Nine years and numerous sequels later, Max Caulfield is back and starring in another Life is Strange game. Double Exposure gets its name from her newly enhanced powers. Time has passed in the Life Is Strange universe and our hero’s supernatural abilities have leveled up. I got to go hands-on with a behind-closed-door preview of an early chapter of the game during my time at Germany’s Gamescom 2024 event. As a big fan of the first game (and the series as a whole) I left feeling nostalgic for my love of the original and excited for what other characters and easter eggs I’ll get to experience when it finally comes out.
Life Is Strange: Double Exposure begins when one of Max’s close friends, Safi, mysteriously loses her life and our heroine is determined to uncover what exactly happened. Judging by the demo and trailers for the game, it seems like studio Deck Nine is following the tried-and-true formula for the lauded series, with a protagonist using their otherworldly powers to solve a mystery and thread their way through a cast of memorable characters.
Max and Moses.
My preview began in a middle chapter of the game with Moses, a friend and classmate of Max, being under investigation for something to do with Safi’s death. While I didn’t see the previous chapters, it seems Max is convinced he’s innocent and wants to help get the detective assigned to the case off his back. However, Moses reveals that he did in fact take evidence from the crime scene, Safi’s camera, and hid it somewhere in his university lab, it’s only a matter of time before the detective finds that camera and comes down hard on Moses. This is where our main objective for the chapter is revealed: find and get the camera out of there.
With our target set, I was then introduced to the new magical powers that Max will wield in Double Exposure: the ability to shift between two different worlds. In fact, in this other world, Safi is still alive, leaving us with a pretty drastic change in…
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