12 Things You Didn't Know About Life is Strange Before the Storm

life is strange before the storms is a difficult job ahead of it tackling a beloved universe and characters that fans are incredibly attached to its hard work delivering a prequel that brings both the new and the familiar to the table walking the fine line between fan service and does we really need to know that but you know I think Dec 9 my T onto something here are 12 new things for you to mull over before the release of episode 1 in August the ending to the story is something even die hard life is strange fans will be able to guess so say the writers and it isn't Rachel's disappearance because the events take place sometime before that happens the events of the first game happened when Chloe is 19 we're moving far backward enough so the terminus of our story is not Rachel's disappearance lead writer Zack Gareth told us that's not the story we're telling here we're living in this ambiguous space the conclusion of which even diehard fans the first game won't know they won't be able to anticipate because Chloe never talks about it could that be how exactly she gets kicked out of Blackwell Academy basically before the storm takes place when Chloe is 16 which is just two years after Chloe's dad William dies in a car crash so we know that is a lot fresher in her mind which will surely spell into how she deals with everyone around her the Dec 19 has been working on before the storm for just over a year and they had pretty much free rein with the story they wanted to tell Darris said it's a constant dialogue with Square Enix around what we want to do with Frank what we want to do is David what we want to do with Joyce and that's one of the best things about the partnership with Square for us as developers is how much they care and how precious they are with life is strange but at the end of the day they really encouraged us to find the version of before the storm that we were most passionate about as developers in before the storm Chloe is writing letters to max just like Max's journal in the original life is strange Chloe's letters to max give us an additional insight her account of events and her perspective on what is happening Dec 9 said that it didn't see Chloe as the type of person who would keep a diary so her version of that mechanic is a series of letters that she's writing to max after max has left Arcadia Bay for Seattle with her family however and this is the really heartbreaking bet max hasn't been replying as we know from the original game she wasn't good at keeping in touch with Chloe so these unanswered an unsent letters become a diary of sorts and although it's more about finding out what Chloe is thinking it ensures Max's presence is always felt and before the storm it also makes Chloe seem even more alone writing to your best friend during tough times and never getting a response hi could you max episode 1 will have 11 themes in total and it looks like it begins in the club that we see in the released demo game play according to screenshots of scripts shown in a behind-the-scenes video from Dec 9 will take place in the price household Blackwell the school bus and several themes in both the junkyard and some mysterious dream sequences don't worry though Dec 9 have promised there are no bottle collecting minigames and apparently in the sequence we've seen where Chloe tries to cheer Rachel up she can decide or at least at one point she could have decided to chase after some squirrels instead of handing Rachel the baseball bat getting into the club we see her in looks like it will be tricky as she has a bit of an altercation with a Bunter and some fake ID Ashley birch didn't voice Chloe this time around due to complications with voice actor strikes but she was sent every script edit an even visited Dec 9 June 2011 goal line of dialogue from high level story concept to any little vo line we've shared with Ashley we talked with her frequently we've had a road to the studio in Colorado she's really become a huge voice toward shaping Chloe at this particular time in her life so in that regard we've been ecstatic about getting her involved with a story for most life estranged fans actually will always be Chloe but in my opinion the difference in voice isn't as striking as it could have been given that it is a different time in her life and she's going through some difficulties mine teeth Chloe's new voice actor is also her mocap artist so it'll be interesting to see how one actor taking on both the voice and physicality of the rule will change things up Dec 9 has an in-house mocap studio confirmed Garris and he said we do our mocap in heist with our cinematic director working with the actors through all of their motion capture Rihanna DeVries was the physical embodiment of Chloe before she was cast as the vo actor for Chloe so we had a lot of tests with a lot of different actresses embodying the part she handled both the physicality of Chloe and the personality and vocal performances she was a natural a stronger link between what Chloe is saying and what she's actually doing might make for a more cohesive performance and on a slightly different note so far it looks like the lip-syncing is more on point in this game [Music] throughout the game there will be optional moments that Chloe can share with Rachel which are totally subject to player choice and player agency we don't know very much about these yet but they sound like they'll be specifically for those players who just want a little bit of extra character insight and lower maybe it'll form an incidental running sight narrative kind of like Alyssa not getting hit by stuff in the original game laws obviously it'll be done to players to decide for themselves whether Chloe and Rachel's relationship was a platonic friendship or something more so maybe these scenes will be a bit of fanservice in that sense let me know when you figure out which one just kiss for any flowers as well as recurring characters like Frank and Joyce and David there will be totally new characters to meet Gera says we're looking at Chloe's life as a sophomore at blackwell so we're going to be in that space that's going to be familiar but different Victoria Chase is a sophomore she's not a senior she's not running the place she's climbing the ladder stabbing backs or whatever so there are a number of characters you will encounter that you will recognize for sure from the first game some of them have elaborate running threads throughout all three episodes but at the same time it was really important for us to introduce new characters in blackwell and in Arcadia Bay to increase the diversity of the community to increase the breadth and depth of those personalities we already know that Frank is one of those recurring characters and given height interestingly complex his relationships are with both Rachel and Chloe he's definitely a welcome addition you either know this or not max is there anybody here who knows their stuff Jefferson has not yet arrived at Blackwell Academy as deck 9 code game director Chris Floyd confirmed in a live stream so don't expect to see him at all and before the storm Floyd also stated that Kate would not be featured in their story Nathan makes an appearance and he can catch a quick glimpse of him in one of the trailer montages although it makes sense to him at Jefferson and KITT so as to better concentrate on a new story it's kind of a shame we won't get to see them going about like normal seeing them in a different time knowing everything that happens later like the original life is strange before the storm is still a mystery story at its core confirms Gareth and that will take the form of an investigative angle we really don't know what that mystery is yet but it seems like it may have something to do with whatever Rachel amber sees through the telescope with Chloe at the Overlook possibly her father having an affair [Music] speaking of Rachel she isn't how we expected her to be but truth to who she is I think is going to be even more meaningful Gareth says she's top of the social ladder she's the most beautiful person she can charm everybody that's interesting and there's a pirate there but it's not extremely human and what we're really wanting to own airs and exposes even the perfect girl is broken and even the broken girl Chloe has strength and so we really see a chance to explore the really unique ways in which the two girls can be something unique to each other that can really we hope speak to the human connection what it's like to have that one person show up at a particular moment in your life when you need them it can be everything [Music] playing Chloe is a very different experience to playing max she doesn't have Max's rewind pyar 1 because obviously it wouldn't set in the timeline but also because Dec 9 it represented her Max's pirate was very much an extension of Max's character she's cautious and methodical Chloe on the other hand is impulsive and aggressive the fact she doesn't overthink or regret pretty much anything she does is an important part in what makes her Chloe and was I had a chance to do over things maybe players will have to think more carefully and use Chloe's unique social skills instead there are things that Chloe would do that max would never like stealing money from a bootlegger and that gives players more free rein to role play as a character with very different values but even those you don't have a rewind par deck 9 have said there will be plenty of strangeness in before the storm and maybe even in this should use own words a touch of the supernatural that is going to make fans really happy and they are going to have a field day talking about it online interesting it's also interesting to note that just like the dough in the original game which showed up at important moments for Max and even featured on her clothing Chloe's totem crow has featured several times in trailers and gameplay shown off already in key scenes and on her clothes of course some fans believe that the blue butterfly from the original game may have been Chloe's spirit animal or the DOE may have been Rachel Amber's but in any case it makes for a lot of interesting discussion and a section later on in my opinion the dough is indeed representative of max guiding her when she needs it and I think the butterfly an ode to the butterfly effect and also symbolic metamorphosis and change could be either Rachel or Chloe is Rachel's feathered earring she always wears a connection of sorts to crows to spirit animals and Native American beliefs for strong somatic elements of the first game perhaps that will be a running theme throughout all life estranged games and it will carry on even into the sequel with all new characters and locations anyway that's most of what we've uncovered so far do you have any predictions or observations of your own to add let us know as we're always down for a bit of life is strange theorizing don't 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Length: 11min 26sec (686 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 01 2017