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Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments. Set three years before ‘Life is Strange’, you play as sixteen-year old Chloe Price who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber, a beautiful and popular girl destined for success. When Rachel learns a secret about her family that threatens to destroy her world, it is her newfound friendship with Chloe that gives her the strength to carry on. No longer alone the girls must confront each other’s demons and together, find a way to overcome them. Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered tells the emotionally real and compelling tale of a young woman, Chloe Price, who must help a new friend confront the secrets of her past, while struggling to rebuild her own life after loss. This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, and may not be appropriate for viewing at work, with cautions suggested for Violence, Blood, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, and Use of Drugs and Alcohol. Back when they were hitting fever pitch (early/mid-2010s), I was getting reeled into a number of episodic games. Dontnod’s Life is Strange was among them. So, when it was announced that co-developers Deck Nine and Black Tower Studios were helming a remaster duo pack of this beloved first season and prequel, Before the Storm, I had a keen interest in revisiting it. The pertinent concerns become two-fold: how these entries hold up and if enough TLC was given by current remaster standards. TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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To properly answer the first concern, plus consider the quality gap between them, I’m compelled to initially split and assess each on their own merits. It’s a helpful way to consider their disparate goals and circumstances before assessing the remaster’s polishes. With that out of the way, let’s begin with where it all started. Life is Strange centers on Maxine Caulfield, a young adult hipster and gifted photographer in Arcadia Bay, Oregon. The first beat is a lucid daydream of a huge tornado hurtling towards this oceanside town before snapping back to reality. This mysterious event presages something even crazier upon witnessing a woman being shot: Max can now manipulate time. With a simple reflex, she “rewinds” herself back to her photography class. Not only is she impelled to navigate typical high-school anxieties but also comes to grips with this newfound power. When you think of a modern high-school drama set a few angstroms from Portlandia, you can expect your clichéd template: social misfits, preppy rich kids, pompous artsy types, a goth girl, jocks, and the list goes on. Even with this roster, there’s an earnest energy to them and their respective voice actors. Of course, given Dontnod’s French writing crew of middle-aged guys trying to capture angsty teenagers, there’s a nice helping of cringe-inducing dialogue coursing through its veins too.

The story of Chloe and Max is an absolute classic in my mind. Max moves back to her old town for high school to pursue photography.

Reaching the zenith of cringe would be Max’s long-time best friend: Chloe. Having recently returned to Arcadia Bay after a five-year stint away, Max’s bestie is now bedecked in blue hair, punk clothing, and an adolescent’s idea of a “rebel.” This rekindling friendship is also connected with Rachel Amber, Chloe’s newer best friend, who’s been missing for several months. Beyond just surface-level inspiration in locations or Easter eggs, the Twin Peaks comparison comes closest with Rachel being a stand-in for Laura Palmer. Despite trudging through Chloe’s faux-anarchic attitude towards everyone, it still serves a purpose for the heart of Strange’s story. But you may have noticed my use of the word “some”. While some areas are improved by these changes, some are arguably made worse. Only some of the character’s facial animations were improved upon, leaving those that weren’t changed feeling awkward and out of place. In fact, only key story beats seem to have had their facial animations upgraded. Along with that, darker scenes are made quite difficult to navigate due to the new lighting techniques. Take the night school section of Chaos Theory for example, where often parts of the school may feel more accurate of their setting but are near impossible to see as a result. Family Matters

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To top this all off, pre-rendered cutscenes are still stuck at an archaic 30 FPS, which feels almost taboo considering modern-day performance improvements. But worst of all, this part of my Life is Strange Remastered Collection review suffers from a strong absence of necessity. I understand I went into this knowing this remaster was likely a few years too soon, but it’s much more noticeable when playing. The best thing I can say about this remaster is that it’s faithful, and that’s because it simply opts for touchups rather than stronger makeovers. And while that isn’t always bad, there are plenty of areas where the game doesn’t feel changed enough (don’t get me started on the facial hair that appears drawn on with crayon). Because of that, this heightened price tag of $50 feels just a tad unnecessary. It’s such a shame because, despite its relatively young age, there was so much more that could’ve been done to improve the game. Life is Strange: Before the Storm is the second part of this remastered collection review, putting us in the shoes of Chloe a few years before Max’s return to Arcadia Bay. This mini-prequel game sees Chloe meet many familiar characters we got to know during the original game such as Nathan Prescott, Frank Bowers, and a surprisingly focused appearance from Rachel Amber herself. Dealing with both characters’ drama, the game gives a deeper insight into Chloe and her feelings surrounding her father’s death a few years prior. And with a mystery afoot, there’s plenty of chaos to go around.

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Now I’ll admit that when originally playing this, I felt that it was an alright addition to the main story that gave some decent backstory to help the main game. And while I still partially feel that, upon replay I find myself appreciating it for the sheer emotion put into each scene. I was much younger and plenty more immature, so the various emotional scenes didn’t hit quite as hard. Upon replay though, I’m happy that Dontnod brought Deck Nine in to have their hand in a story like this. Especially because it later lead to Life is Strange: True Colors which is great in its own respects. But you’re here for a review of Before the Storm Remastered, not a retrospective. As far as improvements go, there isn’t much to talk about here beyond what was good and bad with the first game’s remaster. While there are some minor changes, sure, again they simply aren’t enough to have the remaster’s release make sense. Though one thing I can’t say I saw coming was for Before the Storm to arguably look better in the remaster than the original game’s remaster when both are part of the same package. Family Man Switch NSP

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As one example, the facial hair that I mentioned above is leagues better here than it is in the first game. Where facial hair in the first game appeared to be drawn on with a paintbrush, the facial hair’s been upgraded here to be much more distinct in a way that doesn’t take away from the game’s signature style. Alongside this, a bevy of other textures are quite improved. But while those were improved, again there were plenty of textures that appeared almost laughable out of a remaster. That’s not deliberate obviously, but they stand out much harder than they did due to other improvements. It’s a jarring inconsistency, one that leaves you utterly confused as to what was happening behind the scenes. I’m not going to complain about the improved textures obviously, but it makes you wonder what could’ve happened if that quality level was replicated in some of the weaker areas. I suppose we’ll likely never see that reality though. The pretty graphics are also really hampered by bugs. If you need subtitles to understand what is happening in a game properly, Life is Strange Remastered Collection is absolutely unplayable right now. The subtitles stop working after chapter one in the original Life is Strange. That is just an unacceptable oversight. Some people need these to play.

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The subtitles aren’t the only thing that is broken. There are many graphical bugs that I simply didn’t experience in the original game. Before the Storm is particularly bad in this area as characters will sometimes just have shining lights on their head that makes them impossible to look at. I’m a big believer that a Remastered Collection shouldn’t introduce more bugs to a game. The Life is Strange Remastered Collection isn’t all bad, however. The story is still excellent and is helped along with better animations in the original Life is Strange. The writing is easily the best part of Life is Strange and Before the Storm, and that is generally unchanged here. I did find interacting with items in Life is Strange to be somewhat more difficult than I remember. The mouse was really picky about when it would pick up I’m trying to interact with something, and I often had to select my choice multiple times. This isn’t a big deal as time isn’t really a factor, but it was slightly annoying. Before the Storm fixes this by using WASD instead of hovering the mouse over an option.

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The updated character models are usually quite good, although some NPCs that didn’t get work done stick out when put next to the new and improved main characters. Some even look like creepy caricatures. This means that the graphical look is much more uneven than the original release as Max and Chloe look great but they’re often talking to strange-looking, potentially malformed citizens of Arcadia Bay. Meanwhile, the facial animations never match what Deck Nine did with Life is Strange: True Colors and falls short and right into the uncanny valley. As a viewer, it’s far more jarring when a character is nearly matching the realistic movements but noticeably not quite nailing it. The original, on the other hand, had no intentions of being considered realistic. Character models are also jarring as a new glitch features Max moving up and down during cutscenes instead of standing still or sitting, which can ruin the punch of what are supposed to be dramatic, emotional moments.

Additionally, a lot of the scenes now look hella dark compared to the original and takes away from some of its charm and quaint personality. Oftentimes, the lighting is just applied unevenly and makes it hard to investigate the areas. With all of these issues and the mixed application of the intended improvements, I’d rather take the look of the technically limited but charming original. After all, a story revolving around superpowers and friendship never needed to look realistic in the first place. More worrying than the glitches are some of the changes made to the original Life is Strange that impact Dontnod’s artistic vision. Rather than the aforementioned prologue going straight to Max waking up in her classroom in an abrupt cut that underlined this as a premonition or dream, there is instead a loading screen that lessens the impact to a significant degree. It’s ultimately a small detail, but when considering that the cut was an artistic choice in the original that Dontnod went to great lengths to work in every version of the game, it’s super disappointing. It doesn’t just stray away from the original intent; it also adds in loads that weren’t there. Fallout 4

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