This game felt so much shorter than the other ones. That is my only complaint about it really. Yeah, i was sad that Chloe and Max grew apart, but i can understand Chloe's feelings, not knowing when Max will rewind and just constantly thinking about if she did or not. Hopefully we will see Chloe and Max together again, if not as lovers, maybe just friends.
The fact they aren't even friends just bugs me. I'd even extend an Olive Branch if ppl think they wouldn't work romantically forever but they don't even talk to each other??
They fumbled the last 2 episodes of DE so freaking hard. Also, the characters do not interact with each other. Example: Kate Marsh relates to half the cast. All these others don’t relate. We also don’t see Max teach.
We didn't see Safi interact with anyone, but for some reason everyone talked about her like she's the greatest before she went for a karen rampage. She starts bitching after breaking into Max's house and she saved her life The storm didn't even did anything, the last time it destroyed a town, now it made people clean up the backyard a little. The romantic optioins were the worst in the series: the guy was fun to hang out with, but they didn't had good romantic feeling about them, meanwhile Amanda was just a lesbian and Deck9 called it a day after that. Max' character growth was interesting as talked about pass trauma, but after a while it went nowhere because bitch Safi had to steal the spotlight. Our choices ment nothing: yeah, people had different things to say but I didn't give a crap about them, it denied me the opportunity to shoot Safi even though I told her bitch face I would shoot her. And they lied about respecting my choices from Life is strange 1 And possibly the worst: Safi and Max's relationship is just not beleivable. They talked about being best friends, but Safi was horrible to her, and also everyone else. Max and Chleo didn't called themselves best friends all the time, they just acted like that, and that's what was missing the most
I agree as well, it felt like they had a pretty harsh time crunch towards the end. I mean, 'A few days later' is likely the best tell of that in my opinion.
Chapter 5 is mainly where points got lost for me. Just because it felt very much like that chapter wasn't about wrapping up the story and more about setting up the next game. Plus it was short, they could have made the episode longer.
Man I don’t even know where to begin with this. The game overall was a solid 7/10. Episodes 1-3 were really well done but 4-5 were rushed and boring and kind of felt a bit shit. They completely forgot about the whole murder mystery they set up. If they planning on doing some avengers type thing that’s going to be boring. The reason the games are so good, especially the first one is not because of the powers but because of the characters, the mystery and how simple, yet deep the story is. There’s so much more I wanna say but it’s hard putting all here.
No, the subverted the murder mystery setup. It is an anti-mystery basically. They did this twice as well not only with Safi's death, but with Lucas's scandal.
Exactly. Though, I enjoyed playing Max again, the ending made ZERO sense. They though emotional speech and good music are good enough. Deck Nine seriously needs a better writer.
I'm gonna call it, Life Is Strange: Return to Arcadia Bay. Max facing Chloe or the rebuilt Arcadia Bay, with Safi and Diamond in the storyline. But I hope to see mooooooore about Amanda and Max! Orrrrrr... we're gonna get the first LiS with multiple playable and switchable character (like GTA 5)
If they do multiple playable characters, they need to do it right or else it’s gonna look funny. I just want a game with max and Chloe only and no one else. Yes, Amanda and max didn’t need to have a relationship, they were good buddies. I also personally didn’t like safi as a character cuz she seemed a little cocky and maybe too young imo. I just didn’t like her that much. It’s a little hard to explain. Diamond was cool tho, I would like to see her return tho
Agreed, I just want an actual sequel to life is strange 1 with Max and Chloe but now they either mend their relationship as friends or get back together or if she died then Max mended the town and her relationship with the people in it, even as a dlc I wouldn't mind that but if they do that they need to do it right, cos they really did Chloe so dirty in Double Exposure.
I don't agree on the Chloe issue, in 10 years relationships change and sometimes fall apart, and you've to move on. Something can't always last forever, especially if at its base there was a choice to wipe out an entire town including its many inhabitants. And if you don't think that such a choice has no side effects on Max in the long run, you're just a little unrealistic. But I'm 99.9% sure we'll see Chloe again in the next game, the final dialogue with Moses at the end of Double Exposure is eloquent (if at the beginning with Safi you choose to say "We broke up"). IMHO Max will probably take a little break with Amanda travelling back to Arcadia Bay, meeting either Chloe or Joyce and all her old Arcadia friends. But... What if Max arrives in Arcadia Bay and discovers that there are still 2 active timelines? Boom 🤯
I really wanted like this game, but I just didn’t. Max didn’t really overcome her trauma. With Mr. Jefferson she just sat in a chair for like two minutes. And she’s cured somehow. I barely struggled with choices in this game compare to to talking Kate down the roof, stepping in for Chloe when David hit her. The whole murder mystery. Was pushed aside to care about the book deal that nobody cared about Safi didn’t even care about her potential death in the picture and a lot of people say the story felt short that’s because it wasn’t thought out that that well it was a cash grab people and they’re gonna do it again in the next game
I feel like you missed the point lol, the story wasnt about healing, but being ready finally to start... thats exactly why chloe left max in the bae version, was they grew apart because max couldnt overcome what happened to them and she wanted to move forward with life not be stuck in the past... also its why max literally says to moses in the end that shes not ready exactly, but will be now soon to heal and reach back out to her lol
She did overcome her trauma, she stopped letting it control her and she now is moving forward. Learned nuance and subtlety please. The game is an anti-mystery, it subverted the mystery. Hell,it is the first LIS that didn't even develop Max as a character that much.
I’m looking forward to seeing where they take Max next. Also; I love the ending credits song, September. It’s used perfectly at the end and in general, it’s the best song in the game 🔥
I wish the side characters had more interaction with everyone. It felt like they were there to only serve Max purpose. And no I didn’t wanna kiss those characters for the fact that there was little I knew about them. I hope future game will have more fleshed out characters like the og.
Haha...same. I chose all PASS on the "smash or pass" segment and didn't kiss Amanda or Vinh. I was just holding out they'd give us a chance to reconcile with Chloe at the end of the game. Sigh.
8:35 i HOPE we play as safi. Shape-shifting has ALWAYS been my favorite power ever. Imagine the potential. Cant get in somewhere ? YOU cant, but maybe someone who belongs there can! Maybe im biased cuz i always play a changeling in dnd....
I really am conflicted on getting another game. I want them to fix what they broke regarding how they wrote Chloe if you saved her but they really seem like they don't wanna do that. They teased Chloe kinda coming back but with how they wrote her character I wouldn't be surprised if they try to add another nail to the coffin breaking them up. D9 and Square have made me so frustrated making me feel like i was a fool for being a fan for 8 years of the original game.
After Before the Storm, most fans were fine with Deck Nine developing a sequela with Max Caufield. Now that Double Exposure has been released, many fans have checked out.
Something tells me that the reason why the game gets more confusing in chapters 4 and 5, is maybe because of how True Colors felt too straight forward of a game. I think Double Exposure was designed to be theorized, to not be given all of the answers straight away. I actually like that there are a lot of unexplained things in this game because it's fun to theorize about it, and we may even get some answers in the sequel. At first my rating for the game was like a 8, but I'd probably give it a 9 now. And honestly the ending for this game just made me excited for the future. Can't wait for Max's return!!
I have a feeling that they might do a DLC for safi. I think that might be the case due to the fact that, every life is strange game that’s ever been made by Deck nine has always had a DLC come out a few months post the base games launch. And I think safi is the perfect character to make a DLC about considering where her character had left off after the ending/post credits scene. they could make a story that not only further elaborates on her finding other powered people but could be the set up that leads us into the next game. All I know is that they’ll definitely be doing a dlc chapter at some point for this game, that’s just my idea for what it could be. But I doubt that safi will be the playable character of the next game when they outright confirmed that max will return, I think that would be the worst decision that they could make, if they make a side game or even a dlc like I said that has safi as the main character than fair game, but not the main character of the next big game, it has to be max.
I could see a DLC for the original timeline that led to Max going back in time and choosing whether or not to shoot Safi, which is what created the two gameplay timelines to begin with. I could see Safi being playable during it. Whatever happened in the first timeline was different until the end, quite possibly what we saw in the collectible photos.
It could be possible that Diamond's superpower was responsible for Reggie and Alderman seeing their past selves at the overlook. This theory would make Alderman's disappearance not be an unresolved plot hole.
Anyone know the song that starts at i believe 10:00 and conntinues thru the rest of the video? It just sounds so calming and I would love to listen to it if its on spotify or anything like that. Thanks for your help in advance.🙏🏻
I think, the next one part will be Life is Strange 3. Because after LiS 2 we had only dlc's with diferent characters and the lenght of those games was like 10 hours.
@@xxkogh but they feel Like dlcs tbh. Lis 1, lis 2 and bts had episodes that were 3-5 Hours Long. True Colors and Double exposure episodes don’t last longer than 1-2,5 hours.
I guess they’re never gonna bring back Chloe for a simple reason: they always make us choose if she dies or not at the beginning of the game right? Then for some players they should program a game, where she makes the long awaited comeback,and for others another game, where hypothetically Max comes back to Arcadia Bay, and we all see how they tend to differentiate the story based on our choices: from true colors onwards they practically don’t. MAYBE an alternative would be create two separate games, but I guess that to get out of this loop they should simply choose a canon story, obviously the destroy arcadia bay one considering that no one would ever accept otherwise.
You'll have to read the comics then. They cover exactly that timeline and how complicated a relationship over different timelines can become. Just take a look at it, Titan-Comics, Emma Viecelli.
They could have concluded the game in the fourth episode considering how short the fifth episode is. I do absolutely love this game and agree with you that they shouldn't dangle Chloe on a hook in front of us and then just snatch her away. If you kept her alive there should have at least been a phone call or video call with her.
I think the next game could have more than one playable character, like max, diamond and safi or, as I previously thought, diamond could be the lead, either way Im excited cause i loved double exposure. When it comes to safi, i think shes the type of person to go with the flow and not plan anything but shes definitely not a villain.
I recently watched someone explain the plot and themes leading up to the ending and I like it a lot better since then. It truly seems that they just needed more time to establish their story and ideas. Length was definetly this games biggest weakness.
I figured Double Exposure was "planting seeds" as they said. As much as I personally, a fan of the first game since it came out, feel like it was a bit of a let down (though I still enjoyed it as its own story), I appreciated the ending hinting at Max returning to Arcadia Bay, with or without Chloe. Makes me happy knowing that Chloe will return someday, even if I have to wait another few years. Also that text from Chloe asking if she was okay after seeing the storm on the news or something broke my heart :(
Deck 9 mentioned earlier that the game is incomplete but will release the first part of the game (obviously Double exposure), but will speculate to have the second part of the game released sometime by the ending of 2025 or early 2026. We don't know yet, but they are still working on this game to this day since the game has a high software capacity and graphic wise. My guess is that deck 9 knew abiut our reaction of an incomplete game, and have establish a prerelease of this game as a part 1 of the full Max Caulfield story. So maybe we will be getting a part 2 that will conclude her ending and as well to fill in gaps of the story that were left unanswered.
@DomTheBomb it was in their square enix link when they were first announcing it. But I don't have the direct link for this source. I was in attendance, but no link. To be honest
Developers: "No matter what anyone thinks about certain creative calls that were made for Double Exposure, I think it's important that people understand that they were all made with intent -." "This is all heading somewhere, should folks want more after Double Exposure." Welp.. the sales would indicate that hey indeed do not.. and compared to true colors Double Exposure tanked, and tbh it's not that big of a surprise. Alienate more than half the fanbase and those things will happen. But it's not just that, statements like this essentially translate to "We sold an unfinished story because want to finish it later" which explains why the last half fell apart as bad as it did and why the mystery was never even solved. They sold us a half cooked, half baked story because they pretty much intend to finish it 'later' rather than having it stand alone on it's own. This was a story to set up a sequel, but a story to land the mark. The formula was "Do the first three episodes good, and then use the last two to set up a sequel with no real satisfying conclusion." The fans were already pissed because of the one thing they did and all the disrespectful and dishonest marketing. Then they pretty much tank what good will they had in the 2nd half of the story because they wanted to sequel bait instead of giving a satisfying conclusion. Sucks to say, but I am glad this game tanked. The way this game was put together, from the higher ups that didn't listen, to those on the team that cared being drowned out by those that didn't. They don't deserve to make another LiS game and ruin the IP any further than they already have here. They got to the point of "End Episode 1 with an amazing mystery... and then never answer it cause we need it for the sequel bait." I think they miss the point of a mystery game. Imagine playing a Nancy Drew Game and the conclusion to the Mystery is "I guess we'll find out the REAL answers in THE NEXT GAME!" Yeah, they can take that and leave it. And given the sales of the game, enough of the fans have made it clear they do not want more of what D9 is selling if this is what they have to offer to these characters. So if the next game never happens because of how horrible the sales for this game did, "Max Caulfield will Return" that they so confidently put at the end of this game because they were both sequel baiting and likely thinking they nailed it, will both become a meme and a lesson.
There's no way they're calling the sequel "Double Exposure 2." But yeah, at least the main location of the game will be Caledon. And they do seem to already be working on the new game so most likely it'll be finished and released at some point unless Square Enix cancels the project. I'm disappointed that Stauder told me this would be a satisfying end for Max Caulfield if it's the last time we played as her, given that clearly they had plans for her to return in DE2.
I am so hyped for the next game. Only problem is if the next game has characters from the other games,then I'll have to watch the gameplay of those games 😅😅😅
This is a masterpiece , and devastating at the same time.I did a playtrough and i changed the future of Safi and everyone's future for good,with a hard decision.
Chloe was mentioned and technically was a choice in the game option when telling Safi Maxs relationship status and whether they broke up or said she died. But I agree, maybe a Chloe flashback or even a 'only max can see her' character as a guide or similar would have been nice. Rachel is kind of in the game (depending on how you look at it). In Before the Storm in the dressing room, when Chloe takes the belt to Rachel, there is a poster for 'Loretta' on the wall and the character Loretta in DE is the spitting image of Rachel (but without aging). It's not clear whether or not Rachel is actually dead apart from word of mouth, the character that was dug up in the first game was only really recognised by clothing (although this is not 100%) when Chloe unearthed the body, facial recognition would or may have been hard from the time she was buried. But this is just an opinion. For the sequel to DE, it would be nice if Maxs powers evolved again or her old power combined with her new power grow to where she can transport back to Arcadia Bay to before Chloes death to save her and bring her back to the present with Max. Maybe Deck Nine teased Chloes' return because she is in the sequel, and the sequel was made in Coordnance with this one so it's already made and ready to go (depending on how DE is received). I loved this game as I did and still do with all the LIS games and also Tell Me Why. I hope there will be many games in the future (by the way, I'm a 52 year old gamer and prefer this type of game rather than Halo or COD). I'm only on my second playthrough, mainly to find collectable items i missed. After completing this game, I went back and played LIS, LIS BTS & True Colors, before starting this one again. Just subscribed to your channel and dropped a like. I will go back and check your other videos out at some point.
I really enjoyed chapters 1-3 (except what they did to Chloe) but with chapter 4 and 5 it felt like they ran out of budget and ideas. They were so short, so full of nothing and I feel like they were shaping a really good story with three first chapters but then idk what changed. Why did the timeline split? Why Max had new powers? What is Safi even talking about at the end of chapter 5? Why most of the “major” choices didn’t matter (saving Alderman, taking Gwen’s pendrive, answering Loretta’s question, and many many more)? WHY IS THERE ONLY ONE ENDING IN A CHOICE BASED GAME?
All super small consequences, Help alderman (moses got white hair at the side, some dialogue change during chapter 4), save the pendrive (Gwen stay, and she helps expose lucas), don't answer Loretta (she promises to change the way she tells story, if answer her question, she remain the same on how she tells story).
I think there couldn't have been more of a perfect setup for Amanda getting her own Wavelengths-esque DLC at the Snapping Turtle. It would be a little lazy of DeckNine, but I would absolutely be a fan of more content if they put in a decent bit of effort and held us over until the next main game.
The soundtrack in this game is awesome, I listen to it on RUclips everyday. And overall 9 out of 10 for me. The mishaps don't overlook the goodness. Can't wait for the next one.
True Colors choices didn't matter in terms of getting very different endings but I really like the characters and Haven Springs. I love the overall vibe of that game.
I think Deck Nine can make great games. I am dissapointed from Double Exposure not because i think the game is bad. I am dissapointed because how they handle your choises with arcadia bay. And yes, i want to see chloe pirce and max back together.
Since max cant use her powers at the end when the timelines merge, will she have new powers in the next one? If so i cant WAIT to see what they will do this time!!!!
Sadly I think double exposure might just be the worst lis game. The choices matter even less than they did in true colors or bts. There wasn't even multiple endings at all. I get that they wanted to do that to continue the same story, but I don't wanna pay another 60$ just to see how it ends and honestly I'm not feeling positive about the next lis anyway, just based on what we know from the ending of DE. They didn't respect both endings and honestly there wasn't a reason to bring Max back for this story. I don't like that Safi has powers and don't like what she turns into
btw we are not 100% sure that diamond has developed or will develop any power at all. Nosebleeds can happen to anyone and there is a genuine scientific reason to this in the real world too. Maybe this will be the twist in the next one deck 9 has planned. Otherwise too many people with powers will ultimately ruin the game.
First off gotta say, i loved your gameplay. I just subbed to you not too long ago but your commentary and gameplay was 👍🏽. Also my theory about double exposure is that i feel like Safi may possibly be a villain as she comes back in the sequel with an army of people with super powers, and it might be a war or peace thing. As for the relationship part, i feel like Amanda is just like a fling to sort of throw us off and kinda leans towards either safi or chloe being a romance choice. As for Alderman, i genuinely think the vortex of time just sucked bro in 😂
I personally think it is a terrible idea bringing characters back - outside of a cameo - to begin with. It was more interesting when every game was a new experience with a new cast of characters.
Cause Sean died in one of the endings. Same as Chloe. I don’t think you can bring characters like that with the endings they got. I get Chloe was in this game but she never actually appeared. Just referenced.
I'm still holding out hope that Brody from the second LiS game will come back and say "My dudes" 🙏🥹 I wonder if Max will meet Daniel and Alex for the first time and how it will happen. Chloe needs to come back as well ASAP! I also hope that it backs up Double Exposure and explains everything because I think we're all still quite confused on a lot of things in that game, and I hope LiS 5 has all the answers needed. I hope that's how 5 turns out to be.
My trust for them is gone unless I get a dlc for double exposure that corrects the bad writing and unfucks the biggest thing they fucked up then they’ll have my support
i really wonder if there were multiple drafts of the story because there is no way chapter 1-3 and 4/5 have the same writers, it's just so different and clashes even, with the latter being worse overall just to go all in for the sequel...
So I haven’t really played games in the fall. I watched someone else play on RUclips the first game and I felt really connected to the characters in the first game. Since then I’ve been able to download the first episode of life of life is strange one and I felt like I had more involvement in the environment and I felt like I was truly getting to know the minor and major characters. I felt as though the first game told a tighter emotional story between Max and Chloe that’s why I pricefield is such a strong ship. When I watched double exposure I really didn’t feel that invested in the characters. I felt as though characters were there to be witnesses and suspects in Sofi’s murder. Where as in life is Strange, you could ask about Rachel Amber but they had their own lives and interests outside of the quest to find Rachel’s killer. There were so many side quests that immersed you into the lives of the people of Arcadia Bay and Blackwell. I can see Double Exposure drawing it’s strengths from not having characters from the first game come back. However I do want to see the third game allow us to decide to live in one of two worlds bae or bay or bay over bae. Make our interactions with both Joyce and Chloe be unique and impactful in either reality.
I can already SEE Safiya Fayad be as The Captain America and Maxine Caulfield as The Iron Man going through the Civil War sequence and fight each other if you decided to refuse Safiya's offer hahahaha 🤩🫡🤑
Just finished the game last night. I enjoyed it overall but they really messed up by moving away from the murder mystery. After the first two episodes I was fully invested but I could not care less about the plagiarism story line that they shifted to. I liked the alternative timeline power. Thought it was cool to move between the different atmospheres especially at the bar. I liked Amanda, Mosses and Gwen as side characters. It's just very inconsistent towards the end. Seems like Max doesn't know Safi all that well. Anyone else notice the picture of Max with the gun she has her eyes open but when it's actually taken she has them closed?
The game was okay for me, but I was a bit disappointed. I was hoping to see maybe one or more characters from the first game. Or maybe going back to Arcadia Bay. I also don’t think they really respected both endings from lis 1.
I agree with you on almost all points regarding double exposure, i feel like i have huge issues with some parts of the game but still love it a lot bc I love max and she is great in this game. I often feel the need to defend the game while complaining about the flat characters at the same time xD (i mostly love them, i like vinh and gwen and i am looking forward to meeting them again but there is missing a lot, the game is so short and we get not that much time to explore their characters more) Deck nine can do a great life is strange they have already proven that many times, and I would love to have the avanger team up but my issue with that is, that I dont want then to idk find a big bad who maybe even gave them their powers for a bad purpose or whatever could make this team up happen. That the powers just happen and it is never explained where they came from is part of the great atmosphere, it makes the game even more about the slice of life themes and less about the supernatural. And I want to keep it that way. I am afraid they will do exactly that, make the game about a huge conspiracy or something. I want max to meet alex and all the ppl come together hanging out and all, and we will probably get a bit of that. I guess we can only cross our fingers. It is also possible that the next game will not be with max as a main character, she could be the side character while we play diamond or safi, or maybe they set up a new character and max wont even be in the game but actually another game after that. If the chose to make max a side character i will be so disappointed... but with a new character like in true colors and a max game after that Id be happy.
So, about Chloe. Kind of wish that she appears in the next game. And I think she can appear no matter what you decided. Two timelines merged right? Means in one of these timelines Chloe was still alive? That means Chloe could go to Caldeon to find Max. As reason it could be that Max didn't reply to her text message. It wasn't possible to reply. And for the other timeline, the other Max could just have had a different phone number. So it was never possible for Max to reply. Might be just a wishful thinking of mine. 😢
I really enjoyed this game. The only issues I have with this game is episode 5 being short and not seeing chloe. It would be cool to see other characters from other life is strange games to cross over into one game. I haven’t played true colors yet. I’m expecting a big war to happen in the next game and a lot of people dying because of it.
As much as I enjoyed double exposure it and any sequel for it will never be as successful as LiS 1 & 2, if D9 and SE actually want to make money the best route is a game set after the storm with Max and Chloe, however they seem to hate Chloe for some reason...
My thoughts exactly, I’m just hoping that square enix can just sell the ip back to don’t nod and move on. I’m still waiting on jc5 btw!! D9 were definitely pressured by square enix to make de and it turned into trash. So yes I would love to see after the storm be developed but that would be a long shot to happen if square doesn’t sell the ip. I mean Ubisoft are doing the same thing with assassins creed if shadows collapses.
That's awesome! Dom! I can't wait to see Max Caulfield return in Life is Strange 5! This means that her story isn't over and there's still more of it to tell too! This is going to be awesome!
I completely agree about the game starting strong and falling short within the last couple of chapters. I really wish they would have stuck to the murder plot. To me, it was more interesting. Also, I don’t like Safi 😅 Her character seems a bit dodgy to me…like she always seems like she has an ulterior motive. She doesn’t give me the warm and fuzzies, I said what I said 😂🤷🏻♀️
We need to explore more of the university In the sequel like for example the whole of other side, maxs workshop. I'm glad max will be a regular series character again, hoping they really take there time and look at some of the bad that can improve for the sequel. Lots of potential Deck nine plz don't be afraid criticism : )
It definitely seemed like that was the idea at first. There's an entire campus map but you can only enter the FAB and the Admin building lol. Feels like there was meant to be more.
In my opinion they should have condensed the main story in 4 episodes and had the 5th episode be a epilogue were you play as safi and diamond. It could have have been an hour long episode were we get some idea what safi wants and learn what diamond power is. That would make me more interested to see what happens next. However I suspect they dont really have a solid plan in place.
Now feel like game made into x men where some got powers to fight good and some fight evil, why game government don't make task force to recruit or hunt people with powers
Honestly I just "met" Maxine in this "Double Exposure", I do not know all the previous story(-ires) but [...] as long as she looks the same in this "will return 2"... not having "another" body shape or style, I really like her as she is (maybe because I am lesb "(^^)" but seriously, when I see (or read) sagas/franchises, everybody is changing and I loose track of things "(¬ . ¬)". From Double Exposure, I like the entire OST and also, a "small documentary / ads" from Caledon College (or University) in Vermont (really well done if you watch it on youtube)... I do not know what to tell more... lets hope for the future...
the moment alderman saw the photo of max with the gun, i knew alderman wasn't going to be a part of the game anymore as he was the only one who could relate all the unrealistic events with max(even the arcadia bay storm). If he were present then max would get busted much before, end up in jail and the game would be shorter than this, so they found a unique way to vanish him. But frankly he could have been an interesting part of the story if he hadn't seen that photo and thus not vanished. Also the laugh of him while leaving max's house looked quite villainous
I still think they should have went the show don't tell route for breaking Chloe and Max up, And this isn't even a game that I particularly enjoyed playing I liked watching the original life is strange I did not like playing it. (Maybe now I could go back into it because I finally managed to get through the tales of the borderlands and I love that game now so maybe) The mistake they made is they said that they were going to respect player choice but then they immediately tarnished that promise, I will never accept the reasoning for them not having her in the game they could have just done 30 to 40 minutes of her at the start of the game and maybe a little bit of her at the end of the game if you we're going to be kind and you didn't want her to be part of the story you can make a reason for her not to be there. Because if you want to break them up you put all the time right at the beginning so that way people can see the reason why they split and yes they won't be happy about it but they will at least see it and they don't feel like you spit in their face, I genuinely don't understand why they didn't just do the cheap route which they obviously got a new voice actor so they could have just had a little bit at the beginning and do some phone calls throughout the game it only adds a little bit of run time and you can bring her back in the future or you can have Max be a cheater or whatever you want. (I haven't looked it up to see if there's romance in this game or not) So that's the way they should have done it but they didn't do it that way because from what a few people in one of the previous videos said they didn't like the voice actress and they didn't like the character.
I mean I personally think DeckNine made a better job with Double Exposure than True colors in term of longer episodes, but I do agree that episode 4 and 5 were still short af sadly..I guess that's one of the only negative side for me with Double Exposure. (Might be an unpopular opinion but I loved Double Exposure even with it's flaws) I really really hope they will listen and make longer episode for the next game kinda like the first one, the first life is strange there was so much to look out that it makes every episode so special and I know I could spend hours and hours just for one episode with everything you could look at which I love, I wish they would make the same thing again c: But let's say I trust them with that, I really think the game here was to introduce us to this new environnement Max is and to set the story, the next game will probably be the one where all of our decision we made in Double Exposure have consequences. If I should really list all the things I hope for the next game : - Longer Episodes - Max writing in her diary a bit more (I was kinda dissapointed with how little she write in it in this game since it was such a fun way to get to know her and her thoughts in the first game :c) - Choices that really matters (like I want consequences that breaks my heart haha) - And would love to see old characters like Kate or even warren, Chloe..etc, just to see how they changed Now I guess we just have to wait and see ! I guess it's gonna be 3 years so it's gonna hurt waiting that much but it will be worth it if the game is really good :)
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So they’re gonna milk her like the MCU?😅
Man, I'm so excited! Can't wait to see where they head
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Max Goatfield
This game felt so much shorter than the other ones. That is my only complaint about it really. Yeah, i was sad that Chloe and Max grew apart, but i can understand Chloe's feelings, not knowing when Max will rewind and just constantly thinking about if she did or not. Hopefully we will see Chloe and Max together again, if not as lovers, maybe just friends.
Deck Nine still needs to work on length one of their issues I had with True Colors as well!
Not to me! This game was one of the longer ones for me!
This game was 15 hours for me
I think they have the choice to get back together or stay friends
The fact they aren't even friends just bugs me. I'd even extend an Olive Branch if ppl think they wouldn't work romantically forever but they don't even talk to each other??
They fumbled the last 2 episodes of DE so freaking hard.
Also, the characters do not interact with each other. Example: Kate Marsh relates to half the cast. All these others don’t relate.
We also don’t see Max teach.
That would have been nice to see her teach ):
@@DomTheBomb then a Jefferson callback would’ve been great! Instead of that mess in the later episode.
We didn't see Safi interact with anyone, but for some reason everyone talked about her like she's the greatest before she went for a karen rampage. She starts bitching after breaking into Max's house and she saved her life
The storm didn't even did anything, the last time it destroyed a town, now it made people clean up the backyard a little.
The romantic optioins were the worst in the series: the guy was fun to hang out with, but they didn't had good romantic feeling about them, meanwhile Amanda was just a lesbian and Deck9 called it a day after that.
Max' character growth was interesting as talked about pass trauma, but after a while it went nowhere because bitch Safi had to steal the spotlight.
Our choices ment nothing: yeah, people had different things to say but I didn't give a crap about them, it denied me the opportunity to shoot Safi even though I told her bitch face I would shoot her. And they lied about respecting my choices from Life is strange 1
And possibly the worst: Safi and Max's relationship is just not beleivable. They talked about being best friends, but Safi was horrible to her, and also everyone else. Max and Chleo didn't called themselves best friends all the time, they just acted like that, and that's what was missing the most
@ so true!!!! Then Alderman just vanished without a trace !!! It’s so bad
I agree as well, it felt like they had a pretty harsh time crunch towards the end. I mean, 'A few days later' is likely the best tell of that in my opinion.
I will never say “No” to more Life is Strange and more Max Caulfield.
Me asf!
Right!?
I used to think the same thing about 'The Lord of the Rings'....
@@HiMumndad 😂😂😂
Even if the writing is a total disaster?🤔
Hopefully they make the game longer, bing Chloe back, AND have a more interesting story thats isn’t about Powers.
Chapter 5 is mainly where points got lost for me. Just because it felt very much like that chapter wasn't about wrapping up the story and more about setting up the next game. Plus it was short, they could have made the episode longer.
Last two chapters were signifcantly shorter!
@DomTheBomb yeah it felt weird
@@DomTheBomb Because they are resolution chapters. I thought the length was fine.
They are chapters, not episodes.
September is one of those songs you can just lose yourself in and concentrate on projects
100%
@@Ricardo0954 a song u could listen to on repeat 🔁
@@knighthawke5605 life is strange double exposure has the most music I listen to from a life is strange game
@@Ricardo0954 same
I ain't gonna lie that was the perfect song to end on
Man I don’t even know where to begin with this. The game overall was a solid 7/10. Episodes 1-3 were really well done but 4-5 were rushed and boring and kind of felt a bit shit. They completely forgot about the whole murder mystery they set up. If they planning on doing some avengers type thing that’s going to be boring. The reason the games are so good, especially the first one is not because of the powers but because of the characters, the mystery and how simple, yet deep the story is. There’s so much more I wanna say but it’s hard putting all here.
Well said!
No, the subverted the murder mystery setup. It is an anti-mystery basically. They did this twice as well not only with Safi's death, but with Lucas's scandal.
Exactly. Though, I enjoyed playing Max again, the ending made ZERO sense. They though emotional speech and good music are good enough. Deck Nine seriously needs a better writer.
@@txgoldrushnah its what the first guy said
@@Candysweetcandy The ending makes perfect sense, sometimes the writing can be subtle.
I'm gonna call it, Life Is Strange: Return to Arcadia Bay. Max facing Chloe or the rebuilt Arcadia Bay, with Safi and Diamond in the storyline. But I hope to see mooooooore about Amanda and Max!
Orrrrrr... we're gonna get the first LiS with multiple playable and switchable character (like GTA 5)
Multiple playable charcters 👀
If they do multiple playable characters, they need to do it right or else it’s gonna look funny. I just want a game with max and Chloe only and no one else. Yes, Amanda and max didn’t need to have a relationship, they were good buddies. I also personally didn’t like safi as a character cuz she seemed a little cocky and maybe too young imo. I just didn’t like her that much. It’s a little hard to explain. Diamond was cool tho, I would like to see her return tho
Agreed, I just want an actual sequel to life is strange 1 with Max and Chloe but now they either mend their relationship as friends or get back together or if she died then Max mended the town and her relationship with the people in it, even as a dlc I wouldn't mind that but if they do that they need to do it right, cos they really did Chloe so dirty in Double Exposure.
I don't agree on the Chloe issue, in 10 years relationships change and sometimes fall apart, and you've to move on.
Something can't always last forever, especially if at its base there was a choice to wipe out an entire town including its many inhabitants. And if you don't think that such a choice has no side effects on Max in the long run, you're just a little unrealistic.
But I'm 99.9% sure we'll see Chloe again in the next game, the final dialogue with Moses at the end of Double Exposure is eloquent (if at the beginning with Safi you choose to say "We broke up").
IMHO Max will probably take a little break with Amanda travelling back to Arcadia Bay, meeting either Chloe or Joyce and all her old Arcadia friends.
But... What if Max arrives in Arcadia Bay and discovers that there are still 2 active timelines? Boom 🤯
@@DomTheBomb it would be really interesting 👀
if Alex comes back that would be so cool, I loved true colors and Alex was one of the coolest characters IMO
Ill say this, September has got to be the greatest ending song for a LIS Game I've ever heard in my life
I feel like it's gonna have Max meeting Alex,Sean,Daniel fighting against Safi while their timelines are collided together 😀👌🏽💯💯
It’s Safi not Sophie.
@FallingLeaves-o7e That's what I meant
I really wanted like this game, but I just didn’t. Max didn’t really overcome her trauma. With Mr. Jefferson she just sat in a chair for like two minutes. And she’s cured somehow. I barely struggled with choices in this game compare to to talking Kate down the roof, stepping in for Chloe when David hit her. The whole murder mystery. Was pushed aside to care about the book deal that nobody cared about Safi didn’t even care about her potential death in the picture and a lot of people say the story felt short that’s because it wasn’t thought out that that well it was a cash grab people and they’re gonna do it again in the next game
have u played, she didnt heal
I feel like you missed the point lol, the story wasnt about healing, but being ready finally to start... thats exactly why chloe left max in the bae version, was they grew apart because max couldnt overcome what happened to them and she wanted to move forward with life not be stuck in the past... also its why max literally says to moses in the end that shes not ready exactly, but will be now soon to heal and reach back out to her lol
She did overcome her trauma, she stopped letting it control her and she now is moving forward. Learned nuance and subtlety please.
The game is an anti-mystery, it subverted the mystery.
Hell,it is the first LIS that didn't even develop Max as a character that much.
My theory is the timelines merging gave diamond powers . Wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. Maybe itll give max new powers in the next game
Chapters 1-3 are amazing, the rest is just OK. But the greatest part is they still keep Max personality from LIS 1!
I’m looking forward to seeing where they take Max next. Also; I love the ending credits song, September. It’s used perfectly at the end and in general, it’s the best song in the game 🔥
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For no reason maybe if i double expose this photo it will separate saphie and Moses
I'd love to see a Max vs Safi battle in Life is Strange 5 that would be epic!
I wish the side characters had more interaction with everyone. It felt like they were there to only serve Max purpose. And no I didn’t wanna kiss those characters for the fact that there was little I knew about them. I hope future game will have more fleshed out characters like the og.
Haha...same.
I chose all PASS on the "smash or pass" segment and didn't kiss Amanda or Vinh.
I was just holding out they'd give us a chance to reconcile with Chloe at the end of the game. Sigh.
8:35 i HOPE we play as safi. Shape-shifting has ALWAYS been my favorite power ever. Imagine the potential. Cant get in somewhere ? YOU cant, but maybe someone who belongs there can! Maybe im biased cuz i always play a changeling in dnd....
I'd be down for that!
I really am conflicted on getting another game. I want them to fix what they broke regarding how they wrote Chloe if you saved her but they really seem like they don't wanna do that. They teased Chloe kinda coming back but with how they wrote her character I wouldn't be surprised if they try to add another nail to the coffin breaking them up. D9 and Square have made me so frustrated making me feel like i was a fool for being a fan for 8 years of the original game.
After Before the Storm, most fans were fine with Deck Nine developing a sequela with Max Caufield. Now that Double Exposure has been released, many fans have checked out.
Can't blame them!
The one thing I hope for in the next game is a big improvement on the story.
We can all agree on that!
Something tells me that the reason why the game gets more confusing in chapters 4 and 5, is maybe because of how True Colors felt too straight forward of a game. I think Double Exposure was designed to be theorized, to not be given all of the answers straight away. I actually like that there are a lot of unexplained things in this game because it's fun to theorize about it, and we may even get some answers in the sequel. At first my rating for the game was like a 8, but I'd probably give it a 9 now. And honestly the ending for this game just made me excited for the future. Can't wait for Max's return!!
I have a feeling that they might do a DLC for safi.
I think that might be the case due to the fact that, every life is strange game that’s ever been made by Deck nine has always had a DLC come out a few months post the base games launch. And I think safi is the perfect character to make a DLC about considering where her character had left off after the ending/post credits scene. they could make a story that not only further elaborates on her finding other powered people but could be the set up that leads us into the next game.
All I know is that they’ll definitely be doing a dlc chapter at some point for this game, that’s just my idea for what it could be. But I doubt that safi will be the playable character of the next game when they outright confirmed that max will return, I think that would be the worst decision that they could make, if they make a side game or even a dlc like I said that has safi as the main character than fair game, but not the main character of the next big game, it has to be max.
I could see a DLC for the original timeline that led to Max going back in time and choosing whether or not to shoot Safi, which is what created the two gameplay timelines to begin with. I could see Safi being playable during it. Whatever happened in the first timeline was different until the end, quite possibly what we saw in the collectible photos.
It could be possible that Diamond's superpower was responsible for Reggie and Alderman seeing their past selves at the overlook. This theory would make Alderman's disappearance not be an unresolved plot hole.
At the end of DE it seemed like it was a clifhanger and the next game will give us more info.... i hope so!
Anyone know the song that starts at i believe 10:00 and conntinues thru the rest of the video? It just sounds so calming and I would love to listen to it if its on spotify or anything like that. Thanks for your help in advance.🙏🏻
Here ruclips.net/video/PRQPc-PK1gM/видео.html
So are they no longer doing number titles for the LIS games?
I think, the next one part will be Life is Strange 3. Because after LiS 2 we had only dlc's with diferent characters and the lenght of those games was like 10 hours.
@@RainbowPenguinVI true colors and double exposure are not dlc's lmao
@@RainbowPenguinVI The main storyline games should be number titles! The spin-off games like BTS and True Colors should be name titles.
@@xxkogh but they feel Like dlcs tbh. Lis 1, lis 2 and bts had episodes that were 3-5 Hours Long. True Colors and Double exposure episodes don’t last longer than 1-2,5 hours.
My guess is Life is Strange Double Exposure 2 or a new title overall!
I guess they’re never gonna bring back Chloe for a simple reason: they always make us choose if she dies or not at the beginning of the game right? Then for some players they should program a game, where she makes the long awaited comeback,and for others another game, where hypothetically Max comes back to Arcadia Bay, and we all see how they tend to differentiate the story based on our choices: from true colors onwards they practically don’t. MAYBE an alternative would be create two separate games, but I guess that to get out of this loop they should simply choose a canon story, obviously the destroy arcadia bay one considering that no one would ever accept otherwise.
I would like to see a timeline where Rachel Chloe and Max doing something together.
Give us Max and Chloe atleast pls :(
You'll have to read the comics then. They cover exactly that timeline and how complicated a relationship over different timelines can become. Just take a look at it, Titan-Comics, Emma Viecelli.
A game where we as Sofi take her away from the Darkside and Diamond takes her place (like she did with Vinh) would be interesting.
They could have concluded the game in the fourth episode considering how short the fifth episode is. I do absolutely love this game and agree with you that they shouldn't dangle Chloe on a hook in front of us and then just snatch her away. If you kept her alive there should have at least been a phone call or video call with her.
I think the next game could have more than one playable character, like max, diamond and safi or, as I previously thought, diamond could be the lead, either way Im excited cause i loved double exposure. When it comes to safi, i think shes the type of person to go with the flow and not plan anything but shes definitely not a villain.
I’m so exciteddd I want another game now 😭😭
I’m kinda hoping they focus more on diamond in DE2.
I can see it!
Happy Tuesday everyone!
I recently watched someone explain the plot and themes leading up to the ending and I like it a lot better since then.
It truly seems that they just needed more time to establish their story and ideas. Length was definetly this games biggest weakness.
I figured Double Exposure was "planting seeds" as they said. As much as I personally, a fan of the first game since it came out, feel like it was a bit of a let down (though I still enjoyed it as its own story), I appreciated the ending hinting at Max returning to Arcadia Bay, with or without Chloe. Makes me happy knowing that Chloe will return someday, even if I have to wait another few years. Also that text from Chloe asking if she was okay after seeing the storm on the news or something broke my heart :(
It really was a way to set up the future!
Deck 9 mentioned earlier that the game is incomplete but will release the first part of the game (obviously Double exposure), but will speculate to have the second part of the game released sometime by the ending of 2025 or early 2026. We don't know yet, but they are still working on this game to this day since the game has a high software capacity and graphic wise. My guess is that deck 9 knew abiut our reaction of an incomplete game, and have establish a prerelease of this game as a part 1 of the full Max Caulfield story. So maybe we will be getting a part 2 that will conclude her ending and as well to fill in gaps of the story that were left unanswered.
Where is your source on this?
@DomTheBomb it was in their website Square enix when they where barely announcing double exposure. I don't have the link
@DomTheBomb it was in their square enix link when they were first announcing it. But I don't have the direct link for this source. I was in attendance, but no link. To be honest
@ Damn 😭
I mean they were explicit about it
And away we go...
thx for the vid we needed this
They could do before the storm when Max's in Seattle.
Developers: "No matter what anyone thinks about certain creative calls that were made for Double Exposure, I think it's important that people understand that they were all made with intent -." "This is all heading somewhere, should folks want more after Double Exposure."
Welp.. the sales would indicate that hey indeed do not.. and compared to true colors Double Exposure tanked, and tbh it's not that big of a surprise. Alienate more than half the fanbase and those things will happen.
But it's not just that, statements like this essentially translate to "We sold an unfinished story because want to finish it later" which explains why the last half fell apart as bad as it did and why the mystery was never even solved. They sold us a half cooked, half baked story because they pretty much intend to finish it 'later' rather than having it stand alone on it's own. This was a story to set up a sequel, but a story to land the mark.
The formula was "Do the first three episodes good, and then use the last two to set up a sequel with no real satisfying conclusion."
The fans were already pissed because of the one thing they did and all the disrespectful and dishonest marketing. Then they pretty much tank what good will they had in the 2nd half of the story because they wanted to sequel bait instead of giving a satisfying conclusion.
Sucks to say, but I am glad this game tanked. The way this game was put together, from the higher ups that didn't listen, to those on the team that cared being drowned out by those that didn't. They don't deserve to make another LiS game and ruin the IP any further than they already have here.
They got to the point of "End Episode 1 with an amazing mystery... and then never answer it cause we need it for the sequel bait." I think they miss the point of a mystery game. Imagine playing a Nancy Drew Game and the conclusion to the Mystery is "I guess we'll find out the REAL answers in THE NEXT GAME!"
Yeah, they can take that and leave it. And given the sales of the game, enough of the fans have made it clear they do not want more of what D9 is selling if this is what they have to offer to these characters. So if the next game never happens because of how horrible the sales for this game did, "Max Caulfield will Return" that they so confidently put at the end of this game because they were both sequel baiting and likely thinking they nailed it, will both become a meme and a lesson.
DE is slightly outperforming TC at launch right now. So no, it hasn't tanked.
There's no way they're calling the sequel "Double Exposure 2."
But yeah, at least the main location of the game will be Caledon. And they do seem to already be working on the new game so most likely it'll be finished and released at some point unless Square Enix cancels the project.
I'm disappointed that Stauder told me this would be a satisfying end for Max Caulfield if it's the last time we played as her, given that clearly they had plans for her to return in DE2.
Clearly had other plans in their heads ):
I am so hyped for the next game. Only problem is if the next game has characters from the other games,then I'll have to watch the gameplay of those games 😅😅😅
This is a masterpiece , and devastating at the same time.I did a playtrough and i changed the future of Safi and everyone's future for good,with a hard decision.
I’m so excited I can’t wait
Chloe was mentioned and technically was a choice in the game option when telling Safi Maxs relationship status and whether they broke up or said she died. But I agree, maybe a Chloe flashback or even a 'only max can see her' character as a guide or similar would have been nice. Rachel is kind of in the game (depending on how you look at it). In Before the Storm in the dressing room, when Chloe takes the belt to Rachel, there is a poster for 'Loretta' on the wall and the character Loretta in DE is the spitting image of Rachel (but without aging). It's not clear whether or not Rachel is actually dead apart from word of mouth, the character that was dug up in the first game was only really recognised by clothing (although this is not 100%) when Chloe unearthed the body, facial recognition would or may have been hard from the time she was buried. But this is just an opinion. For the sequel to DE, it would be nice if Maxs powers evolved again or her old power combined with her new power grow to where she can transport back to Arcadia Bay to before Chloes death to save her and bring her back to the present with Max. Maybe Deck Nine teased Chloes' return because she is in the sequel, and the sequel was made in Coordnance with this one so it's already made and ready to go (depending on how DE is received). I loved this game as I did and still do with all the LIS games and also Tell Me Why. I hope there will be many games in the future (by the way, I'm a 52 year old gamer and prefer this type of game rather than Halo or COD). I'm only on my second playthrough, mainly to find collectable items i missed. After completing this game, I went back and played LIS, LIS BTS & True Colors, before starting this one again. Just subscribed to your channel and dropped a like. I will go back and check your other videos out at some point.
I really enjoyed chapters 1-3 (except what they did to Chloe) but with chapter 4 and 5 it felt like they ran out of budget and ideas. They were so short, so full of nothing and I feel like they were shaping a really good story with three first chapters but then idk what changed. Why did the timeline split? Why Max had new powers? What is Safi even talking about at the end of chapter 5? Why most of the “major” choices didn’t matter (saving Alderman, taking Gwen’s pendrive, answering Loretta’s question, and many many more)? WHY IS THERE ONLY ONE ENDING IN A CHOICE BASED GAME?
Taking Gwen's pen drive alters the direction of her story. It absolutely changes how her story ends.
All super small consequences, Help alderman (moses got white hair at the side, some dialogue change during chapter 4), save the pendrive (Gwen stay, and she helps expose lucas), don't answer Loretta (she promises to change the way she tells story, if answer her question, she remain the same on how she tells story).
I think there couldn't have been more of a perfect setup for Amanda getting her own Wavelengths-esque DLC at the Snapping Turtle. It would be a little lazy of DeckNine, but I would absolutely be a fan of more content if they put in a decent bit of effort and held us over until the next main game.
The soundtrack in this game is awesome, I listen to it on RUclips everyday. And overall 9 out of 10 for me. The mishaps don't overlook the goodness. Can't wait for the next one.
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True Colors choices didn't matter in terms of getting very different endings but I really like the characters and Haven Springs. I love the overall vibe of that game.
I think Deck Nine can make great games. I am dissapointed from Double Exposure not because i think the game is bad. I am dissapointed because how they handle your choises with arcadia bay. And yes, i want to see chloe pirce and max back together.
Depending how you play…Max says she will go back to Arcadia Bay, doesn’t she??
Yes she does same with seeing Chloe in the other ending!
Brother its a deck nine game aint no way your choices will matter that much 💀
After what happened to Chloe, I doubt that she’ll even go back. I mean does she want to be with Chloe again? Prolly not according to d9
Since max says she might visit Arcadia again i hope to see warren again
Since max cant use her powers at the end when the timelines merge, will she have new powers in the next one? If so i cant WAIT to see what they will do this time!!!!
She has to have powers!
I assume her ability to go through photos is still a thing, so maybe her rewind will entirely come back for the next game?
Sadly I think double exposure might just be the worst lis game. The choices matter even less than they did in true colors or bts. There wasn't even multiple endings at all. I get that they wanted to do that to continue the same story, but I don't wanna pay another 60$ just to see how it ends and honestly I'm not feeling positive about the next lis anyway, just based on what we know from the ending of DE. They didn't respect both endings and honestly there wasn't a reason to bring Max back for this story. I don't like that Safi has powers and don't like what she turns into
Dom have you gotten the Frame Fatale trophy yet if so what do i need to do its the only one i need to platinum the game
Working on the trophies rn as I speak!
I think they’ll make a game where you play as safi and then the one after would be max and everyone together
I could see it!
Awesome video
btw we are not 100% sure that diamond has developed or will develop any power at all. Nosebleeds can happen to anyone and there is a genuine scientific reason to this in the real world too. Maybe this will be the twist in the next one deck 9 has planned. Otherwise too many people with powers will ultimately ruin the game.
First off gotta say, i loved your gameplay. I just subbed to you not too long ago but your commentary and gameplay was 👍🏽. Also my theory about double exposure is that i feel like Safi may possibly be a villain as she comes back in the sequel with an army of people with super powers, and it might be a war or peace thing. As for the relationship part, i feel like Amanda is just like a fling to sort of throw us off and kinda leans towards either safi or chloe being a romance choice. As for Alderman, i genuinely think the vortex of time just sucked bro in 😂
Thank you!!!
I just finished Double Exposure, nice to get updates again.
Fantastic!
They can bring Max back but not Sean or Alex? IF THEY CAN MAKE A GAME FOR MAX AGAIN WHY NOT SEAN AND DANIEL?
I think Safi will find them
Let them cook 👨🍳
I personally think it is a terrible idea bringing characters back - outside of a cameo - to begin with. It was more interesting when every game was a new experience with a new cast of characters.
Cause Sean died in one of the endings. Same as Chloe. I don’t think you can bring characters like that with the endings they got. I get Chloe was in this game but she never actually appeared. Just referenced.
They're not as popular as Max.
lol imagine this town is just secretly full of superpowered people
Yesss!
I'm still holding out hope that Brody from the second LiS game will come back and say "My dudes" 🙏🥹
I wonder if Max will meet Daniel and Alex for the first time and how it will happen. Chloe needs to come back as well ASAP! I also hope that it backs up Double Exposure and explains everything because I think we're all still quite confused on a lot of things in that game, and I hope LiS 5 has all the answers needed. I hope that's how 5 turns out to be.
I love Brody but we know that ain't happening!
Max should return.
My trust for them is gone unless I get a dlc for double exposure that corrects the bad writing and unfucks the biggest thing they fucked up then they’ll have my support
I just can't see DLC sadly!
I can’t believe we are getting life is strange 5 and i can’t wait! 😱😱😱
i really wonder if there were multiple drafts of the story because there is no way chapter 1-3 and 4/5 have the same writers, it's just so different and clashes even, with the latter being worse overall just to go all in for the sequel...
Max will return.
So I haven’t really played games in the fall. I watched someone else play on RUclips the first game and I felt really connected to the characters in the first game. Since then I’ve been able to download the first episode of life of life is strange one and I felt like I had more involvement in the environment and I felt like I was truly getting to know the minor and major characters. I felt as though the first game told a tighter emotional story between Max and Chloe that’s why I pricefield is such a strong ship. When I watched double exposure I really didn’t feel that invested in the characters. I felt as though characters were there to be witnesses and suspects in Sofi’s murder. Where as in life is Strange, you could ask about Rachel Amber but they had their own lives and interests outside of the quest to find Rachel’s killer. There were so many side quests that immersed you into the lives of the people of Arcadia Bay and Blackwell. I can see Double Exposure drawing it’s strengths from not having characters from the first game come back. However I do want to see the third game allow us to decide to live in one of two worlds bae or bay or bay over bae. Make our interactions with both Joyce and Chloe be unique and impactful in either reality.
Will we get to see the come back of Daniel or Sean to help Max?
Maybe anything is on the table!
I can already SEE Safiya Fayad be as The Captain America and Maxine Caulfield as The Iron Man going through the Civil War sequence and fight each other if you decided to refuse Safiya's offer hahahaha 🤩🫡🤑
Just finished the game last night. I enjoyed it overall but they really messed up by moving away from the murder mystery. After the first two episodes I was fully invested but I could not care less about the plagiarism story line that they shifted to.
I liked the alternative timeline power. Thought it was cool to move between the different atmospheres especially at the bar. I liked Amanda, Mosses and Gwen as side characters.
It's just very inconsistent towards the end. Seems like Max doesn't know Safi all that well. Anyone else notice the picture of Max with the gun she has her eyes open but when it's actually taken she has them closed?
Ending was sadly one of the weaker points for me!
The game was okay for me, but I was a bit disappointed. I was hoping to see maybe one or more characters from the first game. Or maybe going back to Arcadia Bay. I also don’t think they really respected both endings from lis 1.
Deck Nine can’t 💩 any more than they have on Life is Strange. They might as well flush too. 🤷♀️
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They should do what they did after the first game and make a prequel game with safi and maya before Maya’s death in 3-4 chapters
I agree with you on almost all points regarding double exposure, i feel like i have huge issues with some parts of the game but still love it a lot bc I love max and she is great in this game. I often feel the need to defend the game while complaining about the flat characters at the same time xD (i mostly love them, i like vinh and gwen and i am looking forward to meeting them again but there is missing a lot, the game is so short and we get not that much time to explore their characters more)
Deck nine can do a great life is strange they have already proven that many times, and I would love to have the avanger team up but my issue with that is, that I dont want then to idk find a big bad who maybe even gave them their powers for a bad purpose or whatever could make this team up happen. That the powers just happen and it is never explained where they came from is part of the great atmosphere, it makes the game even more about the slice of life themes and less about the supernatural. And I want to keep it that way. I am afraid they will do exactly that, make the game about a huge conspiracy or something.
I want max to meet alex and all the ppl come together hanging out and all, and we will probably get a bit of that. I guess we can only cross our fingers.
It is also possible that the next game will not be with max as a main character, she could be the side character while we play diamond or safi, or maybe they set up a new character and max wont even be in the game but actually another game after that.
If the chose to make max a side character i will be so disappointed... but with a new character like in true colors and a max game after that Id be happy.
If they MCU LiS I am not considering anything after the event's LiS 2 canon.
HELL YAAAAA LIS5
So, about Chloe. Kind of wish that she appears in the next game. And I think she can appear no matter what you decided. Two timelines merged right? Means in one of these timelines Chloe was still alive? That means Chloe could go to Caldeon to find Max. As reason it could be that Max didn't reply to her text message. It wasn't possible to reply. And for the other timeline, the other Max could just have had a different phone number. So it was never possible for Max to reply. Might be just a wishful thinking of mine. 😢
I hope is in a DLC Format, like whatever continues in the story has no right of being over 20 dollars
DLC doesn’t seem likely to me but will see
@@DomTheBomb Crossed my fingers
I hope we get a good DLC or at least they can fix plot holes in DLC.
I really enjoyed this game. The only issues I have with this game is episode 5 being short and not seeing chloe. It would be cool to see other characters from other life is strange games to cross over into one game. I haven’t played true colors yet. I’m expecting a big war to happen in the next game and a lot of people dying because of it.
As much as I enjoyed double exposure it and any sequel for it will never be as successful as LiS 1 & 2, if D9 and SE actually want to make money the best route is a game set after the storm with Max and Chloe, however they seem to hate Chloe for some reason...
Poor Chloe ):
My thoughts exactly, I’m just hoping that square enix can just sell the ip back to don’t nod and move on. I’m still waiting on jc5 btw!! D9 were definitely pressured by square enix to make de and it turned into trash. So yes I would love to see after the storm be developed but that would be a long shot to happen if square doesn’t sell the ip. I mean Ubisoft are doing the same thing with assassins creed if shadows collapses.
That's awesome! Dom! I can't wait to see Max Caulfield return in Life is Strange 5! This means that her story isn't over and there's still more of it to tell too! This is going to be awesome!
Maybe I don't think/see the bad thing about Chloe, because I sacrificed her in my first playthrough
Seems they are more focused on the Bay route tbh!
I completely agree about the game starting strong and falling short within the last couple of chapters. I really wish they would have stuck to the murder plot. To me, it was more interesting. Also, I don’t like Safi 😅 Her character seems a bit dodgy to me…like she always seems like she has an ulterior motive. She doesn’t give me the warm and fuzzies, I said what I said 😂🤷🏻♀️
Like I said they really made this game into a setup title
We need to explore more of the university In the sequel like for example the whole of other side, maxs workshop. I'm glad max will be a regular series character again, hoping they really take there time and look at some of the bad that can improve for the sequel. Lots of potential Deck nine plz don't be afraid criticism : )
I agree
It definitely seemed like that was the idea at first. There's an entire campus map but you can only enter the FAB and the Admin building lol. Feels like there was meant to be more.
Sign me up, I'm with Max all the way, her partner in crime
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In my opinion they should have condensed the main story in 4 episodes and had the 5th episode be a epilogue were you play as safi and diamond. It could have have been an hour long episode were we get some idea what safi wants and learn what diamond power is. That would make me more interested to see what happens next. However I suspect they dont really have a solid plan in place.
Now feel like game made into x men where some got powers to fight good and some fight evil, why game government don't make task force to recruit or hunt people with powers
I'm to excited for another Life is strange game with Max Caulfield.
I made my Theorie for life is strange 5 2026 or 2027.
Honestly I just "met" Maxine in this "Double Exposure", I do not know all the previous story(-ires) but [...] as long as she looks the same in this "will return 2"... not having "another" body shape or style, I really like her as she is (maybe because I am lesb "(^^)" but seriously, when I see (or read) sagas/franchises, everybody is changing and I loose track of things "(¬ . ¬)". From Double Exposure, I like the entire OST and also, a "small documentary / ads" from Caledon College (or University) in Vermont (really well done if you watch it on youtube)... I do not know what to tell more... lets hope for the future...
the moment alderman saw the photo of max with the gun, i knew alderman wasn't going to be a part of the game anymore as he was the only one who could relate all the unrealistic events with max(even the arcadia bay storm). If he were present then max would get busted much before, end up in jail and the game would be shorter than this, so they found a unique way to vanish him. But frankly he could have been an interesting part of the story if he hadn't seen that photo and thus not vanished. Also the laugh of him while leaving max's house looked quite villainous
I still think they should have went the show don't tell route for breaking Chloe and Max up,
And this isn't even a game that I particularly enjoyed playing I liked watching the original life is strange I did not like playing it. (Maybe now I could go back into it because I finally managed to get through the tales of the borderlands and I love that game now so maybe) The mistake they made is they said that they were going to respect player choice but then they immediately tarnished that promise,
I will never accept the reasoning for them not having her in the game they could have just done 30 to 40 minutes of her at the start of the game and maybe a little bit of her at the end of the game if you we're going to be kind and you didn't want her to be part of the story you can make a reason for her not to be there. Because if you want to break them up you put all the time right at the beginning so that way people can see the reason why they split and yes they won't be happy about it but they will at least see it and they don't feel like you spit in their face, I genuinely don't understand why they didn't just do the cheap route which they obviously got a new voice actor so they could have just had a little bit at the beginning and do some phone calls throughout the game it only adds a little bit of run time and you can bring her back in the future or you can have Max be a cheater or whatever you want. (I haven't looked it up to see if there's romance in this game or not) So that's the way they should have done it but they didn't do it that way because from what a few people in one of the previous videos said they didn't like the voice actress and they didn't like the character.
I mean I personally think DeckNine made a better job with Double Exposure than True colors in term of longer episodes, but I do agree that episode 4 and 5 were still short af sadly..I guess that's one of the only negative side for me with Double Exposure. (Might be an unpopular opinion but I loved Double Exposure even with it's flaws)
I really really hope they will listen and make longer episode for the next game kinda like the first one, the first life is strange there was so much to look out that it makes every episode so special and I know I could spend hours and hours just for one episode with everything you could look at which I love, I wish they would make the same thing again c:
But let's say I trust them with that, I really think the game here was to introduce us to this new environnement Max is and to set the story, the next game will probably be the one where all of our decision we made in Double Exposure have consequences.
If I should really list all the things I hope for the next game :
- Longer Episodes
- Max writing in her diary a bit more (I was kinda dissapointed with how little she write in it in this game since it was such a fun way to get to know her and her thoughts in the first game :c)
- Choices that really matters (like I want consequences that breaks my heart haha)
- And would love to see old characters like Kate or even warren, Chloe..etc, just to see how they changed
Now I guess we just have to wait and see ! I guess it's gonna be 3 years so it's gonna hurt waiting that much but it will be worth it if the game is really good :)