Time to take the microphone, dude.
Welcome back to the podcast this week! Today we’re vising the world of Life is Strange again to cover the sequel, but things are a little different this time. First, we have two guest hosts today, returning favorites Dan and Janelle. And second, this time around things are a lot less “go ape” and more “go see a therapist.” The second full season of Dontnod’s premier adventure series does a lot of things right, and it tackles larger, more immediately relevant points than broached in its predecessors. There is a lack of subtlety in approach, though, and the messages it sends don’t always succeed in being as profound as the personal lessons taught by the first game. Find out more as we talk about the cast of characters and narrative structure, how you can play too safe with politics, and see why we compare Life is Strange 2 to books you’re assigned to read in class.
Thank you all for sitting down with us today! Fun fact: this is the longest ever episode of the show, but I suppose that’s kind of to be expected when we have twice any many people on as we’re used to recently… Still, I think this is some of our most valid critiquing we’ve done in a while, and I hope the length didn’t wear you out of Dan and Janelle, as they’ll be back next time to talk about Divinity: Original Sin 2. Hope you’ll check it out!