Life is strange 2 is so underrated it’s sad probably the best one in my opinion

I was able to buy one today! i was literally refreshing square enix's page for the past week, praying that someone returns it or something so that it gets restocked, lol. after i bought it it's back to being out of stock, i'm so happy that i managed to get it. that vinyl looks so freakin cool.

I feel so bad that the PR edition is stunning but the game is so bad and lackluster!!!

I ordered mine a while ago and it shipped a week ago. I don’t know why but they went is USPS for shipping however there were shipping partners who are handling it first. Now it is stuck from one partner ACI Logistix where it said it departed their facility but hasn’t been updated in a week. I’m really getting impatient with them because not only do they have a nonexistent phone number to contact them, the fill out a form is useless as they don’t get back to you

Yeah thing happened to me when opening it. It ripped a little. For me this ended up being a nice Record rather then a collectors box.

I might just buy this for the Vinyl honestly 🤣 even tho i dont have a player but theres a cheap one in my closest post office! Might get it

Great unboxing video Sparxxyy! Collectors edition looks nice. Have been playing and enjoying the game.

Niceee, that’s awesome you got one before they sold out. I also managed to get one before they sold out and i love the stuff you get, especially the vinyl. I do agree with the box feeling flimsy in comparison to the LIS2 collectors edition box.

That is so cool

Does your Life is Strange game lag on your PC?

Watching this after the collector edition unboxing, I'm enjoying the game (now finished episode 4, gonna do 5 tomorrow) also..I can't be the only one who wants that Mr Hot Dog christmas ornament just to bother people.

Mother is mothering

I got mine today and love it, can't play the vinyl because I lack a player, but it's still cool to have. I'm mostly tempted to actually just get it framed honestly.

I could understand if they broke up, because of the stress of the storm taking out everyone Chloe ever loved, and max tries to constantly fix the past, over time, Chloe resents max. Meanwhile max and Chloe drift apart due to wanting different things in life, plus Chloe never got over her abandonment issues from her youth, thus also taking a toll on max, because max wants to go to university, while Chloe wants to continue traveling. If the devs would’ve had done a better job explaining why they broke up, people would still be upset, but ultimately understand that breakups are a part of life, in general. Family, friends and lovers break up all the time. People will get older and grow apart. People need to remember, max and Chloe were young adults back then. You’re not gonna have the same mindset at 29, than you did at 19.

In my opinion, there is more to Max and Chloe's breakup. Because Max is whitdrawn when talking about Chloe and Arcadia Bay, because Max doesn't go into detail on How or Why. Other than her inner monolog when looking at for photo of them. With this in mind, the 3 remaining chapters could put more context to their relationship during the gap

I've liked the look of this game ever since first seeing the trailer a while back. If you would like to try a Don'tNod openworld role playing action game, with a good story line and great characters, I would recommend trying out Banishers A Ghost of New Eden

Chloe was always a bad person. Those who chose her, knew that.

15:20 I started tearing up 🥲

I personally don't like the whole premise of Double Exposure. We wanted a sequel which would be a continuation of the events of the 1st game. This just feels like a completely different game which happens to have the same protagonist. Why does it have to be a murder mystery? It makes the game even more unrealistic (Max witnessing and solving so many murders?). Why not just create a game about Max? About her life after the events in Arcadia Bay, maybe add the alternate reality mechanics to have both endings in one game? Let's say if you chose to save Chloe, the game would start with Max and Chloe being together somewhere, and then it goes deeper into Max's feelings, perhaps her trauma after sacrificing a whole city for Chloe, and then she discovers alternate reality where she saved Arcadia Bay. And if you chose to save the city, you'd have a different beginning of the game - you live somewhere else, maybe still are friends with people from Arcadia Bay and Max has a trauma after sacrificing her best friend and discovers an alternate reality where she chose Chloe. And the rest of the game would be roughly the same no matter which ending you chose - Max being able to shift between realities and reconsidering her choice. I'd love something like that, we'd get a glimpse of Max's life from both endings, and a deep dive into her feelings and trauma, but instead, we just got a completely new and fresh story which happens to share the same protagonist with the 1st game.

I really wish Chloe was Max's roommate in this game instead of Safi.

So far I love the game, but there's one thing I absolutely hate - the journal, which you mentioned. It's so 'off', it looks like demo version. I hate the font, it's sooo artificial, not natural. Looks like copy paste, not like handwriting at all.

this is kind of a hard take but after being super mad about them having Max and Chloe break up, I think it was actually a pretty realistic decision. I mean, Max ghosted Chloe for years and re-connected and fell in love with her within just one week, they were young, most likely traumatized by the destruction of Arcadia Bay and Chloe was still mourning Rachel's death. No wonder they realized they were in a pretty harsh emotional turmoil and decided to part ways. HOWEVER, the execution was TERRIBLE. I mean, a letter? Come on, man.

I'm in the camp that still feels they could have done a better job with their grown up Max design. A perfect example is Telltale's The Walking Dead, which aged up Clementine significantly, but she always remained unmistakabley recognizable. That's a nitpick, though. My greater concern is actually the vibe of the game, as established by the characters who populate its world. What I mean is, in True Colors, everybody was super nice (except for the one ex bf) and it made the vibe and setting of the game somewhat boring. A rule in writing is that 'friendly' is not the same as 'interesting'. In LiS 1 there was Victoria, and Nathan and a whole school of varying, sometimes off putting personalities, not to mention Step-douche David, drug dealer Frank, and Chloe herself, who's rough around the edges. It made the world of that game more realistic, more dynamic, and more dangerous (kind of needed for a murder mystery), and that's something I wonder if Deck Nine conveys here, because everything and everyone being so amicable can come off as... kinda phony. Life is Strange 1 was *really dark* and that seems to have been forgotten for a vibe that's... for lack of a better term.. "softer". (If the need for "trigger warnings" didn't already give that away). Anyway, I appreciate hearing your thoughts on the game so far. Thanks for the vid 👍

the thing i have about DE is not that max and chloe broke up, i think thats very okay and normal. but *how* they broke up. i would rather see chloe choosing to break up bc idk maybe she started questioning whether she was subconsciously doing it out of obligation since max 'sacrificed' a whole town for her. but they are still on good terms. just needing space. i just feel like there are tons of ways to have chloe out of the main game and other romance possible while also being in good favor w max. but another issue i have is - the game imo IS better narratively and emotionally w the chloe is dead option. i love how much max is holding in her heart chloe and that short time they spent fighting the odds . She hears chloe from those days. If chloe lives, you have a max still hearing just that past chloe when they had a whole life since then together. and it feels less emotionally powerful that max is being reminded of her ex vs her best friend who died. i also think a max in a chloe alive timeline should have more emotional trauma towards the loss of arcadia bay rather than the breakup imo but thats just me. i will always choose bae > bay but for DE if i want to feel things then i just headcannon this explicitly as a bay timeline.

tbh, my thought is that the breakup through letter is very on character for Chloe. don't get me wrong, I absolutely love her since 2016, but she is traumatized to a deeper level and never once reached for therapy. neither of them did. Chloe's modus operandi was to run away from people and situations that didn't accomplish what she had in her mind, unfortunately. she has been traumatized, abandoned and the people she loved died in catastrophic events, that girl will NOT be attached and definitely WON'T be a good company to a person who suffers the guilt of killing a whole city.

Stephe story is it’s own game now too

Can you give me your version of life is strange max and chloe theme?

Why did you delete my comment huh? I only wanted to warn people. What is wrong with that?

It does feel like a real missed opportunity that they didn't make two entirely different versions of each episode based solely off of the final decision of the first game, like imagine just how different each episode would've been depending on what you'd have chosen, killing Chloe's connection to Max off-screen definitely felt like a lazy way to avoid having to work longer and harder to make each episode different from one another. That said though, in terms of Gameplay, it's definitely the best I've seen since the first game. Shifting between two different timelines to get one or two tasks done brings back that puzzle solving element that's been absent in the sequels due to the rewind powers not being there. Granted, it's natural for that to be the case if we're playing as different protagonist, but it was always a step back for me. This game had me thinking a lot on what I was supposed to do, like taking keys or a step ladder in one timeline to another for something, heck, it felt pretty satisfying to figure out a method a lot earlier than the game expected me to!

Not very many teen relationships last. As this game takes place 10 years later, I was not surprised at all that they were no longer together. Going over their texts, you can see where they were becoming disconnected. This is normal, and a part of life. If it was a bad fanfic, sure they could still be together. LiS was not meant to have a sequel, and there is no canon ending, so D9 had a huge challenge in how to handle what happened in the previous game. I think they handled it well and it's nuts how much hate they are catching over it.

I politely ask that you please refrain from discussing leaks in the comments of this video. Thank you! 🫶🏼

I've heard lots of hateful messages against the devs and the game and I don't understand it. I hope this game doesn't flop 😢 pls let's give it a chance plsss. it isn't even out yet!

I think they are doing amazing! It’s better than I expected. Max is a star ⭐️ Hannah Telle got that CHECK

Hello! I was looking forward to your early access review! I was overall pleasantly surprised with this game, even though there is stuff I’m more hesitant about. ESPECIALLY when it comes to Chloe. When I read that Deck Nine actually broke them up, I was devastated. Heartbroken. For weeks, almost months, I defended their marketing campaign, convinced they would never break Pricefield apart … but they did. They lied to us. Even if they let Chloe and Max reconcile, I’m afraid the damage is already done. They really should’ve advertised this as a Bay game, because as such, it fulfills its purpose really well. But as a Bae game, it’s really disappointing so far T_T With that being said, I overall really like everything else. Max is by far my biggest positive - I was stoked that she actually felt like a grown-up version of Max, while also keeping her charm :) The other characters left a positive impression as well, though we haven’t seen enough to properly judge them. For example, I REALLY like Amanda, way more than I thought I would, but it’s only been two episodes, so I don’t want to judge her too early. After all, I really liked Safi during the trailers, but playing the first two episodes made me more skeptical of her - which might also change, of course. Still, the characters overall are pretty engaging. The nitpicks you mentioned, like the task list and the journal, bothered me as well. I miss the creative journals from the past :-( I did like most of the outfits surprisingly, but definitely not all of them. When it comes to the power, the only thing that truly bothered me was the noise around a shift point. I played with headphones and it drove me insane 😭The power itself is pretty cool so far, though. I hope they do even more with it! One huge plus point so far is the story. I LOVE the mystery, it really makes me wonder what might happen next and how everything’s connected. While I did get a glimpse into the leaks, they didn’t exactly tell me much about the stuff I actually wanted to know XD Thanks for this early access review, and I hope you’ll manage to stay away from spoilers before the full release!

The Max and Chloe breakup pissed me off so bad. This is serious character derailment.

Im enjoying the story myself saving chloe outcome 👍

Thank you for the video!😊

For me I'm enjoying the story so far but I'm only playing this as if this was the Bay only ending and the BAE ending is the comic timeline. I know its not cannon but I don't care its still better then what they did to Chloe in the alive timeline in this game. I do know if it turns out the trophy list that got leaked is true I wont be getting the platinum for this game because I've found Vinh to be a unlikeable douchebag.

Good video, but ooh boy you might not be ready for the most recent developments considering this particular topic...

This is a great game so far, even if it’s not the best. The graphics and gameplay is much more smooth. The story arcs are still interesting and who knows, hopefully maybe we will see Daniel return in the future for his own game.