Arcadia Bay - Blog Posts
Just got the life is strange games on my switch… I AM SO HYPE
there are so many things double exposure is going to have to address aside from the storyline they’ve come up with
the events of this new game seem to only take place a few years after the first one. given that max is in university.
if you chose to sacrifice arcadia bay, i expect them to address the guilt and misery that will follow max like a shadow from destroying her hometown, her friends, chloe’s family, etc. it cannot be a brush off the shoulder.
if you chose to sacrifice chloe, i expect max to be haunted by her friend in ways that aren’t blatant and tone-deaf. she needs to once again be followed by a shadow of guilt and grief. and since i imagine she’s left to another new town, i need there to be some kind of moment of reflection on how she runs away from arcadia instead of facing her choices and the loss that it carries.
i need there to be kate marsh. i need there to be victoria. she is allowed to move on from her high school days but given the circumstances of the life she’s left behind, it cannot be forgotten. it cannot be summed up in a photograph she keeps in her wallet. it cannot be little easter eggs for us to find along our way.
but deck nine is so very surface-level with their writing. the dread i feel for max’s new chapter is thick. i cannot imagine how they’re going to live up to the expectations they’ve set for themselves.
it's not a want, it's a NEED
"This shithole has taken everyone I've ever loved!"
Best friends... or Lovers??
A perfect view of Chloe & the ocean.
"This shit pit has taken everything I ever loved!"
"At least we don't have to hide from step-douche."
Recently I was thinking about how the plot of the original Life Is Strange would make for a PERFECT Columbo episode, and so I drew this. In this scenario, I imagine Columbo would've already cracked the case by the time the game's story begins- so Nathan is arrested before he can even confront Chloe in the bathroom, she never gets shot, Max never gets her powers, and the storm never happens because Jefferson and the Prescotts were already brought to justice for Rachel's murder. (Columbo never dealt with the supernatural after all, and it's still an interesting story even without powers being part of it). It's still a somewhat bittersweet ending as Rachel is still dead, but nobody else has to die, Max is never traumatized by her powers, and her and Chloe rekindle their relationship without having to destroy an entire town to be together.
My best friend wrote the dialogue for this one, and funnily enough it's based on what happened when I played the game for the first time- I immediately noticed what Jefferson was saying about capturing someone in a dark corner, thinking that was weirdly specific dialogue to cold the game with unless it was foreshadowing for later. And then of course you go out into the corridor, there are all the "MISSING" posters for Rachel and you can hear students gossiping about how she was in a relationship with a teacher. By the time you see her note in the junkyard in Chapter 2 I was 100% certain it was Jefferson... apparently for a lot of people it was a real twist though.
