Life Is Strange: True Colors
Developer Deck Nine
Publisher Square Enix
Format PC, PS4, PS5 (tested), Stadia, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series
Release Out now
At first glance, Deck Nine’s second stab at (following 2017 prequel ) looks, well, . Even by the series’ aggressively well-intentioned standards, the premise is particularly touchy-feely: a young woman helping others with her “psychic power of empathy”? That concern is hardly dispelled by a scene towards the end of the first of its five chapters. We’re not talking about the awkward dancing to a piece of licensed music (in this instance, Kings Of Leon’s Don’t Matter), because that’s practically tradition by now. Rather, it’s the moment new protagonist Alex Chen sits down in her room, shortly after reuniting with her older brother Gabe in the idyllic mining town of Haven Springs, and plucks out a mournful acoustic cover of Radiohead’s Creep. “What the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here,” she sings, tearily.
