Happy Pride on the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Riot! This month we bring you an analysis of the extremely gay Life is Strange game series, focusing on choices and consequences.
We conclude with an update on the war against the coming zombie plague, including how we ended up recording this episode in Antarctica.
Written and hosted by Derek Johnson and Ani White. Edited by Ani and Lidia Grigorut.
Timecodes:
- Recs: 1.48
- Intro to reviews: 14.00
- Life is Strange (series 1) review: 18.13
- Life is Strange: Before The Storm review: 1.02.00
- Life is Strange 2 review: 1.11.00
- No Fate Project report: 1.25.55
Recs:
- Jim Sterling youtube channel
- Eurogamer website and youtube channel
- The Stanley Parable, PC game on Steam (also: The Beginner’s Guide, Dr Langeskov…)
- Tonight We Riot, PC game on Steam
- “America’s Moment of Reckoning”: Cornel West Says Nationwide Uprising Is Sign of “Empire Imploding”, Democracy Now
- The university pay cut deal is defeated. It’s a win for rank and file activism, Red Flag (Australia)
Life is Strange series (available on PC and PS4):
Commentary on Life is Strange:
- What Telltale Could Learn from Life is Strange, Kotaku
- Ashly Burch ‘Heartbroken’ She Won’t Play Chloe in Life is Strange: Before The Storm, Kotaku
- Ethical philosophy in Life is Strange 2 Episode 2 (SPOILERS), Ani’s Fandom Blog
- Arcadia Baes: A Life is Strange spoilercast, SoundCloud
- Life is Strange Let’s Play, Eurogamer YouTube
Music used:
- Various (chiptunes) – Ozzed
- Various (acoustic, incl Let Me Be The One) – Mike Mineo
- Various – Kevin McLeod
- Dangerous Dungeon – patrickdeartaga.com
- The River – Rolemusic
- All in a Silver Line – statushq
- Cheap Arp Guitar – Anonymous
- Acoustic Folk Instrumental – Hyde
- Clair de Lune (Epic Version) – L’Orchestra Cinematique
- Movement 5 of Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz, performed by San Francisco Community Orchestra (featuring orchestral version of ‘Dies Irae’ refrain)
- Dies Irae beat by ǾZZYMANDIAS
- Dies Irae vocal performance by Membeth
- Dies Irae beat by CROWZ
- Leon Theremin playing his own instrument (Donlevy theme)
Sound effects:
- Medium Wind – kangaroovindaloo
- Frank’s Lab – Zozzy
- Zombies Ambient (Immolation) – bernuy
- Laboratory Mad Scientist – deleted_user_7146007
- Mad Scientist Lab loopable – ramonmineiro
- Futuristic Computer Sounds – All Sounds
- Vending Machine – SOUND Effects Public Domain
- Squeaky Office Chair – Free Sound Library
- Charlie Brown’s Teacher – Partexedd
- Knock on the Door – Berlin Atmospheres
- Door Open and Close Sound Effects – GamingSoundEffects
- Footstep sound effects – Music & Sound Effect Library
- Male Pain Grunts Sound Effects – HDSoundLibraryYT
- Finish Him – Son/Effet Montage
- Blood Splat Sound Effect – zero
Video/film sampled:
- Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959), feature film (Criswell intro/outro)
Video games sampled: Portal 2, The Beginner’s Guide, Tonight We Riot, all Life is Strange games
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