I uh... I didn't like the characters in first Life is Strange either, but atleast the game was saved by the time rewind mechanics. This time around there is no such gimmick and hence game falls short for me. Chloe and her friends seem most parts bland and unspiring. Characters in this game don't "feel like real people". Yeah I know it's work of fiction, but good fiction makes you believe these are actual people, that characters have souls. I often feel like the actors or characters in this story area like empty puppets without any personality and when a "emotional high peak moment" hits, it's often just some event that's not really significant or moving enough to have any kind of emotional impact on me, the effect I as a player crave for.

Someone screaming at a burning tree in synch with a wind? "Her emotions were so powerful that wind synched with her" Ugh, come on.

I uh... I didn't like the characters in first Life is Strange either, but atleast the game was saved by the time rewind mechanics. This time around there is no such gimmick and hence game falls short for me. Chloe and her friends seem most parts bland and unspiring. Characters in this game don't "feel like real people". Yeah I know it's work of fiction, but good fiction makes you believe these are actual people, that characters have souls. I often feel like the actors or characters in this story area like empty puppets without any personality and when a "emotional high peak moment" hits, it's often just some event that's not really significant or moving enough to have any kind of emotional impact on me, the effect I as a player crave for. Someone screaming at a burning tree in synch with a wind? "Her emotions were so powerful that wind synched with her" Ugh, come on.