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I really wanted to like this game because I loved LiS1 and BTS, but I just couldn't get myself to enjoy this. The premise of the story sounds great on paper but the execution was done poorly. You the player, as the older brother Sean are supposed to mentor and influence your younger brother Daniel to make the right decisions and use his powers responsibly, but you only end up with two options most of the time: either you are a complete pushover and you allow Daniel to do really stupid things and use his powers irresponsibly which ends up with both of you getting into boatloads of trouble, or you are a complete arsehole to him and you scold him every time he uses his powers irresponsibly, which makes him hate and despise you and not listen to you even more.
Daniel is extremely possessive over Sean and doesn't want to share him with anyone and will use his powers to physically assault people who form a close friendship with Sean if Sean is not careful. Sean is Daniel's property, and if Sean doesn't act like a yes man to every bad decision Daniel makes, then Daniel will eventually use his powers to bully Sean and sometimes even physically assault him or threaten his life. Daniel even eventually causes a permanent life long injury to Sean that causes him to become permanently disabled and is somehow not held responsible for what he did to his own brother.
Either way the whole premise of the game is: Daniel can't follow basic instructions and ends up getting both him and Sean into life threatening situations. Sean is then blamed for the bad decisions Daniel makes and has to pick up the pieces as Daniel heads on to the next horrible decision that will put both their lives in danger. Whether you treat Daniel as if he can do no wrong or you treat him like shit every time he does something stupid, ultimately Daniel's horrible decisions are baked into the story and can't really be prevented by player choice.
Daniel is the villain, but he is sold as the protagonist. After what Daniel did to Sean at the end of episode 3, I just wanted Sean to go to Mexico alone and leave Daniel to his own devices so that he could become the super villain he was clearly meant to be.
Some would say that Daniel is only a 10 year old child that was traumatised, which is why he acts out the way he does, but there are clear flashback scenes in the game that show that Daniel was a selfish entitled spoilt brat before all the trauma happened. Before the Seattle incident, Daniel's father Esteban would already blame Sean and coddle Daniel when Daniel did something wrong. Daniel would steal from Sean and lie to his father when he did bad things to Sean, and when all the trauma happened and Daniel discovered he had powers, it just escalated Daniel's already problematic behaviour to much higher levels, and Sean as always ended up being victimised by Daniel.
Either way, Daniel was written as an extremely unlikable character who has the mental and emotional capacity of a toddler rather than a 10 year old. I really grew to like Sean as a character, but seeing him being constantly put through the wringer by his selfish idiot younger brother and then getting blamed for it made me eventually quit this game before I could finish it.
The game also skips very important story plot developments between episodes and then expects you to read your journal to catch up on what happened, leaving those entire sections of the story without player choice, and you just having to deal with the consequences of what happened when you had no control.
Overall it was an unpleasant experience and I would not want to go through it again. Again, I loved LiS1 and BTS even with the cringe teenager slang and Chloe doing irresponsible and dumb stuff, but at least Chloe had a growth arc and she learned to be a better person as the story progressed whereas Daniel is completely irredeemable after episode 3 and just keeps making worse and worse decisions as the story goes on. So far this has been my least favourite entry in the LiS series, and I really am a big fan.