Developer Dontnod has a lot to answer for with Life Is Strange: Episode 4 -- Dark Room. It begins and ends with emotionally charged scenes that remind me why I like main character Max Caulfield so much. She’s a compassionate, believable protagonist stuck in an ugly sequence of events that’s resistant to change, no matter how hard she tries. That said, this up-and-down three-hour episode betrays a lot of what makes her special.
Dark Room is the most inconsistent episode in Life Is Strange so far. The two hours between the excellent prologue and the finale advances the story slowly, and spends most of its time rehashing of what Life Is Strange has already done better before. The story and choices swing wildly from believable lucid to incomprehensible and gross. At times, Dark Room is just plain cheap. Max’s major choices here don’t suit her behavior, or are shocking for the sake of shock value, and that’s really disappointing.
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Dark Room is the most inconsistent episode in Life Is Strange so far. The two hours between the excellent prologue and the finale advances the story slowly, and spends most of its time rehashing of what Life Is Strange has already done better before. The story and choices swing wildly from believable lucid to incomprehensible and gross. At times, Dark Room is just plain cheap. Max’s major choices here don’t suit her behavior, or are shocking for the sake of shock value, and that’s really disappointing.
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