It's as if developers at Dontnod set out to create a contemporary version of A Christmas Carol's Tiny Tim, but with a particular Pacific-Northwest flair. He dreams of a better life for his broken family. Chris is a school-age boy with bright blue eyes, scruffy blond hair and a smattering of freckles across his nose he enjoys superheroes, playing with action figures, and helping with chores around the house.
That's the word that keeps ringing in my head as I play The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit. Spoilers for the Life is Strange series, including The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, reside below. Still, Dontnod manages to pack a lot of emotion into such a short experience, as discussed by Engadget's Jessica Conditt and Timothy J. It isn't a full episode of Life is Strange 2 instead, it's more of a teaser for the new story. The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is just a few hours long, and it's free to download right now on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC. Meanwhile, Chris attempts to escape his new reality by becoming the superpowered Captain Spirit - in his imagination and possibly in the real world, too. Though the protagonist, Chris, is younger than the star of the original series, his problems are just as mature: His mother recently died in a car wreck, and in the aftermath, his dad is having a rough time creating a stable home life. However, where the first season approaches this feeling from the perspective of a confused teenage girl with the fate of an entire town in her hands, Captain Spirit puts players in the basketball-spotted socks of a 9-year-old boy playing pretend.
In The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, the latest installment in the Life is Strange series, developer Dontnod once again taps into a deep and pervasive human emotion: The desire to have superpowers.
0 kommentar(er)
