Concept: Navigate the world as an 18-year-old girl with the ability to reverse time Graphics: The visuals aren't mind-blowing, but Life is Strange has its own unique, detailed style with hand-painted textures Sound: Music expertly creates the mood of certain scenes and the voice actors fit their...

You could fill an inspiration board to the brim with the number of influences in Life Is Strange : American independent films like Juno , Beyond: Two Souls from Quantic Dreams, Hiro Nakamura from Heroes , Dontnod Entertainment's own Remember Me , Telltale Games in general, and time-travelling...

Legitimizes slice-of-life adventure genre; Rewind mechanic deepen dialogue options; High density of meaningful objects in the scene; Solid overall dialogue; voice-acting; and protagonist

Solid overall dialogue; voice-acting; and protagonist; Tags

Life is Strange is the latest in a long line of narrative-driven adventure games, where player choice and exposition is pushed to the forefront of the player's experience. Indeed, this sub-genre of video games has been popularized heavily since the release of Telltale Games' The Walking Dead in...

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

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

Once More With Feeling

It was only a matter of time before another company attempted to out Telltale a Telltale game. Square-Enix has turned to Dontnod Entertainment, makers of Remember Me , to do just that. Life is Strange is an episode interactive drama that emphasizes cinematic gameplay and player choice.

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

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

There are many TV shows I ended up watching start to finish even though I did not fall in love from Episode One. Let's take something like Fringe for example. That show went almost half way through its first season before finding its feet – then some loose ends got tied together, and the show...