Life is Strange: True Colors Reviews
Life is Strange: True Colors still feels like a low budget and rushed episodic released adventure game. The premise is not fully realized, and it never reaches its full potential. For a full priced game, there is not enough substance; and the best parts in this package are a short RPG and a decent port of Arkanoid.
True Colors already feels closer to an interactive movie than a game, especially in the final chapter. Here, we’re plunged into a series of overly expository flashbacks in which our decisions have already been made for us. There are fewer choices to make and interactions to discover as we’re led toward a narrative twist that’s as convenient as it is messy. You can see the seams in the editing as the game’s engine chooses which of two responses you’re going to get from each member of the town council, depending on how you interacted with them in earlier chapters. Were you ever actually empathetic toward these people, or simply tallying up points to get them on your side? A stronger game might have better concealed this behind-the-scenes scorekeeping, but Alex’s power makes the game’s true colors all too visible.
Comparing to previous titles true colors feel somehow underwhelming, whether that's Alex's character or plot development. And while "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing but I think it's time to change things a little bit in the series.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
It's a game that elicits a plethora of vivid emotions, both good & bad, but my overriding true color by the end was beige.
Life Is Strange: True Colors ultimately doesn't understand the emotions it tries addressing and lets its characters down in the process.
Life is Strange: True Colors has a lot of the ingredients that make the series so beloved, most notably in its compelling protagonist. Technical advancements for the series bring its story to life with fantastic performances and a keen eye for detail. Unfortunately, the story it brings to life is full of stutters and stops, and takes far too long to develop. Where Life is Strange games are full of movement, True Colors feels painfully stagnant for too long.
Life Is Strange: True Colors had every chance of becoming the series' best game to date, but it's been let down by arguably its most important element: the story.
Interactive possibilities make this dorky tale about a small-town psychic musician strangely absorbing
Life is Strange: True Colors is a game that constantly aims higher, but never really takes off. Neither the power, nor the story, nor the environment are up to its greatest virtue, which is none other than Alex Chen, its main character. The good ideas are weighed down by the timidity of a game that does not end up betting on its own proposals. There are things to rescue, it has a good rhythm, and it is easy to get into, but it is within the best instalments of the franchise.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Life is Strange: True Colors does not bring anything particularly novel to the saga. In fact, we could even say that at the decision level the level is quite low with respect to DONTNOD deliveries. But if that doesn't bother you and you are a fan of the saga, then it can be interesting to explore Haven Springs and meet the inhabitants that live there.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
It is worth putting yourself in Alex Chen's shoes, daring to confront our emotions and, more importantly, helping those who matter to us to assimilate those colors that surround them avoiding red.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Life Is Strange: True Colors tries to tell a mature story, one of grieving and self-loathing, how it transforms our lives and others, how we come not to find relationships but build them with those around us. But for all of these themes, it scarcely succeeds at capturing any one of them. It can be compelling, captivating, and charming at one moment and forcefully maudlin at others. It tries to capture the full rainbow spectrum of human emotions, every last hue and shade that makes up the complexities of ourselves. But it only has four colors.
If you are fans of the Life is Strange saga, in True Colors you will find an installment with which you will be satisfied since it is a continuist title.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Life is Strange: True Colors doesn’t deviate from the formula in any way, and in fact calls back more to the original game than before. But even though it is walking a familiar path, it does it well.
The successes of Life is Strange: True Colors are many. The saga points in the right direction thanks to its new developers without feeling trapped by previous plots or the unnecessary use of pressing buttons to press us. They have created a small place to empathize with, Haven, and a protagonist that we really care about. Despite her flaws and her past.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Life is Strange: True Colors is another good installment in the series. However, there are some flaws. The setting is far too small and you will find yourself visiting the same locations time after time. Next to that, there are some flaws in the story. Although the writing is good, the game loses focus once in a while and lets you LARP instead of looking for clues. Overall it's just a good popcorn game, but not more than that.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
Life is Strange: True Colors ebbs and flows from great game play and cinematic enjoyment, to deep lulls that neutralise any and all gains.
Heartfelt and poignant, the only thing Life is Strange: True Colors trips over is its own words.
Life Is Strange: True Colors is worth your time, and is a title you don't want to miss. Just be ready to put the controller down at the start of fifth chapter, and pretend that the game ends at this exact point.
Review in Russian | Read full review
True Colors is the best game in the series since Before the Storm, and it will satisfy your narrative craving for a time.