Last month, Life is Strange: Before the Storm developer Deck Nine announced the next major release in the beloved narrative adventure game series, Life is Strange: True Colors. This time our hero is Alex Chen, a young woman gifted with a superpowered form of empathy, which lets her tap into other people's emotions on a much deeper level, reading what they're feeling based on colourful auras that surround them.
The story follows Alex's return to a remote mountain town called Haven Springs after years away growing up in the foster care system. She sets out to reunite with her older brother Gabe, but he dies in mysterious circumstances, leading Alex to use her power to search for the truth.
True Colors marks a few firsts for the series. While the game is still episodic (with five in total), every episode will launch on the same day, so players have the option to binge the whole story in one sitting this time around. True Colors is also the first Life is Strange game to feature full performance motion capture, hopefully bringing more life to its script and characters.
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