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6.0Dull moment-to-moment play and an overbearing script weigh on “Farwell,” but a moving, if manipulative, final act save it. A worthy goodbye to a wonderful saga.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm Farewell
Deck Nine · Mar 5, 2018
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Experience Max and Chloe’s childhood friendship in Farewell the bonus episode to Life is Strange Before the Storm. Ashly Burch and Hannah Telle reprise their roles in an emotional and nostalgic trip down memory lane.
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- PCInvasion8.0Deck Nine have finished off Life is Strange in sterling fashion. Saying farewell to Arcadia Bay with Before the Storm is sad, but the best farewells usually are.
- Push Square7.0This is a Farewell for Life Is Strange fans, but Deck Nine once again does an outstanding job of telling a heart-wrenching tale within what is, effectively, someone else’s story. DONTNOD may be the creators of this wonderful slice of life series, but the American developer’s done an impressive job of expanding the fiction with Before the Storm – and this episode ties a big fat bow around Max and Chloe’s yarn for good. Now, what’s next?
- RPG Site8.0Emotional experiences like this are why art exists. Art is subjective and sometimes we love a piece of art not because it is objectively the best, but because it has resonated with us in a way we could have never predicted. I might have said farewell to them, but Max and Chloe will stay with me for years to come, and I’m cautious but excited to see where the series will go now that it has said farewell to Arcadia Bay.
- NoobFeed7.5Farewell is an outstanding tribute to fans of both Life is Strange and Before the Storm. It won't please everyone and doesn't offer the consequential decisions, powers, or backtalk ability found in the previous episodes.
- Attack of the Fanboy8.0The “Farewell” Bonus Episode is just that: it’s a bit of bonus material for fans who have grown attached to these characters and this world over the past three years. More casual fans of Life is Strange, or narrative adventure games in general, probably won’t find much here, but if you’re a more hardcore fan, this episode is certainly worth a playthrough as it provides a more relaxed and carefree, yet melancholic and tragic, epilogue to the Max and Chloe saga of Life is Strange.
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