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For sure. Solving your own death would be a cool premise for a Life Is Strange game.

Yes! One of the best parts. I was going to go into detail about that part, but I didn't. After that, I was so excited for the rest of the game because I thought we were going to get more situations like that where we play with our power...but nope. 😭

Yeah, that's a nice summary of it. I was planning on playing the DLC, but with how much I didn't like the actual game after finishing it, I decided not to. It still sits in the back of my mind though, especially when I see it go on sale. I've been thinking about doing a series where I go back to games and play the DLC, so maybe I'll play it then. 🤷🏽 Let me know if it's good, though, if you ever get to it.

Perfectly said! It's soooo weird and forced. Nothing natural about it. It's like they are forcing us to like Amanda from the jump. And then Vinh is nonstop hitting on Max that it just becomes creepy. And then the choices make it seems like Max is leading him on or just straight up likes him which doesn't make sense at all.

That definitely sounds good, but we'll have to see how it pans out. At this point they can see the pushback the community is doing and rewrite everything to fit a narrative that works out for them and said that was the plan all along, but maybe I'm being too cynical and harsh. Ha. I can definitely see Alderman coming back, especially since the timelines combined, but this direction is exactly what I don't want the series to veer into...or not in this way right now. Like how people are making fun of the Marvel-esque ending. It's getting too supernatural and "epic". It would've been cool if Alderman stuck around and turned out he was apart of some sort of task force trying to rally up people with powers for some reason. It's not even that I don't like what they did to him...it's just how they did it in combination with everything else. I think Alderman coming back with powers or something is too villainy. He was a great representative of people without super powers can still have powers. I thought the Other Max was going to actually be the real Max. The Max that we played as in the first game and then the Max we are playing as now is an alternate timeline Max based on what she did in the first game. So the twist would be we weren't the original Max the entire time and the bad guy is actually a good guy situation. Her killing Safi is something that actually needed to be done. But even if she's the original Max, that doesn't make the Max that we are playing any less real so it would be sort of a push and pull situation. Theres a lot of ways this game could've gone and even more ways it can go, but the way they did Double Exposure is just embarassing and feels like a smack in the face for people actually invested in the series.

Thanks! I definitely feel like SOMETHING was missing with Max. Feel like we should've gotten more with her and her personal life. The journal didn't help at all. It was soooo weird. The writing, the drawings in it, the design of it in general...

THANK YOU! I mean this would have been the perfect time narratively for Max to also reflect on her time in Jefferson’s class. The student now becoming the master. How he impacted her life compared to that weird nightmare sequence sequel that we got in Double Exposure.

It was definitely weird. I like the theories that the mischaracterization of her was done on purpose, but the game never went down that road.

Thank you! 😊 The Before the Storm DLC was really good. I always just lump it with Before the Storm whenever I think about, that's why I didn't go into it.

Exactly how I feel right now. True Colors already put me at a low point with the series and now Double Exposure took me under.

@naysgameopinions yep, same!

True true 😅

It was very odd. It seemed as if they got confused.

This this this! It's all so incredibly bad. It literally just...doesn't make sense! Alderman was such a cool foil to Max and the story in general. We never really had like...an outside presence looking in and investigating. It made your decisions have more stakes...at least it would've if it were done correctly. It's like the game tries to show off all these good ideas and flaunts them in your face, but they are all a facade. It doesn't even seem like it was purposeful either; like it's supposed to be a twist. It feels like poor decision making on their part. I don't think it was his alternate timeline self, I think it was himself in the past. Like the day before. The entire summit was badly explained. Like I get that it was "ground zero" so weird stuff was happening there, but even then, don't just chalk it up to "oh that's where stuff started so it's just weird". A lot of stuff could easily be explained, but it just isn't. I feel like I should make a video just talking about everything bad about the game now and going into spoilers. 😅

@@naysgameopinions I personally think they had a full-fledged story written out and planned, but had to scrap a lot of it because they were on a time crunch, and threw together 2-3 final chapters that worked good enough to release. Similar to Destiny and Activision in 2014, except Destiny had a open world multiplayer experience to fall back on, whereas LIS relies solely on the story to carry the gameplay experience, so they cant get away with it. Whether or not i'm right or not, it definitely feels like chapters 1 and 2 were an entirely different game than chapters 4 and 5, besides the gameplay mechanics itself. Maybe they had a different conclusion to the story, but maybe we'll never know.

@xxCrazyEights88xx That sounds about right. Seems like it was all sloppily put together. For sure. It definitely feels like there's a cut off point where the creativeness in the story plummets and it's all down hill from there. It'll be great to get mome insight from an inside perspective, but yeah, who knows if we ever will. Makes me wonder even more how they will continue the series.

i think it wasnt alderman from the alternate reality that he found, it was the alderman from two days earlier. which, i also dont get a lot😅those arent maxs or safis power, but maybe a third person, like diamond

@virtuousthing9070 It wasn't anyone else's power. It's just that the overlook was "ground zero" so it was the center of the storm for all the weird stuff. The flowers growing where Safi died, the mugs stuck in the tree, the random phone, etc etc. Reggie went up there and saw himself too with the Abraxas box. But yeah, nothing ever gets explained properly so we really can't say what is what because they can come out with the next game and say it's something completely different to fit their narrative.

Well I didn't like the 2nd one the first time I played it, but after I replayed the game recently in preparation for Double Exposure, I realized it's an excellent evolution of the first game. It may not be completely on par with the first game overall, but I think it excels past the first game in a lot of other aspects like gameplay mechanics. I talked about it a bit in my last video, "My History With Life Is Strange". Unfortunately, Double Exposure is clearly the worst one so far. Without a doubt. I don't see how anyone could even argue otherwise. It's a very strange direction and I'm curious on how they will continue the series with how awkward this game ended.

True. Even though I really liked the music, it didn't really fit like how the music did in the past games. It feels like they were trying too hard when finding music for this one.

True. I didn't even mind how they were doing the Pricefield relationship at first just to set things up for the way they were telling the story at first...and obviously it is something you can't ignore. But the way they actually handled it was atrocious and just straight up weird.

From what I heard, it seemed as if the people that were actually making the game actually knew what they were doing, but the higher ups made executive decisions that no one on the team agreed with. Hopefully they can get all that straightened out.

Hopefully. And I hope the victims are ok

I feel exactly the same. I was looking forward to it so much and was really disappointed the way it turned out. It feels like a bad fanfic.

I'll honestly take anything but this. I mean I like seeing Max later on...we have to move the franchise past the first game. But hanging on to it so desperately like Double Exposure does feels sort of pitiful. You can't move on and try to hang on to the past games at the same time.

@@naysgameopinions Quite true it's true but we missed to much of it sadly.

Thanks! I know what you mean. I tend to make my reviews pretty tight and to the point which makes them come off a bit too clinical. 😅 A bit more pizzazz on my part wouldn't hurt, but I like the format. Finding a balance is a bit tricky.

🤷🏽‍♂️ There was a way that I could consistently produce it, but I forget how. It's an odd one for sure. They just spawn there and are lifeless.

I know! I think the last article about it is from 2022. Hopefully, we'll get some news on it pretty soon. There was a time when Disaster Report 4 was apparently not happening, but we got it eventually! I still have hope!

@naysgameopinions Sure hope so, but radiosilence for almost 3 years is not a good sign :/

That's known as a spiritual successor of the Disaster Report series and several characters from Disaster Report make cameo appearances in it!

It's actually from the DLC campaign that takes place after the events of the main game.

I know what you mean. I'm not a Kojima fanatic, but I really liked P.T. A lot of the copy cat gamed aren't really good though. I really enjoyed The Evil Within too!

@@naysgameopinions Thanks for answering...I believe I was hitting the bottle with my up yonder comment...LOLOLOL. But Hey, what is your honest take Kojimas 'Bridges' mail carrier game?

@@ajaxslamgoody9736 haha. It's all good! I have it, but never played it. I put it in several times to play it, but I can never get myself to play it. I don't really care to. From everything I have seen and hear it seems okay, but I know I'm not going to care about it as much as everyone else.

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All good!

I got lucky with a glitch when the game came out.

I played the PS5 version.

Honestly might be a good idea 😂

I love parappa! Ha

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Yup! It stinks. Shame too.

Thanks megapumped! 💪😤

I just ended it. I got tired. Ha. Probably going to finish it today and then I'll start Before the Storm Remastered. 🦋

Agreed. I love games like this and was super surprised this one was even made. Had a lot of fun with it.

@@naysgameopinions I especially loved the character interactions; it was a nice touch with giving the game its own distinctive feature.

@@SmashupMashups Yes! I'm surprised that more games (kart racers especially) don't do stuff like that more often. Really cool and makes the game more unique.

@@naysgameopinions And just the return of the _Shrek_ stand-in voices, Michael Gough as Shrek; Dean Edwards as Donkey; Holly Fields as Princess Fiona, was quite nice. Especially how they interact with Puss in Boots, voiced by Eric Bauza, and Lord Farquaad, voiced by Poitr Michael. Now, Randall Duk Kim reprising his role as Oogway was a surprise, making him the only voice actor to reprise a character from the movies whereas every other character has a stand-in voice.

@@SmashupMashups Woah! Nice. I never took note of who was actually voice acting so that's nice to hear and definitely makes it feel that much more authentic, especially with Oogway.

Yeah. It's pretty weird. So there's the original version of the game and then there's the "Panda Edition" which basically adds DLC-like panda "missions". You have to make it to the very end of the base game tasks and then the panda stuff will start. Just keep doing the tasks and level up and more stuff will unlock.

@@naysgameopinions Thanks. We definitely have the panda edition! We got all the new dogs and cats. And there is a locked photo on the wall of the panda we don’t have yet! It’s just super frustrating. But, I just keep pushing on. Lol

​@@michiganmama562Yeah I now remember being in the same situation. Becuase it clearly ends and I was like wait...where are the pandas! And I just kept doing the tasks and you'll get the panda story eventually then after those missions it'll say that all of the tasks have been completed like at 10:25 in the video.

Well, the way that I review, I take the entire review scale into consideration. A lot of reviews nowadays, everything is a 7 or 8 when that's simply not the case. Especially when compared to each other. I could play a game that is a 1 out of 10 and still have fun with it. If a game is practically unplayable, then i would probably rate it lower because I think thats an injustice to push out a game that people pay for and it doesnt work. Right off the bat, the way I look at it is that a 5/10 is right in the middle. And the experience I received from this game is lesser. So then I'm working on that 1-5. Mix that in with the bad story, dialogue delivery, character interactions, boring world, poorly designed missions, etc...it definitely knocks it down. Good looking environment and cool powers doesn't save this game for me. Personally, I think there is more wrong than right here with this game, but to each their own. That's why there are reviews and every review is different. Appreciate your time and comment.

Nice! Definitely need to check it out then. I was aware of what influenced the Remothered series but never thought to look into what influenced the influences that could have bled through to these games. 🤔

@@naysgameopinions Dario Argento is one of my favourite horror director ever and Clock Tower being initially an hommage to his work (mostly Phenomena but with references to Suspiria as well) is what got me into this series. I would definitely recommand to check it out indeed, and on the giallo genre in général (from Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucie Fulci, etc). I like to consider the Clock Tower (Haunting Ground included) and Remothered series as the video game legacy of this genre.

@shibitoobscura3348 oooooh! I've definitely seen Phenomena before. Going to go diving into some movies now. Thanks for the recommendation. And Haunting Ground is one of my favorites!

@@naysgameopinions Great! Yes, it's one of my favourite too (I still have a soft spot for Rule of Rose, my all-time favourite PS2 horror game, but Haunting Ground was a blast, and a major improvement from Clock Tower 3)

Didn't mind the gameplay overall, but I definitely wouldn't mind if there was another layer to it to add some flavor. Thanks!

It's definitely bizarre, but sort of mellows out...and gets bizarre again. It's like it was produced by two different teams and then stitched together.

Nice breakdown! I agree with your points. I hope Shadows is a lot better!