Life Is Strange True Colors

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The first strength and also the most outstanding feature of Life is Strange: True Colors is that it possesses a good plot foundation, sweetly seasoned with an extremely excellent cast of characters that keeps the writer constantly hooked on the details whether it is everyday life or the “twists” and mysteries behind the footsteps of her Alex in the seemingly peaceful and poetic town: Haven Springs.

Unlike the powers like Max’s time travel in part one or Uncle Daniel’s ability to teleport in part two, our main character – Alex – possesses the ability to “receive” other people’s emotions yourself.

At first glance, this ability seems to be quite “crazy”, but being able to take away the emotions of others to control their thoughts and actions is an unexpectedly powerful spiritual weapon, very convincingly performed by Deck Nine in Life is Strange: True Colors.

In quite a few situations, players can completely use this ability to read, understand and know more details about what is happening in the chapter, or the general situation in the issues taking place in the Town through the characters.

Larger, the player can also use this ability to change the thinking direction of important characters in the main story, and these choices all strongly affect how the characters will react later – whether negatively or positively – to the character Alex.

These choices are made the way The Witcher 3 does, that is, without a clear definition of what is right or wrong. It’s just that the way the player puts in that situation is right with his conscience or not.

Life Is Strange: True Colors also knows how to change to bring variety in activities, causing many interesting surprises throughout the playing time.

Sometimes players use the ability to eavesdrop on the “thinking” of roadside characters and learn some small side quests somewhere. For example, the writer accidentally overheard a few stories, and unexpectedly later “activated” dialogue to help a character find the pet he thought was lost.

Or later there is a whole chapter where the player is immersed in … the imaginative role-playing genre, reminiscent of childhood and also dreaming of integrating into the world of the Final Fantasy series.

It would be remiss not to mention this segment of Life Is Strange: True Colors. Because it is a game that emphasizes emotions, the strongest and most impressive point in the graphic outfit is the convincing character model and facial gestures.

Players will feel the characters are full of life along with emotions that are extremely carefully executed. Sometimes just by looking into their eyes, we can see or empathize with different streams of extremely honest thoughts.

Not only that, Life Is Strange: True Colors still retains the spirit of the game series when it does not go in the direction of realism, there is still something animated, the colors are interwoven like watercolor in the scene, but still in harmony with the environment modern rendering technologies of today for the main characters.

The environment, although not wearing a detailed outfit, is still impressive enough thanks to good art direction, knowing how to arrange the contexts following warm and cold tones depending on the situation very captivating story. When finished playing, I still “dreams” of one day finding a place like Haven Springs town to go to “retreat” too!

Life Is Strange: True Colors owns a “collection” of hit music, making the writer feel like he is watching a TV series on Netflix, with articles deeply rooted in my’s heart.

In particular, there is a detail that I am “vibratory” when the girl Alex begins to pick up the guitar and sing Creep – by the Radiohead group. This is also one of the small details, used in the “blockbuster” game The Last of Us Part 2 – the segment where Ellie holds the piano and sings to Dina.

And players will not have a few silent segments, sipping on extremely “quiet” music, or sometimes poetic and quiet in Life Is Strange: True Colors.

The sound of the environment, the noise of the townspeople, or sometimes just the birdsong intermingling is also extremely meticulous.

The voice acting of the characters is done professionally, fully expressing all feelings wholeheartedly to the listener. I’m sure readers will have a hard time criticizing this piece!

The gameplay of Life Is Strange: True Colors is generally good enough, the experience is relaxing and impressive in showing the plot and plot. But really, the gameplay is too safe, especially in the ending which is not very impressive.

The puzzle part of the game is relatively easy, the “brain tension” part does not come from this array but from making the right choice according to psychology. It’s a bit of a pity because the interactive adventure genre today often reduces this segment very strongly because perhaps … afraid that the player will find it too difficult to ignore?

Life Is Strange: True Colors presents the choices and consequences very well after that only until the ending… is tearful, and quite startling. Pretty much the same way that Until Dawn or even Horizon Zero Dawn used to do – that is, the ending has only one, the rest of the multiple endings is just a matter of whether there are enough characters or not.

Life Is Strange: True Colors is a bit different because it doesn’t carry a heavy element of survival and these multiple endings of the game also do not have a clear distinction between bad or good endings like the previous two parts.

That’s why the climax or the consequences of making the wrong choices in all the previous segments suddenly become weightless.

The graphics of Life Is Strange are very nice, but only temporarily run stable when the player chooses “Quality Mode” – if the player plays on PS5, Xbox Series S / X. When choosing the “Performance Mode” mode, surprisingly, the resolution is lowered to produce a “blurred” image.

The frame fluctuates, although the game is not as heavy as the popular names using the Unreal 4 engine like Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Days Gone, etc.

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