In a vacuum, this development could make sense. People grow apart, especially friends and significant others from high school. But given what Max and Chloe went through together in the first Life Is Strange, it does not sit well with fans that their relationship would be discarded off-screen.

One of the original creators of Life is Strange defends Deck Nine after fans attack the new devs over the writing of Max and Chloe in Double Exposure.

Life is Strange: Double Exposure follows Max, the protagonist from the first game in the series, 10 years after we last saw her. She is once again caught in a mystery where she has to discover who murdered her friend, Safi (and why), and she has some interesting new powers to go along with it.

When Square Enix boldly proclaimed it would charge fans $30 for the privilege of playing Life is Strange: Double Exposure's first two episodes a full two weeks early, we knew the pioneering publisher was plumbing new depths of monetization.

Life is Strange: Double Exposure finds Max Caulfield on a new campus: Caledon University, where she serves as a photographer-in-residence. After the murder of her friend, Safi, Max sets out to not only solve the murder, but prevent it from ever happening.

In the newest chapter of the Life Is Strange franchise, Max Caulfield is all grown up, and her powers with time have evolved into interdimensional travel. Max can transfer her consciousness to a parallel universe where her murdered friend Safi is alive.

Double Exposure‘s first two episodes were released in early access on October 15, and as expected, Square Enix‘s “pay-to-play-early” plan turned out to be a disaster. Forget spoiling the first two episodes before everyone else got to play them,

And after nine years of exploring other stories (as well as a change of developers), the series finally returns to Max — the protagonist who turned Life is Strange into the phenomenon it is today. Max is still Max in Double Exposure,

Double Exposure is playable now for those of us who pre-ordered the game, at least the first two chapters of Max's new adventure. Of course, this is especially exciting for long-time fans who have also played the very first game of the series that introduced us to Max (and,

Double Exposure are out now for purchasers of the premium edition of the game, with players around the world stepping back into the shoes of Max Caulfield in a new adventure with new powers. In our preview of the fantastic first chapter of Double Exposure,