Life is Strange Theory Deep Dive

[@cyankelly1592]

One thing I would like to point out that I don't think anybody else has noticed is the fact that Frank's RV has no toilet. It explains why he's always on the beach so much. he must be pooping in the sand and covering it up. Can you find Frank's RV toilet? What happened?

[@kylepgames3541]

LMAOOOO STOP IT I CANT STOP LAUGHING AT THIS IM JUST IMAGINING CHLOE HUNTING HIM DOWN FOR WEED AND HIS CHEEKS ARE JUST SHOWING WHILE HES SHITTING ON THE BEACH

[@sophie__777]

I just wanted to say I am loving your Life is Strange content!

[@xaxions]

I need more

[@sideways0667]

i really wished they added some of the cut content into the remastered version to give us a fuller story, like the new until dawn remake/remaster is most likely doing

[@laioren]

As others have said, I'm loving the LiS content. However, this does beg the question: When are you going to do a LiS playthrough on your channel? If you're concerned about not having "fresh reactions" because you've played the games before, then maybe you can rope in a friend to play them, and you can provide commentary and/or ask questions of the person playing while they go through? Personally, I don't mind watching someone play through a game they've played before as long as they can provide interesting info about the game or have compelling thoughts to share. Also, if you're ever interested in branching out to other games, might I recommend What Remains of Edith Finch, Hollow Knight, and Signalis. All three of those are rich with character, lore, and unanswered questions.

[@hmody360_2]

For me the Nathan messaging Max part is because he probably sent her a voice note right before he was killed by Jefferson in the junkyard, Jefferson then takes his phone and texts Max through it (the plothole would be that Max hasn’t received the voice note even though she received “Nathan’s” message telling her and Chloe to go to the junkyeard) but let’s say it was a connection issue, and when Mark drugged Max and killed Chloe, he turned off their phones, and took Max to the bunker (where there’s no cell service) when she gets out she gets back the service alongside Nathan’s belated message about being murdered by Jefferson

[@Dolphin2048]

Didn't chloe receive the message

[@hmody360_2]

@@Dolphin2048 you’re right, but the plot hole still stands, how come Jefferson sent this to Chloe through Nathan’s phone & Nathan still managed to record the voice message..?

[@NerdsPsychoticInterlude]

@@hmody360_2 because he recorded it before the message?... you guys realize messages can go unread for days right... doesn't mean it JUST went thru lol

[@hmody360_2]

@@NerdsPsychoticInterlude we’re saying this because it was a voice note (I think) and not just a normal voice message, voice note notifications are sent right after they’re recorded, so if you think about it Nathan might’ve not died when Jefferson was in the Junkyard at the end of episode 4, he probably killed him right after or before(most likely before) killing Chloe and capturing Max, since after that Max is in the bunker and wouldn’t get a signal until after escaping from the dark room.

[@fignewton9310]

@@hmody360_2 you're judging this by 2024 standards instead of 2015 standards. it WAS NOT a voice note; we didn't even have those yet. it was a VOICEMAIL. those usually went unread for a long time and the notifications for them frequently got lost.

[@joshuadillon9492]

8:58 just with this point about Victoria, I though Max had undone that choice regardless whether she warns Victoria or not at the Vortex Party when she rewinds with Warrens photo selfie and the whole instance of convincing Chloe not to go to the party cause of everything that happens, therefore removing the chance to warn Victoria and her ending up in the Darkroom. Side note: Been loving these videos!

[@suzywhowhatwhere2067]

I’m so glad to see Life is strange theory videos back, it was one of the funnest parts of playing the first game

[@rubyconway976]

Been in this fandom for almost 10 years now and these theories still managed to shock me. Amazing video :)

[@TheCreepyWeirdo]

This is definitely my favourite channel.

[@pokemonmusiclover5]

I've been WAITING for this !!!!!

[@Cloudroth]

Great video! I'm here for all the life is strange content. Loved #1 and before the storm.

[@tonismith9115]

I would love to see a video about the before the storm theories 😊

[@Sleepster1999]

New to your channel do.like life is strange looking forward to the new one👍👍

[@lailaheer4604]

I think you’re right on your way to success! Keep working towards this channel and I’ll be here to keep up

[@CateBarlow-nk9qu]

I love all of ur content!!! ❤❤❤

[@CelestialStar46]

Great video! Even though there's little cut content from LiS2 and Lis TC, I can't wait to see it.

[@CucuOnGames]

this video is so well-made! really loved watching it :)

[@Noer1987]

Thank you! Ngl I've followed your content for a little bit myself. Love your videos!

[@Yahyaop112]

Great video, excited to see the community active again. You gained a sub 👍🏻

[@NerdsPsychoticInterlude]

as someone who's always wanted to make their own life is strange videos, I love creators like you that are passionate about it

[@SeanCortrightMusic]

I'd like to see all the LIS games done by you, both talking about them, and playing.

[@honeydewblue]

Ahhh im excited for the before the storm video!! And the cut content videos as well!

[@rofald]

Thanks for this intelligent and logical theorizing about the missing pieces of this game! I was particularly interested in Stella's role and agree that she probably had a bigger part to play originally considering how prominent her name in Frank's account book is. She was buying harder stuff even more frequently than even Nathan! If the devs had chosen to explore her in depth, we would have found out she had quite a secret life behind her façade as a quiet studious person. Another minor character I wonder about is Luke Parker the one-note "I hate Nathan" boy. Given how unnecessary he is, I wonder if he was originally supposed to play a greater role, but by the time the devs realized they didn't really know what to do with him it was more trouble than it was worth to remove him from the game.

[@MallWizard606]

great video!!!❤❤❤

[@b4fore_1682]

goated content creation.

[@adamsmoberly]

I think a big thing why I think a lot of the game seems rushed or plot lines don’t make sense, could be mixing different drafts together or the team not keeping up with each other working on different episodes. I also think it could be they didn’t know where from A to B was going, so they made it up as they went. I bet a big chuck of this was making mysteries that even the Devs didn’t know (like trying to make mysteries on the game, like why someone would kill/kidnap/done whatever to Rachel without actually planning out what happened to her). TV shows have this issue, ones that have ongoing mysteries (Pretty Little Liars definitely did, taking a lot of ideas from the novels and then ditching the novels mostly in later seasons, which contrasts the idea they set up). I think even the way Rachel is this good girl with rough around the edges persona was kind of dropped in LIS:BTS, which I think makes her seem off. My theory with Rachel is that she did have powers, but maybe has issues with them and maybe started taking drugs and fell in love with Frank and Chloe to numb her powers (not saying she didn’t love them, but she had issues that made those relationships like a drug unto themselves), since they all are related to drugs. Maybe she got wrapped up with Nathan, because of money and maybe he got her drugs (and likely they has mutual friends) and she fell for Jefferson, because maybe she saw like a father figure in him (her home life seemed liked she didn’t really have a great relationship with her parents). I think she was dealing with emotional issues upon having powers that lead her into arms of people not good for her.

[@amethyst4582]

ME TOO! i like reading old discussion between people about life is strange. because at that time they shows how much they appreciate the little details about the game and talk about characters that a lot of people don't care about since you only can talk to them three times but the fandom make their characters more interesting with their theories

[@HandsAnts]

Great video. I really liked this theory? i mean, sure it has alot of determinants and unused contents, even some stretchs. But its better than the usual theory that just uses the in-game content to a really narrow thing in the end. Good job

[@HandsAnts]

if you could review "Who's lila" i'd love to see what you think about it. Its a really complex game, with several endings that are also "dialogue" based. It has alot of supernatural and science to it too, depending on the ending. From cultists to straightforward Ego/Superego/ID study. (i mean, in general, it has alot of complexity and its really open for interpretation unlike other games that leaves things over-explained)

[@jacobrosa6410]

Awesome video dude

[@kathe_]

You have my subscription noer Im so hyped for the release of Double Exposure

[@rgrambusch]

I love these theories! i usually theorize more about the psychology of each character and why they behave as they do, and i havent heard as many theories on the actual time mechanics of the game and its world! Definitely new and original

[@pastelpossum5667]

Bros going places frfr

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

22:00 I remember one of the top theories during the first season was that Rachel had Max’s exact powers. Remember the first episode how Max impresses and charms everyone in the schoolyard by using her rewind ability to drop knowledge. Everyone of them talks about Rachel and how she got along and fit in with everyone.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

It also tied into a theory that the Prescotts were trying to find the time travelers and steal their powers. We also speculated the Pan Estates was something like Epstein’s island. That combined the Vortex Club with their name’s connection to a tornado, and their secrecy, exclusivity, and elitism was some Skull and Bones style secret sect that had something to do with the storm and the occult. So there was a lot of us _LiSbians_ who believed that the Prescotts were doing really terrible things within their compound (Human sacrifice? Stealing souls through photos?) , running the Vortex Club which was a Secret Society of Occultists,trying to steal some powers granted by a divine presence, and destroy the town by summoning the storm so they can begin anew. (Ties into the Prescotts legacy of colonization.) Our disappointment was immeasurable when the final episode dropped and half the storylines and mysteries had no resolution.

[@itsWISHY]

the goat is back at it again

[@Gabi2311HighPing]

the video clip seems interesting, but I will watch it when I have time

[@evd8175]

As you mentioned, I'd love to see you cover the Oxenfree games as well! And when LiS Double Exposure comes out, it'd be cool to see you cover that or just do a livestream playthrough of it on here (if you are comfortable with that)

[@separatebfg]

This is one of the strangest lives ever

[@SpyroTheGoth]

Victoria will be alive no matter what your decision is in the ending of the first game: When max used Warren's photo of them to go back to before going to the party, you never talk to Victoria, and the only way for Victoria to be captured and murdered by Jefferson is if and only if, you tell her about the dark room and she believes you. As when she knows she's in danger she goes to Jefferson for help and she is taken because he knows she knows about Nathan being dangerous, he may have also assumed and overestimated how much she knows about the dark room, as Max told her about being in danger.

[@rofald]

That's not exactly what happened, but in order to explain: SPOILERS AHEAD for Life is Strange 2: --------------------------------- Victoria actually still gets kidnapped by Jefferson in the timeline Max creates using Warren's photo to avoid getting ambushed in the junkyard. Remember that Victoria was going to be Jefferson's next victim originally, so when Max and Chloe didn't show up at the party to prompt him to make Max his main target, he went ahead with his original plan to drug and kidnap Victoria. However, Max and Chloe warned David and he rescued Victoria with the help of two cops before Jefferson could do anything to her. David and Victoria, and presumably Jefferson and the cops survived the storm by staying in the bunker until it was over. This sequence of events is confirmed in the "Sacrifice Arcadia Bay" timeline in Episode 5 of Life is Strange 2.

[@SpyroTheGoth]

@@rofald Where is this evident in LIS 2 episode 5?

[@SpyroTheGoth]

@@rofald Actually, I've found the evidence myself. It's very small yet, I understand now. I'm unsure if it was just the party alone that prompted Jefferson to take Max and prefer her over Victoria, there was most likely other events throughout the week where he noticed her "optimistic aura" and "innocence"

[@rofald]

@@SpyroTheGoth By the time Max and Chloe got to the party, Jefferson knew that they had seen the Dark Room and Rachel's burial site, so he HAD to go after them before they told someone what they had seen. He probably tried the ploy with Nathan's phone to lure them to the junkyard in both the pre- and post- Warren's photo realities, but it didn't work in the post-photo reality. It seems in the post-photo reality Jefferson thought that when Max and Chloe failed to show up at the junkyard that they wouldn't go to the cops until the next day at the earliest, so he went ahead with his plans to photograph Victoria. He probably figured that he could deal with Max and Chloe later since he had no reason to believe that they knew that he was the mastermind behind the Dark Room operation. He thought they only knew about Nathan's involvement.

[@SpyroTheGoth]

@@rofald I already got that part, I was just seeing if you did. Good to see a fellow person who drowns themselves in the details and isn't confused by them, I had just missed the letter from Victoria in the second game, or at least forgot about it. In the first game there's no evidence of this, so all that tells us that is the letter from #2

[@dakotamyers6674]

I just discovered your channel, and I GASPED when I saw you didn’t even have a thousand subscribers! You truly have what it takes to make it far on here! You talk in a comforting way, and you get to the point of the video instead of rambling on and on. You’re very well put together and professional. I really enjoy your content! I wish you so much good luck on KZbin!! Also, you should totally go over Life is Strange 2! I would absolutely love to learn more about the game that I might have missed the first few times!

[@weronikamaterla6038]

Great video Also I am all for Oxenfree video ❤ As u sad there’s not many videos discussing this game which is a shame

[@Monster_Misato]

i love this vids vro

[@saikouchiha268]

Yoo i Love Ur content

[@SirBee1]

Hey Noer! I’ve just wanted to say your Life is Strange content is amazing. Your uncut content stuff is amazing. The voicemail by Nathan you were talking about was is also very interesting. How did he send the voicemail?

[@que4.20]

would love to see the oxenfree videos!! especially oxenfree 2 ✊✊

[@TrinityBopp]

I feel like they wanted to go more in depth on the background and how powers in life is strange exist but they didn’t have the budget or time to do it all. So I feel like that’s what double exposure is going to be

[@AutumnHarwood]

It would be interest if, at some point in the next 20 years, it'll get a remake like a lot of old games currently are. Would be cool to see the content cut due to time constraints etc added back in along with fixing plot holes and whatever it is they were originally going for with the potential merging timelines etc.

[@gayming1596]

Oxenfree is one of my favorite games please do a video on that one.

[@Richtofen]

dontnod confirmed the doe is rachel

[@emiliebarry2014]

like the haircut

[@oreosoreos]

WHEN LIFETRANGE DOUBLE EXPOSURE "cut content"

[@SpyroTheGoth]

That will be a while yet. Definitely after October because we don't even know the whole storyline of that game yet

[@oreosoreos]

@@SpyroTheGoth i was just joking btw but happy to hear btw

[@SpyroTheGoth]

@@oreosoreos XD, I don't have a good filter

[@NerdsPsychoticInterlude]

as far as im concerned, the Nathan voice line cut about the storm was an alternate sequence of that phone call he sends max, a version where he doesn't feel sympathetic and is still upset about his situation and venting to her angrily as he did before, and I believe the "wooded area" is simply the concert hall / warehouse from the start of BTS as its likely he was doing his own dealing there

[@clashypoint]

Ayo PewDiePie?

[@dragonballradiant2744]

Jefferson said he took care of Victoria ? Victoria in the dark room is determinate. I’m confused. I don’t remember him saying that. What happens with Victoria? If she believe you, I don’t remember. What does Jefferson say then? I think Victoria. Probably survives both outcomes.

[@Owen01]

If you warn her about Nathan, she goes to Jefferson, he kidnaps her, then eventually kills her

[@Therad_bagel]

❤

[@ameliaj8943]

i love u

[@HandsAnts]

inb4 this explodes :D

[@HandsAnts]

about the kate drugging, its worth noting that Kate didnt get drugged by an SPECIFIC vortex club member, its more seen as an "planned prank" towards the "puritane christian" that lectures them about their sins. So if warren had been drugged, it could also be another "prank" from the vortex in general

[@HandsAnts]

And nathan messages, i believe, can be seen as a plothole. But i've always seen it as the message delaying, as if he was a in remote area trying to hide from jefferson, and only really getting to max phone after him dying and jefferson specifically sending the messages to lure them. And i dont think its specified that both the messages Jefferson uses to lure max and chloe were from nathan phone? i may be missing something sorry. And the voicemail wasnt "from your contact list" specified, its just a voicemail that has been received at that hour, that max couldnt really pickup. It could have been ANY other cellphone nathan had, and returning to the most commonly hole gap that the voicemail simply delayed until getting to max phone.

[@HandsAnts]

ur actually cooking...

[@HandsAnts]

And jefferson didnt believe nathan would learn his art, he believes nathan has skills with shadows, but overall lacks the love for his sick hobbie. Its more like, Nathan wanting to learn how to be a better photographer and his father moving some sticks for jefferson to learn him specifically etc... Idk, Nathan being his protege is more like "He is useful for me right now, so i'll keep grooming him into being more calm and behave better to get my approval and for me to tell his father nice things about him." Which could explain why we dont see nathan father, he doesnt believe that nathan is behaving so erratically, while his sister is worried about him he doesnt reply back. Which further indicates jefferson manipulation. Idk its more of a hunch and being more headcanon than theorizing, some things may make sense under this perspective but there are several others thing that needs to be analyzed when this perspective is in the play.

[@luxnotlisbon]

Stella always gave me bad vibes

[@ori7020]

i love your vids alot but could you do a spoiler warning for when ur talking about other games such as life is strang 2 because when u mentions the whole victoria thing i was really caught off gaurd lol

[@Owen01]

Victoria is from Life is Strange 1… she’s not in Life is Strange 2 at all

[@SuperMonaLisaBros]

Regarding Theory #1: Stella had some neck beard vibes. She very well could have been planning on photographing Warren, but spared him when she saw the tornado.

[@Openyoureyesman220]

nathan’s rich wouldn’t be surprised if he had 2 phones or 3 lol . remember an episode four you have to go into his dorm to steal his phone? And then you get a text from him right after you leave . lmao