Uh... did... hmmm.

THOUGHTS

Episode 3 Choices & Thoughts

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SEAN - Made coffee for everyone. I nearly forgot to but after Penny shouted at me for walking away, I made it. - Hit the target while knife throwing. - Tried to be understanding about Karen. - Asked Daniel about the watch. I thought this was a silly MAJOR choice (: - Intervened when Big Joe slapped Cassidy, ofc - Trimmed a lot of weed buds. Didn't FEEL like I did but man was this part boring... I guess that was the point! - Didn't ask Daniel to help with chores. I kind of just did the chores as soon as the segment started as I had a feeling it was timed and if I fucked around, I'd be in trouble for not doing them. I have a feeling he would have refused! - Didn't help Daniel with the dishes. I.... didn't even ask. :( I feel bad about this. I kind of just walked right by him when I dropped the tank down. - Got wasted at the party. - Stayed up late and got a haircut. Again, felt bad about this. But I wanted to spend more time with the group. - Let Finn take the blame for Big Joe being hit. This was unintentional, I just ran out of time answering. - Did not go with the heist. Stuff like this in LiS is always a bad idea. I always did my best to try to stop Chloe from stealing (except when playing her!) and I'm doing the same with Daniel, especially after the lesson we learned with the stolen hula girl. - I stayed friends with Finn. - I let Cassidy choose my tattoo. It was... disappointingly lame! - I went skinny dipping with Cassidy. - Cassidy didn't get mad at me. - Kissed Cassidy. - Had sex with Cassidy. - Did not alert Big Joe. I didn't sabotage the vehicles... I thought I had, must of missed something. - Came into Merill's house after Daniel and Finn were already there. - Didn't take the gun from the safe. - Told Daniel to use his power. I stared at this choice for a LONG time as I had a funny feeling Cassidy was going to die here. Ultimately it was probably the right choice. - Cassidy got injured. DANIEL - Daniel waited for me in the morning. - Daniel did dishes on his own. - Daniel did not help with the tanks. - Daniel went to bed alone. - Daniel got shot and lashed out. MAN! I wasn't crazy about this episode for the most part. I just wish we got a litttttle bit more development before we were just thrown into the weed camp. It was just one episode ends with us on a train and now all the sudden we're living with the lady we were attracted to at the Christmas Shop. I did LIKE the fact that we got to be with other characters the entire time and it was pretty obvious that this episode was a test -- will you let your new friendships distract you from Daniel? And.... for me, they did. I really liked Cassidy in the last episode and wanted to spend time with her here and for that, I severely neglected Daniel and lead to him being a little shit for most of the episode. I thought FOR SURE that Sean died at the end and was convinced of it until the sneak peak for Episode 4. Sean walking alone down a road makes me very sad. Don't think we'll see Finn or Cassidy again and with all the interaction we got this episode, think we're going to be back to being isolated. And even more so now with our search for Daniel. Still, good stuff even though it wasn't my favorite episode. The romance stuff was a little forced but still fun to play out. I really wish these episodes came out closer to each other.

of course i went for the gay option

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he still died :( can max come and help me

Ya'll need to catch up on this, seriously. This is really, really, really good.

POWERFUL penultimate episode.

THOTS

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I thought this was going to turn out kind of lame with the church cult stuff but damn, great episode. Controlling Sean getting back up again and again and again each time Nicolas punched him was so great. Daniel finally realizing what the Reverend was all about and using his powers to shove them to the side. That shot of Sean, Daniel and Karen driving off into the desert sun. Could have been a closing shot, honestly and I would have been okay with it. Some good other stuff too. I really liked Joey and the hospital scenes. He was a fun character. The two pricks bullying Sean and Sean breaking down crying on the road was super emotional. And of course the Karen reunion. Only real complaint... the time between episodes made me have to remember who Karen even was. I forgot that was our mom's name (: So her sudden appearance made me feel nothing as I thought "Karen" was just one of the people from the California farm for a minute. And I didn't really remember Jacob at all. I don't think he had a very big part last episode, which is a shame with how big of a role he played here. CHOICES! - I passed both vision tests. - I told Agent Flores that the robbery was Finn's idea. Finn fucked a lot of stuff up in the last episode and this choice might have made me think a bit harder about inditing myself instead if things didn't go how they did last episode. I also didn't want to say it was everyone's idea to get Cassidy in trouble. - I ended up attacking the guard. I tried to convince Joey but felt bad so stopped. I felt like my only other option was hitting the guard in the head. I absolutely didn't want to do this as this game makes you feel like shit for resorting to violence and continues to paint Sean as a violent felon. - I didn't talk to Finn on the way out. Mainly cause I had already ratted him out and felt it would have been awkward to talk to him afterwards. - Chad broke Daniel's toy and I sang the song in Spanish. This was a tough scene. Mainly cause I knew I really couldn't do much to fight them with my injury and the threat of police getting involved. I felt like a bitch afterwards and Sean's breakdown in the car while driving away was hard to watch. - Got into Anton's truck. Liked this scene. Nice little getaway from stuff. - Gave money to the church and took a pin. Eh. - I let Karen open up to me. I wasn't going to hold a grudge. I know what it's like to have a parent disappear on you and I also know about forgiving them. - I stayed outside with Karen while she smoked. - I let Karen clean my eye wound. - Nicholas was unaware I was at the church. This seemed... too easy. You could be right in those people's line of sight and they never said anything. I saved scummed a bit out of curiosity and you literally have to be right in front of them. - Shared my money with Jacob. I mean he kinda helped us find Daniel AND Karen, he deserves it. - I hid from Nicholas successfully. - Let Lisbeth live. Man was I scared Daniel was going to break her neck or something. No way did I want another murder on our hands, nooooo fucking way.

Finale is out. Apparently there are SEVEN different endings.

Starting... now!

How does it rank to the first?

Dyl @ 3/12/2019 14:07

How does it rank to the first?

About the same to me. It's hard to compare because they're completely different. To me it still has a lot of emotionally impactful moments that make the series great. The one thing that I liked better in LiS1 is that you can't really grow too attached to any other character aside from Sean and Daniel as they are constantly traveling, so you see most side characters for only one episode. What I absolutely loved about the first game was not only exploring your relationship with Chloe, but getting to know the random side characters in the school, which effects very little of the main story. You can't really do that here, although your interactions with them are still VERY important and certainly affect what ending you get.

Bottom line is if you liked Life is Strange, you'll like this.

FINISHED!

Thoughts.

FINALE

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Going through choices first, thoughts afterwards. - Forced the roadblock and Daniel refused - Overall, taught Daniel to do his best to follow the rules of society I'll get more in depth in this for my overall thoughts but I'm very, very happy with how this turned out. - Found the hidden treasure This was a bit silly (: and very frustrating! I could not find the treasure because I was on the wrong side of the car, but Daniel kept saying "YOU'RE BURNING HOT, GRAB IT!" - Overall, got closer to Karen - Wrote a caring note for Karen Like I said in the last episode, I think in this case it's important to forgive and forget. Being resentful towards Karen at this point is incredibly unnecessary considering how much she's helped us out. - Said goodbye to Arthur and Stanley - Said goodbye to Joan I could definitely see how this could be easily missed. Fun characters! I really liked this little community and am kinda sad we didn't get to interact with them much. - Hugged Karen I like how this is currently at 99%. Again, not sure why the game feels like the Karen interactions would be such a TOUGH choice? This was an odd major decision for the finale, although I'm sure snubbing her would affect things in the end. - Told Diego to calm down - Allowed the Mexican couple to be freed - Did not release the vigilantes - Did not take revenge on the vigilantes Didn't really dig this scene at all. The vigilantes were very cookie cutter, cliche characters to get under your skin. I didn't want to hurt them because even when all hell was breaking loose, I didn't want to teach Daniel to intentionally hurt people that weren't a threat. So to get even with them non-violently, I freed the Mexican couple to annoy them instead. - Didn't ask Daniel to kill the officers at the station This was a TENSE scene! I came close to doing it only because nothing was working before I realized what you had to do. Glad I could solve it non-violently. Not going to go over Daniel's choices because it's a rehash of the above except that he stopped messing with the Scorpion when I yelled at him to, he was concerned about Officer Campbell being hurt and he got the sculpture done with my help. OK! So my ending had Sean alive in Mexico and Daniel with his grandparents. At first... I was mad at myself and thought I had fucked up. But as I watched the final cutscene play out... I really like this ending. Daniel didn't deserve to be robbed of his childhood by being stuck in Mexico, he gets to live with his grandparents and has a best friend across the street. I had a big goofy smile on my face when Daniel opened the letter with the picture of Sean and Cassidy smiling together at the beach. Overall.... really good! I enjoyed this series as a whole. As I said above to Dyl, it's hard to compare it to the first game. And honestly, I don't think much could compare to the feelings and emotions I had to Max and Chloe. The one thing I didn't like about this game, it was bad enough that most side characters were only there for one episode but the episodes always starting in the middle of already knowing everyone was a bit lame. I understand that this was probably the only practical way to do it due to every episode starting in a different state, but it took away from my connection with the side characters. I can name every class mate of Max's in the first Life is Strange along with a fact about them. For this game I know a handful. STILL! This game was about your relationship with Daniel and the values you teach him along the way. So for that, it worked. Well done, DONTNOD.

I didn't want to play this until all the episodes were out because waiting for the new ones during the first game killed me.

Honestly, I didn't really like it much at all. I'm still interested in any further entries in this series, but I hope they take more cues from the first than from what they did here.

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I guess I liked how your overall care of Daniel throughout played a more prominent role on the eventual outcome, I think that was a huge step up. It also had a stronger ending in general, I was very disappointed with the last episode of LiS1 it had such little plot bearing. Still, I just didn't really enjoy the story or characters this time around. I found it very hard to get attached to anybody really, I guess I to an extent wanted the best for Sean and Daniel, but I didn't really LIKE them either. Besides that I found almost every character except super minor characters (Joey, Lyla, Penny) to be pretty unlikable in general. I didn't enjoy the whole brother interaction aspect, especially in the earlier episodes I felt like I had absolutely no agency because Daniel would just completely fly off the handle regardless. I guess it's UNDERSTANDABLE, but I don't think it was fun 'gameplay' I think the game style works a lot better in a 'mundane' setting, like the first few episodes of the first game. My favorite parts were just hanging around the town and petty crime, and I started enjoying that one less once the fourth episode hit and everything went to shit. I guess I think it ended on a high note, I enjoyed the whole community aspect of Away and it had some cute references to the original that I very much enjoyed. I think some of the characters in that town were likable and I wouldn't have minded spending more time with them. I think the whole 'get caught, escape, get caught' thing was a little ridiculous, and Sean's actions to go directly to the border crossing made.. little sense. Perhaps I would have enjoyed things more if I had played Sean as a less moral character and just went with the border crossing ending, but just overall found it quite unsatisfying.

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I let chloe die in the original so now I'm going back to see the david scenes again

Also spencer is wrong

Daniel was horrible

Finally got around to this game after loving the first one. I mostly agree with Spencer.

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Overall, I'd say it was really hit or miss with me. I felt like the first two episodes were overall good, and then it was a hard downhill turn until the last one. The mystery with Karen was basically carrying the game as far as my interest. It had so much potential, and then it was a huge letdown for it just to be "this whole 'being a mom' stuff was really cutting into my ME TIME so I ditched my kid and infant son to go live in a trailer YOLO...but I almost sent a birthday card one time plz empathize". I also thought a lot of the game wasn't making sense. Example being that the Seattle cop is likely dead from severe blunt trauma, the car is thrown across the street, light posts are bent, but no traces of an actual explosion. The conclusion based on the newspaper clipping you find is that Sean must have...shot the cop? There was a lot of this where I was like, "surely I'm going to have the option for Sean to point this stuff out to other characters" and then it never happened each time. The choices themselves felt way too forced and seemed like they didn't matter or hold much weight a lot of the time aside from what ending you get. For example, when Sean is sleeping in the car and is accosted by rednecks, you have the option to try driving away, and then it does nothing. Some characters could die as a result of your choices, but you don't know them long enough for their death to be impactful. I'm biased here because I didn't like a lot of the characters much, anyway, but they didn't even stick around enough to potentially grow on me like some did in the first one. Anyway, yeah, just wanted to add my thoughts to this! I'll probably play the next one once all the episodes are out again, but this was definitely a big step down from LiS 1 in my opinion. Or, maybe this one just wasn't for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

giving this game another shot hot off the LIS3 announcement

HMMMM!

ep 2

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I...don't really remember the exact way I was playing Sean in ep 1, but I'm sure it was a bit different than the mindset I was in here! The cringey dialogue in the beginning already had me feeling JADED which only gradually wore away as the ep went on, which partially resulted in me being a bit of a dick throughout! But otherwise I also did try to play him fairly pragmatic and stern with Daniel also, unfortunately I uninstalled Captain Spirit some time ago so my save profile didn't carry over :( o well, I don't remember a ton of my choices from that game at this point anyway I will say the moments of quiet contemplation are still great here, definitely the strong point. Also the sense of place with the grandparents' house was very nicely done choices - Threw a snowball at Mushroom. 1%!! (: - Let Daniel kill the cougar. Honestly, why wouldn't I? There was a very real chance it could've attacked us too, it wasn't just a revenge thing even though Daniel clearly thought of it that way - No one prayed. (: I did feel kinda bad about this one! I told Daniel earlier that heaven is FAKE and Mushroom is NOT up there with dad right now...but then to make it worse I refused to pray with grandma cuz the wolf bros don't do that SHIT! Sean was in full edgy teenager mode this ep, which tbf the dialogue already pegs him into that hole either way - Pretended I didn't know about Daniel's power. I'm not telling anyone SHIT unless I have to - Helped with extra chores, less out of the goodness of my heart and more cuz I interact with just about everything - Reminded Daniel of the rules after he saved Chris. CONTROL yourself kid! He would've been fine, there was snow to break his fall! - Used Stephen's laptop to log in to your profile. Why not - Couldn't talk to Lyla and lied to her mother. Not sure why I didn't get to talk to Lyla, but once her mother picked up there was no way I was telling her who I was - Didn't gain Chris' trust. I...didn't really care to hear about that family's problems! - Chose to protect Daniel's secret - Didn't listen to Cassidy's song until the end. Whoops - Didn't draw for Chris - Stole a Christmas present for Daniel. I had some money but didn't like any of the stuff on sale, the yo-yo was a WAY better gift - Didn't get involved in Charles' problems - Chose to pull Stephen out together and injured his leg. I figured not using Daniel's power would be a negative here, but honestly it doesn't really make sense (: How would lifting the cupboard and sliding him out have an adverse effect on his leg versus just having Daniel lift it up?? - Cop chased you and Chris was hit by a car, lol. I kinda was asking for that one! Buuut...at least Daniel's power is still a secret? - Daniel did not continue to swear. Shades of Lee/Clem :'( - Daniel won the dice game while cheating (not sure how this was a choice) - Daniel killed the cougar - Daniel was able to bury Mushroom properly - Daniel refused to pray - Daniel didn't want to tidy the room - Daniel wasn't asked to tell the truth to Chris - Daniel was repressed from using his power - Daniel didn't use his power to save Chris from the car - Daniel blamed you for Chris' accident. Whatever KID! - Daniel was too upset to enjoy his (stolen) present