Life is Strange

• Chris is an 8-year-old kid whose mother recently died in a car accident (she went to Blackwell, not sure if it counts as important). He has an active imagination, likes to pretend he has superpower and creates a Big Bad whose name is actually and amalgamation of the streets where his mother's accident happened.
• His father, who first seemed like a nice enough dad, turns out to be an alcoholic who secretly blames Chris for his mother's death. He also "accidentally grabbed Chris too hard", leaving some bruises
• At the end of the episode, Chris, who's rightfully upset that his father told him he was responsible for his mother's death, climbs up to his treehouse and falls. Just as he's about to hit the ground, he magically floats up a few inches above ground, lands safely, looks up and see two guys (who presumably are his neighbors). One of them, a kid about his age, smiles and waves at him. He smiles and waves back. The end.

So... Telekenesis is the new power presumably?

I felt the same. He's not even dismissive of Chris's imaginative play, which is what I expected, even seems to encourage it to some extent (letting Chris 'crush' a beer can with his 'powers'), though he does say the usual 'grow up' thing at the end, when he's drunk.

Dunno if this helps from a time-budgeting point of view, but if you really wanted you can get through it in less than half an hour, but you'd be missing a whole lot. It's not long at all though, it took me about two hours, and that was with loads of fucking around because I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do for some of the objectives (which I feel was about 50/50 me being dumb and slightly dodgy game design).

Seems like telekinesis. Could turn out to be a kind of wind power, if they want to go down the Elemental Powers route.

So. I got that free game spinoff because it was recommended by a steam sale, and I'm wondering if it's okay to play it without prior knowledge of Life is Strange proper?

If you follow the WMG that the Hawt Dog Man comic and game are hints to the plot of the game proper, it's possible that the power is the ability to float somehow (in the game, Mustard helps HDM float, and in the comic HDM and Mustard meet up and go on a road trip).

(2) Not really. There's maybe a single reference to the previous games but nothing essential to the plot that I've noticed.

Mmmmmkay. Talk about anti-climaxes.

I just accidentally finished Captain Spirit in about, I don't know, 15 minutes. Mainly because I was stumbling around wondering what I had to do.

I made a helmet, found a cape, got a tattoo, and was looking for some paint... I hadn't faced Snowmancer or Mantroid, but I'd taken the car keys, taken a cigarette, and I was loping about the house looking for some way to advance the story.

I figured - why not talk to Dad? Something screamed at me not to do it but I figured hey, the game lets me call the dad on the phone, so that's probably an alternative to waking him up manually. Maybe Chris will try to do it but fail so you have to figure out some other way to do it? There's so much else to do on this "Awesome things to do" list that there's no way they'd let the game end this early.

Nope. Game just ends. Credits roll.

The story was so broken too Mrs Reynolds comes by, I goofed and Chris let her know about the dad's drinking, she leaves, and then the Dad just blows up at Chris.

Edited by Soble on Jul 3rd 2018 at 10:40:58 AM

I think Charles is going to get mad at Chris no matter what you say at the end of the game.

Captain Spirit/LIS Subreddit:

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o_o Just how much of this freaking game did I miss?! (rhetorical question)

Edited by Soble on Jul 4th 2018 at 8:06:13 AM

Fanart and other stuff:

• "Max... I don't feel so good."
• Two sides of Chloe
• There are Life Is Strange comics coming out...? Seriously?
• The greatest team-up ever... Captain Spirit and Super-Max! (zoomed)◊
• The Strange Tales of Super-Max
• Max and Chloe
• Somebody's attempted to chart out all of the possible choices in Captain Spirit

Edited by Soble on Jul 4th 2018 at 8:05:16 AM

I also noticed how much better Captain Spirit looks than Life Is Strange while still retaining the art style (though it did strike me as a little jarring how much better Mrs Reynolds looked). However, Life Is Strange looking a bit lo-fi struck me as at least a partially deliberate decision on DONTNOD's part, since Remember Me is a really great-looking game. I feel like with Life Is Strange, they put the budget and effort into the actual game and not the graphics.

Edited by artfulscruff on Jul 5th 2018 at 9:54:29 AM

Theory #1: Chris isn't the one with the powers.

Theory #2: Chris imagined it.

Theory #3: We will meet multiple protagonists who all have powers. Hinted by the cryptio email about the teenage freight-hoppers in Captain Spirit. Life is Strange 2 will be about those freight-hoppers or include them somehow.

Observation: There's a QR code in Chris's room that apparently apparently translates to a French idiom about horses.

Theory #4: Time is not your flipping side anymore.

Edited by Soble on Jul 16th 2018 at 9:06:24 AM

Guess what I just found?

Also, don't know if anyone knew this already, but all the choices you made in The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit will carry over to Life Is Strange 2, because Chris will appear in LIS 2.

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Aug 2nd 2018 at 11:34:01 AM

...somethin's telling me Chris didn't grow up to be an Everyday Hero.

Does any on who knows cop talk know what ten-ten means?

Looking at Google and what happens after he says that, "10-10" probably means "fight in progress" here.

There's a bunch of other codes in the video.

These two theory videos do a pretty good job of explaining the obvious stuff (like what the police codes mean, and datamined stuff and clues from Captain Spirit) and the second one also slows down the whole thing so other people can look for clues:

What was the date in Captain Spirit again? I'm wondering where that trailer fits in the timeline.

Captain Spirit was December 2016 while the trailer was October 2016 so a little under two months earlier.

Edited by Chariot on Aug 2nd 2018 at 6:49:17 AM

The trailer has a Chronicle feel to it. Who knows, we might actually get an actual Boss Fight?

So Chris isn't the only one with powers then, probably. Interesting.

Assuming Chris levitated himself, and whoever blasted the police car didn't catch him?

That is also possible.

Season Two reveal trailer.

Official plot details here.

Eff the cops.