With its third episode, “Chaos Theory”, Life is Strange gets stranger. Sure, this is a coming of age story that just happens to include a teenager that can time travel and has visions of an impending apocalypse, but the story so far has remained fairly focused on the difficulties of growing up and attending high school.
While that focus continues to be significant to this choice-driven, episodic point-and-click adventure, Max’s power in this episode begins to develop in new ways, opening up the game’s interest in choices and consequences on an even larger scale.
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G. Christopher Williams is the Multimedia Editor at PopMatters.com. You can find his weekly updates featured athis blog 8-bit confessional.
In addition to writing for PopMatters, Nick Dinicola is also a regular contributor to the Moving Pixels blog and appears regularly on the Game Hounds podcast.
Eric Swain is a frequent contributor to the Moving Pixels podcast and maintains his own blog on gaming, The Game Critique.