History VideoGame / LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm

* ObviousBeta: ''Life is Strange: Remastered Collection'' has been widely criticized for being prone to bugs and having graphical, lightning and even frame issues among other things:
** The game "subtitles", more often than not, appear as a line of code calling the name of the subtitles file instead of the actual subtitle content.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y45YBXvCAc0 The lightning]] glitches a lot and is rather inconsistent , with objects looking different and sometimes being hard to spot.
** In addition, character models suffers bizarre changes for no given reason, or items [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkfOxYpw2MY float in the air]].
** Framerates issues abound, with Playstation 4 and Xbox performance in particular dipping as low as 15 fps.

The game consists of three episodes, which were released on August 31, October 19, and December 20, 2017, for UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/PS4, and Windows via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}. A Digital Deluxe edition comes with a few extra outfits, a mixtape mode, and a bonus episode titled "Farewell" which is about when Max leaves Arcadia Bay. A limited-run physical edition, released on March 6, 2018 alongside "Farewell", features all of the above plus Rachel and Chloe figurines, an art book, and a physical copy of the soundtrack on CD and/or vinyl. A [=MacOS=] and Linux port was released September 13th, 2018.

* CreepyCrows: Crows are an AnimalMotif foe Chloe in this game, just as butterflies were in the original game. They are occasionally played for creepiness, such as in Chloe's dream where she sees a crow pecking at the bloody side of her father's face.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: One of Chloe's journal entries mentions doing this to Deckard from ''Film/BladeRunner'', only for her to start thinking of Pris at the end.

* CreepyCrow: Crows are an AnimalMotif foe Chloe in this game, just as butterflies were in the original game. They are occasionally played for creepiness, such as in Chloe's dream where she sees a crow pecking at the bloody side of her father's face.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Rachel reveals on the train that she's from Long Beach, California. Later, one of Chloe's diary entries references Rachel moving to Arcadia Bay from Orange County. Long Beach borders Orange County but is itself in Los Angeles County.

* ArtisticLicenseEducation: In "Farewell," Max spots Chloe's report card, which is all A's except for a B in Phys. Ed. In response, Max asserts that she was always better than Chloe at sports. But students aren't graded for their athletic performance in P.E. classes, merely their participation. To get a B in P.E., Chloe would have to be ditching classes, refusing to participate, or making other infractions that would lower her grade, something she wouldn't start doing in her classes until after the game ends.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: ''Farewell'' has players taking control over Max again, on the day she moved away [[spoiler:and William got into his fatal car accident]].

* ArtisticLicenseEducation: In ''Farewell,'' Max spots Chloe's report card, which is all A's except for a B in Phys. Ed. In response, Max asserts that she was always better than Chloe at sports. But students aren't graded for their athletic performance in P.E. classes, merely their participation. To get a B in P.E., Chloe would have to be ditching classes, refusing to participate, or making other infractions that would lower her grade, something she wouldn't start doing in her classes until after the game ends.

* BottleEpisode: The bonus episode ''Farewell'' is about one hour long, takes place entirely in the Price household, and features Max and Chloe as the only characters for most of the episode.

** In ''Farewell'', Chloe and Rachel's choose-your-own-adventure book includes a section where you can get expelled from school and wind up living in a shack taking drugs. Chloe will eventually get expelled from school and become a stoner who buys drugs from Frank in his RV.

** Chloe states that Max never gave her a single call or text when she moved away, nor did she tell her that she was leaving. In this game, Max did text Chloe, even initiating conversation the first time, but rarely did so, often ghosting Chloe's numerous attempts to reach out, giving her some harsh CerebusRetcon. [[spoiler:''Farewell'' also reveals that Chloe knew she was leaving the whole time, and Max can optionally tell Chloe herself. Max even swore in a tape that she'd still speak to Chloe even after she left.]]

** ''Farewell'' ends with [[spoiler:Chloe and Max learning that William is dead.]]

* GutPunch: [[spoiler: TheStinger of Episode 3. Rachel and Nathan in the Dark Room while Chloe non-stop calls her. And this is after a sweet montage of their friendship/romance.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: The game ends with a rather upper note showing several scenes of the happy days Rachel and Chloe spent together. But, as it is DoomedByCanon, everyone who played the first game already know that it won't last [[spoiler: and a post-credits scene reminds us of that]].

* INeedAFreakingDrink: After seeing her father with another woman, Rachel decides she needs something to drink, then decides to steal a bottle of wine a couple has for their picnic, because she also feels like stealing something and this covers both bases.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: Players of the original game already know that Rachel is DoomedByCanon, but for those playing the series in chronological order, they're in for a rude awakening (see GutPunch above).

** Each person's pirate name in ''Farewell'' references something about them:

*** Chloe is Long Max Silver. She has two opportunities to note that she's always been ''shorter'' than Chloe.

** The Bonus Episode, ''Farewell'', is a goofy if slightly melancholy flashback to when Chloe and Max were kids. [[spoiler: It ends with them finding out about William's death, leading to an absolutely depressing last few minutes.]]

** In ''Farewell'', Max can look at the Prices' wardrobe and think about stepping through it into another world, referencing ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe''.

* SilentCredits: ''Farewell'' follows its DownerEnding with silent credits.

* SorkinRelationshipMoment: Max spends most of ''Farewell'' trying to work up the courage to finally tell Chloe that she'll be moving away in a few days, but she doesn't want to ruin the day for Chloe. When she finally spills the beans, Chloe reveals that she already found out after overhearing Max's parents tell hers. She didn't want to ruin their last day together either.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler: Sera looks just like a slighty older Rachel. They even have the same hairstyle.]]

*** Chloe's pickup truck has a front license plate which reads ANBONNY. Anne Bonny was a famous woman pirate (which ties into Chloe and Max's pirate obsession when they were younger).

* TooDumbToLive: Damon in a nutshell. He thinks nothing of going onto private property to assault and possibly seriously injure one of his dealers, and later has no compunctions about threatening Rachel with a knife, then stabbing her. Assaulting (not to mention seconds away from killing!) the daughter of a District Attorney is a good way to get every member of law enforcement in the area after you. [[spoiler: Of course, part of the reason he doesn't care is because he's actually working ''for'' said District Attorney and knows he has some latitude to get away with things like this.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Eliot starts off as just a guy that Chloe fooled around with while she was lonely and depressed, and who tries to go out with her again even though she doesn't show any interest on him. [[spoiler:Episode 2 hints at him being a darker person than his outward personality implies, and in Episode 3, he becomes very possessive and aggressive towards her, even shoving her into a desk and demanding her affection.]]

* MeaningfulName: Chloe's optional tabletop roleplaying game features her playing Callimastia the Barbarian Elf. "Calli-" in Greek means "beauty", "Mastia" means "breasts".

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: If Chloe defends Nathan from Drew's bullying in Episode 1, Principal Wells will blame Chloe for the incident in Episode 2, as it's easier for him to punish a known troublemaker who is already facing expulsion than it would be to punish Blackwell's star athlete.

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: After their argument at their junkyard, Chloe tries this on Rachel. While it doesn't work, the two meet again that night and reconcile. They attempt to leave Arcadia Bay together, but players who know what happens in the first game [[ForegoneConclusion know it doesn't come to pass, tragically.]]

*** [[Film/ThelmaAndLouise THELMA]].

*** Chloe's pickup truck has a front license plate which reads ANBONNY. Anne Bonny was a famous woman pirate (which ties into Chloe & Max's pirate obsession when they were younger).

* MoodWhiplash: The Bonus Episode, ''Farewell'', is a goofy if slightly melancholy flashback to when Chloe and Max were kids. [[spoiler: It ends with them finding out about William's death, leading to an absolutely depressing last few minutes.]]

** One of the optional graffiti you can get in the junkyard is located in an old concrete structure, but unlike when you normally do this, you can't choose what to write. Instead, Chloe writes "Chloe Was Here", which is the same tag Max finds in the building in the original game. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]: The trophy/achievement you get for it is called "Canon Wall."

* ArcWords: "'''Everybody lies. No exceptions.'''"

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:More bitter than sweet. On the upside, Chloe comes closer to accepting her father's death, she and Rachel keep their very tight bond, Damon is defeated for good, and the North brothers are in at least a better spot. Depending on your choices, Chloe and David can be on at least tolerable terms, and Rachel can meet her real mother. On the downside, Chloe and David's progression will be for naught in the future, Frank loses a friend, Nathan will still be manipulated by Jefferson, and Rachel's relationship with her father could be soiled for good. The entire relationship Chloe builds with Rachel, whether romantic or platonic, will be tainted once she discovers the latter's relationships with Frank and Jefferson. And, as the end of Episode 3 coldly reminds us, Rachel does not get her happily ever after--in a little under three years' time she will be drugged and murdered by Nathan.]]

*** Speaking of D&D, the first game with Steph and Mikey mirrors a situation in Season One. Duurgaron is clad in a black cloak, wearing a fire immunity bracelet on his right hand. Mikey attempts to protect Chloe with a fire spell, but, naturally, the spell fizzles out. In "Out of Time", Frank approaches Max and Chloe wearing a black leather jacket and Rachel's bracelet in his right hand. If Max attempts to shoot Frank to protect Chloe, nothing happens, as Chloe spent all the ammo from their target practice.

** In one of Chloe's visions of her father, he warns her that fire can be so beautiful that it blinds people to how deceptive and dangerous it is; adding that there could be an even greater beauty yet to come. [[spoiler:This -- along with other comments hinting that Rachel is manipulating Chloe -- is a call-forward to the revelation in the original ''Life is Strange'' that Rachel cheated on her with Frank and Jefferson -- breaking Chloe's heart when she finds out; and Chloe rekindling her relationship with Max, possibly into something romantic.]]

* ColorMotif: Blue, the color of Chloe's hair in the original game. It's the color of various highlights in the game's title and UI. Rachel wears a feather earring in the same shade, revealing that Chloe's hair was dyed to match. She strokes Rachel's feather after Rachel sees her new hair color for the first time.

* FirstLove: For the first time, Chloe falls in love with someone; Rachel Amber.

** Throughout the game, Rachel is repeatedly linked to fire and the first episode ends with [[spoiler: her starting a forest fire by kicking over a flaming trash can. Though it seems to be representative of Rachel's state of mind, in the third episode, the forest fire suddenly goes out after Rachel's stabbed, to the bafflement of a pair of fire fighters.]]

* AllForNothing:
** Let's be honest - it's a prequel. The foundations of ''Life is Strange 1'' are set in stone; no matter what you do over the course of ''Before the Storm'', Chloe will have a falling out with Blackwell Academy, Max is nowhere to be found, Rachel Amber will still have been murdered (just not during the events of this game), and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Chloe will dye her hair blue]].
** You can have Chloe try to get along better with David in this game which serves little purpose considering she still hates him in Season One.

** Chloe can meet and interact with Nathan as early as the first episode. Nathan is also seen in a photo as being in the same class as Chloe. However, Chloe mentions in Season One that she specifically met Nathan in a bar sometime in/around 2013 instead of at school.

** Chloe has moments where she performs actions with her right hand when the original game made it clear she was a lefty.

* CrosscastRole: In Blackwell's production of Shakespeare's ''Theatre/TheTempest'', the sorcerer Prospero is changed to the sorceress Prospera so Rachel Amber can play the part. Ariel is also played by Juliet [[spoiler: and Chloe]], but this is fairly typical anyway (since his gender only gets one mention in the script and the name has become more commonly seen as feminine since old Billy's time).

* DavidVersusGoliath: [[spoiler: Frank somehow was able to ''kill'' Damon while Chloe was unconscious, even with Frank being wounded and unarmed while [[NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight Damon had a knife]].]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Two variants, one nice, and one not so nice.
** Nice: during the performance of ''Theatre/TheTempest'', Rachel, in character as Prospero, goes off script and asks Ariel (who is being played by Chloe) to stay with her forever. The entire scene looks and sounds as if Rachel is proposing to Chloe, complete with someone shouting "Say yes!" from the audience, and Rachel even suggesting it should count as such later if you remembered the correct lines.
** Not so nice: When Chloe tries to [[spoiler:rescue Sera from Damon, Damon, being a grown man (not to mention one who has no compunctions about hitting a girl) easily gets the better of her and restrains her. He then attempts to shoot ''Chloe'' up with the heroin intended for Sera,]] making the dark joke that "every girl's first time should be special." [[spoiler:Heroin is one of the most addictive narcotics in existence, and one of the most difficult addictions to kick; Chloe, being a teenager who'd never done anything harder than marijuana, most likely would have ended up a junkie if he'd been successful.]]

* DramaticIrony:

*** Not only that, but reading a discarded note will prompt Chloe to remark that she'd be scared shitless if she ever owed someone a thousand dollars. She ends up owing Frank three times as much while still thinking she can get away with it at various points. On top of that, she ends up clashing with the debt collector (Damon Merrick) over the course of the next two episodes.