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Life Is Strange True Colors Hits Hard
Preface: this will contain big spoilers for the game Life is Strange True Colors. Viewer discretion is advised for those who have not finished the game.
I just finished Life is Strange True Colors. It is another magnificent game within the LIS series. It hits hard on the emotional choices and graphically, it continues with the beautiful almost watercolor type art backgrounds with the nice stylization of scenery and characters.
I am an abandoned child as well. I was left in a hospital 2 days after I was born in a hospital. The scenes where Alex was having flashbacks stirred my own emotional problems I have with the chronic feeling of “I don’t belong” and “who am I, at the end of the day”. This game, in my honest opinion, gave a wonderful portrayal of one possible experience of being an orphan. The game dealt a lot with the themes of “lying vs telling the truth” and how there can be so much grey area between the two points (lying to spare someone’s feelings, leaving out information for whatever reason, etc.).
The only issue I really have is one with the players (since we can see with a chart at the end of the game who chose what with global percentages) and a potentially misleading choice with the game at the end. A…
