9 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 14.1 hrs on record
Posted: 29 Mar, 2024 @ 10:52am

First of all, and most important If you're only checking out the reviews wondering if you should buy this, and haven't seen any trailers for the game, please keep it that way. The trailer is extremely poorly executed and gives a huge spoiler for the story, that will ruin a big, emotional moment in the game.

True Colors is a solid entry in the Life is Strange franchise. Absolutely gorgeous visuals and detailed environments, a real pleasure to look at, explore, and interact with the world. The music and soundtrack are, as expected from a LiS game, also excellent. The story is great, I liked it just as much as the first LiS, I wouldn't call it better, however, personally, I did like it more. It's emotional, with a bunch of great twists and turns, and making the connections between different events is quite fun. Most characters are well-flashed out, and for most of them, quite likable. There are also some awkward moments between characters with long pauses that shouldn't be there and a few weird facial animations that are a little uncanny sometimes.
Alex is a wonderful character, and I think she has become my favorite protagonist in the series Sorry Max!, and having Steph, a familiar face from Before the Storm, come back as one of the main characters was really cool.
I wasn't the biggest fan of the 3rd chapter, which is a bit slow and feels like filler, but it still can be fun for other people, other than that, I was very pleased with pretty much everything else story-wise.

I had no major technical issues, only a couple of things that were easily ignorable or fixable, one being a little stutter at random, but rarely, and nothing that had any real negative impact on the game, other than that, the game ran smoothly at constant 60fps, and the other issue was some slight image tearing that started happening after a cutscene and would be easily fixed by turning v-sync off and on again, might sound annoying to deal with, but it only happened twice.

Overall, I was very pleased with the game, I expected Life is Strange, and that's exactly what I got. If you're a fan of this franchise, you'll probably enjoy this entry as well, especially so if you loved the first LiS game. Totally worth playing, although a bit short for the 60€ price point, especially since the "Wavelengths" DLC is only offered with the Deluxe version, so just for this I'd probably recommend getting the game on a sale.
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