Amanda Thomas best girl

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>>562773209
I did like her. She was endearing, even if she's basically just Steph but with a shittier haircut.
I wish her and Chloe were able to interact more.

>>562773452
I’m afraid you’ve completely misunderstood her character and her entire purpose

Alright, tell me what happened in Reunion

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Have you been doing your daily meditation??

>>562773903
Max and Chloe investigate a fire and then fuck.

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>>562773903
Fire
The sad death of the entire franchise, obviously

>>562781276
>dumpster fire

>>562789350
It was a frame job, Deck Nine was behind the fire all along!

How are they gonna do the series with two completely different ending from the game? I hope they expand the after ending more but it seems like it's gonna flop. Also, will they reuse some of the ost in the series?

Reminder that Amanda kicked a dude out of the bar for not liking her grilled cheese, but let's Lucas hang out there all fucking day when he's responsible for a girls suicide

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>>562799162

>Woah Max, you saw me and several other students burn to death in the observatory before you jumped back in time to stop it?
>Alright, let me make sure to place all the flammable chemicals I have in the observatory in one place, so if they do catch fire it will spread like crazy
>Oh you saw Chloe burn there too?
>I'm sure you won't mind if I take Chloe there anyway, and take no extra measures for multiple escape routes except a ladder you already told me falls
What the fuck was his problem?

>>562805398
final destination-tier writing

>>562806789
I'm honestly amazed Max never brought up that Moses and Chloe should just not be on campus when the fire happens. Like the most obvious way to prevent them from dying is just remove them from the situation

>>562799162
Lucas is too sigma for her to throw out.

>>562807767
The idea was to always pinpoint the origin of the fire which, with the power of awful writing, happens no matter what. The game then refuses to let you prevent it by way of trial and error and doesn't give you every sensible option related to it e.g. what you suggested and in effect, gives you three hamfisted endings. Game could've been and should've been more.

I honestly feel like there is some kind of mass psychosis going on. Everyone was criticizing Double Exposure, mostly for valid reasons. Then Reunion comes out, and it’s not really better. It barely has a story at all. It feels like one of the emptiest games I’ve ever played.

But because it gives us some empty characters wearing the skins of Max and Chloe, suddenly everyone loves it? I get it. I think people are just tired and resigned at this point. But come on, have some standards. No one would be praising this game if it didn’t have Max and Chloe in it.

I miss Victoria
Maximum Victory should have been real and Max should have stayed in the Chloe assisted suicide timeline and kept her Victoria slave and did nasty shit with her every day

>>562808782
You just answered your own question.

>>562808782
This. Its insane people are giving it 9/10 ratings when it's the most insipid dogwater story that has nothing to tell mixed with some good Pricefield momements

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>As Max and Chloe are leaving the ruins of Arcadia Bay behind, there's one more tragic story unfolding
>Alice and Lisa stuck in Max's room, Alice hasn't eaten anything in days, the dorms are destroyed and no one comes looking for them
>"No one's gonna come save us, this is the end, we'll starve to death..."
>Alice...you can survive this and go back to your owner. All you have to do is... all you have to do is eat me."a times this week did you try to nibble my leafs? I'm a plant, Alice, you're a bunny, maybe it's time I accept my destiny... OUR destiny."
>"Lisa, I can't make this choice!"
>"No Alice, you're the only one who can"

>eat Lisa
https://orph.link/sacrificelisa.mp3
>eat your own foot
https://orph.link/sacrificepaw.mp3

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>>562773323
Safi is actually having a resurgence in fan arts more than Amanda ever will

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>>562805398
Care to explain, Jonathan Zimmerman, why characters who were smart and sensible in the previous game are acting completely brain-dead here? Why did those who were "good under pressure" turn into paranoid wrecks? Why did those who had the strength to keep their dignity end up begging and humiliating themselves like pathetic losers?

Explain yourself, Jonathan.

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>>562809946
Lately, my main source of entertainment is watching them praise the exact same things in Reunion that they absolutely trashed in DE. Way more engaging than this creativity bankrupt game itself.

>>562809946
I honestly feel like at some point the fanbase got replaced by younger people who just want to look at fanart and see girls kiss. Because I genuinely do not understand how anyone can go from the incredible story of Life is Strange to Reunion and think that this was a worthy ending. You really have to have no standards.

And don’t even get me started on Max and Chloe. How are these supposed to be the same characters from Life is Strange? They have almost none of the original characterization. They just feel like some bland Deck Nine version of them. I’m really disappointed in this fanbase. We deserved a much better story, and instead people are celebrating what feels like the worst possible follow-up.

>>562812107
Max and Chloe are like the sameish as they were in LiS1 BtS, but they exist to romance each other off.

>>562781276
Kino

>RE: 1,711 24-hour peak 1 670
>DE: 507 24-hour peak

Kek

IGN game Reunion a 8

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>>562816816
one lower than Double Exposure

>>562812480
Chloe is punk, we know nothing else about her. I liked seeing her again, but they could have shown us way more of her personality

>>562817923
still too high desu

>>562812480
But that’s the problem with both Double Exposure and Reunion, and honestly, Reunion does it even worse.

In Reunion, Max and Chloe seem to have only one purpose: to love each other. That’s it. There’s nothing else to their personalities, and they don’t even do that particularly well. Aren’t these kids supposed to love epic love stories? Because this was not one. I genuinely feel like I’m going crazy.

Is true colors any good? Already finish reunion but never play that before so I'm curious.

>>562821580
It’s a total snoozefest, don’t waste your money.

>>562821580
It’s kind of cozy, and it has some nice small-town vibes. But it’s also a bit boring, feels very much like a walking simulator, and most of the characters are kind of forgettable, aside from Alex and Steph. It just doesn’t quite have enough to really stand out.

>>562807767
They were supposed to stay at the bar, but Moses got the idea that they could be more helpful on campus watching for fire. It's pure plot convenience to get all the main characters together for the climax.

>>562821580
I get the impression that people who love TC put a lot of value on the vibes. If that's enough for you, you might end up liking it.

>>562812107
Tbh, you are somewhat right. But it was the last game, and they were crunching like crazy just to finish it before they went under. It is what it is. I think most people would have wanted something different if they could choose. But have you noticed how insanely dead the fanbase has become? Give it a few years and it will be completely dead. The TV show will be its own separate thing. But we will live on forever here on 4chan

>>562821580
It’s dogshit that completely abandons the plot after the first episode, one episode is literally just you playing a meaningless dnd larp

Does Max's powers work with photos taken by other people?
I ask because I'm curious if she could in theory enter a pornographic photo or a photo of somebody on the toilet.

R34 wave when?

>>562826062
Aren't you happy with the underage R34 that already exists, anon?

>>562827452
i'm not. i want more of hag Max, Loretta, Amanda and Safi

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Damnnnnnn Samantha looks like that now?????

>>562829412
Shut your horny ass up

>>562830130
holy sex

So at the end of Reunion, are both endings of the first game merged? It's vague on what actually happens there

>>562840218
Yes, evey ending is merged

>>562841421
So does Chloe remember both being murdered and surviving the storm with Max?

>>562841593
>Chloe remember both being murdered and surviving the storm with Max?
It should be that easy but the game does a mess out of things so now Chloe has nightmares of her death but if you choose Bae she also believes Arcadia Bay was never hit by a storm or that somehow she's still in good terms with Joyce, and if she's death she remembers her murder but not her going along with Max or the breakup.

Reunion also retcons people having memories about their merged selves so it's like Max revealing she had power to everyone didn't matter at all.

>>562841593
Safi mentions in the epilogue that she still has awareness of the Lighthouse ghost zone where her dead self lives, so ending Chloe must have memories of both living and dying.
A person being aware that they died in another timeline is apparently what causes a Time Paradox, the Time Paradox tried to force Chloe to die by disabling Max's rewind, but then Max brute-forced past it by freezing time until she could drag over a cart. That doesn't really resolve the Time Paradox in any way, so Time / Destiny should still be trying to kill Chloe now (?)

>>562844453
So they made a contrieved time pocket dimension thing thats not even addressed or fully resolved following the events of Reunion

>>562844453
You're giving this more thought than the writers want from you.

>>562844453
All that and the homie Alderman is still nowhere to be found...

>>562846452
He's in the same place Diamond currently resides

It's too bad we're never going to get the full story about what went on at D9 in the development of DE and Reunion.

>>562858420
You could still ask Zimmerman on his substack lol

>>562859253
Has he posted anything worth reading yet?

>>562846452
Alderman was wiped from existence and nobody remembers him anymore. I'm still puzzled by that whole moment because it amounted to absolutely nothing.

>>562866609
Cut from Chapter 5 because they ran out of budget. He was supposed to show up in Max’s nightmare sequence. You can still find it in the game files.

>>562860741
not really. other than the fact that he's absolutely clueless about how some of the mechanics in the first game worked

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As a Pricefielder, I would give Reunion a 6.5/10.
But I've been suffering from depression and anhedonia for many years now, so playing games doesn't feel the same anymore.

>>562808782
>empty characters wearing the skins of Max and Chloe
it is 100% max and chloe, they feel exactly as they did in the first game but appropriately older. Reunion absolutely nailed Max and Chloe

Reunion went out of its way to address feedback about DE and tried to fix everything people hated about it, which is why everyone likes it more

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>>562872035
Same. The Pricefield was great, but everything else was pretty boring. I really wish Amanda and Chloe got to interact more. They had great chemistry. Seeing Charlotte's sculpture and the Puerto Lobos keychain were fun Easter eggs for past games.
I was also really hoping we'd get an update on Alex or Steph, especially since Chloe is friends with Steph and they're both in the same business of travelling musician.

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>>562878008
>I really wish Amanda and Chloe got to interact more. They had great chemistry.
I'm still thinking about this. Total wasted potential. Even with the limited resources they had they could've easily squeezed in more scenes for them.

>>562879103
I really think if they had even one more year to work on it, they could have taken it from a 7 to an 8, 8.5.

>>562878008
Pricefield wasn't even that great. They are separated for most of the game and only kiss once in a throwaway scene after talking to Moses.

>>562884070
That is Every. Single. Lis game.
God I wish someone with money that likes the series would just buy the aiP and make it with love.

>>562888559
Maybe LIS x Fortnite?

>>562808782
>some empty characters wearing the skins of Max and Chloe
Zimmerman and that other woman have this brain-dead idea that character development is just about how much screen time they get. You can tell by how they handled the side characters like Moses and Loretta, not just the leads.

>>562884070
the whole thing started with the brain-dead idea to split the game in two without doing any market research

>>562822572
It's honestly kind of frustrating how little they actually tried to change things or prepare for the fire.
>Focus becomes entirely on finding out who personally starts the fire
>For some reason authorities just ignore hearing a threat of arson to the point to where only a campus cop cares about it
>They could have just closed the observatory for the day to make sure it was empty
>They stocked up with ONE fire extinguisher instead of buying a dozen
>Left flammable chemicals in a building where you know a fire is going to break out
Hell, they didn't even do something like pull a fire alarm before the fires go off, which would cause an evacuation even if it is a false alarm

>>562917883
But anon, they seveloped the game in one year

>>562926552
they developed dogshit in one year

This series needs more rape.

’m honestly surprised that Deck Nine gets all the hate. Do people not remember the interviews that were posted here before? Every single word they wrote had to be approved by Square Enix. And then there are the Glassdoor reviews, which painted a picture of weak leadership at Deck Nine that basically just did whatever Square Enix wanted. At that point, you’re blaming the instrument instead of the one holding it.

>>562932440
Plenty of people hate square and it's practically common at this point that they absolutely suck ass at managing their IPs.

>>562932440
D9 never had a strong backbone, and whenever they had some ounce of artistic thought it was always compromised to reach for the lowest common denominator

>>562933552
Spot on. Reunion is basically the poster child for D9 having zero backbone

Omg the fucked it. They FUCKED it, right in the final stretch. But that other 60% is pretty solid, especially considering the development context. Its clear they learned a lot and actually gave a shit so without dev constraints it would have bern goated.

What themes does Life is Strange explore?

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>>562936486
gender and sexuality

>>562936990
In what ways does Life is Strange explore gender and sexuality?

If everyone in Safi's family is as psychotic as she and her mom are, they should probably just stop having kids. Let the crazy die with her.

>>562936990
>C.A.G.S.
Kek

Based Amanda

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kinda unrelated but what do you think about denuvo bypass with hypervisor in reunion?

>>562938341
hypervisor is kinda sketchy becauee theres a risk it could make your system exposed to virus and hacking more easily

>>562937430
Girls can kiss so it’s woke enough for this general

>>562937430
The first game has misogyny as one of its themes. It isn't over-the-top, but a lot of the harm inflicted is gender-based. I won't get into specific examples in case you actually want to play it, but it's not all-men-are-evil, more like men and women need to treat women better. It's handled about as well as you can hope for from some French guys in 2015.

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>>562938042
If Amanda is hosting these C.A.G.S. meet-ups, she better be personally testing the products. I want to see her with a gag, ngl

>>562941020
Honestly, it's not the worst example of handling this theme in this medium, mainly because the issue is shown through personal drama rather than through slogans. It's a very fine line to walk, and the risk of devolving into pure activism is always extremely high

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Chloe cute.

>>562947809
And people complained Maisy looked too fat for the role kek

>>562946887
I wasn't being dismissive of it, I am genuinely impressed with how well they handled it despite not having a woman in the writing room.

>>562948495
>how well they handled it despite not having a woman in the writing room.
That's definitely why

>>562948495
Unironically, that might be exactly why they handled it so carefully. Maybe they just found the right balance intuitively.
But again, it's done very competently there. Those who care about the theme will see it, while those who usually get annoyed by such topics won't be triggered by it

>>562948408
She did on some pictures, but here she looks fine

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I keep putting off finishing Reunion because I don't want to close the book on Pricefield forever....

>>562954560
Anon, the book was closed years ago until SE was too greedy to go foward

>>562954560
Its over anon, now only slow fandom death awaits.

What is the future of LiS wise ones?

https://old.reddit.com/r/lifeisstrange/comments/1sf5qk8/no_spoilers_the_future_of_the_life_is_strange/

>>562959808
The TV show bombing and after that, that's all folks

>>562959808
Pretty sure it's dead

>>562959808
The TV show is good but it gets sidelined by poor marketing because Amazon prioritizes the GoW show and whatever else Netflix puts out

>>562959808
The tv show could have done wonders, but DE exist and that killed it all. Who is even in charge of things if SE doesn't have anyone outside of Japan?

>>562948408
she looks too short for the role
chloe is hilariously tall for a girl, she towers over every other female in the game
if she's not towering over Max I will riot

>>562962897
Its a tv show anon, you can cheat height with easy camera tricks and platform shoes

>>562962897
Seeing her like a full head above Max during the reunion kiss was pretty funny.

>>562954560
You can always play the games again.

>>562962897
>Chloe is thin and very tall, almost modelesque
>Cast a chubby short girl to play her
Ffs

>>562959808
I hope, if it isn't canceled, after they finish the story of the first game they make an original Max and Chloe on the road story instead of continuing the story of the later games. As much as I like 2, I think it would run into the same audience problems as the game did, and the rest of the games are mid or worse.

>>562963663
Just wait for black Victoria

>>562963663
Chloe was never believable as an angry, grungy punk girl because she's way too pretty. Body of a supermodel and face like an angel.

>>562963845
They would NEVER make the callous cunt directly responsible for the attempted suicide of an innocent girl be black. If anything Kate will be black.

>>562964051
That's the point

I miss the time before all of this. I don’t see any of the regulars around here anymore. They never should have made a sequel. It was more fun before

>>562973194
I wish there were more outfits.

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Neat cameo

>>562974821
i wish

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>>562963345
>>562963663
>Maisy Stella, known for her role in Nashville, is approximately 5'0" to 5'1" tall

>>562973978
They really should have given Chloe one outfit without the jacket.

>>562975695
when you are under crunch the best you can do is to recycle what you already have

>>562979805
Rather different outfits than having the custodian guy.

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>>562946887
>I want to see her with a gag, ngl

>>562985853
The custodian guy felt like distinctly Japanese humor and forcefully brought to my mind that this is a Square-Enix game. These games are so overwhelmingly western that it makes me wonder if SE guys in Japan were more involved in Reunion due to Deck Nine downsizing

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>>562990763
SE Japan only took direct control after they nuked the whole western leadership tho

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>>562991470
Flopped and forgotten

>>562994167
Go back to your potato farm and stop obsessing over fictional girl, Janusz

As mediocre as reunion was, Chloe was perfect. Rhianna did a great job. By far the best part of the game.

>>562975695
Speaking of, does a jacketless Chloe exist in the files? For mods?

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>>562991470

I miss Steph. Alex, too, but mostly Steph.

>>562996694
Back when facial mocap wasn't so stiff

https://www.avclub.com/life-is-strange-reunion-game-fans

Oh no no no no no reunion sisters