Just finished it today actually. Its was alright. The endings make everything else you went through pointless so I was rather let down. But up to that point it was compelling.

I played a little but was getting increasingly frustrating with a few cringy dialogs here and there. Finally deleted the game after one of them said "STUPID GUN!!" after I purposely shot myself at the shooting range. lmao

actually it is a very well written story and especially as you learn a lot about the background of the character chloe (blue hair) who hates men, to a point where you just understand her point of view.
Her father died in an accident. And he was like the perfact father nice and friendly but also manly, so the perfect male rolemodel, almost a cliche.
And after that her mother marrys a guy who's a total jerk, who's controlling and **** . He's also the school security guy and secretly spying on the students because he thinks there is some kind of conspiracy going on.
And so she grew up with this guy as only male parent that she ever had and so she really starts to hate guys, also because most of her friends (including the main char) left her around the time her dad died.

Now to say it is SJW fodder is nonesense, it is a very artistic game that tries to explain different characters and their backgrounds. And it tries to show the main character (max) interacting in a world which tries to be as realistic as possible. And while you can chose to be with chloe and choose to go with her, you can also choose to go with a guy Max likes.
In the end you have to decide whether you save Chloe and let the whole town die or whether you go back in time and let her be killed when she was supposed to be killed in the first place. (There is some kind of super tornado heading for the town, which occures seemingly because of Max using her timey wimey powers.)

It is a really nice game and a great story and yea chloe is a man hating lesbian, but she sure doesn't paint a good picture of SJWs. But in the end it's a game that a SJW wouldn't complain about...

brote is best

People love to take that line out of context and make the whole game seem like it's about SJW ******** . In reality it spends the first two episodes setting up the context that basically a pair of teenagers who deal with the usual highschool teenage girl drama get thrown into a super weird murder-mystery type of story combined with one of them being able to rewind time.

It gives it a pretty interesting tone when you use the time-travel to solve both major problems like the disappearance of a friend, or the blue-haired chick accidentally shooting herself with a ricochet; but also use it for teenager kind of stuff like getting questions right in class, or making a bucket of paint fall on the school bitch.

Was a really fun game to watch people play on twitch, but I never picked it up due to lack of money.

also, blue-haired girl is hot af

My honest review, there is some special snowflake stuff, but that's only in the 1st episode, by 2 and beyond, the writing for Chloe (Blue haired, I hate my stepdad, the patriarchy) get's a lot better, to the point where I like their relationship. The writer's even poke fun at how bad she was before

The gameplay is honestly a lot better than telltale, because in telltale, no matter what action you take, it doesn't have any affect on the story. This, because it involves time-travel, is also true, but there is a choice which I won't spoil that does change a huge section of the game. If you fail this choice, there's a 20 minute section of a later episode that's just cut out, and having played it both ways, it does feel like it has an effect on the game. And because you can rewind time, if you do **** up, you can change it to fix everything. The theme of using time to make everything perfect is really good and the story revolves around this.

The other thing is that a lot of choices don't matter and that's what makes it good. There's a plant in your room that if you don't water, dies in the 3rd episode. That has absolutely no bearing on the larger story, they feel more important or I can feel more invested in them because you can choose to do or not do them.

The main character (Max) is pretty good and well fleshed out and her likes and interests don't feel as cringy or trying to be cool as a lot of young characters are. My only real complaint is that by the end you have all the popular guys and girls telling her how much they like her and how cool she is and it feels more like wish fulfillment than anything else.

Honestly, the only thing I thought was irredeemable was Warren. Warren is the most cliche nice-guy betamale character that expects you to love him just because he's nice and it's the only thing that becomes worse as the story progresses. I'm not going to spoil too much, but it's just bad

Overall: It's a surprisingly good game with a lot stronger emotional pull then most of this genre. The gameplay is fun and original and most of the characters feel unique and interesting. I'd say give it a shot if it's on sale

Your power is that you can rewind time for a few seconds, so if you say something wrong or make a bad choice, usually you can rewind it. Later on, your powers become stronger, and you can change things from earlier episodes, but those are story choices and you don't have a choice for them

As someone who has played the game through once and doesn't feel the need to make a second playthrough to experience all the choices, can you elaborate on the "failed choice" you mentioned? Or at least roughly which episode it's in? (1-5, beginning, middle, end, etc.)

When you save Kate if you do, in the 3rd episode, There's a scene where you visit her in the hospital, if you didn't save her, the scene's missing completely .

Other thing I forgot to say, my main problem with telltale games is, and this is what they've (writers/developers from TT) said, is that if you can save someone or if some choice is clearly the 'correct' one, than they think people will play to save that person rather than 'playing as the character' which is true and can work with games like The Walking Dead where everyone dies or Tales from the Borderlands where it's not serious, but for Game of Thrones or TWD2, having all roads lead to failure makes the game much more unsatisfying

For some reason I thought you were talking about something else, such as Chloe dying after you get caught by Jefferson or something. Out of curiosity did you Save Chloe or Arcadia Bay?

First time: Save Arcadia Bay ******* rough

That doesn't have Undue concequences does it? It really is save, no more tornado, right? I got to that point and I had to save Chloe. Couldn't go through with killing her after all that time. She was and will always be my favorite character.

Unless you call Chloe Dying undue consequences, then no. Arcadia bay is alive and well, Jefferson/Nathan are stopped and Kate is okay

And what happens to Jefferson? Part of my reasoning at that point besides loving Chloe was that If Prescott killed Chloe in the bathroom, nobody would find out about him, and he'd keep doing what he was doing, whereas if I saved Arcadia Bay he'd be at least killed by the storm(hopefully)

how is it so social justicey?