An Exciting Twist Makes Lost Records: Bloom And Rage More Than A Life Is Strange Imitator
Mark Delaney
8/20/2024
When Life Is Strange came out in 2015, it was following in the footsteps of many games before it, but the most apparent were those from Telltale, which at that time was on a hot streak of making adventure games with branching narratives and lots of dialogue choices. Don't Nod made this format its own with Life Is Strange, spawning several sequels and spin-offs over the years to come, always focusing on young people caught up in tumultuous situations but gifted with mysterious supernatural abilities.Nearly a decade after that debut, and after having developed and published many other types of games, Don't Nod is returning to the type of experience that made it famous. Lost Records: Bloom and Rage is a third-person adventure game that is one part Stand By Me, one part I Know What You Did Last Summer, and totally exciting.Lost Records, like the original Life Is Strange, focuses on teenage girls. Only this time, it's not a pair of best friends like Max and Chloe, but a foursome of girls, including the protagonist, a newcomer to the group named Swann Holloway. Swann is an awkward, freckle-faced girl, probably 15 or so, who loves horror movies, fuzzy slippers, and her cat, Pumpkin. A two-hour preview build I played started me off in her bedroom, where she was arguing with her mom from a different floor of their house.Continue Reading at GameSpot...
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