Life is Strange fails to execute in critical spots, but its beautiful world, fun time-reversal, and honest look at adolescence makes it a game worth remembering. A diamond in the rough.

Fun and thoughtful time-reversal gameplay; A gorgeous world that feels alive; A painful and genuine look at the struggles of adolescence

A lackluster final act; Undercutting fresh ideas with cliches; Letting some critical plot elements flounder

Life Is Strange: Chrysalis is the first installment in a soon to be five-part episodic series. The game is a complex narrative driven, graphic adventure. It focuses on the consequences of the tiny actions in our lives and how they have a butterfly effect on the world around us.

Artwork; Storyline; Believable characters; Intriguing story

Too Short; Little Gameplay; Sparse action; Bad dialogue

Episodic video games are certainly quite the rage right now, no small thanks to Telltale Games and their extremely popular series. Life is Strange is developer DONTNOD's foray into the format, and Square Enix helped them bring their project to fruition.

Beautiful art style; rewinding ability really innovative for a point-and-click adventure; and appears to have a very deep and dark story for the series

Some of the puzzles feel forced and it implements the angsty teenager in high school cliche; one that is quite overdone in media

If you think your life is strange you should probably check out the life of Maxine Caulfield, the protagonist of Life is Strange, as it is guaranteed to make your lot seem much more mundane. Returning

Great rewind mechanic; Believable interaction between Max and Chloe; Story has real potential

A few too many characters; Not a thrilling introduction; Struggles to truly hook you in

There are few games that have a good ratio of story to gameplay; whilst some will overwhelm you with plot, like the Metal Gear series, others have lots of gameplay, but very little story and depth.

By their very nature, most games come with a built-in rewind feature: If players regret their decisions, they need only reload an earlier save. Life Is Strange is more open about this, making the ability to rewind time the central mechanic of its episodic adventure.

After a bit lengthier break between releases, Dontnod Entertainment delivers the penultimate episode of Life is Strange . It's been several days since Max Caulfield woke from a terrifying daydream to discover she can rewind time .

Life is Strange Episode 1 Chrysalis on the PS4 is an interesting adventure game that mimics a TV series and uses player choice as the catalyst quite well

The ends truly justify the means.

Deep; astounding music; introspective

Odd facial expressions; unneeded puzzles

A wonderfully assured first episode, in what has the potential to outdo both Telltale Games and Quantic Dream in terms of successful video game storytelling.

Excellent use of visuals, sound, and gameplay to create a very distinctive and admirably restrained atmosphere; Well drawn characters and interesting time control gimmick

The script shows signs of a slightly fumbled translation and some will no doubt be put off by the fact that very little happens in the first episode; and that even less is explained