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Life is Strange 2: Episode 2 - Rules
The two brothers continue their journey on the road into the winter months & struggle against the cold. As Daniel gradually falls ill, Sean’s concern for his younger brother increases and decides the pair of them must make their way to their distant grandparent’s house to recover and seek shelter. During their stay, they encounter next-door neighb...
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Life Is Strange 2 Episode 2: Rules moves at a slower pace than the first but still manages to take you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions that will have you feeling all kinds of things including a bit of ill will towards DONTNOD for making you wait for the next chapter.
When you first start Life is Strange Episode 2, you’re met with a screen. It’s a screen any fan of the series will be familiar with, reminding you that your decisions will have consequences that might span out of this episode and into the rest of the series. But there is something else in Episode 2’s message that made my heart stop. It told me that it had successfully imported The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, that freebie minisode that left us all a wondering what Life is Strange 2 would be like. Knowing that Chris’ heartbreaking story would collide with Sean and Daniel defines the br...
Life is Strange 2: Episode 2 Rules is a roller coaster of impactful decisions and low moments. Some choices are more profound than other while others seem unfair and appear out of nowhere. Regardless, the conclusion takes many of the major choices and ends this episode with either a heartbreaking moment of dread or relief.
Rules continues the compelling journey of the Diaz brothers, further expanding on the supernatural elements teased during the first episode's conclusion with less forcefully controversial and predictable writing. Unfortunately, the episode is hindered by some substantial technical issues.
The second chapter in Sean and Daniel's story asks the hard questions, like can grandmas really be trusted?
Rules is bookended by some heartrate-spiking sequences, but the majority is spent relatively comfortably. Music has crescendos and decrescendos because they’re dynamic. Loud has more impact when everything was soft just moments ago. Rules is a decrescendo. It’s quiet and it’s retrained. But all indications are that Life is Strange 2 won’t stay quiet much longer.
Can you imagine harnessing a power you barely understand and can't always control? That, despite your efforts, leaves destruction in your wake? This is the reality of the Diaz brothers, Sean and Daniel, who fled from home after a deathly shooting with a police officer that was complicated by a magical force.