More than any other follow up from Don't Nod or another studio, Lost Records: Bloom and Rage feels like a spiritual successor to Life is Strange. It's a supernatural, coming-of-age rebellion told through a camera. It's about girls and the narrative choices that shape their relationships. It's about how those relationships in turn shape each other's lives.
Lost Records' Velvet Cove isn't quite the now-iconic locale of Arcadia Bay. Set in a small town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (on that smaller, northernmost peninsula of Keweenaw County) it is essentially nowhere. And that is what that part of the world feels like, sure, but Velvet Cove needs to exist in this anywhere-and-nowhere state to emphasize the game's relationship to time.
