Life Is Strange 4 is revealed in a long gameplay demonstration and there will be changes! Discover the heroine’s new powers.
New Life is strange was announced against all expectations last Sunday during the Xbox Showcase. Even though the game will be cross-platform, Microsoft seems to have a special connection with narrative games. Remember that the publisher had granted “Tell Me Why”, a title of the same genre developed by the creators of the Life is Strange license. Today he also has the overview of this announcement eagerly awaited by fans.
With the title “Double jeopardy”, this 4t Opus marks the return of the heroine from the very first episode of the license. Maxine Caulfield, known as “Max”, will experience a story reminiscent of that of 2015… But this time, those forces are not quite the same. Deck Nine, which took over the license after Don’t Nod, explains what awaits us in this mysterious intrigue…
Super-Max is back in Life is Strange 4 and has leveled up
This Thursday, June 13, Deck Nine had a good three-quarter hour presentation on YouTube to tell us more about Life is Strange Double Exposure. The team, especially Jonathan Stauder (Game Director) and Felice Kuan (Narrative Director), therefore dealt with the Gameplay this new work.
This new adventure will apparently be much more police-focused than the previous ones. This corresponds to a certain extent to LIS 3 True Colors. And this time too, the heroine’s powers are at the heart of the story. To separate fact from fiction and unmask the murderer who murdered his friend Safi, Max must… move between two realities » !
Yes, no more possibility to travel to the past. This power, obtained after a tragic event in the first Life is Strange, this time gives way to a kind of ” Power of perception “. Previously, the game had already introduced us to the idea of alternative realities. Max could also connect to a past temporality through a photograph by concentrating. From now on, the heroine is able to ” veil » which separates the parallel realities. Moreover, she is able to cross it to get from one plane to another.
The most passionate fans of the license already know about this ability. In fact, Max already presents this power in the Life is Strange comics. Here, however, it should not be forced so much. It will manifest itself in the form of a transparent silhouette that develops before our eyes. We can then follow this kind of pulsation that comes from another world and try to interact with it. In general, our heroine can see elements of the other reality from the reality in which she is located and even go through the gap that connects two realities.
This ability to navigate from one timeline to another allows Max to interact with two versions of the characters she encounters, so Max must switch from one to the other and play Nancy Drew solve the mystery behind the murder of her friend. And of course… her actions will have consequences!
