![]() The core of the episode is very much business as usual Max and Chloe are still trying to work out what happened to Kate and Rachel, and what the “Dark Room” referenced in Nathan’s scribblings is before the Vortex Club’s End of The World party. The fact that (minor spoilers for the rest of this sentence) they essentially hand-wave it all away with timey-wimey stuff did detract from its impact a little but, still, fair play to Dontnod for actually going there in the first place. The opening section culminates in a choice that I was not expecting to have to make, really struggled with, and refused to rewind to try the other path because I felt it would have cheapened the decision somehow. ![]() At one point Max says “hella” and wheelchair Chloe complains about how she hates the word, which is possibly a little too clever for its own good. The first part of episode four is very much centred around Max getting to know the “new” Chloe, and trying to make up for all the time she was away in Seattle, all while feeling massively guilty that her screwing with time has left her best friend in a wheelchair. Also a bunch of whales washed up on the beach and were promptly forgotten about by almost everyone. As we discovered at the end of episode three, Max doing a Timeslides and saving Chloe’s dad from his fatal car accident had some unwanted side-effects, most notably that Chloe ended up in a car accident herself a few years later, and is now paralysed from the neck down. I’ve criticised Life Is Strange for a few things in my previous reviews, but one of the things that I can’t really fault it for is the relationship that developed between Max and Chloe, which made playing the first twenty minutes of The Dark Room really quite uncomfortable for me. You can read my reviews of the previous episodes here, here, and here. This review contains heavy spoilers for episodes one, two, and three so stop right now if you haven’t finished them yet. ![]() Windows PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 Life Is Strange: Episode 4 – The Dark Room
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