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Max Caulfield’s story finally continues

Life Is Strange has many games in the series but there is not one that continues the first game’s story, until now. Life Is Strange: Double Exposure was released on October 29, 2024 and I just recently played it through. I liked the first game and the superpowers the main protagonist had. What lies on our hero’s way this time?

Plot

Max Caulfield (the main protagonist from the first Life Is Strange game) has relocated to Vermont, where she is working as a photographer at university. Max has a superpower to rewind time, but after what happened at her hometown years ago, she promised to never use her powers again. But something happens; Max’s friend dies horribly and she gains a new superpower—a power to shift reality where her friend isn’t dead. With this new aspect she tries to unsolve who killed her friend and why.

As any other Life Is Strange game the main thing is the story. All the plot twists and twisted realities brought new perspectives, and all the character’s that Max had to help and determine who is good and who is bad. The whole whodunnit aspect was very interesting.

There was many different characters, not too many, just enough and they all had their own personalities and quirks. That’s why you should always think carefully what options you choose on which character. They might snap and turn on you very easily.

Gameplay, controls, audio and visuals

The gameplay in Life Is Strange: Double Exposure was rather simple, as it is with the other games in the series. You play as Max and there are only a handful of areas you can investigate at once. You must travel the different realities and do puzzles and other things to progress in the, well, life of Max as she tries to uncover the truth. The gameplay was little bit dull, but I didn’t mind as I only play these types of games because of the story.

Other main thing in the gameplay was talking to people and do very important choices that have unchangeable effects, almost like the “butterfly effect” in the Until Dawn game. Those are always very much nerve-wracking, but Life Is Strange games are meant to be played more than once to get the full story and all possible outcomes.

Controlling Max was easy and doing everything was simple. Changing the realities can only be done at certain places so it was easy to understand when to use Max’s powers.

Life Is Strange: Double Exposure is fully voice acted, as it should be. I did enjoy the acting and all the various characters even though they might feel little bit too generic. There is a nerdy one, cheeky one, rebellious one… etc. But it was OK, I didn’t hate it. The music and background music was very nice and mellow, which suited the whole game ans its vibe.

The game uses Unreal Engine 5, but it didn’t looked like that. To be very honest the game looked dated. Something between Nintendo Switch and PS4. It had some nice things going on, but it was mostly harsh looking. Not to mention all the bugs such as slow texture loads, pop ups and T-posings. The game didn’t even look like it needed so much power to run yet it still had some problems. Usually when a game is for multiple platforms it gets the least capable platform’s built to all consoles. Maybe it was that in this case too.

Whodunnit?

Whodunnit, indeed. Well you must play it to find out. I played this through in about 9-10 hours and it was a OK experience. Well, maybe it was overall interesting and lukewarm experience at the same time. In the end I didn’t mind the graphical badness as the game is mostly about the story. With that said, I still do recommend Life Is Strange: Double Exposure to everyone who had enjoyed this series before.

Life Is Strange: Double Exposure is available on PS5 (reviewed using PS5 Pro), Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and Windows.

SCORE:

3/5

“Life Is Strange games are meant to be played more than once to get the full story and all possible outcomes”

RELEASE DATE: October 29, 2024
GENRE: Adventure
DEVELOPER: Deck nine
PUBLISHER: Square Enix
PLATFORMS: PS5 (reviewed)
Xbox Series X|S
Nintendo Switch
Windows

 

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