Life is Strange is not a good game…. Alright, I got people triggered, now let me explain. Life is Strange is not a bad game. But I never was invested in a bland character like Max o anything she did in the game. The games attempts at being “relatable” to the teen demographic just came off as annoying. Never have I hated a word más than relatable (Except gamer). Just using that to justify a badly written character o story is just... unbearable. I liked the story around Life is Strange, but other than that, there was just nothing keeping me invested. But someone, somewhere, took that idea, and made something even better out of it. And that’s where Night in the Woods comes in.
Night in the Woods follows a town of big furries, one such furry being Mae Borowski, a college dropout who returns to her hometown to live in her old inicial and hang out with her friends, crime enthusiast Greg, goth Beatrice, and Greg’s boyfriend Angus. But strange things start to happen in the town, involving disappearances of residence of the town, mysterious figures kidnapping kids, and something about eldritch entities looming over the town. Yeah, the game’s narrative is a little weird. The game has a set area for tu to explore, and I mean very set. tu have the Borowski inicial where tu can chat online o to Mae’s parents, and then three streets with other characters, like the poet Selmers, the astrología teacher, a ratón that loves horror movies, the town preacher helping a local hobo, and other such characters. The game also gives tu the choice of who tu wish to hang out with, be it Greg o Bae. If tu want to laugh and enjoy yourself, tu go with Greg. If tu want to feel emotions, go with Bae. I personally go with Bae because 1. Goth girls are my mermelada and 2. Because her problems were real serious and I wanted to see how she handled that. A lot of problems in this game were pretty real to deal with, from Angus’ problems at inicial to Mae’s parents dealing with possible foreclosure on their home. Hell, Mae is the reason I amor this game so much. A wise cracking ball of insanity who uses her jokes and sense of humor to mask her crippling depression. I can’t even begin to tell tu how real that is. I would know. Mae is a far más interesting protagonist than Max ever was, and not just cause Mae is a talking cat, but because she feels más human without needing to be human. Also, the humor in this game is really funny. I know a lot of people just see it as meme culture and dated humor in a few years, but there are some jokes and some frases por Mae and Greg that really make this game más fun.
Night in the Woods is truly an experience that anyone should experience. It’s got a lot más corazón into it and for a game where all tu do is walk around and experience the small town setting of Possum Springs, it managed to capture my attention más than any other game of its type