Our Favorite Games of 2018: Life is Strange 2: Episode 1

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🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Few could have predicted a game about angsty teenagers would not only be good, but arguably an all-time classic. But lots of people, including lots at Waypoint, fell in love with Max Caulfield and Chloe Price during the first season of Life Is Strange. (In our canon, they kissed.) Life is Strange’s second season shifts the focus from Max and Chloe, reframing its themes of isolation and identity around an immigrant family in Seattle caught up in some serious shit. Only the first episode has been released, alongside an emotional prequel called The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, but it’s already captured the imaginations of Patrick, Cado, and Danielle.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, this is part of this Life Is Strange podcast.
0:03.6	It's a brief content warning.
0:05.1	We have a small discussion about suicide related to the plot point in the first season of
0:10.4	life is strange.
0:12.1	There is copious discussions of racism due to the strong themes of immigration, racism
0:19.1	and isolation in the second season of life is strange.
0:22.0	Just a heads up.
0:48.5	Hey everyone, welcome to Way Points.
0:50.3	We don't have a title for this.
0:51.3	It's the end of the year.
0:52.3	We're doing podcasts about a bunch of games that we all really liked.
0:56.0	We don't probably should have some sort of branding.
0:57.8	Maybe they'll be, maybe they'll be insert branding and then we'll just dump that in later.
1:02.4	But the, like the, the longest short of it is that as part of our end of the year stuff
1:06.8	we've got top 10 lists.
1:08.1	We've got personal essays about reflections about the year that was.
1:12.6	We have conversations one on one between staff members about their top 10 lists and we also
1:16.1	have a series of podcasts about games that have a lot of overlap between different members
1:21.5	of Way Point games that kind of spoke to a bunch of us in different ways.
1:27.4	And one of those is the first episode of the second season of life is strange.
1:32.4	Although I'm going to shoehorn the game that's actually on my top 10 list, which is the
1:39.0	auspicious of Captain Spirit, which is still ties in.
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