#Life is strange double exposure

[starlightreign]

Lol more Jefferfield crumbs for me then

Alright what the fuck

I've been having fun till now reacting to all the dumb shit deck nine put in this game, but honestly this is the only thing that made me genuinely upset. What the actual fuck is that drawing????? Why on earth would Max ever draw herself like that??? Like wtf she almost looks like she's smiling, sleeping peacefully 🤨🤨🤨 This was literally one of the most traumatic events of her life, I'm pretty sure that's not how she remembers it.

And also "I was infatuated with a hot teacher" what the ACTUAL FUCK are you guys smoking at deck nine?????? When the fuck was Max ever infatuated with Jefferson, or ever called him hot??? She literally told Chloe it was "gross" when she called him hot, and heavily criticized Victoria for her flirting with Jefferson. Max was NOT infatuated with him, she had that typical "crush" that is born out of admiration rather than physical or romantic attraction.

Like what the actual fuck, deck nine?

[asr91s]

double consequences

[lifeisstrange-incorrectquotes]

"'Villain apologist?' No, I don't apologize for anyone. What my lover does on her days off is not my business."

- Max about Safi, probably

[revengehorse]

i am so not normal about her …….

this took too long but it’s ok it’s safi

[bloodypriestess]

🦌📷

max maxine maximus

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[notsotactical]

"I wish I didn't have to take it out. Is that weird?" "Safi.. this is maybe the least weird thing that has happened to me this week."

[thetrashsean]

just realized reggie’s assignment that you can find in gwen’s office is him obviously talking about his crush on vinh. 🥺

[flibbleynova]

Gwen 🥰 She's so fricking awesome! I love her character

[asm5129]

So I’m coming back to this post with a clearer head.

Look, I’ve…I’ve just experienced so much toxicity and gatekeeping in this fandom, seen so many posts talking about how none of the games after the first one are “real” life is strange, so much obsession with these white girls and disdain for the other stories told in this world that are more diverse and have just as much love poured into making them.

I kept telling people, Max and Chloe’s story was over. Life is Strange is an anthology series. And I got harassed for it, laughed at for enjoying BtS and TC and ESPECIALLY LiS2.

People praising Don’t Nod to shit on Deck Nine really got under my skin too because I’ve seen so much unwarranted hostility towards LiS2, which was Don’t Nod.

It felt like people were just ignoring that hostility towards LiS2 so that they could feel better about shitting on D9.

I know that I lumped a lot of people in together with some of the worst people who call themselves fans of LiS. There are people with legitimate criticisms of DE that aren’t the toxic gatekeepers I’ve encountered or the people harassing the devs.

But I’ve seen enough people normalizing the idea that the LiS narrative team at deck nine just have a personal hatred for Pricefield and Chloe specifically. And that’s just gonna empower those inclined to harass the devs, even if you’re not one of them.

That is a myth.

Objectively speaking, it doesn’t even make any sense.

Before the Storm, for all its canon inconsistencies, tells a *really* good Chloe story

The idea that Felice Khuan (staff writer on Before the Storm and now the narrative director for Deck Nine) and a majority queer narrative team would not understand ahead of time how a lot of this would be recieved feels genuinely strange, as does the idea that a majority queer narrative team would have a collective hatred for a pioneering queer couple.

I think they were handed the mandate for a Max game, and the narrative team genuinely tried to tell a meaningful story about Max in the aftermath of the first game.

And I think Square Enix was very hands-on with the creative direction of the story.

I have a lot of faith in the narrative team.

But I have significantly less faith in deck nine or square Enix management, and one thing in that IGN expose was that Square Enix is apparently very hands-on with the scripts.

DE—and I say this as someone who genuinely liked a lot of it— reeks of the narrative team desperately trying to tell a meaningful story with a lot of interference.

And obviously this is all speculation of course, but it makes so much more sense than the team behind True Colors taking such a significant step backwards from the quality of that game.

And it’s a far more likely reality than that the narrative team somehow hates Pricefield stans so much that they made an entire video game with complex branching paths just to piss them off and make some easy cash.

Anyways. I apologize to those I lumped in with the worst so-called “fans”.

But I hope this gets y’all to think a little harder about LiS discourse.

I’m playing the new life is strange game and apparently people are pissed at how it handles following up the original because OF COURSE THEY ARE.

The first game has two endings, one where Chloe survives and one where she dies.

Officially, neither is the “canon” ending, that’s been made repeatedly clear since the original game released.

But a bunch of people keep demanding more of the Max and Chloe story. It doesn’t matter that they’ve gotten comics about it and a prequel, they still want more. They don’t want to let Life is Strange be an anthology series.

So here, Max is back as the protagonist. But guess what? Chloe isn’t a main character.

Because she fucking DIED in one of the endings, and both are canon.

So even if you choose to play in the timeline where she survived, they had to write her out or they would have had to develop two different games, one with Chloe and one without.

So instead they made it an interesting character issue. Max is stuck in the past, in the trauma of the events of the first game while Chloe wants to move forward.

It was never going to be Max and Chloe living happily ever after. It couldn’t be.

That’s not an interesting game, and it flies in the face of the ending of the original.

This game is in many ways rooted in Max dealing with that trauma and like…that’s an interesting story.

But you’re mad because the story you wanted isn’t the story they made, even though that was literally never going to happen.

The LiS fandom is shitty sometimes

Very gatekeep-y

There’s a sort of notion that there’s only one way for a Life is Strange game to be Life is Strange, but the people that buy into that don’t seem to realize that their criteria is literally just the game that already exists.

[baby-prince-oppa]

Can I just say?

As a Viet-Am LIS fan, I'm actually very delighted that one of Max's love interest is also Vietnamese, judging by the name, Vinh Lang.

If they do actually go on a proper date beyond the game I'd be like "Welcome to the family, Max! Enjoy the phở 🍜 ,the bánh mì 🥖, and the iced coffee ☕️ while you're here!" 😁

[catfilledcar]

Happy birthday Warren !

[theblue-hairedarcadian]

guys .......... guys?????? guys!!! GUYS. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 I AM FREAKING OUT!!!!!!!!! THEY LOOK SO GOOD TOGETHER.

take note that this is what we could’ve had in deck nine’s advanced designs. This Is What We Could’ve Had in deck nine’s Advanced Designs. 🙏

thank you sarahisstrange on youtube for this wonderful mod, i really did shed a tear seeing this for the first time

[bloodypriestess]

🐐📝

“The beast rose and stared into me. It became me. I had always been the beast.” - Maya Okada.

The Krampus on Campus part of Double Exposure is one of my favourite parts of the game. This piece is inspired by that part and all the emotions Safi felt during that time.

[sheigarche]

Drawing our Queen! I'm so happy she's back 🥰

[lifeisstrange-incorrectquotes]

"My life goal, you ask? Become captain of a fully functional old-timey pirate ship and sail it after Disney cruises at an ominous distance."

- Chloe Price, probably

[a-hidden-piece-of-happiness]

"You're usually very quid pro quo".