Players can only watch as Rachel’s unattended phone buzzes incessantly with Chloe’s missed calls, while a camera’s flashbulb flares from the corner. As Before the Storm’s final episode draws to a conclusion, the saccharine montage of their relationship ends with a particularly gruesome reminder: Rachel has been captured, drugged, and is being tortured just off-screen. To drive that point home, Deck Nine closed the game with a divisive final scene that provided to be controversial even among its creators.Īcross the prequel’s three episodes, players watch Rachel and Chloe fall in love and navigate the ups and downs of their relationship. Last year, developer Deck Nine released a prequel game called Before the Storm, a bittersweet chance to see the fleeting happiness of the budding relationship between Chloe and Rachel, with the knowledge that it isn’t meant to last. In the end, you learn that Rachel can’t be saved, and Chloe may be doomed as well, depending on how you play. When popular girl Rachel Amber goes missing, her absence sets the story - about a teenage girl named Max who can rewind time and her best friend Chloe, who is in love with Rachel - in motion. Much of the mystery of Dontnod’s episodic game Life is Strange focused on a disappearance. Spoilers ahead for the episodic games Life is Strange: Before the Storm and Life is Strange.
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