Life is Strange 2 Episode 5 Thoughts

I think your summary hits almost all my issues with this game. The racism, the changing locations, and the goal to get to Mexico. First, racism. The conflicts with racists always got my eyes rolling. I'm not saying racism doesn't happen, but the fact that it was conducted in the game by strangers who suddenly show up (sometimes literally out of nowhere like with the vigilantes), made the scenarios feel injected artificially. It would've served the experience better if the issue of racism was handled by characters known by the Diaz brothers, so that there may have been some nuance and redemption. Imagine if the Grandfather had taken on this role, it would've made this conflict more realistic and powerful. Second, changing locations. Each episode felt like whatever trouble that Sean and Daniel were getting into, they always had the option to just leave. Unless you factor in the FBI on their tail, it never felt like this tactic was a compounding problem for the Diaz bros. Agent Flores showed up, what, twice? Once in the hospital, then again for a moment at the border? I thought for sure that after episode 3 ended with the destruction of the pot farm, the Diazes would also have some drug cartel after them as well. But no, just an FBI file. All this running away and getting away with it weakened the tension for me. Lastly, Sean's drive to escape to Mexico never felt like a credible solution. Mexico is widely known to have cartel and corruption problems, and on top of that, there is an extradition treaty between the US and Mexico. They'd still have that threat of being caught and handed back to the US. He may have escaped racism, but not the law. My biggest gripe with this game, finally, is how uncompelling it was. If you are going to make an episodic game, it has to have compelling questions to keep me wanting to find out what will happen next. Even the small mystery of what happened to Karen came to a slow, unsatisfying, totally normal conclusion. (This was almost as big a flop to me as Rachael's mom story in BTS) In LIS 1, there were bold subplots and intriguing teasers to keep my interest high. Just comparing the teaser scenes (the ones that show up after each episode's credits) between LIS 1 and LIS 2 will show there is a major contrast in intrigue. Sorry for the long rant. I don't mean to kick DONTNOD around too much as they are highly talented. I criticize because I believe they can do better, and hope they treat the franchise with more care. It seemed like they made LIS 2 to break boundaries, to be controversial and topical, but they strayed too far from what made LIS 1 such a fun experience.

Didrik Svahn

First of all episode 3 was my favorite and my of my favorite screen was with Cassidy. Episode 5 was my second favorite. My two favorite screens in episode 5, was the Max & Chloe part I loved that :). The another screen was the screen with the lanterns that was beautiful, don’t really understand why they have show Daniel powers like that before? Second of all did Sean get one of the worst layers in the U.S? Because Sean should well not be punished for his brother sins? And last of all you should make a video about the endings.