Alexa Ray Corriea: "Life is Strange paints an excellent, vivid picture of a young woman's struggle for acceptance and justice, but trips itself up by trying to make things gamey. The series is at its best when it's just letting you explore; in the beginning you're roaming the world around you, picking through pieces of other's lives, and by the end you're treading Max's subconscious. The story of Max and Chloe is a beautiful tale, but it's marred by bizarre logical leaps and leftover plot holes. Aggravating out-of-place fetch quests and stealth sequences crack the somber atmosphere and very hamfistedly remind you that you're playing a game. It's unfortunate, because I do love Life is Strange's story. I just wish the ending wasn't so mismanaged."
The final 3 episodes of this unique adventure get reviewed at Player 2
With the final chapter in Dontnod's teen drama serial coming to a close, Gamesfiends' Zeth takes one last adventure with Max in the episode 5 review.
"If you've invested in the series I don’t think you’ll be disappointed in the conclusion of the story. The execution might stumble in places, but it never falls and Dontnod have managed to bring together a thoughtful and artistic story that has enough substance to be discussed as a game or an analysis of coming-of-age. "
JBH reviews 'Polarized', the fifth and final episode in Dontnod Entertainment's interactive drama series, 'Life is Strange'.
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I completed Life is strange only yesterday, and absolutely loves it! Most enjoyable Interactive story adventure game i've played so far.
Just like many others though im not happy with the end decision. I wish there was 1 extra decision you could make.
1. Sacrifice Arcadia Bay
2a. Sacrifice Chloe
2b. Sacrifice yourself and take the bullet for Chloe
Dontnod have already said a sequel most likely will feature a whole new cast so i wish self sacrifice should have been an option, I though Chloe throughout the entire game had a pretty shitty life, and i think Max's power to reverse time should have been given to her so that she could save Chloe (by sacrificing herself), and the punishment for there "selfishness" was the cyclone destroying everything they care about.
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I agree. I didn't want to go into too much detail in the review, but I felt like it would have tied things up nicely if Max would have sacrificed herself. Chloe didn't really deserve to die because of Max's mistakes, but I suppose the game got around that by implying that Chloe's death was fated, which is why she died in almost every timeline. Still though, would have been a good ending.
Looking forward to season 2 though!
Ending was pretty garbage, and the choices pretty trash. Incredible that at the time of playing 46% of players chose the opposite choice i did. To me there was only one logical decision to chose.
So many polarising reviews for this episode. Can't wait to try it out