“Look how much emotion their faces show now!”

These are games about repressed teenage girls, after all.

I’m less convinced.

Chloe Price, protagonist of Life Is Strange: Before The Storm, in a promotional screenshot for the Remastered Collection

In fact,dev diariesfrom the first game’s release show designers carefully hand-painting the environments.

It all looked stunning and, just as importantly, served the story.

Heck,my GOTY last yearwas technically another re-release.

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Life Is Strange only came out in 2015, after all.

That’s not that long ago in the grand scheme of things.

Plus you get a remaster-exclusive shirt for Chloe!

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Ignoring any comparison to the originals, these remasters look…fine.

In other news: old woman yells at cloud.

Uh oh, there’s actually quite a lot of clouds out there, now that I look.

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I hope those pesky teenagers aren’t messing with the fabric of spacetime again…