"There's a lot you don't know about me", Max Caulfield says at the beginning of Life is Strange Double Exposure. She's speaking to her friend Safi as they try to find the perfect spot to photograph in an abandoned bowling alley, but it very much feels like Max is saying it to me, too. I've felt equal parts excited and apprehensive about stepping into a new experience with a character I got to know so well in Don't Nod's Life is Strange. So many questions swirled around my mind going into Chapter 1 and 2 of the adventure. How would Deck Nine handle Max's tumultuous past? How has the rewind power affected her since her time at Blackwell? What would it be like to fill her shoes again after so many years? Can I still resonate with her in the same way?
I'm a different person to who I was when I played the first episode of the original, and just I've changed and grown, so has Max. But there's still so much about her that feels familiar, and it's apparent right from the start that there's a lot here that fans of the first Life is Strange will appreciate. Playing Double Exposure feels like getting reacquainted with an old friend I haven't seen in a long time, who's now trying to navigate their way through a new supernatural murder mystery.
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