Played through all three episodes last week, one a night. I liked The Walking Dead Season 1 on my first playthrough, but got pretty annoyed with its technical issues and the illusion of choice was utterly destroyed after replaying certain scenes. Never touched S2. Played The Wolf Among Us instead. The setting was amazing, the characters good, but... it also fell apart for me in episode 4, part due to the choice-illusion and technical issues where it deinstalled itself and deleted everything. Never touched episode 5, because fuck that shit.
So... I was hesitant about Life is Strange, to say the least. I don't trust choice in videogames anymore and more often than not it really hurts the narrative of any given story unless you do a "Do whatever"-game like Elder Scrolls. On the other hand Life is Strange has an, albeit well played-out setting, one of my favourite ones. Good teenage drama with the compatibel soundtrack is almost unbeatable across all genres. So Dontnod hit a sweet spot there for me. Additionally technically it was almost flawless until now, that's a HUGE advantage it has and how it should be.
I won't replay the game. That's what The Walking Dead taught me. I don't care how well they executed it, the chance, that it lessens my experience is there and prelevant.
So under these assumptions, I'm quite satisfied. This kind of game will not make my favourite games of alltime list, though (right now, at least). It plays the film/television-game without really having nearly the same impact (for example acting especially. Voice and especially mocap just carries you so much) and the videogame-aspect is not reliable enough to outshine any other missteps. Really looking forward to episode 4.
