Related: Life is Strange: Before the Storm, a prequel to the original Life is Strange, is another excellent narrative adventure. This is the United States of America in 2016, and the two brothers on the run are Sean and Daniel Diaz, American-born Mexican-Americans wanted for a crime they didn’t commit. This is the United States of America in 2016, when gun violence is rampant and too many police officers shoot first and ask questions later, unless they’re dealing with a white person.

This is the United States of America in 2016, at the height of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, where anti-Latinx racism and “build the wall!” rhetoric are rampant. After all, it’s a story of two young brothers desperately trying to survive as they travel across a wasteland, where they never know if an encounter with other humans is going to end up hostile.īut this isn’t some fictitious apocalypse. At a glance, you could easily mistake Life is Strange 2 for the latest in the tired old trend of zombie apocalypse, “humans are the real walking dead” media.

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