Still, Dontnod Executive Producer Luc Baghadoust said that there will be hints in Captain Spirit's conclusion about what to expect from Life Is Strange 2. But while that tied directly into the events of the first batch of Life Is Strange episodes, Captain Spirit is more tangentially related. Last year, a multi-part prequel series called Before the Storm was released. It's not the first Life Is Strange spinoff. It's a two-hour-long, free-to-download game for PS4, Xbox One, and PC that takes place in the same universe as Life Is Strange. That wasn’t true of Captain Spirit for me, but players with a stronger affinity for the story of Chris and his dad will likely be less irked by the elements which left me cold.Further Reading Life is Strange review: The other side of tough choicesDontnod and publisher Square-Enix announced The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit this week at E3. They were important to me in a way that was never dimmed by the game’s flaws. Part of the appeal of Life is Strange was the personal resonance of the story of Max and Chloe.
There’s one last caveat here which relates to my experience of the first Life Is Strange. But Captain Spirit has far less time to cultivate relationships with the characters it’s easy to feel overtly manipulated, and harder to overlook abrasions. This is a problem which marred several episodes of Life is Strange, so it’s not a surprise.
The game is capable of provoking anxiety or empathy, but it often tips into mawkish territory. Without getting into spoilers, I’d say it’s only partially successful in that. Take the basic setup for example: it’s the Saturday before Christmas and Chris’s dad has absolutely pinky-promised they will go out and get a real pine tree.Ī child dealing with a heavy-drinking parent at Christmas is low-hanging emotional fruit, so the supporting fiction needs to work hard to “earn” or contextualise that emotion instead of piggybacking off it. The game also tends to be heavy-handed when it wants to provoke emotion. But other options feel like they come from an adult directing the action and not a vulnerable and resourceful kid.
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