Life is Strange: True Colors Reviews
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Upon game completion I had enjoyed the experience and have no major complaints about it. This is in my opinion one of the better entries in the Life Is Strange series. The game performed well on my Series X, the artwork, music and voice acting is of the usual high calibre and fans of the universe will find this entry as enjoyable to play as any of the others that have gone before it.
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“Heartfelt and poignant, the only thing Life is Strange: True Colors trips over is its own words.”
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Deck Nine has crafted a truly wonderful tale of a community coping with loss and discovering where you belong in a world where you never quite fit in. Life is Strange: True Colors only has a few small issues but otherwise, the latest entry into the franchise is one that everyone should experience.
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True Colors is driven by Alex's powers, whether its narratively or mechanically. She can tell how people are feeling and place herself in their head, letting her absorb their emotions. Alex believes this power is a curse because she senses all the negativity and anger people are feeling, and it overwhelms her and can lead to furious outbursts. It weighs on her, but like any good superhero story, she realizes that she can use these powers for good. Life is Strange: True Colors demonstrates this with great subtlety, such as turning a beautiful day into a dreary downpour because one...
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Life is Strange's premise as a franchise is simple: a drama reflecting the real world, with the caveat of a protagonist having some type of "superpowers." Perhaps it's a "curse," if you choose to describe it through the lips of Alex Chen, the protagonist of True Colors. So how does the latest installment stack up? Here is our review.
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If you had the power to find out how someone was feeling, would you try to help them or worry about your own problems instead? This question is one of many Alex Chen faces in another great entry in the Life is Strange series.
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True Colors is the best game in the series since Before the Storm, and it will satisfy your narrative craving for a time.
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Sure, parts of Life is Strange: True Colors are really bleak, but ultimately it’s an uplifting, heartfelt story about what it means to find your own version of home. It tells that story in a way that feels perfectly sincere, which is something that is hard to come by in games nowadays. True Colors has officially redeemed the Life is Strange series in my eyes.
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Somehow the team over at Deck Nine has taken the franchise to the next level. Life is Strange: True Colors is an experience that can resonate at an emotional level that's rarely seen nowadays, delivered with both maturity and grace. You'd have to be crazy to miss out on this epic adventure in small town, America.
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From the very get-go, Life is Strange: True Colors is a game intent on absolutely enthralling you. Featuring a strong Asian-American protagonist by the name of Alex Chen, a brand new power and supporting cast while finally ditching the slow episodic release schedule, it’s clear that the latest entry in the beloved adventure series is not here to mess around. Mess around it does not, engaging you deeply from the very first frame to the credits crawl. Bar none, True Colors is amazing.
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With Life is Strange in the title, you know what you are getting with True Colors. You’ll step into the shoes of a young person and talk to some people, make a bunch of choices, sit and listen to acoustic tunes, look at objects while your character muses on them through an inner monologue, and get out of sticky situations with your superpowers. Familiar it is, but that doesn’t make it any less entertaining.
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Life Is Strange: True Colors represents the best the franchise has ever been, and provides a perfect jumping-on point for newcomers.
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Life Is Strange: True Colors is right up there as one of the best games in the series, if not the outright best. Its characters are interestingly complex and believable, the writing is strong -- albeit a bit clichéd in true Life Is Strange fashion -- and its more sinister narrative has plenty of twists and turns that'll keep you hooked. It's all punctuated by heartwarming, lighthearted sections reminiscent of Before the Storm's beloved 'play' scene, and its decisions will have you second-guessing yourself for hours. The whole experience is wrapped up in the strongest presentation values and a soundtrack...
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What True Colors lacks in the emotional gut-wrench that the previous games have, it makes it for with a refined format that presents a story that fits right into the series and tells it in the best way seen so far. You're very unlikely to be disappointed here.
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The writers from Deck Nine and DONTNOD have demonstrated that their gift is not unlike Alex's. They have an empathy and understanding of the struggles that humans face. Life is Strange: True Colors builds on what the first installment did well, and does it even better. No game in the series so far has reached this height of catharsis, and by the end of it, players will be heartbroken to leave the imperfectly perfect town of Haven Springs.
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This review is based on a PlayStation digital code provided by the publisher. Life is Strange: True Colors will be available on Thursday, September 9 on Steam, the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, and on Google Stadia for $59.99 USD. It is also coming soon to the Nintendo eShop. The game is rated M.
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Life Is Strange: True Colors is an incredible new addition to the series. It brings perhaps the most likeable protagonist yet, the absolutely gorgeous Haven Springs, and an excellent supporting cast together for an intensely emotional but hopeful tale. With enough gorgeous sweeping cinematic shots to put an indie film to shame, and some absolutely incredible writing, Alex’s journey is something you must experience.
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In Chapter 1, there is a line: “Survival isn’t a neat and tidy process but its better than the alternative.” This isn’t just a one-liner, but the thesis of the entire game. And with that, Life is Strange: True Colors lands itself as one of the most cathartic and resonate video game’s I’ve played in a long time.
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Life Is Strange: True Colors is a fantastic slice of life from an idealized alternate universe. Alex is an excellent protagonist, and her adventures with her attractive, funny friends in their beautiful town is a great way to spend about 12 hours. Beautiful, touching, temporary, artificial, charming, enchanting, and strange, True Colors will touch your soul like the three-minute indie pop songs it loves so much. The taste of ashes in your mouth at the end is purely optional.
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Life is Strange has always been a series that had its heart in the right place, even if it fumbles in the execution.
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At the end of the day, Life is Strange: True Colors is a game that isn’t afraid to just let you feel sad, and we appreciate it all the more for that. Not just because it allows players to feel those emotions alongside memorable characters, but because it also takes time to assure you that there’s nothing wrong with those feelings. It’s been a long time since a narrative resonated with us the way True Colors did, and we truly hope we haven’t seen the last of Alex Chen and the town of H...
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Conversely, True Colors’ climax incorporates many more perspectives on Alex’s choices and actions. Depending on the decisions you make throughout the game, each character will respond differently. While the stakes of the ending aren’t as high, that personal connection makes the branching narrative feel more satisfying this time around.
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Its story doesn't quite stick the landing, but this is a beautiful game - not just in its look, sound, and feel, or even in its real and relatable characters, but in its message and its delivery.
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Life is Strange is back, with new characters for you to fall in love with, new places to explore, and new powers to abuse. In Life is Strange: True Colors, you take on the role of Alex Chen, a young woman reuniting with her long-lost brother in the idyllic Haven Springs, Colorado. As with all the other games in the franchise, you’ll quickly find tragedy and darkness beneath the surface of this quiet slice of Americana, a shadowy adversary that affects and influences everything it – and you – touch.
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When Alex Chen reunites with her brother in the mining village of Haven, her psychic power of empathy becomes a catalyst for change. What secrets will she uncover and is her power ultimately a blessing or a curse?
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Life is Strange: True Colors is one of those rare follow-ups that takes everything right about the previous games and not only improves one everything across the board, but also gives the series a much needed revival.
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Life is Strange has always been about emotions and coping with life’s challenges. Through the series, we’ve experienced different perspectives and a multitude of complex situations, from the perils of depression to the ugliness of racism. Stepping into a character’s shoes, we get to know their world and the people around them, often finding things are not always what they seem and using a superpower to change things for good measure. While Life is Strange: True Colors has all the hallmarks of past entries, like having a special power and consequences for your actions, it’s much more fueled by its...
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At the end of each chapter, Life is Strange: True Colors follows the same procedure as its predecessors in allowing you to compare your choices with other players and to find out exactly where your, and your friends, morals lie that will undoubtedly provide some interesting (possible arguments?) conversations. I had waited with bated breath to play Life is Strange's next narrative adventure and I can honestly say I wasn't let down. Every expectation was met and then some. From the deeply impactful writing, the consequences of choices, and the attention to every detail, True Colors was an experience that...
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Life Is Strange: True Colors ultimately doesn't understand the emotions it tries addressing and lets its characters down in the process.
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I could wax lyrical about so many elements of Life is Strange: True Colors, going into detail about every tiny thing that makes its storytelling so incredible, but I won’t. The narrative should be uncovered as you play it, and going in with as little knowledge as possible will make those twists and turns have that much more impact. This is without a doubt the best game in the series yet. The characterisation, the worldbuilding, the visuals, the facial animations – practically everything here is flawless. With True Colors, Deck Nine has solidified itself as the master of narrative adventure...
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Life is Strange: True Color's well written cast and rich Americana setting help make it easily one of the strongest outings this franchise has had.
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Time to learn about the importance of emotional intelligence.
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True Colors is a big step up for the series and shows that Life is Strange is in good hands with Deck Nine.
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Life is Strange: True Colors may sadly dim towards the end, but it's worth checking out alone just to experience Haven Springs, with its gorgeous scenery, terrific cast of characters both major and minor, and an intriguing mystery that requires quite a bit of fun gameplay. Alex's emotion-based powers are best used for exploring everything around her, and there's a lot of amazing little stories to find. It may not be the revelation the series could use, but Life is Strange: True Colors is still a sweet, heartfelt journey to a quaint neck of the woods that's worth taking.
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Truly great stories – those that stand the test of time – work for a singular reason. Regardless of setting, inciting events, and world building, stories connect with audiences because of characters. Readers and players need a strong sense of who characters are and plot points that agree with those characterizations. Failing that, audience connections are vague. You roll your eyes, or worse they glaze over. Ultimately, the story becomes forgettable. Games can skate around that with gameplay mechanics, but for story-driven content, it’s an unforgivable sin.
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Life is Strange True Colors review: A bittersweet drama about grief after loss and troubled pasts, focusing on the act of healing from trauma rather than trauma itself.
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Life Is Strange: Before the Storm has always felt like a well-kept secret; forever playing second fiddle to the two mainline entries that released either side of it, but quietly better than them both. We have Deck Nine Games to thank for that, which now finds itself at the helm of the franchise's next big game as original creator DONTNOD Entertainment moves on to other projects. The result is Life Is Strange: True Colors, a game that both ditches the episodic roll-out of the past and feels more in line with the adventures of classic characters Max and Chloe.
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