How can I sum up my entire review in three short words? I can ll tell you:


Let me explain, Life Is Strange: Double Exposure is not a bad game, it has its good points and it gave me a short journey with dialogues, funny situations and intrigue. However, I believe that everything is relative and here Double Exposure crumbles to dust right before our eyes. During early access, the first two chapters very competently built up the mystery and set up hooks for the plot to be pulled in the right direction, but what we have is actually extremely disappointing.

Don't get me wrong, the last time we saw Maxine Caulfield as a protagonist was in the very first original game, which came out almost 10 years ago. It wasn't a perfect game, but it had everything that made the game beloved by people of all ages and types.

It was a fascinating interactive movie with complex, deep characters, the attitude towards whom could change from good to bad and back again several times during the playthrough. It was a game with interesting puzzles and dialogues, and even taking into account that it was an interactive movie, it was fun to play and empathize with. It was a story during which you could cry and laugh, regret and hope for the best, and by the end of the game it became genuinely scary, when all the secrets slowly began to emerge.


Maxine's return does not stand up to comparison with the events of its past and everything suffers here, I believe, because of the small budget. If in the first part we had the whole of Arcadia Bay at our disposal, and in Life Is Strange 2 we traveled across the country, but here the events literally do not even take place on the territory of one university, but such a sensation, as if in one room. All five chapters are just the same locations mixed up in different orders in different guises, to which you return again and again. Even Max's new ability seemed to have been invented only to stretch the already meager gameplay to the same locations. Now, instead of puzzles, we must simply run from point A to point B, switching between worlds, steps to the side are either not provided or...

have no effect on anything, oh my god, this is one of the scariest things in the game. When the game literally gave birth to the "This action will have consequences" meme, here it turns into some kind of bad pun. The game is very short, but it still could have had a lot of room for choice. However, almost all the choices in the game do not affect anything significantly, the consequences of your choices are so insignificant that sometimes you can hardly notice them in the details.


The game has its advantages. I am definitely glad to see the continuation of Maxine's story, I can't help but note the good facial animation, considering that the characters are constantly being ironic, giving punchlines and teasing each other, sometimes such a trifle greatly affects the immersion (although what else can you expect from an interactive movie?). The game's dialogues are quite good, I like how the actors play them. The atmosphere of the game is 200%. I am not a fan of this style of music, but the design of the locations, their decoration in combination with the music, really helps to immerse yourself. And I will not lie, some characters, although they did not become favorites, definitely deserve a tick in my memory.

So, if you have never played any games in the series before and you are entering this game as if it were your first time, then this game can captivate and please.

However, if you have played at least any of the previous games of the series, then you will see with your own eyes the downsides of this part and this is sad. If the previous games of the series told us about rebellious and carefree teenagers, family values, the torment of choice, responsibility and how to meet a new reality with your head held high, then this part tells more about the fact that young people these days already have a lot of psychological troubles and heartbreaking suffering out of nowhere.

This is definitely not the worst part of the game, but as I said above - Max deserves more and we as fans too. It is a pity that either out of a sense of economy or because of the script's mediocrity, but this story is not as good as I think it could have been.

How can I sum up my entire review in three short words? I can ll tell you: [h1]Max. Deserves. Better.[/h1] Let me explain, Life Is Strange: Double Exposure is not a bad game, it has its good points and it gave me a short journey with dialogues, funny situations and intrigue. However, I believe that everything is relative and here Double Exposure crumbles to dust right before our eyes. During early access, the first two chapters very competently built up the mystery and set up hooks for the plot to be pulled in the right direction, but what we have is actually extremely disappointing. Don't get me wrong, the last time we saw Maxine Caulfield as a protagonist was in the very first original game, which came out almost 10 years ago. It wasn't a perfect game, but it had everything that made the game beloved by people of all ages and types. It was a fascinating interactive movie with complex, deep characters, the attitude towards whom could change from good to bad and back again several times during the playthrough. It was a game with interesting puzzles and dialogues, and even taking into account that it was an interactive movie, it was fun to play and empathize with. It was a story during which you could cry and laugh, regret and hope for the best, and by the end of the game it became genuinely scary, when all the secrets slowly began to emerge. [h1]Unfortunately...[/h1] Maxine's return does not stand up to comparison with the events of its past and everything suffers here, I believe, because of the small budget. If in the first part we had the whole of Arcadia Bay at our disposal, and in Life Is Strange 2 we traveled across the country, but here the events literally do not even take place on the territory of one university, but such a sensation, as if in one room. All five chapters are just the same locations mixed up in different orders in different guises, to which you return again and again. Even Max's new ability seemed to have been invented only to stretch the already meager gameplay to the same locations. Now, instead of puzzles, we must simply run from point A to point B, switching between worlds, steps to the side are either not provided or... have no effect on anything, oh my god, this is one of the scariest things in the game. When the game literally gave birth to the "This action will have consequences" meme, here it turns into some kind of bad pun. The game is very short, but it still could have had a lot of room for choice. However, almost all the choices in the game do not affect anything significantly, the consequences of your choices are so insignificant that sometimes you can hardly notice them in the details. [h1]However...[/h1] The game has its advantages. I am definitely glad to see the continuation of Maxine's story, I can't help but note the good facial animation, considering that the characters are constantly being ironic, giving punchlines and teasing each other, sometimes such a trifle greatly affects the immersion (although what else can you expect from an interactive movie?). The game's dialogues are quite good, I like how the actors play them. The atmosphere of the game is 200%. I am not a fan of this style of music, but the design of the locations, their decoration in combination with the music, really helps to immerse yourself. And I will not lie, some characters, although they did not become favorites, definitely deserve a tick in my memory. So, if you have never played any games in the series before and you are entering this game as if it were your first time, then this game can captivate and please. However, if you have played at least any of the previous games of the series, then you will see with your own eyes the downsides of this part and this is sad. If the previous games of the series told us about rebellious and carefree teenagers, family values, the torment of choice, responsibility and how to meet a new reality with your head held high, then this part tells more about the fact that young people these days already have a lot of psychological troubles and heartbreaking suffering out of nowhere. This is definitely not the worst part of the game, but as I said above - Max deserves more and we as fans too. It is a pity that either out of a sense of economy or because of the script's mediocrity, but this story is not as good as I think it could have been.