Best Adventure & Visual Novel Games of 2019
First Runner-Up: Life is Strange 2
Features Editor Greysun Morales: I was worried that developer Dontnod would ruin one of my favorite adventure games of all time with this sequel to Life is Strange.
Two male protagonists this time around and the absence of high school antics and drama had me cautious about where the series was going but in a surprising turn of events, Dontnod has done it again and has made me care about Sean and Daniel in more ways than one.
Every episode in Life Is Strange 2 deals with topical controversies and issues that are happening all around us in this time period that we’re living in, issues like racism, homophobia, religion, and so on and so forth.
And Dontnod handles these controversial topics quite well with each episode focusing on the major points and then attempting to figure out why these issues are still going on today.
These characters are thrown into some pretty radical situations, situations that happen on a daily basis to tons of people in the world.
The adventure that you’re going on with the Diaz brothers feels so real and when you’re forced to make choices and life-changing decisions, they always seem to break your heart.
There’s no right or wrong choice, everything is just grey and that’s how life actually is. We all do things that we don’t want to do and sometimes we end up making some terrible decisions that may hurt the ones we love.
Life is Strange 2 is an adventure that I’ll never forget and Dontnod has truly knocked it out of the park with this episodic series, even though the episodes were split up a little bit more than I had originally wanted.
