Have You Played… Life Is Strange?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.

I watched a lot of Bernard’s Watch as a child. This has left me with infrequent frustrations over not being able to pause time at my whim, and an unease over the prospect that anyone with such an ability would almost inevitably age, wither, and die before any of their loved ones. The greatest failing of Bernard’s Watch was its cowardly decision to leave this trauma unresolved.

Life Is Strange swaps out pausing time for rewinding it, which is better, but still makes me worry about Maxine’s memory banks.

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Matt Cox

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.

I watched a lot of Bernard’s Watch as a child. This has left me with infrequent frustrations over not being able to pause time at my whim, and an unease over the prospect that anyone with such an ability would almost inevitably age, wither, and die before any of their loved ones. The greatest failing of Bernard’s Watch was its cowardly decision to leave this trauma unresolved.

Life Is Strange swaps out pausing time for rewinding it, which is better, but still makes me worry about Maxine’s memory banks.

(more…)

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