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Cannot recommend.
Game looks super blurry, no way to fix that (update: setting secondary scaling to 100% mostly™ fixes that). There's horrendous screen tearing too, vsync doesn't help it either. Game gets super laggy when using powers too, no doubt thanks to Denuvo. Outfit selections are often ignored (edit: they're just tied together, not individual selections). Many of the DLC outfits are missing from the selection and it's difficult to maintain a consistent hair color if using one like blonde hair. There's no way to skip conversations so if you have to reload from a checkpoint expect a slog getting back to where you were, and it may have been quite a ways back.
Immediately upon starting the game you have to choose if Chloe... broke up with you, or is dead. Yeah... Even the original writer for Life is Strange publicly stated they'd never have done that.
Next you have to immediately decide if you have a crush on some new character of if they aren't your type after hearing like 1 sentence from them with no context, immediately after being hit with the Chloe stuff. Like are you serious?
And the way they made Chloe act in old texts you can read then having her flirting with Victoria Chase on social media?! That was literally in the nightmare sequence of the original Life is Strange it was so bad. This was character assassination, there's no other way around it. They absolutely nuked the franchise from orbit. They didn't understand why LiS was popular and obviously didn't like it.
It's very clearly malicious writing of the highest order.
But even if they didn't character assassinate Max & Chloe in the worst way possible and the MC was an entirely new character it STILL wouldn't be a good game due to the lazy way relationships are presented.
I'll avoid spoiling Max's powers in this game but unlike the original they're lame and annoying now. There's also zero incentive to be doing any of it.
They effectively ruined everything good about Life is Strange. The mystery is kind of cool but it seems they assumed that having a mystery to solve was the only reason LiS was successful.
Update: I've finished the game now. All of the leaks were true. It's by far the worst game in the entire franchise. Do not buy. Avoid this game like the plague. God it's so bad...
I didn't enjoy any of it.
But I'll try to be fair, let's see... I enjoyed the voice acting. Hannah Telle did a great job, as always. It was nostalgic hearing her reprise the role. But this wasn't remotely Max Caulfield. I don't know who this was. They had her face and her voice, but it wasn't her. This Max wasn't awkward and didn't act remotely like the original. Max is a little prettier, which I guess is nice.
The good pretty much ends there.
The romance options were laughable. The one presented immediately after the Chloe decision seems okay as a person but isn't interesting in the slightest, and there's no time given to even get to know her before trying to make some kind of decision on her. She's not really attractive and dresses like a young grandma total weirdo fusion. Normal shirt, jean jacket, then a weird cardigan over it, then camo leggings? Like really? The girl has literally zero sense of fashion. And we're just supposed to believe everyone thinks she's hot and cool because they just tell us she is? Like, newsflash... she's not.
The other is a total d-bag neither Max nor Chloe would have ever even considered. A literal non-option. No one even in real life would go for someone like that.
The story was so bad. It had literally none of the magic of the original. Total character assassination with zero respect. No, directly malicious even. Pacing bad, romance bad, gameplay bad, power mechanics lame - and the original severely missed. A lot of the choices are so not obvious and out of the way, like one just randomly requires listening to these people talking for such a long time no one would do it naturally. The ending was super bad.
It was so bad I honestly couldn't ever trust another Life is Strange in Deck Nine's hands.
You gotta hard pass on this one.