r/lifeisstrange

I'm deep in post game depression so I'm ruminating on the Reunion endings.

I think the best ending from the point of Max and Chloe has gotta be the Give Photo ending with everyone saved. Chloe is honest, Max burns the photo herself and chooses to not rewind their year, everything is great.

But I think the Burn Photo ending is the best ending narratively! Especially if you went BAE in the first game. Because you get the wonderful mirror image of the first game. In LIS1 Max chooses to save Chloe over everyone else and takes that trauma on herself to protect her. In Reunion, Chloe then chooses to protect Max from being in a constant loop of going back to stop the fire, and letting Max off the hook from the gigantic responsibility of time travel heroism. It's less morally neat and a lot more interesting, that way.

What do you think? Which do you choose?

HOLY FUCK.

This game sucks. Is this a "How many times can you watch Chloe die" the game???? Like holy fuck I'm so not okay.

I don't think I've ever lost it so much when playing a videogame compared to the end of Episode 3. And now I'm just here sitting on her bed looking at that very much alive and breathing and blue Chloe and holy..... Immediately texted an "I love you btw" to my bestie after that.

I hate this game. No replay value. I'm not going through this again. wtf. You guys are crazy.

Feel free to spoil me in the comments, I'm coming back to this after I finish the game because it's 1am UK now Monday and I'm going to finish this game NOW.

You're telling me she pulled a marker out of her pocket that she actively uses, and graffited an entire bathroom and made like a 4 ft long drawing?? And it can write on like every material ever?

The most emotional is, of course, the boat scene in the lake. (OK it's at least in the top three, the OG ending in LIS1 is probably stronger).

However, this is preceded by the goddamn funniest scene in the entire franchise, which is Chloe just randomly going "fuck this sleuthing bullshit, robbery time!", stealing Safis bag around the corner and just booking it. I damn near broke a rib.

Yeah sure this is probably the 1082293829th post of the week with the exact premise, but I just have to share it with someone who might care.

This is probably the greatest story ever told in gaming for me (at least considering I haven't played the other games). I think the devs choice to just end the game with that car driving somewhere and then just back to the title screen was actually fantastic, it just makes the player shocked that... it's ended.

I sacrificed Arcadia Bay. I can't even dare to try the other ending, I just love Chloe so much and can't even bear so see it even if just to check out what happens (maybe in another run some years in the future). How many people also do that, sacrificing Arcadia Bay? Am I in the minority here or nah?

Anyway, this game is straight up a masterpiece. Is LiS2 a direct continuation, does it rely on LiS1's save to continue the story with all our choices or smth? Is it worth playing the new ones as well?