I just finished Life is Strange True Colours and I had a nice little time with it. A shorty, small scale, everything tied up with a neat little bow by the end. I liked Alex Chen a lot. Good stuff. As far as Life is Strange games go my ranking would be something like:
1. Life is Strange 1: Max's personality felt so fresh for a video game character at the time, and her time rewind power was a perfect match for the dialogue-tree/decision-making gameplay. I think the ending is pretty bad but for my money the first four-and-a-half episodes are still the best Life is Strange has to offer.
2. Tell Me Why: I really liked the characters in this, liked the mystery, and especially liked that it was only a three-episode-er. I'm at the point in my life where more shorter = more gooder, and Tell Me Why felt like all killer no filler.
3. True Colours: I will admit, the illusion of your choices being in any way meaningful in these games was probably at its thinnest in this one. On the one hand I know that ship has long since sailed and I don't really expect it any more; on the other I find that I'm a lot less troubled by the 'hard' decisions than I used to be because I know they don't ultimately matter, and that's not great when this whole genre is nominally about making choices. Very few games around still flying the flag of big choices with big consequences. Sad to see 'em go.
4. Life is Strange 2: I think the road trip nature of this one really hurt it. A whole new cast in each episode, no time to build a rapport with a cast of regulars. Short form, vignette-style storytelling is not these games' strength, in my opinion (the same reason that Captain Whatever one-off free demo thing didn't do anything for me); they come together over the course of the series, not on the strength of any individual episode. I also just found the older brother a little monotonous, to be honest. It felt like his actor read every line with the same inflection, kind of like the new Lara Croft, and I just found it grating.
5. Before the Storm: This one just didn't do a thing for me. Unlike Tell Me Why, which felt complete in three episodes, this felt like it was building towards something that it never reached and it just stopped mid-story. A stinker.
