![]() ![]() Here, you can read conversations, not just from Alex’s present but from her past as well. ![]() The first is a social media timeline that allows you to see how NPCs interact with each other in relation to the story (and outside of it). ![]() While yes, you craft her responses depicting eagerness, apprehension, love, friendship, anger, and more, there is always a certain level of mystery to who Alex is.Īs a way to deliver more exposition in a playable way, the game features a cell phone mechanic with two options. Through dialogue choices, particularly in the game’s first chapter, which serves a vital foundation for understanding Alex as a character, we begin to see more of who Alex is. Then we’re in Haven, with no more information given. At the beginning of the game, we see Alex in therapy talking about an event coded as traumatic or at the very least unsettling. Sure, you’re trying to uncover the town’s deep dark secret, but Deck Nine never loses the human component in the story.Īdditionally, Alex’s life and past are also a mystery. We see grief manifest as fear, guilt, regret, and even the pain that can come from wholesome and important memories. Whether its your own, or from others, you use your power to explore a spectrum of emotions that erupted after Gabe’s death. Every chapter after Gabe’s death puts Alex and you directly in front of grief. Sure, there are a lot of games where you solve mysteries and a big bad corporation hurting a mining town isn’t a first, but that really isn’t the focus. This connection between emotion and story beats is where Life is Strange: True Colors shines. The narrative around the push for truth works in two ways the first allows us to see Alex push for justice from a mining company that has long proven to not care about the lives Haven’s citizens and the second allows us to explore grief. The game’s core mystery is Gabe’s “accident.” When Gabe dies in a so-called accident, Alex finds herself embracing her power to find the truth. While there are pieces of Life is Strange: True Colors that focus on Alex making Haven a home like her brother did, whether that be through friendship or romance, there is a tapestry of mysteries to be solved. You reconnect with your brother and explore new friendships, and through player choice you can be as open or as apprehensive as you want. This impacted those around him and helped create a new sense of family amongst his friends. While Haven was supposed to just be a step towards finding their missing father, but Gabe transformed it into a home. Haven is a small mining town that’s home to a cast of characters who are intricately woven together through her brother Gabe’s life. In the game, you are Alex, a woman reuniting with her brother after nearly a decade of separation due to the foster care system in Haven, Colorado. Living up to its name, Life is Strange: True Colors uses color auras as both an atmospheric part of storytelling (red for anger, blue for sadness, purple for fear) and as a mechanic for exploration and fulfillment. Seen as a “curse,” Alex has tried to keep her supernatural ability to experience, absorb, and manipulate others’ emotions surpassed. A single-player choice driven experience, the game’s protagonist is Alex Chen, an empath whose ability to feel other’s emotions both helps and hurts those around her as well as herself. ![]() Life is Strange: True Colors is developed by Deck Nine and published by Square Enix. The game uses empathy, not just as a way to immerse you in a new world, but push you to confront elements of mental health and relationship building that can have a lasting effect even when you put down the controller. L ife is Strange True Colors runs with that. Whether that is through player choice, dialogue, or tough subjects, the series has proven to put an emotive experience at the forefront of player experience. As a series, Life is Strange has a reputation for immersing players in a story that connects them deeply to the world they’re playing in. ![]()
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