The Awesome Adventures Of Captain Spirit

- 

PS 4

We know what bad guys look like – games have reinforced the stereotype for years. We recognise them even before the menacing music kicks in.

It’s different in The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, though. The line between archetypal good and bad characters isn’t blurred as much as non-existent, and there’s no subtle camera angles or music cues to choreograph how we’re supposed to feel about them. But when the good guys do terrible things, and the bad guys are capable of kindness, how are we supposed to feel? And what can we do when the decisions we make – the ones made on reckless, feckless impulse – are the wrong ones?

Dontnod’s Life Is Strange is a supernatural coming-of-age tale, and it’s to this universe that we return to in Captain Spirit. And while we don’t, as yet, know how Chris’ story fits into