The game we were talking about in the other thread. Ended up buying it on a whim. Wiki info:

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Life Is Strange is an episodic interactive drama graphic adventure video game developed by Dontnod Entertainment, and published by Square Enix. The game's plot focuses on Maxine Caulfield, a photography student who discovers that she has the ability to rewind time at any moment, leading her every choice to enact the butterfly effect. The game will consist of five episodes. With six weeks between each episode, it released its first on 30 January 2015. Life Is Strange is available for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One and Xbox 360 via digital distribution.

A Telltale like game with rewind/butterfly effect gameplay sounds really intriguing. I'm real interested to see how well that works. Gonna play as soon as it installs

Finished the first episode

Great game! Nice visuals and music, and the time reversal mechanic is sweet and should continue to get really interesting. The worst part is the dialogue. It's predominately about 19 year old girls so they all say "hella cool!" and TOTES and all that terrible shit all the time. The writers seem to have no idea how teenage girls really speak......tho teenagers DO speak like that I guess (: . NOT THAT MUCH THOUGH

It's pretty heavy on nostalgia which I liked a lot. The character stuff is done well so far and I'm really curious how all the decision making turns out. When you make a choice or any sort of action, even if it seems like a tiny one, text pops up and tells you that it will have consequences. It's hard to tell what the consequences are gonna be, they're often not very immediate

My choices if anyone else ends up playing (you should):

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- Reported Nathan - Made fun of Victoria while she was down. FUCK HER! - Intervened and helped out Kate - Took the blame to cover for Chloe

EDIT, good review: http://kotaku.com/you-should-play-this-episodic-supernatural-high-school-1682653682

To those of you who were bummed that Telltale's TWD2 had less opportunities to walk around and interact with the environment, this game has tons. There's plenty of stuff to look at and comment on which is nice

You also spend a lot of time in places where you grew up but haven't been to in awhile, so the objects you interact with bring back memories and help develop the characters. It's well done

Also there's a Breaking Bad easter egg right at the start

I'm gonna play this tonight I think. The very little I've read/seen of it seems great

good game! Kinda reminded me of Braid meets Donnie Darko. Loved the visuals, the amount of exploration, and the story. Like you said though the dialogue was a bit ehh at times. The gist of it wasn't terrible but all the "hella" and "epic win" and shit no one ever says anymore was annoying

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- Reported Nathan - Comforted Victoria - Intervened and helped Kate - Took the blame for Chloe At first I honestly wasn't a fan of the reverse time gimmick in a game like this since I'm a huge purist of doing everything in one go and never reversing my choices no matter how bad they end up. But it seems like some of the reversals might come back to bite you somehow, even if you tried to do it to get the 'good' result. Maybe not, but it'd be cool if that happened. Otherwise I feel like stuff like reversing time to prevent yourself from breaking Chloe's snowglobe is kinda pointless. Like who wouldn't do that? Although with that said I let that one girl get hit by a football because it amused me also Victoria reminded me a lot of Nofo

Really looking forward to the rest. I think it could get really good. Apparently the next one's coming out in March already?

can you imagine if Telltale used an engine like this? That'd be amazing. Especially for GOT, I'd love to be able to explore all the environments to this extent

Boc @ 7/2/2015 3:22

Otherwise I feel like stuff like reversing time to prevent yourself from breaking Chloe's snowglobe is kinda pointless. Like who wouldn't do that?

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Boc @ 7/2/2015 3:24

can you imagine if Telltale used an engine like this? That'd be amazing. Especially for GOT, I'd love to be able to explore all the environments to this extent

That'd be great. One of the best parts of this game is how detailed and authentic the environments are. GoT/TWD could really use it

Boc @ 7/2/2015 4:22

also Victoria reminded me a lot of Nofo

I am completely okay with this.

No(t a communist)fo @ 7/2/2015 6:58

Spoiler + by the way, victoria is actually nice to you if you comfort her

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yeah, although later she texts back with "THANX BUT WE'RE STILL NOT FRIENDS" (:

I really want to play this

I will get this when it hopefully comes on sale soon.

Playing this now. This is fucking incredible so far.

I tried to play it, but the graphics lag a bit for me. I tried to go through the options, but it's in Russian!