Life is Strange “Episode 1: Chrysalis” Review and System Requirements

Life Is Strange

Let’s just start with OH MY GOD..!!!
I don’t know about you people, but the first episode was awesome for me.
As most of you know Life is Strange is an adventure game with the female protagonist Maxine Caulfield who has returned to her fictional hometown Arcadia Bay, Oregon from Seattle after five years. Oh and also she can REWIND TIME. But this isn’t what got me hooked on this game it was how the game was presented to the players. When you hear about this game you probably thinking about Telltale Games, but let me tell you this, it is different and in a very good way.

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Square Enix did an amazingly good job with this game and I can’t wait for the next episodes. Often when your playing Telltales titles like The Walking Dead or The Wolf Among Us you feel life you made the wrong choice and eats you up inside, well in Life is Strange you can rewind time to change your decisions but let me tell you that it doesn’t make it any easier for the player to make a choice. Using time to your advantage can weave an interesting chain of events that might surprise you. That’s one of the interesting aspects of the game.

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The game has a lot of acoustic guitar music going in the background ,on your phone, on the hi-fi ,etc and i don’t mean that in a bad way, it was really relaxing and at the same time without letting you notice sinks you into the games environment.
As a whole, this game was a bundle of joys for me and I absolutely recommend it to people who are fans of adventure games. I really hope we get to see more games like this from Square Enix.

Here are the system requirements of the PC version of the game.

Minimum Requirements:

  • Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent
  • ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM (not recommended for Intel HD Graphics cards)
  • 2GB RAM
  • DirectX 9.0
  • 3GB Hard Disk space
  • Windows Vista

Recommended System Requirements:

  • Dual Core 3.0GHz or equivalent
  • ATI or NVidia card w/ 1024 MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 or ATI HD 4890)
  • 2GB RAM
  • DirectX 9.0
  • 3GB Hard Disk space
  • Windows 7