Life is Strange: Reunion Reviews
Life is Strange: Reunion was a wonderful game, despite its flaws, providing full closure on the original series, with Max and Chloe working in unison for one final time. There are numerous elements which could have been fine-tuned to further improve the game, but as it stands, I’m satisfied with my overall experience.
Life is Strange: Reunion is a fitting end to the Max and Chloe saga.
Rewind remains a genius mechanic for a choice-based narrative game.
This isn’t about surpassing the original; it’s about making peace with its past. And somehow, against all the stacked odds, Deck Nine manages to pull that off in a redeeming fashion. If you’ve been on this journey since the beginning, it feels like closure, the kind that quietly sticks with you long after the credits roll as you're waving goodbye.
A satisfying end to the story of Max and Chloe, Life is Strange: Reunion is a mature tale of the uncomfortable truth that you can't truly go back, only learn from your mistakes and go forward.
Whilst ultimately an underdeveloped entry, it does make for a loving send off for Max Caulfield. Unfortunately, being another weak entry, it may also play that role for the franchise itself.
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Review in Spanish | Read full review
Life is Strange: Reunion manages to step up to the plate and pick up the ball that its predecessor, Double Exposure, had dropped.
Life is Strange: Reunion is a bittersweet sendoff for two characters who have tried time and time again to reconnect across the decade-long series. While the circumstances of their reunion weren't worth the wait, there's still an intriguing mystery at play here, even if you aren't as invested in the character romance.
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Review in Italian | Read full review
While the comfort and charm of the series can still be felt within Life Is Strange: Reunion, Deck Nine attempts to course correct the series, but in doing so, not only hurts the core experience, but previous titles in the franchise as well. As a long time fan of Life is Strange, I can't help but feel disappointed.
Life is Strange: Reunion could have been a full Double Exposure sequel, and it could have been a full Max and Chloe entry. Instead, both narratives are squeezed into a bloated finale with dull pacing and a lacklustre resolution. There are sparks of brilliance in there and fantastic chemistry between its two leads, but it's never given the love and care to blossom into something beautiful.
It's a shame that Reunion's fumbles, from its handling of Double Exposure's events to Max and Chloe's ending feeling unearned, drag down its brighter moments.
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Review in French | Read full review
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Review in German | Read full review
It's been more than eleven years since we first met Max Caulfield and her edgy blue-haired pal Chloe, in the first Life is Strange. And it appea...
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Life Is Strange: Reunion does right by past, present, and future, bringing Max and Chloe back together for a worthy final mystery.
Playing out and reading like incredibly poor fan fiction, Life is Strange: Reunion is a return to Max and Chloe’s roots that fundamentally misunderstands the series’ themes, rules and strengths. Less of a triumphant one last hurrah and more of a reanimating of a dead, soulless corpse, it’s an incredibly missable and disappointing regression in storytelling for the franchise that doesn’t trust its audience’s intelligence.