familiar characters shouldn’t be the ONLY selling point a game has, even if I appreciate their return. So yeah, pretty much anything other than a direct sequel would be interesting to me, but I would always be worried nevertheless. Mostly because of the marketing and sales techniques Square Enix used for Double Exposure. Even if Deck Nine’s next game will be amazing, similar tactics would immediately throw me off! Oh well. For now, I’m more excited about Lost Records: Bloom & Rage anyway, so I hope you’ll talk about it too :)

When I played double exposure the first time I thought it canonically happens after the save the bay ending. Only the second time I accidentally went with the save chloe variant. The fact that somehow max ends up at exactly the same place in both realities just goes against everything the first game stood for: Every tiny choice can have massive consequences. I know following up a branching story is extremely difficult but the writers knew that too. So why did they try and up tying things up so lazily? The only thing connecting double exposure to the original is the name of the protagonist, some throwaway lines of dialogue and a couple of tweets from victoria. If that's all the writers could come up with they should've created a new protagonist.

I miss the Diaz brothers so much, i want them back 😔

If Deck Nine survives, I have always wanted to see a before the storm 2. I believe it may be possible now because of hearing the two main narrative directors of Double Exposure aren’t even in Deck Nine anymore and previous plans could be scrapped. So yeah, I think a game were we see Rachel Amber as the playable character is long overdue. I would love to see that and it might just get old fans back into the franchise.

Drop what you're doing, Noer uploaded.

As a pricefield enjoyer, I think it would've been better if they picked arcadia bay over chloe end as canon. Its the more logical end, and its the end I and every morallt sane person picked.

Now look into double exposer and explain to us how the fuck that scam of a fake happened pleas.

I was like wait Tyler is a male LIS protagonist but then I remembered Tell Me Why isn't technically a Life is Strange game lmao it is in my heart<3 anyway my favs are Max and Sean, we're p much exact opposites lol love your videos though

I've been saying this to a lot of people for a while F Deck Nine games and F Square. They should be held accountable for all the pain that they Cause for years to their people.

2:01 nostalgia has nothing to do with it, I love obviously the first, before the storm and LiS 2. True colours i saw playthrough and I'm not interested and double exposure is okay-ish

Please do a comic deep dive!!!

I adore your life is strange videos. I’d love to see more of your opinions and research on everything connected to life is strange.

Deck nine should have let Zak go and not the people who worked on double exposure they may have made a questionable game but at least they cared about the staff

The queerness and diversity are some of the best things about these games for me! But to play devil's advocate, maybe they didn't want these to be known as 'the gay games' so that they wouldn't be seen as niche, in the hopes that more people might play them? You know how some people avoid anything 'woke'... 😑 but maybe if they don't have any preconceptions, they might actually play the games and enjoy them. Idk, just trying to put a marketing hat on! For me, hearing that a game has queer characters just makes me WANT to play it ❤ Great video as always, loving the new haircut!

With how Double Exposure turned out, I figured that game had a more troublesome production.

Waiting for kate character breakdown 😃

I cant watch this video yet since i havent had spare cash to buy double exposure yet but i watched the ad before and liked bc i support you king

Thanks for covering this topic. It's such an important issue to address, so I'm glad you did! Hopefully, Deck Nine will manage to avoid more problems in the future :-(