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Life is Strange - don't f*ck with time (SPOILERS FOR EP. 3)
10 years ago
Time travel; such a worn out concept in gaming, its rare that when time travel is involved as a major mechanic in a game that it's actually done right... namely in that its very rare that the consequences of time travel are really delved into.
On that subject Life is Strange just jumped the shark. as a quote from Hitchcock just went from meaningful insight to foreshadowing in the form of some Red Dwarf photographic time travel. In the first two episodes you're just jumping backwards a few moments over and over and... over again, that doesn't really affect time all that much having a reset button for your screw ups, but at the end of episode three however you jump back several YEARS and end up changing all of history from then on.
It even shows the ripple effect from that changed moment all the way back to the new present day with a full on Butterfly Effect changing everything and everyone. This is then immediately capped by the fact that the creepy end of the world stuff in the game is still happening, except now you're facing it alone since your pissed off sidekick is now happy, in a wheelchair and therefore pretty much useless... yay.
Don't fuck with time, especially the past. The present and the future, fair game, but leave the past in the past otherwise you end up screwing everything up. Multiple shitty time travel movies should have taught us that by now.
Simply put: when it comes to time travel watch your step, you never know when a butterfly might land beneath your foot.
On that subject Life is Strange just jumped the shark. as a quote from Hitchcock just went from meaningful insight to foreshadowing in the form of some Red Dwarf photographic time travel. In the first two episodes you're just jumping backwards a few moments over and over and... over again, that doesn't really affect time all that much having a reset button for your screw ups, but at the end of episode three however you jump back several YEARS and end up changing all of history from then on.
It even shows the ripple effect from that changed moment all the way back to the new present day with a full on Butterfly Effect changing everything and everyone. This is then immediately capped by the fact that the creepy end of the world stuff in the game is still happening, except now you're facing it alone since your pissed off sidekick is now happy, in a wheelchair and therefore pretty much useless... yay.
Don't fuck with time, especially the past. The present and the future, fair game, but leave the past in the past otherwise you end up screwing everything up. Multiple shitty time travel movies should have taught us that by now.
Simply put: when it comes to time travel watch your step, you never know when a butterfly might land beneath your foot.
