That is a really interesting idea! It will be cool if any remaster for any game will look more artistic instead of realistic! I’m curious on how the game will look.
I felt like I was the only one disappointed in this remaster!! It looks horrible! What drew me in to the original games was the unique art style and they completely took that away with the remaster.
@@prpledough I actually just got the original in the mail. I plan on doing a Twitch stream, after I stream true colors, is to play all the original LIS and Before the Storm and then the remastered versions
Oh, God, this game was really all my little 15-year-old hipster self’s heart ever wanted. The story, the art style, the music… It’ll always have a special place in my heart.
On the other hand, faces and emotions are better in the original game than in the remastersed. It’s crazy ! For example Victoria’s eyes are huge and her teeth... and Chloe too, big eyes without moving... I don’t understand ! And Chloe’s smile on the principal’s chair ? What ?
the original life is strange has such a captivating art style that made it stand out from other games at the time. it wasn’t over the top hyper realistic in the best way possible as it created a unique aesthetic for the franchise. the remastered collection, on the other hand, doesn’t have the same artistic approch as the og’s but instead looks like a hyper realistic game put on the lowest possible settings and it ruins the overall experience as it could’ve been so much more. square enix truly took a wrong turn with this franchise by being straight up just lazy and greedy and its so disappointing to see from a long term fan.
Ifeel the same, and will gladly stick with the original. They could've left this as an optional HD pack, imo, if they absolutely had to - which they really didn't, lol. Just my take on it, though.
I literally cannot imagine remastering a game and bringing literally nothing new to it. it’s like the minute you start thinking about all the deleted and cut concept that they could have put in the game that was originally not included, you start to realize this is the opposite of worth it
@@7hkey I watched a bunch of videos about how much content could have been in the game, and it baffles me that literally none of that made the cut… Like there was zero transformative work done on this game. Besides the fucking graphics 🤣
Isn't Rockstar doing the same thing with the "new" GTA V that is coming out next week? These developers have so many scrapped ideas that they should incorporate into "remasters" of their games, it would make it so much more worth it to buy.
I am STILL pissed that they had the opportunity to be able to allow a kiss in not just the ending where you're about to kill Chloe and chose not to add it in.
They removed Chloes "what the fuck" in the scene where we see Jefferson runs the Dark Room, the eclipse in a scene with Frank at the end of chapter 1(?) and they added a loading screen between the storm and the class. Jefferson looks shit. And also, someone had a glitch where Joyce had a face that was black and I don't wanna think of those implications. Also Max's room is dark in some scenes
@@ZoeMuller80 They removed the credits after each episode too. An original developer lamented the change since he said that they had different people working on each episode. So that's why they included credits for each episode.
update: The life is strange team says they’re looking into the bugs. Let’s see what’s fixed! Ion think they fixing those graphics tho 💀 Update: patch A made it look worse omfg 😭
I enjoyed your review. I hope you do a more story review. I'm also curious to know if you choose a different ending from the first time you played the game to now ? Add on This is my first play through and it's enjoyable but the dialogue is cheesy and Chloe I find very dislikable. She's literally moaning to Max that she's answering a phone call, I mean WTF
@@geraintthatcher3076 I guess you might have chloe grow on you in the future or maybe not. my friend HATES her but i love her. I guess you just have to see certain things in a different perspective, let me know your thoughts when you finish the full game!
@@NoGate I'm in the middle of Chapter 4 and going back in time to save Chloe dad only for it to turn Chloe into a paraplegic is so sad. Chloe Worrying about Medical Bills her Parents pay though is definitely an American problem though that I thank God we don't have over here
@@prpledough Your trying to get a fan that didn't play the series past the first games or didn't like the series after. Believe the same can be said about Mass Effect (Mass Effect 1-3) 1 mess up later the New Mass Effect better have Shepard or no one going to buy it attitude. Hance Bring back Max & Chloe Attitude. Here I'm going it should of been a 1 single game and done because wanting the past isn't ever going to bring any Future improvements to the series it's going to look at the past and go don't touch.
Read the comics and just stop going your a Gamer or a Fan of Life is Strange. Play on your phone games. To you Life is Strange 2 Does not exist, True Colors Does not Exist so why are you asking for the Series to Return to Twin Peaks that is like watching the Twin Peaks Series scream at the Director to Tell who Killed Laura then Stop watching the Series, Don't watch the Prequel Movie on Laura and then after they do the Return to Twin Peaks go to the Director make more and only this because your other Movies don't exist. It's sad really how many call themselves fans yet ignore everything else the Games developers made, How many Movies were made by this Director. Yet wonder why Square Re Done Life is Strange 1 to fine out how it will sell today compared to 2015. No Wonder Dontnod Stop making Life is Strange there is no Hope for them to make what they want.
@@coldbananastud About what I said yes I'm okay. My issue is How much a Return of Chloe & Max where Max fights against an Evil Max and tries to save Rachel would be nice the concept that Rachel is Laura Palmer is an issue of Return to Twin Peaks a mini series on Showtime in 2018. So you see where the issue is that Everyone wants Chloe, Max and Rachel back and where everyone involve is so far is going Nooooooooo.
LiS is so much about photography and nerd science it added a meta game. The goal is to count the number of scene where Max is overexposed and compare it to the number of scene where she's underexposed. And boom ! Turns out you get the golden ratio.
I feel like this is a case for die-hard fans only, and only if summer sale brings it down at least 70%. I love the game, but I'm not paying 40 for so little improvement.
This. Of course I am getting it, but at a hefty discount. 70% off sounds OK, especially considering I already own both games. I am afraid this year we will only see a 30% off tops, next year 50% and maybe for 2024 that %70 discount. Maybe if they fix the messed up textures and glitches, I might get it this year.
I replayed LiS (finished episode 5) a day ago. The graphics aged well. The only improvements i see in the remasters is characters summoning teeth more frequently
I was really kinda enjoying it until episode 2 became super buggy, all the subtitles were wrong and Max was wearing the wrong clothes. If you wanna get this, I would suggest waiting for a sale (when they'll also have patched the game)
I had the subtitle bug, a weird flickering bug that looked like max was trying to leave her own body and then another one where max was moonwalking across the floor haha the bugs are so bad.
At the start of the second episode I was rewinding to save Alyssa from flying toilet paper and all of a sudden I see Max in the background doing a freaking T-Pose 😂, also this happened to me a few times where I would save the fisherman in polarized who I accidentally electrocuted and the game would crash on me. Updated my firmware and it worked with a little prayer 😁
I’ll be honest, this game changed my life. I found out what LIS when I was 8, when I had found an old Aphmau playthrough. She never finished the game, and it took me a solid year to realize it was on the AppStore, and I could just finish it myself instead of rewatching the same playthrough over and over. I had gotten obsessed and this game was how I realized I was into girls. It made up my life. This remastered is so, SO much more different than what I grew up with, and I agree with you. But, although I hate the graphics, I know that this remastered version will catch some other 8-year olds eye, and have them go on the same adventure as I did. This remastered version will be someone else’s childhood. And for that, I can’t be angry.
They definitely used AI to "remaster" this... They should have called it the "definitive edition" to complete the insult to buyers. Yes there are some upgrades, but they hardly justify charging twice for the same game... If they care about the fans they should have given a graphical update for free or at very least just make it a DLC with a sensible price. This is so disappointing.
My max kept changing clothes, they removed Chloe’s wtf and BTS episode 3 was the buggiest for me, Joyce had bright yellow hair, white arms and legs and a black face, in Rachel’s room Chloe and Rachel and a few items in the room were a glowing bright blue, like glowing smurf’s, reloading didn’t fix it, and when Rachel and Chloe were watching James and Sera through the binoculars in their flashback they were just glowing orbs of bright light and I couldn’t see anything it was so strange and right at the end after choosing whether to tell Rachel or not it was glitchy af black lines cutting through the screen.
I literally agreed with everything you said. I remember playing LIS1 and obviously it didn't have mind blowing visuals or anything. I remember enjoying the atmosphere and the vibe it gave off and felt everything looked nice. My first thought when booting up the remaster was....why does everything look so bad?
I guess the thing we really need is a prequel-sequel part of the story. Things that happend before the original and after BtS. To make it fullfilled. More time to hang with Rachel, point of no return, and then - Chloe attempts to find any clues around people that going through their personal 5 steps of acceptance. Full chronological timeline. That could be the great gift for everyone who loves this story.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thought the remaster didn’t look great. You’re right that the still photos looked pretty good, but the actual trailers looked worse than the original. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely like how they are finally syncing up the voices to the characters after SO many years, but I liked the original visuals much better. One of my favorite details is Max’s deep set eyes. It makes her look somber, mysterious, and a little worn out. They totally took away the emotion in the characters’ faces and just smoothed them over to make them look more crisp. Anyway, rant over. I’ll still be enjoying my original LiS game🦋
I agree. I feel like the purpose of these remasters (or so its speculated) was the fact that they wanted to continue Max and Chloe's story again in the next game so this was a way of making everyone sort of replay these and recap everything. That in itself isn't a horrible idea but they should've taken more time.
I see the problem here, you just cannot remaster a masterpiece. But since this is the best and the most heartbreaking game I've ever played, I'd love to see a better outcome. You can't give an artist a deadline, that's just not happening. They can take all the time they need, the final outcome is what really matters to every single one of us. Damn this game is indeed a timeless masterpiece.
@@tfn7706 ill admit when i first played the game 2 yrs ago, id fully agree with everything positive ppl say about the game but now after replaying it, watching essays on it, playing much more quality games with better narratives, characters etc, it definitley lessened my experience of the game and series drastically
The thing is, you can absolutely remaster anything and make it look amazing, if time and effort is given. Just look at the Resident Evil 4 fan-made HD Project, which took 8 years of fans' time to make and is unbelievably good, compared to the laughable "remasters" Capcom gave us. Laziness is rewarded when money is involved.
The soft dimness of the original added to the dreaminess and the nostalgic feeling. When they amped up the contrast, they didn't just make the game darker but also ruined the atmosphere.
One of the problems I couldn’t overlook was the darkness. Some parts were so dark, I couldn’t even navigate through it. Also max would randomly glitch up and down while she was sitting.
I agree ESPECIALLY on that hide and seek like minigame in the fifth episode I literally had to turn up my brightness to full when I got to that bit as it was so hard to navigate around
Hey, I've seen your animated work - from the wholesome kind to the (extremely) spicy NSFW ones ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) . Just wanted I was more impressed with your work than the Remaster's official trailers. Keep it up!👏
It’s definitely not worth full price. The only reason I don’t feel super disappointed is because I wanted to get back into the series and just enjoy the story again.
Yeah. I don't know about the original but Before the Storm is great. Having not played it in two years, I'd much rather play the remaster to experience it again because it is slighty better and emhasizes the nostalgia. (I don't take price into account since I paid for the original, I'm not paying for the remaster.)
What surprises me the most is that this had been postponed for a few months, (time in which they could test bugs, lighting, animation, etc)... Cyberbug 2.0
I have a massive love for all the LiS games and have been playing them since the first game came out in 2015. But even I have to agree, these remasters just ain’t it. I hardly notice any differences aside from some newer environmental details and Chloe in BTS. And the bugs are aplenty. I’m not too annoyed with the money I spent, but I’m not blind to the fact that these remasters are pretty unremarkable. Also, the statue scene at 13:55 is definitely a new inclusion. Great video :)
Yeah, I'm glad I didn't spend money on this for real, I'm a massive LIS fan but I totally agree that these Remasters weren't needed, and even less so in this dire state (many of my friends that did bought them complained about it being reaaaaally buggy just like you say in the vid.), here's hoping DN manage to fix it ASAP so people can enjoy what they were advertised/promised with the trailers, cheers for the good vid. and the honest opinion 🤙🏼
It's weird that they even felt the need to remaster this in the first place. Such a blatant cashgrab it's not even funny. Instead of making new content they knew it'd be easier and cheaper to do this instead.
Thank you for mentioning the blur God I thought I was going crazy asf. I love Chloe’s new remodel it’s awesome. In the first scene for life is Strange where Max wakes up the audio completely cut out and would not fix itself and that destroyed all the immersion for me. Before the Storm is pretty great but there is massive lighting issues within episode 2 at least for me. Great video
I feel like the remastered version made some of the faces worst rather than better because the original version had a realistic art style and now they make the faces look very clayish. Not to mention the scene where Kate was crying when she's about to jump looked so nice and then the remastered made her look like she got her makeup removed. It looked so off to me. Why would I waist $45 on this when I could played the original version that had better graphics already that I brought for only $20?
This is literally my favorite game franchise of all time and I agree with your points but I always fall in love this franchise. the story, the art, the dialogue, the music. Just everything about this series, 1 2 before the storm, the adventure of captain spirit. I haven’t played colors yet but this whole series always makes me feel so many emotions. It just hits me in all the right places and it truly just makes my soul smile. I dont know what the whole point of this was but I mean I just wanted to express the love I have for this game
Great video, dude. Personally, I feel like there is no point in this remastered collection other than some little textures, lighting, saturation and environmental difference. Even if u compare the collection to the originals, the difference overall is still just little, not much. A great example of a remaster is call of duty modern warfare remastered. That game looked awesome in the remaster from the og. In the end, I just wish to say that the lis collection, according to me, is nothing but a cash grab by square Enix and deck 9. For me the ogs are best. P. S. Also the marketing for the remastered collection felt weird for me since it started a week before the release. That is when I knew this was going to be red flag.
rip max's hooded eyes. they were what drew me into her, but now she just- looks like a super high quality supermodel or something LOL i just kinda miss the old artistic style of the original games. it might just be the nostalgia and memories but idk
WE NEED ANOTHER CHLOE GAME WITH 5 EP THAT IS A SEQUAL TO HER PREQUEL BEFORE THE STORM Episode 1- Denial Episode 2- Anger Episode 3-bargaining Episode 4-depression Episode 5-acceptance
Thank you for this review! I bought LiS years ago and still have a lot of love for it. It was so tense waiting for each new episode to come out but it gave you a lot of time to kinda unpack the mystery and dream about your wild speculations. I know people were down on the episodic release but I think it helped naturally pace the story out and I think it left and stronger impact in my memory as a result. I really wanted an excuse to buy a high quality remaster but it seems like I'd be better off reinstalling the original version.
I never played the game myself but I watched Jacksepticeye's playthrough if I remember correctly... And I just NEEDED to see the next episode everytime I finished watching one. They had some quite good cliffhangers going on for the entire series. And honestly... I agree with the review here. I would rather see a new instalment than a remastered version that doesn't even worth the money. 8 years since the first game came out sounds a lot but it isn't... The first game as much as it has bugs as well holds up pretty well for what it is, story and everything. I wish SquareEnix had enough funding to properly finish the first LiS.
Great video I'm glad I cam across it, as a big fan of the life is strange series it's sad that the remaster is in this state. Let's hope it gets fixed. You've got my subscription by the way
This remastered should have at least a native PS5/Series X (Cause… what is the point of making a PS4 Remastered of a PS4 game?) and 60fps. This definitely DOESN’T worth 40 bucks.
For a game that is story driven, with little replayability, with both games only ever having two different endings, and all other titles in the LiS series being unconnected beyond cameos or references, I seriously questioned why LiS and BTS was getting a remaster at all. All the fans would have already played it, and without adding anything new, why would they go through the emotional heartbreak and trauma of playing through the story again. While Uncharted The Nathan Drake collection is a remaster of the same games but for a different console generation, it was prep for Uncharted 4, so those who never played 1-3 could play them before 4 came out. It makes sense. LiS True Colors has no connection to LiS or BTS beyond Steph being in TC and BTS, and there's no plot points that elaborate on this. I just don't understand why this needed to happen at all, and that's also coming from a Life is Strange fan.
Keeping well away from their work being trashed, I reckon. After the BtS announcement, there were signs emerging that Deck Nine were Square Enix’s favorites, and it felt like things were being put in motion while Dontnod were working on LiS2. BtS got more promotion from SE than Dontnod’s LiS2 got. Hell, even the comics got more promotion than LiS2. And a SE video content creator being brought on board to give LiS2 some attention felt a bit late in the game.There was also a close relationship on Twitter between Deck Nine key staff and the then LiS community manager. The interactions and banter they had did not occur with the Dontnod account. Things just seemed… odd.
3:07 - "I stated that something extremely memorable to the game was its beautiful art style, looking like a painting instead of graphically enhanced graphics". 8:36 - "These games were probably hard to remaster because of their art style. Mixing realism where it never intended to be in the first place". Those two sentences of yours already sum up the great fault of the remastered version. I remember watching a making off with the game's developers where they said they intentionally made the game with this "painting style art". Changes like the game's characters having a better expression are welcome, but that's it. If they try to apply too much realism to everything, the remastered version will be doomed to stay in "uncanny valley" forever. Great analysis. Congratulations.
I tried my best to defend sqaure enix… But I rage quit my remastered playthrough because of all the bugs and glitches… I was really going to war for this game hyping it up and nothing striked me but pure disappointment…. Remasters like Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy received new cutscenes new clothes for sora i.e Limit Form new colors for the heartless enemies… Life is strange receive 0 new cutscenes no new outfits for max Caulfield and couldn’t even put alternate costumes onto the other characters… It’s literally just the same game with a sharpness filter on it… Usually in a remaster we receive something new! Something we haven’t seen yet… Life is strange remastered was a game that never should’ve been announced or released in my opinion… I thought it should’ve just been delayed until 2023 but after playing the first 2 episodes of life is strange remastered I thought it shouldn’t have been released at all… also You earned yourself a sub from FreshKingJohns! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I honestly don't know why people like this remaster, the characters look completely different and the style is no longer there. The only thing i didn't like about the old one was that the background didn't look hd? But at least it looked cohesive with everything else.
I really enjoyed the remasters. Sure, there are some bugs. Sure, as a former video game developer and given what I know of the tech involved, I'm not actually sure why those bugs would have been there, especially on a delayed launch. But, I'm super glad we got the remaster. The faces and expressions are WAY better now, especially in LiS1. $10 for each remaster? Totally worth it to me. Now, the price you mentioned for True Colors... yeah. I enjoyed True Colors. It was... fine. But like... It was already 2021 by the time that game launched. And it felt like it had even fewer locations in the game than the original LiS, let alone LiS2. That could have been fine, but they advertised the crap out of Haven Springs, and as far as I can tell, Haven Springs is a single bar, a flower shop, a record store, and like... an art closet. Maybe there was one external city block in there, too, if I'm being generous, and like half of a mining tunnel. I just found TC super underwhelming, in story, character, choices, and locations. But yeah, I really enjoyed the remasters, and will probably never play the "originals" again now that I have these options.
On the other hand, faces and emotions are better in the original game than in the remastersed. It’s crazy ! For example Victoria’s eyes are huge and her teeth... and Chloe too, big eyes without moving... I don’t understand ! And Chloe’s smile on the principal’s chair ? What ?
In the original, I really had a picture of what the characters would look like in real life, they had distinctive features. In the remaster, I hardly recognised half of them! The distinctions were gone and they all looked quite similar 😬
Really the main issue that I had with this remaster is the graphics the painterly aesthetic and the vintage filter was gone and why did they remove the vintage filter when we see LiS's world through Max's eyes
I noticed new dialogue in the first episode when you first take the photo of the butterfly in the bathroom. Correct me if I’m wrong but in the original game, Max simply says “when one door closes, another opens” or something along those lines. You get the implication that the butterfly has significance to the story from that one line. In the remaster, Max says that she can “feel the air moving around her” and that the butterfly feels mystical. It felt like very pointless exposition considering the majority of players already know of the butterfly’s significance as they’ve played the game before. Oh, and on my playthrough in episode 2 instead of subtitles, the filenames for the subtitles showed up instead. How can someone miss that before it gets released?
I'm really glad you addressed the false advertising. My hope went through the roof and seeing the finished product felt like an ebay scam... I love LIS so much and I tried to not bash on it but it's a huge let down :(
their first mistake was letting deck nine do the job, they care less about the art and more about the hype and overpricing it. dontnod was smart for rejecting to do the remaster.
Very good video! I still don’t know how they decided which textures to remaster. The ground looks better with new textures and actual grass, but if you look around the school ground in ep 1 of LiS you see that like 2 meters away the grass is gone and I’m sure the current consoles could have handled that. At the same time most of the posters aren’t only not sharp, but straight up pixelated. And also look at the football field, it still has zero details and the ”players“ are still fucking png‘s moving left to right.
For real. I got both originals for 5 bucks each on sale long ago and this barely updated version is being sold for a full price of a modern release. Sad.
I love LiS and BtS a lot, I like them so much that I brought two copies of both games back in the days. Digitally at first and then physical collector version later. This love is so massive I just blindly pre-ordered the remastered version and unavoidably get disappointed by the result of it. I hope the remastered version would get me a nostalgic trip and remind me how this game changes me, but it couldn't. Maybe because I was already disappointed with True colors that I slowly lost faith in this franchise. I don't know, the feeling is so complex I can't explain it in a few words. I wanted to love the remastered but I couldn't.
Thank you for this enlightening video. I love the original LiS (haven't played before the storm , not sure if I ever will), and I was hoping for better facial expressions and lip syncing. I hope they fix this in the future, for now I'll entertain myself with discovering True Colors. 😇
It’s sad they had to visually change so much when a simple resolution fix would’ve done exactly what people would want. The animations still honestly look hand-made…I do like how the hair looks in the remaster, though. I also might be coming from a mistaken place here, but should they not have just used Steph’s True Colors model and textures?
im so glad someone mentioned the eyes. i hate them. so much. but specially the way they look on max. max's half lidded eyes were one of my favorite parts of her design and the way her eyes are now just. generic anime protagonist bothers me so much. also the lipsyncing. i didn't mind it too much when it was the original bc the whole animation was kinda stiff like that, but now with the improved animation the lipsyncing looks so much worse in comparison... it's harder to ignore now bc everything else animation-wise was improved. haven't played it yet but it's not making me excited to play it... ALSO WHY THE FUCK DOES ELLIOT LOOK LIKE HUMAN KEN???? im actually kinda disgusted what the hell
strongly agreed with you, what's with the big anime eyes... also I don't like the weird lips and the lacking texture of her freckles. For me she have a mixed looks between good and bad. Some scenes she looks absolutely stunning, but the other scenes she looks so out of it.
I automatically cringed when I saw remastered Eliot. Dear god… The shadows on the characters look awful. In that scene where Chloe and Rachel meet Damon there’s parts where he looks SUPER bright. All the characters have some sort of weird glow. I hope they at least add some updates.
i felt iffy when i saw that the og creators of the series, DontNod, weren't involved in the remaster (since square literally took the franchise from them). yet i was hopeful that maybe they would correct the lip sync and the lagging in the first game, and maybe add new content like concept art and stuff and sell the whole game for a cheap price. When i saw the final result and what they did with the character models, using realism, all i could think was "this is not life is strange". idk the contrast between stylized and realistic felt very disjointed and disconnected not only between the two aesthetics, but also with the og version (that nailed at being stylized). i'm feeling like one of those "uhnnn the og is always better and the real work of the author" fans, but really this remaster feels unfinished and doesn't have the charm of the original LiS. (edit: i'm under the impression that SE is going through its dark age period, releasing very unpolished games, similar to what Capcom was going through from 2009 till RE7 and SEGA has been going through since 2006).
Honestly, we’re so freaking tired of this remaster era. Yet more than 5 damned years we barely see something new except the remaster of this or that game. Ea$y money for publishers, that’s what it is. Lack of new experience for us. Uh.
I don't usually comment on stuff but LIS is my favourite game so why not. I think the remasters are fine, I got them for £20 with the bundle and if they iron out the glitches and touched up the lighting in a couple places, I got my moneys worth. I don't think the 'painting' art style is lost at all, I think the environments and lighting are great. As for the faces, I think they're covered with emotion where before I had to imagine it all in for myself. Again, this is literally my favourite game of all time and I'm really cynical so I'd be the first to say boo it's bad, but it's not that bad at all and this is definitley how ill play it going forward. Great vid tho :)
I ran into a bug on polarized recently when i went into max's nightmare. i kinda got stuck in the wall and couldn't get out or see properly anyway. So i re did the scene and it was fine in the end after avoiding it. :0
Thanks for the review, I was going to blindly buy this game but now I have a second opinion which is a good thing because your opinion wasn't too negative or too positive
Wasn't a fan. Hated Chloe only backing off slightly when you realize Rachel was an even worse character that molded Chloe into the nightmare you meet in game 1
I'm so disappointed by this remaster and I wish I'd just gotten the standard edition of True Colors instead of the ultimate one, what a waste of money. I expected the remaster's visuals to be comparable to Life is Strange 2's quality if not better (as it was also made in Unreal Engine 4) but this just looks.. lazy and without personality. Also I am very surprised to see Steph's model in BTS look so horrible even though she is one of the main characters in True Colors, you'd think they'd put in at least a little more effort to make her look good.
I played Life is Strange a month ago and then saw the LIS Remastered Collection announcement so i decided to wait playing Before the Storm. And yesterday when i reached the end of episode 2 it crashed. The Victoria and Rachel drugging the Tea confrontation scene. I restarted the game like 15 times and it did not work. I also re-installed the game, same shit. Bought the Original BTS game today(Deluxe edition). It is all good so far. Starting episode 2 soon.
it looks like some of the scenes are prerendered and in lowres. Loadigns are in places where they haven't been before. Overall bad remaster :(
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Honestly after seeing the early before and after pics of Nathan and Warren I was like "Woah I really need that game!!!". But now after the trailer dropped I was literally asking myself what changed? Like the characters still look... Basically the same? If they would have done an entire True Colors but the original then yes. True Colors is absolutely beautiful! The remaster isn't tho. I also think that they should have given those who own the originals an update for a few dollars. I bet some of those $40 changes can be made with using mods
Yeah, the remasters are pretty disappointing; I swear you can actually get both the original LiS and BtS for cheaper considering the remasters' price. What's disappointing is that there really is no reason to pick up the remastered versions over the originals (aside from slightly different visuals, but they usually look worse across the board) because there's no extra content or "hook", and in fact they're actually worse because of the rampant glitches that weren't in the original game. I've got plenty of ideas for stuff that could have been added to make them worth playing over the originals. A redone "Sacrifice Arcadia Bay" ending for LiS that makes it as long and detailed as the "Sacrifice Chloe" ending. Another story route that delves into how Max's powers and the storm are actually connected. A possible third ending depending on actions taken across the game? Alternate costumes for both games. Since the VA strike's been over for years now, how about redone voice acting for BtS featuring the original LiS actors (particularly Ashly Burch as Chloe)? Another bonus episode for both games?
i came back here to tell you that i finished the first game in one sitting. honestly one of the if not THE best game i have ever played in my life. not sure why it took me so long to play it. i am a 32 year old man but i cried like a little child. Story is so powerful the choices you make in the game are very strong. The ending. Damn the Ending. not sure what i had to choose but i let chloe die she was such an amazing character. that part literally broke me. Such an amazing game. and thanks for recommending me to play the OG version. think that was the best choice. anyway Amazing game 10/10 100%. When i wake up i will start with Before The Storm. hope its just as good.
They should have focused on making it look more artistic than realistic, the original wasn't meant to be realistic.
Agreed
That is a really interesting idea! It will be cool if any remaster for any game will look more artistic instead of realistic! I’m curious on how the game will look.
All they had to do was add a 4k texture pack and ppl would pay for that
@@JohnSmith-ee2sl They could have used some improvement to the hair and animations
And then original art was perfect!
I felt like I was the only one disappointed in this remaster!! It looks horrible! What drew me in to the original games was the unique art style and they completely took that away with the remaster.
yes! i love everyone’s original looks tbh and prefer them better :((
@@prpledough I actually just got the original in the mail. I plan on doing a Twitch stream, after I stream true colors, is to play all the original LIS and Before the Storm and then the remastered versions
The original was the best
@@matthewavery2934 Did you do it?
@@GoodestKitty not yet, I just got done playing wavelengths and now I can down load the originals to my game system to Twitch stream them.
Oh, God, this game was really all my little 15-year-old hipster self’s heart ever wanted. The story, the art style, the music… It’ll always have a special place in my heart.
I rly loved that game! I trully felt i was living in high school again
fr 🥹
i feel u cuz i’m that 15 years old rn
Glad Im not only one here, thats why I love feeling the hipper character.
On the other hand, faces and emotions are better in the original game than in the remastersed. It’s crazy ! For example Victoria’s eyes are huge and her teeth... and Chloe too, big eyes without moving... I don’t understand ! And Chloe’s smile on the principal’s chair ? What ?
the original life is strange has such a captivating art style that made it stand out from other games at the time. it wasn’t over the top hyper realistic in the best way possible as it created a unique aesthetic for the franchise. the remastered collection, on the other hand, doesn’t have the same artistic approch as the og’s but instead looks like a hyper realistic game put on the lowest possible settings and it ruins the overall experience as it could’ve been so much more. square enix truly took a wrong turn with this franchise by being straight up just lazy and greedy and its so disappointing to see from a long term fan.
Well said! You’re right!
I was expecting something realistic and I don’t see them in the remastered games lol.
Agreed
Ifeel the same, and will gladly stick with the original. They could've left this as an optional HD pack, imo, if they absolutely had to - which they really didn't, lol. Just my take on it, though.
I wouldn't call that "lazy".
I literally cannot imagine remastering a game and bringing literally nothing new to it. it’s like the minute you start thinking about all the deleted and cut concept that they could have put in the game that was originally not included, you start to realize this is the opposite of worth it
Right, like at least fleshing out the shorter ending in LiS 1 or have the decency to remove that insulting after credits scene in BtS
@@7hkey I watched a bunch of videos about how much content could have been in the game, and it baffles me that literally none of that made the cut… Like there was zero transformative work done on this game. Besides the fucking graphics 🤣
This has literally got to be the most depressing story in video game history, even if it has parts that are realistic.
Isn't Rockstar doing the same thing with the "new" GTA V that is coming out next week? These developers have so many scrapped ideas that they should incorporate into "remasters" of their games, it would make it so much more worth it to buy.
I am STILL pissed that they had the opportunity to be able to allow a kiss in not just the ending where you're about to kill Chloe and chose not to add it in.
They removed Chloes "what the fuck" in the scene where we see Jefferson runs the Dark Room, the eclipse in a scene with Frank at the end of chapter 1(?) and they added a loading screen between the storm and the class. Jefferson looks shit. And also, someone had a glitch where Joyce had a face that was black and I don't wanna think of those implications. Also Max's room is dark in some scenes
@@Jedzelex thank god for that i spent so long tryna find em
and they removed sneak peek and gave us netflix like "next ep starts in 7 seconds" with a pic
The Joyce face glitch had me rolllinggg😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 what a mess this remaster is
@@ZoeMuller80 They removed the credits after each episode too.
An original developer lamented the change since he said that they had different people working on each episode. So that's why they included credits for each episode.
I can’t lie this remaster made the game look so unappealing. Unless we get some updates I won’t be buying this anytime soon.
update: The life is strange team says they’re looking into the bugs. Let’s see what’s fixed! Ion think they fixing those graphics tho 💀
Update: patch A made it look worse omfg 😭
I enjoyed your review. I hope you do a more story review. I'm also curious to know if you choose a different ending from the first time you played the game to now ?
Add on This is my first play through and it's enjoyable but the dialogue is cheesy and Chloe I find very dislikable. She's literally moaning to Max that she's answering a phone call, I mean WTF
@@geraintthatcher3076 I guess you might have chloe grow on you in the future or maybe not. my friend HATES her but i love her. I guess you just have to see certain things in a different perspective, let me know your thoughts when you finish the full game!
@@prpledough I will and she might, Iv only done 2 chapters so things can change
@@geraintthatcher3076 You are in for a ride
@@NoGate I'm in the middle of Chapter 4 and going back in time to save Chloe dad only for it to turn Chloe into a paraplegic is so sad.
Chloe Worrying about Medical Bills her Parents pay though is definitely an American problem though that I thank God we don't have over here
I’d rather see another Lis game with Chloe and max and how they lived afterwards mixed with what Rachel went through.
have you read the comics? It continues the story!!
@@prpledough Your trying to get a fan that didn't play the series past the first games or didn't like the series after. Believe the same can be said about Mass Effect (Mass Effect 1-3) 1 mess up later the New Mass Effect better have Shepard or no one going to buy it attitude. Hance Bring back Max & Chloe Attitude. Here I'm going it should of been a 1 single game and done because wanting the past isn't ever going to bring any Future improvements to the series it's going to look at the past and go don't touch.
Read the comics and just stop going your a Gamer or a Fan of Life is Strange. Play on your phone games. To you Life is Strange 2 Does not exist, True Colors Does not Exist so why are you asking for the Series to Return to Twin Peaks that is like watching the Twin Peaks Series scream at the Director to Tell who Killed Laura then Stop watching the Series, Don't watch the Prequel Movie on Laura and then after they do the Return to Twin Peaks go to the Director make more and only this because your other Movies don't exist. It's sad really how many call themselves fans yet ignore everything else the Games developers made, How many Movies were made by this Director. Yet wonder why Square Re Done Life is Strange 1 to fine out how it will sell today compared to 2015. No Wonder Dontnod Stop making Life is Strange there is no Hope for them to make what they want.
@@mattstansbeary3068 are you ok
@@coldbananastud About what I said yes I'm okay. My issue is How much a Return of Chloe & Max where Max fights against an Evil Max and tries to save Rachel would be nice the concept that Rachel is Laura Palmer is an issue of Return to Twin Peaks a mini series on Showtime in 2018. So you see where the issue is that Everyone wants Chloe, Max and Rachel back and where everyone involve is so far is going Nooooooooo.
LiS is so much about photography and nerd science it added a meta game. The goal is to count the number of scene where Max is overexposed and compare it to the number of scene where she's underexposed. And boom ! Turns out you get the golden ratio.
Big if true!
I really wished photography had played a much major role in the game since its my thing in life. At least the achievements attributed in some way.
I feel like this is a case for die-hard fans only, and only if summer sale brings it down at least 70%. I love the game, but I'm not paying 40 for so little improvement.
This. Of course I am getting it, but at a hefty discount. 70% off sounds OK, especially considering I already own both games.
I am afraid this year we will only see a 30% off tops, next year 50% and maybe for 2024 that %70 discount.
Maybe if they fix the messed up textures and glitches, I might get it this year.
Buy it used on consoles
Yeah for me i was only going to pay full price unless they added new things
Die hard fans will not like this look. It’s more aimed at newcomers who cannot see how much worse than the original this actually is..
I can’t lie this remaster made the game look so unappealing. Unless we get some updates I won’t be buying this anytime soon.
I replayed LiS (finished episode 5) a day ago. The graphics aged well. The only improvements i see in the remasters is characters summoning teeth more frequently
Now this one, this one was funny.
Great vid. I had a feeling it wouldn't be worth $40. It seems like it's mainly for the diehard LiS fans who bought the ultimate edition of True Colors
Same
I was really kinda enjoying it until episode 2 became super buggy, all the subtitles were wrong and Max was wearing the wrong clothes. If you wanna get this, I would suggest waiting for a sale (when they'll also have patched the game)
I had the subtitle bug, a weird flickering bug that looked like max was trying to leave her own body and then another one where max was moonwalking across the floor haha the bugs are so bad.
@@MissMultiConsole XDD That's funny
At the start of the second episode I was rewinding to save Alyssa from flying toilet paper and all of a sudden I see Max in the background doing a freaking T-Pose 😂, also this happened to me a few times where I would save the fisherman in polarized who I accidentally electrocuted and the game would crash on me. Updated my firmware and it worked with a little prayer 😁
Poor Alyssa she is always targeted haha
I can’t lie this remaster made the game look so unappealing. Unless we get some updates I won’t be buying this anytime soon.
I’ll be honest, this game changed my life.
I found out what LIS when I was 8, when I had found an old Aphmau playthrough. She never finished the game, and it took me a solid year to realize it was on the AppStore, and I could just finish it myself instead of rewatching the same playthrough over and over. I had gotten obsessed and this game was how I realized I was into girls. It made up my life.
This remastered is so, SO much more different than what I grew up with, and I agree with you. But, although I hate the graphics, I know that this remastered version will catch some other 8-year olds eye, and have them go on the same adventure as I did. This remastered version will be someone else’s childhood. And for that, I can’t be angry.
Naww your story is so cute
Lis made me realize I might be highly sensitive when the decision in the end haunted me for like a month when I was 10 lmao
They definitely used AI to "remaster" this... They should have called it the "definitive edition" to complete the insult to buyers. Yes there are some upgrades, but they hardly justify charging twice for the same game... If they care about the fans they should have given a graphical update for free or at very least just make it a DLC with a sensible price.
This is so disappointing.
Got burned on GTA Definitive Edition i see
My max kept changing clothes, they removed Chloe’s wtf and BTS episode 3 was the buggiest for me, Joyce had bright yellow hair, white arms and legs and a black face, in Rachel’s room Chloe and Rachel and a few items in the room were a glowing bright blue, like glowing smurf’s, reloading didn’t fix it, and when Rachel and Chloe were watching James and Sera through the binoculars in their flashback they were just glowing orbs of bright light and I couldn’t see anything it was so strange and right at the end after choosing whether to tell Rachel or not it was glitchy af black lines cutting through the screen.
I literally agreed with everything you said. I remember playing LIS1 and obviously it didn't have mind blowing visuals or anything. I remember enjoying the atmosphere and the vibe it gave off and felt everything looked nice. My first thought when booting up the remaster was....why does everything look so bad?
I guess the thing we really need is a prequel-sequel part of the story. Things that happend before the original and after BtS. To make it fullfilled. More time to hang with Rachel, point of no return, and then - Chloe attempts to find any clues around people that going through their personal 5 steps of acceptance. Full chronological timeline. That could be the great gift for everyone who loves this story.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thought the remaster didn’t look great. You’re right that the still photos looked pretty good, but the actual trailers looked worse than the original. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely like how they are finally syncing up the voices to the characters after SO many years, but I liked the original visuals much better. One of my favorite details is Max’s deep set eyes. It makes her look somber, mysterious, and a little worn out. They totally took away the emotion in the characters’ faces and just smoothed them over to make them look more crisp. Anyway, rant over. I’ll still be enjoying my original LiS game🦋
I agree. I feel like the purpose of these remasters (or so its speculated) was the fact that they wanted to continue Max and Chloe's story again in the next game so this was a way of making everyone sort of replay these and recap everything. That in itself isn't a horrible idea but they should've taken more time.
I see the problem here, you just cannot remaster a masterpiece. But since this is the best and the most heartbreaking game I've ever played, I'd love to see a better outcome. You can't give an artist a deadline, that's just not happening. They can take all the time they need, the final outcome is what really matters to every single one of us. Damn this game is indeed a timeless masterpiece.
im sorry but this game is not a masterpiece whatsoever. at best, its decent or okay but nothing more
You're just looking at it from a different perspective.
@@tfn7706 ill admit when i first played the game 2 yrs ago, id fully agree with everything positive ppl say about the game but now after replaying it, watching essays on it, playing much more quality games with better narratives, characters etc, it definitley lessened my experience of the game and series drastically
The thing is, you can absolutely remaster anything and make it look amazing, if time and effort is given. Just look at the Resident Evil 4 fan-made HD Project, which took 8 years of fans' time to make and is unbelievably good, compared to the laughable "remasters" Capcom gave us. Laziness is rewarded when money is involved.
@@CloakTheLurker That's what I'm saying, but not if a deadline is given.
Deck nine = cash grap
Dontnod = King 👑
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The soft dimness of the original added to the dreaminess and the nostalgic feeling. When they amped up the contrast, they didn't just make the game darker but also ruined the atmosphere.
One of the problems I couldn’t overlook was the darkness. Some parts were so dark, I couldn’t even navigate through it. Also max would randomly glitch up and down while she was sitting.
I agree ESPECIALLY on that hide and seek like minigame in the fifth episode I literally had to turn up my brightness to full when I got to that bit as it was so hard to navigate around
I agree unfortunately 😩 It was a disappointment
omg hey there celebrity 😌 if they had more time i think a lot of things could of changed.
Hey Nicefield ^^
@@May-gr8bp Hey! 👋
Hey, I've seen your animated work - from the wholesome kind to the (extremely) spicy NSFW ones ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) . Just wanted I was more impressed with your work than the Remaster's official trailers. Keep it up!👏
@@Latinkon lol thank you!
Also another issue with companies now is they r eager to throw games or remaster games without finishing them! So they can make money 😷
It’s definitely not worth full price. The only reason I don’t feel super disappointed is because I wanted to get back into the series and just enjoy the story again.
Same
Yeah. I don't know about the original but Before the Storm is great. Having not played it in two years, I'd much rather play the remaster to experience it again because it is slighty better and emhasizes the nostalgia.
(I don't take price into account since I paid for the original, I'm not paying for the remaster.)
Exactly what I was thnking. I just wanted to play it again and the remastered gave me another reason to do so
idc what people say, i loved the remastered life is strange games.. yes, there were some bugs here and there, but other than that, i loved it.
What surprises me the most is that this had been postponed for a few months, (time in which they could test bugs, lighting, animation, etc)... Cyberbug 2.0
😂😂😂
I love these games so much, I'm really sad that they didn't cared enough for this remaster ☹
I have a massive love for all the LiS games and have been playing them since the first game came out in 2015. But even I have to agree, these remasters just ain’t it. I hardly notice any differences aside from some newer environmental details and Chloe in BTS. And the bugs are aplenty. I’m not too annoyed with the money I spent, but I’m not blind to the fact that these remasters are pretty unremarkable.
Also, the statue scene at 13:55 is definitely a new inclusion. Great video :)
keep in mind that since its a remaster, there cant be story changes. remasters are for graphical changes.
Yeah, I'm glad I didn't spend money on this for real, I'm a massive LIS fan but I totally agree that these Remasters weren't needed, and even less so in this dire state (many of my friends that did bought them complained about it being reaaaaally buggy just like you say in the vid.), here's hoping DN manage to fix it ASAP so people can enjoy what they were advertised/promised with the trailers, cheers for the good vid. and the honest opinion 🤙🏼
It's weird that they even felt the need to remaster this in the first place. Such a blatant cashgrab it's not even funny. Instead of making new content they knew it'd be easier and cheaper to do this instead.
Thank you for mentioning the blur God I thought I was going crazy asf. I love Chloe’s new remodel it’s awesome. In the first scene for life is Strange where Max wakes up the audio completely cut out and would not fix itself and that destroyed all the immersion for me. Before the Storm is pretty great but there is massive lighting issues within episode 2 at least for me. Great video
someone please take life is strange out of Deck Nine's hands
I feel like the remastered version made some of the faces worst rather than better because the original version had a realistic art style and now they make the faces look very clayish. Not to mention the scene where Kate was crying when she's about to jump looked so nice and then the remastered made her look like she got her makeup removed. It looked so off to me. Why would I waist $45 on this when I could played the original version that had better graphics already that I brought for only $20?
This is literally my favorite game franchise of all time and I agree with your points but I always fall in love this franchise. the story, the art, the dialogue, the music. Just everything about this series, 1 2 before the storm, the adventure of captain spirit. I haven’t played colors yet but this whole series always makes me feel so many emotions. It just hits me in all the right places and it truly just makes my soul smile. I dont know what the whole point of this was but I mean I just wanted to express the love I have for this game
Great video, dude. Personally, I feel like there is no point in this remastered collection other than some little textures, lighting, saturation and environmental difference. Even if u compare the collection to the originals, the difference overall is still just little, not much. A great example of a remaster is call of duty modern warfare remastered. That game looked awesome in the remaster from the og. In the end, I just wish to say that the lis collection, according to me, is nothing but a cash grab by square Enix and deck 9. For me the ogs are best.
P. S. Also the marketing for the remastered collection felt weird for me since it started a week before the release. That is when I knew this was going to be red flag.
rip max's hooded eyes. they were what drew me into her, but now she just- looks like a super high quality supermodel or something LOL i just kinda miss the old artistic style of the original games. it might just be the nostalgia and memories but idk
congratulations on 1k queen 😻!!! proud of you💜💜💜
WE NEED ANOTHER CHLOE GAME WITH 5 EP THAT IS A SEQUAL TO HER PREQUEL BEFORE THE STORM
Episode 1- Denial
Episode 2- Anger
Episode 3-bargaining
Episode 4-depression
Episode 5-acceptance
i can tell you put a lot of effort in to this video. amaizingly done! and yes that one scene with the art project was in the orginal
Thank you for this review! I bought LiS years ago and still have a lot of love for it. It was so tense waiting for each new episode to come out but it gave you a lot of time to kinda unpack the mystery and dream about your wild speculations. I know people were down on the episodic release but I think it helped naturally pace the story out and I think it left and stronger impact in my memory as a result. I really wanted an excuse to buy a high quality remaster but it seems like I'd be better off reinstalling the original version.
I never played the game myself but I watched Jacksepticeye's playthrough if I remember correctly... And I just NEEDED to see the next episode everytime I finished watching one. They had some quite good cliffhangers going on for the entire series. And honestly... I agree with the review here. I would rather see a new instalment than a remastered version that doesn't even worth the money. 8 years since the first game came out sounds a lot but it isn't... The first game as much as it has bugs as well holds up pretty well for what it is, story and everything. I wish SquareEnix had enough funding to properly finish the first LiS.
Great video I'm glad I cam across it, as a big fan of the life is strange series it's sad that the remaster is in this state. Let's hope it gets fixed.
You've got my subscription by the way
We got to admit the ending scene of the storm looks so amazing!!!it look beautiful and made me feel more for max and Chloe then the original
that’s the ONLY scene they did phenomenally imo i think i looked so DAMN GOOD.
This remastered should have at least a native PS5/Series X (Cause… what is the point of making a PS4 Remastered of a PS4 game?) and 60fps. This definitely DOESN’T worth 40 bucks.
I know i was really bummed out about that :( I know their using its ps4 assests but isn't it literally a remaster?!!?!
it’s the fact that porn animators can put more realism into these characters than the official devs
For a game that is story driven, with little replayability, with both games only ever having two different endings, and all other titles in the LiS series being unconnected beyond cameos or references, I seriously questioned why LiS and BTS was getting a remaster at all.
All the fans would have already played it, and without adding anything new, why would they go through the emotional heartbreak and trauma of playing through the story again.
While Uncharted The Nathan Drake collection is a remaster of the same games but for a different console generation, it was prep for Uncharted 4, so those who never played 1-3 could play them before 4 came out. It makes sense.
LiS True Colors has no connection to LiS or BTS beyond Steph being in TC and BTS, and there's no plot points that elaborate on this.
I just don't understand why this needed to happen at all, and that's also coming from a Life is Strange fan.
I was hoping they add a 3rd option to save both chloe and arcadia bay.😔
Where is dontnod when yu need em
Keeping well away from their work being trashed, I reckon. After the BtS announcement, there were signs emerging that Deck Nine were Square Enix’s favorites, and it felt like things were being put in motion while Dontnod were working on LiS2. BtS got more promotion from SE than Dontnod’s LiS2 got. Hell, even the comics got more promotion than LiS2. And a SE video content creator being brought on board to give LiS2 some attention felt a bit late in the game.There was also a close relationship on Twitter between Deck Nine key staff and the then LiS community manager. The interactions and banter they had did not occur with the Dontnod account. Things just seemed… odd.
3:07 - "I stated that something extremely memorable to the game was its beautiful art style, looking like a painting instead of graphically enhanced graphics".
8:36 - "These games were probably hard to remaster because of their art style. Mixing realism where it never intended to be in the first place".
Those two sentences of yours already sum up the great fault of the remastered version.
I remember watching a making off with the game's developers where they said they intentionally made the game with this "painting style art". Changes like the game's characters having a better expression are welcome, but that's it. If they try to apply too much realism to everything, the remastered version will be doomed to stay in "uncanny valley" forever.
Great analysis. Congratulations.
I tried my best to defend sqaure enix… But I rage quit my remastered playthrough because of all the bugs and glitches… I was really going to war for this game hyping it up and nothing striked me but pure disappointment…. Remasters like Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy received new cutscenes new clothes for sora i.e Limit Form new colors for the heartless enemies… Life is strange receive 0 new cutscenes no new outfits for max Caulfield and couldn’t even put alternate costumes onto the other characters… It’s literally just the same game with a sharpness filter on it… Usually in a remaster we receive something new! Something we haven’t seen yet… Life is strange remastered was a game that never should’ve been announced or released in my opinion… I thought it should’ve just been delayed until 2023 but after playing the first 2 episodes of life is strange remastered I thought it shouldn’t have been released at all… also You earned yourself a sub from FreshKingJohns! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I honestly don't know why people like this remaster, the characters look completely different and the style is no longer there. The only thing i didn't like about the old one was that the background didn't look hd? But at least it looked cohesive with everything else.
I really enjoyed the remasters. Sure, there are some bugs. Sure, as a former video game developer and given what I know of the tech involved, I'm not actually sure why those bugs would have been there, especially on a delayed launch. But, I'm super glad we got the remaster. The faces and expressions are WAY better now, especially in LiS1. $10 for each remaster? Totally worth it to me. Now, the price you mentioned for True Colors... yeah. I enjoyed True Colors. It was... fine. But like... It was already 2021 by the time that game launched. And it felt like it had even fewer locations in the game than the original LiS, let alone LiS2. That could have been fine, but they advertised the crap out of Haven Springs, and as far as I can tell, Haven Springs is a single bar, a flower shop, a record store, and like... an art closet. Maybe there was one external city block in there, too, if I'm being generous, and like half of a mining tunnel. I just found TC super underwhelming, in story, character, choices, and locations.
But yeah, I really enjoyed the remasters, and will probably never play the "originals" again now that I have these options.
On the other hand, faces and emotions are better in the original game than in the remastersed. It’s crazy ! For example Victoria’s eyes are huge and her teeth... and Chloe too, big eyes without moving... I don’t understand ! And Chloe’s smile on the principal’s chair ? What ?
a have only one word(i pre ordered both games): disappointed. But a great video!
When I git my BTS Remastered, the main issue I had was the final cutscenes acted like a broken VHS Tape and they were acting like robots
wow this video was a banger. good job queen 😻
thx king 😇
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@Nezk stop flirting with me
In the original, I really had a picture of what the characters would look like in real life, they had distinctive features. In the remaster, I hardly recognised half of them! The distinctions were gone and they all looked quite similar 😬
It’s just the glitches and the crashing that’s disappointed me since I brought the ultimate collection of true colours.
the team will def fix the glitches, not too sure ab the graphics though.
Really the main issue that I had with this remaster is the graphics the painterly aesthetic and the vintage filter was gone and why did they remove the vintage filter when we see LiS's world through Max's eyes
I noticed new dialogue in the first episode when you first take the photo of the butterfly in the bathroom. Correct me if I’m wrong but in the original game, Max simply says “when one door closes, another opens” or something along those lines. You get the implication that the butterfly has significance to the story from that one line. In the remaster, Max says that she can “feel the air moving around her” and that the butterfly feels mystical. It felt like very pointless exposition considering the majority of players already know of the butterfly’s significance as they’ve played the game before.
Oh, and on my playthrough in episode 2 instead of subtitles, the filenames for the subtitles showed up instead. How can someone miss that before it gets released?
I'm really glad you addressed the false advertising. My hope went through the roof and seeing the finished product felt like an ebay scam... I love LIS so much and I tried to not bash on it but it's a huge let down :(
their first mistake was letting deck nine do the job, they care less about the art and more about the hype and overpricing it. dontnod was smart for rejecting to do the remaster.
They should’ve added in some of the cut scenes that would’ve made the game more in depth
Very good video!
I still don’t know how they decided which textures to remaster. The ground looks better with new textures and actual grass, but if you look around the school ground in ep 1 of LiS you see that like 2 meters away the grass is gone and I’m sure the current consoles could have handled that.
At the same time most of the posters aren’t only not sharp, but straight up pixelated.
And also look at the football field, it still has zero details and the ”players“ are still fucking png‘s moving left to right.
yes i saw SO many un rendered textures that were pixelated, and they never rendered at that, the original was literally beating the remasters ass 😭😭
For real. I got both originals for 5 bucks each on sale long ago and this barely updated version is being sold for a full price of a modern release. Sad.
I love LiS and BtS a lot, I like them so much that I brought two copies of both games back in the days. Digitally at first and then physical collector version later.
This love is so massive I just blindly pre-ordered the remastered version and unavoidably get disappointed by the result of it. I hope the remastered version would get me a nostalgic trip and remind me how this game changes me, but it couldn't. Maybe because I was already disappointed with True colors that I slowly lost faith in this franchise.
I don't know, the feeling is so complex I can't explain it in a few words. I wanted to love the remastered but I couldn't.
It's really nice to see someone so knowledgeable about these games talk about them.
Thank you for this enlightening video. I love the original LiS (haven't played before the storm , not sure if I ever will), and I was hoping for better facial expressions and lip syncing.
I hope they fix this in the future, for now I'll entertain myself with discovering True Colors. 😇
It’s sad they had to visually change so much when a simple resolution fix would’ve done exactly what people would want. The animations still honestly look hand-made…I do like how the hair looks in the remaster, though.
I also might be coming from a mistaken place here, but should they not have just used Steph’s True Colors model and textures?
I guess it was too much to hope for that the Remaster would have updated the graphics to be on par with _True Colors_ at least.
"It's not like this is the last of us" RESPECTTTTT
im so glad someone mentioned the eyes. i hate them. so much. but specially the way they look on max. max's half lidded eyes were one of my favorite parts of her design and the way her eyes are now just. generic anime protagonist bothers me so much. also the lipsyncing. i didn't mind it too much when it was the original bc the whole animation was kinda stiff like that, but now with the improved animation the lipsyncing looks so much worse in comparison... it's harder to ignore now bc everything else animation-wise was improved. haven't played it yet but it's not making me excited to play it...
ALSO WHY THE FUCK DOES ELLIOT LOOK LIKE HUMAN KEN???? im actually kinda disgusted what the hell
i’m so afraid of elliot you don’t understand, i couldn’t look at his ass so i had to look down while editing his part. mf scary as hell
strongly agreed with you, what's with the big anime eyes... also I don't like the weird lips and the lacking texture of her freckles. For me she have a mixed looks between good and bad. Some scenes she looks absolutely stunning, but the other scenes she looks so out of it.
I automatically cringed when I saw remastered Eliot. Dear god…
The shadows on the characters look awful. In that scene where Chloe and Rachel meet Damon there’s parts where he looks SUPER bright. All the characters have some sort of weird glow. I hope they at least add some updates.
Guess I will give it a few more months before I start playing this game (only played true colors and love it).
Yes, wait until they patch it. It still wont look amazing and you should really play the original, but at least it will be bug free! I hope :)
Max in this game doesn't look like Max that we've known. It looks like we're playing her twin sister or her doopelganger.
Ending scene was soo damm good with facial expression
i felt iffy when i saw that the og creators of the series, DontNod, weren't involved in the remaster (since square literally took the franchise from them). yet i was hopeful that maybe they would correct the lip sync and the lagging in the first game, and maybe add new content like concept art and stuff and sell the whole game for a cheap price. When i saw the final result and what they did with the character models, using realism, all i could think was "this is not life is strange". idk the contrast between stylized and realistic felt very disjointed and disconnected not only between the two aesthetics, but also with the og version (that nailed at being stylized). i'm feeling like one of those "uhnnn the og is always better and the real work of the author" fans, but really this remaster feels unfinished and doesn't have the charm of the original LiS.
(edit: i'm under the impression that SE is going through its dark age period, releasing very unpolished games, similar to what Capcom was going through from 2009 till RE7 and SEGA has been going through since 2006).
Its funny how you stated: They got more time. No they didnt get more time, they had to delay because of covid rules if im correct.
that, but they also game the team ‘less stress’ and ‘more time’ to work on the project .
Honestly, we’re so freaking tired of this remaster era. Yet more than 5 damned years we barely see something new except the remaster of this or that game. Ea$y money for publishers, that’s what it is. Lack of new experience for us. Uh.
I miss Dontnod :'(
I don't usually comment on stuff but LIS is my favourite game so why not. I think the remasters are fine, I got them for £20 with the bundle and if they iron out the glitches and touched up the lighting in a couple places, I got my moneys worth. I don't think the 'painting' art style is lost at all, I think the environments and lighting are great. As for the faces, I think they're covered with emotion where before I had to imagine it all in for myself. Again, this is literally my favourite game of all time and I'm really cynical so I'd be the first to say boo it's bad, but it's not that bad at all and this is definitley how ill play it going forward. Great vid tho :)
Max be showing her teeth way too much in the remastered version like wtf
it’s like they added too many facial movements to make it realistic but they added to many to the point it looks unrealistic.
"why does the light reflect off her face like that?"
i feel personally attacked!!!!!!!!
I wish I saw this before paying for it…
I ran into a bug on polarized recently when i went into max's nightmare. i kinda got stuck in the wall and couldn't get out or see properly anyway. So i re did the scene and it was fine in the end after avoiding it. :0
Thanks for the review, I was going to blindly buy this game but now I have a second opinion which is a good thing because your opinion wasn't too negative or too positive
Wasn't a fan. Hated Chloe only backing off slightly when you realize Rachel was an even worse character that molded Chloe into the nightmare you meet in game 1
I'm so disappointed by this remaster and I wish I'd just gotten the standard edition of True Colors instead of the ultimate one, what a waste of money. I expected the remaster's visuals to be comparable to Life is Strange 2's quality if not better (as it was also made in Unreal Engine 4) but this just looks.. lazy and without personality.
Also I am very surprised to see Steph's model in BTS look so horrible even though she is one of the main characters in True Colors, you'd think they'd put in at least a little more effort to make her look good.
In Before the Storm the remaster remastered Chloe's face so much you can't even see her black eye.
I played Life is Strange a month ago and then saw the LIS Remastered Collection announcement so i decided to wait playing Before the Storm. And yesterday when i reached the end of episode 2 it crashed. The Victoria and Rachel drugging the Tea confrontation scene. I restarted the game like 15 times and it did not work. I also re-installed the game, same shit. Bought the Original BTS game today(Deluxe edition). It is all good so far. Starting episode 2 soon.
I also wish they would make more of Chloe and max
it looks like some of the scenes are prerendered and in lowres. Loadigns are in places where they haven't been before. Overall bad remaster :(
Honestly after seeing the early before and after pics of Nathan and Warren I was like "Woah I really need that game!!!". But now after the trailer dropped I was literally asking myself what changed? Like the characters still look... Basically the same? If they would have done an entire True Colors but the original then yes. True Colors is absolutely beautiful! The remaster isn't tho.
I also think that they should have given those who own the originals an update for a few dollars. I bet some of those $40 changes can be made with using mods
I noticed that remaking or remastering doesn't go well all the time
Yeah true
Yeah, the remasters are pretty disappointing; I swear you can actually get both the original LiS and BtS for cheaper considering the remasters' price. What's disappointing is that there really is no reason to pick up the remastered versions over the originals (aside from slightly different visuals, but they usually look worse across the board) because there's no extra content or "hook", and in fact they're actually worse because of the rampant glitches that weren't in the original game.
I've got plenty of ideas for stuff that could have been added to make them worth playing over the originals. A redone "Sacrifice Arcadia Bay" ending for LiS that makes it as long and detailed as the "Sacrifice Chloe" ending. Another story route that delves into how Max's powers and the storm are actually connected. A possible third ending depending on actions taken across the game? Alternate costumes for both games. Since the VA strike's been over for years now, how about redone voice acting for BtS featuring the original LiS actors (particularly Ashly Burch as Chloe)? Another bonus episode for both games?
i came back here to tell you that i finished the first game in one sitting. honestly one of the if not THE best game i have ever played in my life. not sure why it took me so long to play it. i am a 32 year old man but i cried like a little child. Story is so powerful the choices you make in the game are very strong. The ending. Damn the Ending. not sure what i had to choose but i let chloe die she was such an amazing character. that part literally broke me. Such an amazing game. and thanks for recommending me to play the OG version. think that was the best choice. anyway Amazing game 10/10 100%. When i wake up i will start with Before The Storm. hope its just as good.
I don't know what just happened, I sat watching a video to the end about a game I've both never played and have no intention of playing.