Square Enix has extended its external development partnership with Life Is Strange: Before the Storm creator Deck Nine. The pair will collaborate on a new title, although it’s keeping the nature of the project under wraps for the time being. Our assumption? It’ll have something to do with DONTNOD’s teen series.
“The partnership with Deck Nine has been a huge success,” said a chipper Lee Singleton, who’s in charge of Square Enix’s external studio partnerships. “The opportunity to work with Deck Nine on another game was an easy decision, although we’re keeping the project details under wraps for now.”
Despite a rushed ending and some hastily concluded plot threads, we’d argue that Before the Storm is better than DONTNOD’s main game, although we personally appreciated the developer’s reluctance to add superpowers – not everyone agrees. The next Life Is Strange story is scheduled to debut next week, featuring an all-new cast and storyline.
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I think they did an amazing job, considering they made a prequel for someone else's game. I hope this means they get to work on something of their own completely!
I finished Before the Storm just the other day and I was really impressed by it, definitely better than the first game in the series.
Before the Storm is much better than original Life Is Strange that is for sure.
I thought Before the Storm was no where near as good as the first one.
Glad to hear. I also thought Deck Nine's prequel was better than the excellent first game. Chloe was awesome in the original LIS but I liked her much more as a character in Before The Storm.
Interesting and exciting news given how good BTS was. I think it'll be a completely new project personally.
Maybe they turn over the entire Life is Strange property to Deck Nine and allow DONTNOD to move on to other projects like Vampyr 2 or Remember Me 2 🤞🏼
*insert obligatory “More like Forget Me Too” joke
Excellent news; would love to see what they come up with, was (mostly) a huge fan of Before the Storm!
Before the storm>lis1.
But both amazing and some of my all time fav games!
@Cordeceps Yeah, clearly me and you are among the only who do. Before The Storm was nowhere near as good to me, with no powers, different Chloe voice actress, and hello, Life Is Strange set up this awesome world with believable characters in it. They laid the foundation for the series, and Before the Storm failed to live up in my opinion. Rushed and nowhere near as intense.
I cried like a bi*** at the end of the Farewell episode.
@jim_bob_89 Agree with everything you said, the first game got me emotional, something that games really ever do on that level bar a few, not sure what it is was but it really hit me at the time.
Another LiS or something different would be exciting though... Hope its Pain 2 but with Final Fantasy characters.
@jim_bob_89 @Cordeceps Same here guys, don't know why people like Before the Storm more...probably because it's newer and their memory of LiS is super old/they haven't played it.
I stopped playing Before the Storm after Episode 1 released...will try to go back and finish it before 2019 hopefully.
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