Life Is Strange: Reunion’s Entire Premise Goes Against the Original Game’s Message - IGN

The upcoming Life is Strange: Reunion is an attempt, as superficially befits the supernatural franchise, to rewind time. It follows the lead of 2024's Double Exposure, which brought back the original game’s protagonist, Max Caulfield, for the first time since 2015, evolving her from nervous high school student to intrepid university lecturer. There's a sense with this new release, though, that the series is eating its own tail for fan service and sales, and that strangeness is being replaced with comfy morality and memories. Reunion sees not just the return of Max but also her former best friend / girlfriend Chloe, a balm to players who have fixated on this relationship for an entire decade. And with the pair’s reunion, perhaps the most important lesson of the original game has been ignored: the uncomfortable – and very anti-shareholder reality – that we cannot, and often should not try to, ever go home again. The original game, released episodically across 2015, is undoubtedly one of the best-known “modern” adventure games. Treading the same ground as Telltale’s 2012 The Walking Dead, it used an episodic, “interactive television” approach to bring adventure games back into mainstr