This whole game is LITERALLY "Me, an empath" meme in a nutshell

How we not even gonna mention Alex’s invincible glasses that can survive falling down an entire mineshaft without even a scratch, let alone breaking?

"I wish villains would use higher calibur bullets, so they'd blow the heros head off instead of triggering introspective flashbacks." 😂😂😂

This game is the fantasy dream for people who call themselves empaths but don't actually know what empathy is

I'm surprised at how dull these stories are getting. Given how the past games had some absolute psychopaths, I was expecting Alex to be up against someone who gave off no aura as they committed something like murder or have a twist where Alex misinterprets a person's emotion because she doesn't have the full picture yet, and the source of that emotion is much more sinister.

It's amazing that TikTok managed to make fun of True Colors with the "me, an empath" meme before the game even shipped.

Alex's whole personality is based on "I'm the unique protagonist" starbuck coffee social "worker"... You can smell the starbuck in her blood

If Alex was wearing her safety helmet she could've tanked that gun shot

How they handled Alex’s ability was the biggest disappointment for me. I like the idea of someone who can read emotions by aura while struggling with the possibility that she could be overwhelmed if she’s not careful. The game could have tried playing with the ability in that Alex can tell people are hiding things from her, but she knows how to offer comfort to give them the space to open up. Maybe play more with the choice between trying to get people to talk to her or actually be able to influence their mood to force a connection. There’s a lot of moral dilemma to play with there. Simply making her telepathic ruins that sort of nuance and goes beyond what an empath actually could do. It’s an easy button that begs the question of why she was made an empath in the game at all. Just make her a telepath and you’d barely need to change anything where character interactions are concerned. Being able to read memories from objects infused with lingering emotions was a cool concept for someone sensitive to emotional vibrations, but it’s so underutilized in the game and out of sync with a telepath.

Half of these comments blaming Alex, forgetting that Gabe went to the mines bc of *Ethan’s goofy ass*

Not to mention: The "subtle" hint during the LARP sequence that Jed would turn out to be the twist villain of the story. But if you have played at least one LiS game before, you get the idea even before that moment.

Remember how Mac’s anger was so intense it made Alex angry too? Or when Alex saw Ethan’s fears and got scared too? Well, those are the only times that happens. She never adopts other people’s emotions again, no matter how intense.

having the ability to read minds kinda defeats the purpose of reading emotions doesn't it? Reading minds just feels like the better way to read emotions - and the whole game didn't even need to exist because of that power..if she used it

This whole game could've been avoided if Alex had just minded her damn business

You know I didn't realize the larp section was foreshadowing for how the dude was evil all along

The game could have been saved and great if they made the ending like this: the whole town responds to Alex "yes we know whats covered up" and then make her disappear. Conclusion should be mind your own business.

You forgot one. Her glasses remained intact despite falling down a mineshaft after being grazed by a bullet.

My biggest issue with this game is the lack of emotion from Alex when her brother is killed. She spends so much time cheering up other people. How do you make a game about emotion but the main character barely emotes?

Good to see your first video of 2022, Dart. I know you'll continue to be as lovingly pedantic and justifiably critical as you've always been. Much respect man!

Ever since the 1st Life is Strange I’ve been addicted to your content.

My favorite part was the D&D-like game sequence. House of Ashes for the next game, would you kindly?

These games feel like they are written by twitter users honestly

4:03 I would just pick up the cat. Kiss the top of it's head 2 times and put the cat somewhere else. It's really simple, I don't know why they wouldn't give us the opportunity to do some light cat snuggling. I guess that's too much to ask for.

between this game's idea of what a LARP is and the elven barbarian, I'm starting to think the devs experiences with tabletop RPGs extends to knowing Critical Roll exists and that's it

I don't know why, but it seems everyone hates latest Life is Strange which makes me guilty for liking it. Or is this a coping mechanism for buying the game? Also I thought that the main power was mind reading but the devs decided to throw the mood aura's into the pile to nerf it a little bit because it would be too powerful and all the plot would resolve itself in seconds. Another interesting detail - I saw the footage from DLC with Stephanie, and it seems that Deck Nine makes canon the ending where Max and Chloe leave the town.

"Can you tell me what I'm feeling" "What not how my power work" Then they're not powers then, you can list feel emotions like people do in real life.

I’ll admit the whole Typhon conspiracy was the biggest problem I had with the plot. Unless Tyson has access to neuralyzers or SCP’s amnestics. There’s no way the 2008 mine collapse would’ve been a secret. I still enjoyed the game a lot despite its flaws.

I had gone into this game expecting to use the power to alter people's emotion to suit yourself, and could either do it in morally good, or somewhat morally bad or ambiguous ways. Like maybe you could choose to comfort somebody or pressure them to manipulate them

her power really sucks, especially if she doesn't even exploit it.

been waiting for this a while. LETS GO!

At this point, this videos are becoming actual critiques than joking about certain plot points XD

Played the game and freaking struggled through the larp section never felt cringe like that before damn it was strong

The biggest sin of this game is the explosions. Typhon wanted to cover up the death of 7 people in their old mine. But when the security gets alerted that a child and 3 people are in the blast radius, they don't call it off because it puts the whole company in jeopardy. But Rhea is in the middle of town and the new blast area as Jed told Alex that. The old mine is closer to town than the old one. This matters because 2 minutes after the call Leanne tells Diane that Haven is her district, and it is her decision, and convinces her to do it anyway. But Rhea is closer to town than the new mine, so it has to be in Diane's jurisdiction, therefore she has the authority to halt both blasts. Another problem with that is if all 4 of them died they would've had more deaths to cover up. It was literally more beneficial for both parties to wait the next day. Another huge sin is how terrible Typhon's lawyers are and also how bad the cops are in Haven. Typhon attempted to use a private investigation firm to keep tabs on Alex and friends, when the investigators have no good reason too, they didn't know Alex was going to steal the USB Drive, therefore no excuse for Alex to commit any crimes for Typhon to start a private investigation. Also, Typhon sent an affidavit to Charlotte, and the only thing Charlotte can press charges for is Child Endangerment since Ethan was in the blast zone, but Charlotte would easily lose since it's her responsibility for Ethan and none of this would've happened if Charlotte had kept a close watch on Ethan. Typhon basically just gives Charlotte free money. They also try to make Alex sign an affidavit after catching her with the stolen USB saying she'll drop everything even though she hasn't even begun a legal investigation or lawsuit. So Typhon just let's Alex get away with computer fraud. The cops don't also immediately request a warrant for the USB recordings when Mac said that there was no call but Ryan claims there was. The recordings that they would find out was on the USB drive, and request and see that there was a call, and also a call telling them to ignore Gabe. They also don't question Ethan, Ryan, or Alex about the incident so they know more. Typhon's terrible lawyers are apparently giving away free money and letting people off federal crimes for free and they still don't get busted by the cops because they're even more terrible at their job.

She may have a new form of synesthesia Which only means that she can see what her brain is trying to express from another sense, in this case “intuition” So she sees a sad person and her brain creates a color for it, This would also take away the supernatural element from it and would explain why she’s wrong sometimes when people lie to her

I recently read an article that real empaths are mostly just able to notice emotions really quick because most of them were abused as kids. They had to notice changed in emotions very quickly to know if an abusive person is gonna explode.

“multi-year search for milk” lmao

"I'm personally waiting for a Life Is Strange game to depict a conservative Texan getting some kind of ability." We all know which conservative Texan popped up in our heads then. But considering that he has a boy that ain't right, it probably won't work.

DeckNine doesn’t have the balls like DontNod had. No stakes or risk of losing any characters. Forced happy endings. RIP LiS 😭

Am I the only one who sees the potential in a psychological horror about a super-powered empath? Like the story could be about a sociopath who’s superpower is basically an empath x10; to the point where he knows WHY they’re feeling those feelings. But instead of helping them, he manipulates them into doing whatever he wants, even hurt other people. I’m just saying…

I just got done binge watching Hannibal and after seeing how that series depicted Will's empath abilities, seeing the same concept depicted with....the level of competence you'd expect from this series is simultaneously amusing and depressing .

If I said it once, I’ll say it again. The Adventures of Captain Spirit would have made a spectacular full feature.

She changed his hearth without a persona and without entering his palace and stealing his treasure.

The song that plays during the villain reveal (and maybe even the ost) is the best thing about this game.

The jokes just keep on coming with this one 🤣. Great work as always Dartigan. 👏

I don't even own this game and watching that part with the LARPing made me cringe so hard I popped a blood vessel

At the end, she could have said, check my clothes for gunpowder resedue, and that he’d owns a colt pistol,

Another sin: Remember how Gabe had to wrap the rope around the tree to feed rope to Alex? So how the hell, when Gabe got fucked by the boulder, did the rope end up not being around the tree and suddenly Alex had to hold onto Gabe??? If anything, Alex would've been tugged toward the tree, not the edge of the abyss or cliff or whatever.

Awesome, glad to see you were interested in this.☺

Biggest sin is actually Alex power, since besides few predetermined moments, its completely useless. Maybe talk to people in town, see theirs reactions to your questions, that would be the game. But no, you can only use Alex's power when game allows you, not any time. As a tool its good for nothing with exceptions of those few triggers that doesnt give you most of time any new insight into characters feelings you would recognize anyway..

Remember when Max exploited her power to save Kate till the point she had a nosebleed and losing her power for temporary? Pepperidge Farm remembers

I'm glad this video summary exists because I legit cannot stay awake past the first hour of its playthrough.

Yesssss. I've been waiting for another video!

Bear in mind, this is the shortest sins video Dartigan has done of all the Life is Strange games.

I'm honestly shocked you didn't mention how autism is clearly the inspiration for this game. The very first shot in the video showing the poster of emotions displayed on faces is something used with autistic children all the time because they have so much trouble differentiating emotions. Plus, the whole concept of the protagonist's power, helping you identify what someone is feeling, that feels very much like the creative team was taking autism as the primary inspiration for that entire facet of the game.

I commend you for actually being able to play through this whole game. I gave up after 30min or so and watched this video to see what I "missed out" on.

Lets go. I love these damn videos bro. Keep it up.

I dont know who made a better sins video for this. Dartigan or syi infinite. Both great videos.

One thing I noticed was the part where steph says "grab your hat and I'll meet you in the park" this never actually happens and the next time you see her is in the record store

Thank you I've been waiting for you to sin this

had to click the bell as YT gives no notifs for your challenge

As much as I like the game you do raise quite a few good points.

Life is cringe

Fantastic content! My vote for next sinned game is House of Ashes as I have very much enjoyed the videos you did on Man of Medan and Little Hope!

Heyyy there you are dartigan I've been waiting on this release bruh, thanks for the drop.

What I get from everything I hear about Alex is that power-wise she's basically a lamer version of Mati from Captain Planet.

From the moment I saw game trailer I knew that Jeb was the main villain, as he was an old white man

I’ve been waiting for this!!

I've been waiting for this video!

When the most interesting thing about the game is Alex's hair physics

21:35 - "It's a *Bigot* sandwich"

Good review. I still have to watch it in parts,

It's been awhile since we got a new Dartigan video.

"Alex is an empath" So either she's an empty vessel who doesn't understand how human emotional interactions work or she's a literal sociopath who only cares about the feelings of others when she can get something out of them. She's either completely socially inept on the level of someone like chris chan or she's a cold hearted monster but the game casts get as a "good person" because of her skin tone and ethnicity.

A true psychopath who could manipulate their projected emotion to undermine her power in a see-sawing cat and mouse narrative full of red herrings where the protagonist never knows the psychopath's true intention or end goal but still outsmarts the psychopath trapping them in their own machinations, growing as a person and overcoming the challenge the psychopath represented as a dark reflection or representation of the protagonist would have made a better story than white dude, bad, because bad / Omnipresent company keeping the town on the map, super evil because money. What we got was just lazy. Her powers would be better suited to a police procedural focused on interrogations with a time restriction to find and recover a missing person or dangerous mcguffin. Instead the writers, who have almost certainly never even been inconvenienced by real hardship in their own lives, vomit out a narrative that never stops driving its own pretentious biases into the players' faces with a narrow view of the world filled with wishful thinking and self-centrism.

When you realize the king being the evil wizard was supposed to be for shadowing

Love the videos man! I would enjoy you doing House of Ashes next

4:14 It’s so over the top and bizarre but I just do find this scene funny and the weirdness of it is what makes a life Is strange game. It’s not for everyone. But where you see a reason to turn a way I see one of the reasons why fans of this game are fans. As you say if this doesn’t turn you away nothing will. You are absolutely right 😂

Yeah the fact that the whole town decided to band together to cheer up Ethan after Gabe's death is crazy. Like is he the only kid in town or something?

I knew and hoped this would come and now it is here

lol you can see toward the end of the first sin Alex is like "just get on with it already!"

I love this game, although it has the weakest finale and once again the only time your choices seriously affect the narrative is if you'll leave or if youll stay, there's a lot more to focus on character-wise

Typhon Exec 1: "Should we stop blasting for ONE night or ignore it and potential kill people that may start and investigation and may unveil our dark secret?" Typhon Exec 2: "The latter. We're incredibly evil after all."

The 38th sin was the best one imo. I didn't even stop to think about that.

Dang the intro went all way in!

LARPing is what disconnected media companies think nerds identify with. Marvel brought it up in 2 separate shows.

Wow...and here I thought Twilight had cringeworthy dialogue...but this ''game'' if you can even call it that, has topped it

Mac telling everyone that he never received the call would have made sense if only Alex had sensed it like with Diane. Had he been figety or otherwise uncomfortable & the game made players find out that he was working, it would have made more sense that he was forced into lying rather than volunteering. Definitely feels like Deck Nine rushed production

This game looked pretty and had a charming town (that you barley got to explore) LARPing was kind of fun (and went nowhere) and it was cool that Steph was back (and underused terribly). That's it. That's all I got. The other three had a lot of heart especially 1&2 but True Colors was just so shallow. It was all style and no substance.

All this game tried to convey is that empathy is like a superpower and it's not that easy to understand how the other person feels. You take it too literally

so we went from time travel, to telecanesis, to good old fachioned empathy and telepathy. The next life is strange protagonist will have to power to go from point A to point B in superhuman speed - by driving a car

Love these videos

Good job on the video Dart, House of Ashes next.

Its somehow baffling and unsurprising, all at the same time, how most reviewers give this dog shit ame a 9/10.

Alex could have just taken Jed's emotion and change the whole second part of the game 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 they showed that Alex could do this. Why? If she doesn't use it when it actually mattered.

That moment when I almost stopped watching the video... just because of how painful the cutscene ITSELF was, without Dartigan's voice even contextualizing anything... This crap hurts

Goddamn, I haven't watched a Dartigan video in years

Basically the whole plot is like that SpongeBob meme: “How do we tell him?”

This game has the same problem as Encanto. The superpowers exist as a blatantly obvious metaphor for something mundane and nothing else. If you removed the superpowers the plot would be exactly the same, so why are they there? It's like making a Shakespeare adaptation in space while keeping the plot and dialog exactly the same, what's the point?

You took one minute and 53 seconds to get the first sin in

Great video as always. One vote for House of Ashes please.