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I definitely enjoyed the Lee/Clementine dynamic as well! It's hard not to draw that comparison. It's neat how at the end of every episode they showed you the choices you made as Sean and then they also showed you the choices Daniel made independently as a result of Sean's choices. It adds another layer of complexity to the choices you make, and I love that. I tried so hard to be a good role model, and by the end of the game I felt like a proud big brother lol.

I agree that the political aspect of the game was underdeveloped, for sure. It's easily the weakest part of the story. I think they tried to get a bit too ambitious with the story they were trying to tell and in the end some of the ideas ended up half-baked. I think with a few changes there could be potential for a decent story about racism in America in the script somewhere, but what we got (for the most part) was too on-the-nose and oversimplified to have any sort of lasting emotional impact. On the other hand, I live in AZ, and I personally have met some pretty awful people that make those over-the-top cartoony hillbillies in Episode 5 seem not entirely unrealistic, as unfortunate as that is. So I guess while I can get on board with the game's prevalent theme of "fuck racist hillbillies" , I definitely wish it were presented with more tact and nuance.

I think I might replay the original Life is Strange soon, maybe after I give BTS a shot. I hear a lot of conflicting reports on whether BTS is worth playing, so I'm interested in seeing what makes it so divisive. I played LiS1 a few years ago, and while I liked it quite a bit, it didn't really resonate with me the way LiS2 did. A lot of the story is kind of hazy for me, so I want to give it another shot and see if it'll resonate with me more on another playthrough.


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