Time To Spoil The First Bit Of Life Is Strange

Life Is Strange

What looks to be the first 20 minutes of Life Is Strange has been released online so we can all get basic judgments out of the way

Life Is Strange is only a few days out from launch so it isn’t too strange that there is already gameplay footage for the game floating out there. Seeing as Square Enix and Dontnod haven’t busted their asses to have it taken down from YouTube yet I think they are fairly okay with the fact that the first 22 minutes of the game can be viewed now. Just in case 22 minutes of Life Is Strange isn’t enough and all. More than that would just be downright ludicrous and would require the whole servers to be taken down so as to not ruin any part of the game, or at least the first episode, before January 30^th.

To be fair though this is only 22 minutes of the tutorial stuff for Life Is Strange. It does introduce a bit of the story but more or less it shows exactly how we are going to be using the Sands of Time during actual gameplay and from the looks of it cut scenes. If you want to have a look I have included the full video for your viewing pleasure just below. If not you can fast forward past that to read some of my thoughts.

Trolls can be vicious on YouTube. I actually took a look through some of the comments and am curious if they know what kind of game Life Is Strange is going to be. For that matter, do you? It is an episodic cinematic adventure the same as The Walking Dead and Heavy Rain. I’m just kind of glad that unlike those other titles we have the option to rewind the choice or action on the spot and alter the course. How drastic this will be is kind of still up in the air but it looks like if you enjoy either of those titles from before Life Is Strange is going to have to only keep winning you with the story.

I am not too keen on having to hear the same dialog over and over even though that is part of the game here though. There is a skip option from what I was able to see but there also happened to be slight changes to dialog and cadence from what I heard so how am I not supposed to miss it all while skipping? Maybe it is just me. Maybe not. None the less this bit of video has me even more interested to at least give Life Is Strange a shot; even if it is only one episode for now. The rest of the episode could catch my heart and mind.

What sayeth you about Life Is Strange now? Let us know in the comments below.