Life Is Strange Double Exposure - Blog Posts
SO WAS ANYONE PLANNING TO TELL ME DODIE MADE AN OG SOUNDTRACK FOR LIFE IS STRANGE????
TWO THOUGHTS Gwen is suspicious and WHERE IS WARREN?? BRING HIM BACK????
I miss Chloe and Safi..
SAFI COME BACK TO MEEEE
oh my god… max what did they (me) do to you…??
someone pls buy her brown contacts im dying 😞
lowkey been thinking about how decknine could’ve just done a really good marketing plot and made everyone think that pricefield is gone but really max is just in an alternate timeline…. i might be in denial but hear me out!!!!
guys im gonna crash out if one more person mischaracterises or doesn’t understand why pricefield stans are mad about the double exposure break up. we are not mad because we think that they are the only ship to exist or that they have to be canon, we are mad because the WHOLE last game was chloe and max saying “hey girl, we will NEVER EVEREVER leave eachother!!!!!” just for deck nine to completely erase that???? the player literally sacrificed a town so that they could keep living TOGETHER, not for them to not talk?????? also chloe price aka “free spirit”??????? HELLO???? WHOS IDEA WAS THIS????? that girl would NOT finish a relationship because she doesn’t want to be tied down??? she wouldn’t just break up with max. please i can’t do this!!!!????!!!!?
wow… deck nine ruined pricefield.. who would’ve guessed…….. totally.. crazy….. can’t believe they did this in a *cough,cough,cashgrab* WHO SAID THAT..
i love you max caufield please don’t die in double in exposerrrrrr
there are so many things double exposure is going to have to address aside from the storyline they’ve come up with
the events of this new game seem to only take place a few years after the first one. given that max is in university.
if you chose to sacrifice arcadia bay, i expect them to address the guilt and misery that will follow max like a shadow from destroying her hometown, her friends, chloe’s family, etc. it cannot be a brush off the shoulder.
if you chose to sacrifice chloe, i expect max to be haunted by her friend in ways that aren’t blatant and tone-deaf. she needs to once again be followed by a shadow of guilt and grief. and since i imagine she’s left to another new town, i need there to be some kind of moment of reflection on how she runs away from arcadia instead of facing her choices and the loss that it carries.
i need there to be kate marsh. i need there to be victoria. she is allowed to move on from her high school days but given the circumstances of the life she’s left behind, it cannot be forgotten. it cannot be summed up in a photograph she keeps in her wallet. it cannot be little easter eggs for us to find along our way.
but deck nine is so very surface-level with their writing. the dread i feel for max’s new chapter is thick. i cannot imagine how they’re going to live up to the expectations they’ve set for themselves.
Saw this on Twitter and tbh, I can't detect any lies🤷🏾♂️
She learned to carry her softness like armor. Not as weakness, but as proof she made it through.
Georg Wilson (British, 1998) - Spring Usher (2025)
I, personally, refuse to acknowledge the existence of double exposure. Because in my years I’ve come to realise happiness and peace is a choice you have to make
Amanda from life is strange double exposure!!
I absolutely loved this game (and Amanda) but it’s hard to pick her over Chloe😭💪💪
I love pricefield, but safield and thomasfield has me in a chokehold
When Safi grabbed the gun and pulled it to herself while Max was holding it, bringing them closer together, Max should have kissed her.
It’s a little gay if you ask me. 🤭🤭
A new town everytime Max Caufield decides to save a woman's life:
Not super satisfied. Might be in a creative low. Been a lot to adjust to my new job. Might find my voice not too far off in the future again.
But I shared a vote and like everyone got a vote each so guess I just made them in the order I saw the comments.
Idk, in my head, I think I pictured this a little bit more colorful but when it came to coloring and shading, I didn’t really know where I was going with it and just tried to save myself. Just forgot for a minute how I used to add light so that was a journey.
But yeah… something about being somebody’s light in the dark. Go and try that. And I will try not to drop the apples all over the floor today.
I work in a grocery store now. Yay.
So! Finished Double Exposure!
Well, I liked it. I really enjoyed it! It was super fun to play as Max again and I plan to play again and hunt for all achievements.
But damn, I don’t want to sit and complain and make it out that I hate this and “they ruined Max” “they ruined Life is Strange” but it felt like too little, too late.
I had such an emotional journey playing the first game and well, I was heartbroken afterwards. Cause well, the first game is about Max reconnecting with her childhood friend as they investigate together. And you get to learn Chloe alongside Max as they spend time together. Stuff like, hanging out in her room, break into the school and mess around in the junkyard. So when the final decision arrives, it becomes more personal and feels emotional and intentional that you have to choose between two awful options for this town you have come to know or the girl you come to know.
And after that, I needed closure, which I found throughout the comics. Double Exposure could have been that… if it came out sooner.
Double Exposure feels smaller. You spend all the time at any of the buildings around Campus and you get to know Safi in the same chapter that she dies. The rest of the game is more of a detective story on how she will actually die but when that moment comes, I know more about her and the context, but I don’t actually feel that much closer to her cause an amount of that time between, you never get to meet her and when you do, she’s pissed at you.
I wasn’t as invested in Max’s, Safi’s and Maya’s story. I didn’t get to spend time with Safi until they worked together to expose Lucas which wasn’t satisfying as it was for… a handful of students. "No, my career is over!" Is it tho...?
The stories felt similar in yeah, you help Safi get revenge for Maya the same way as Chloe and Rachel but it felt that Rachel’s disappearance had more of an effect. You learned what she meant to Chloe an you saw her reaction to finding the body as well as Max going through the same torture. Here it felt more like, you’re told what happened to Maya, you kind of saw how people felt but it was so long before Max arrived so they have calmed down about it and I never got dragged into the emotional pull of it.
Well, you understand it was wrong, Lucas stole her work and got famous and she ended herself which is really dark, mature and grounded but when the story wraps up, the end-result ends up being of something that happened without you around so it just felt like Max was an outsider all the time solving other people’s problems.
Max was an outsider in the first one as well but she was closer in the sense as Rachel became this replacement for her and she learns how her appsense hurt Chloe and she works to make up for that lost time during the game. She’s an outsider to everyone except Chloe, where she instead got pushed out of her life and slowly tries to get back in and I was curious on how the relationship would change once they found Rachel.
It didn’t feel Max had anything to lose in this story. She was at the right place at the right time and the right skills to fix it. She also had the maturity of a 28-year old instead of an 18-year old so the climax wasn’t the same emotional rollercoaster. She met her friends, she discovered how to help and crossed them off her to-do-list.
It was fun, I will play it again, I will draw it alot and curious on Max’s next adventure but my opinion in the end can, once again, get summarised in “too little, too late”
PLEASE FOR THE LIVE OF GOD LEARN HOW TO USE SPOILER WARNINGS GUYS I completely understand being excited about double exposure and wanting to post about it and I am in no way saying you shouldn't but it has been out for LESS THAN A WEEK so please just put spoilers under a cut or mark them clearly :( like can you just wait a month before posting without warnings- even a week?
PLEASE LET ME ROMANCE HER OMG
GWEN HUNTER??? She is so fine I fear
It's so cool how Max talks about how she's worried about what she might be doing to these timelines and now we're getting double exposure which is hopefully going to address these "screw-ups"
Glad I get to be an active member of the lis fandom this time around, the community is so silly!!! idk what people are talking about with the "insufferable" accusations, we're just having fun, it's not every day a classic lgbtq+ game is revived
"That's not my Max" "Omg she looks so different, not my Max!"
YOU'RE RIGHT, SHE'S NOT YOURS!! SHE'S MINE!!!! AND I LOVE HER JUST THE WAY SHE IS
So ready to be gay for the women of lis in the year of our lord 2024, craving my girl max rn
Already missing Max's bangs guys, she's been robbed of a portion of her geekiness:(
I'm actually so excited for double exposure, I know it may not live up to Fandom expectations but I can accept that, I'm just super happy the developers chose to continue Max's story at all. No matter what, I know I'll enjoy playing the game and seeing where the story goes, it already looks super interesting just from the content out for it right now so I have high hopes!!!