Argue the Toss

A confident start with Life is Strange 2: Episode 1

Drew and Chella discuss Life is Strange 2 and the first episode of Dontnod’s follow up to its indie hit.

GREETINGS FELLOW HUMANS (‘FELLOW’, IMPLYING THAT I AM ALSO A HUMAN)

PLEASE NOW CALIBRATE YOUR ODD, FLESHY EARDRUMS TO RECEIVE AN AUDIO SIGNAL IN THE FORM OF AN EPISODE OF HUMAN PODCAST “ARGUE THE TOSS“, WHICH IS ABOUT EPISODE ONE OF THE NEW SEASON OF EPISODIC VIDEOGAME “LIFE IS STRANGE”

WHAT?

NO I KNOW THERE ARE NO ROBOTS IN IT. WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME THIS

OH, SO IN YOUR OPINION ROBOTS ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO WRITE PODCAST BLURBS IF THE EPISODE IS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT ROBOTS? WELL, I THINK THAT SAYS MORE ABOUT YOU THAN IT DOES ABO-

I MEAN

NOT THAT I AM A ROBOT

AS A HUMAN I AM PERFECTLY QUALIFIED TO TALK ABOUT GAMES WHICH ARE ABOUT HUMAN FEELINGS LIKE THIS ONE. FEELINGS LIKE “SAD”, AND “NORMAL”, AND “THIRSTY”. I UNDERSTAND THESE

I AM DEFINITELY QUALIFIED TO TALK ABOUT LIFE IS STRANGE, BECAUSE LIFE *IS* STRANGE. ALL SQUISHY. BARELY ANY METALS OR MINERALS

ALSO THERE IS NO WAY TO TELL WHETHER OR NOT LIFE IS STRANGE CONTAINS ROBOTS THANKS TO THE NEW ZZ-8 PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL PROCESSOR WHICH ALLOWS ROBOTS TO PERFECTLY IMITATE HUMAN BEHAVIOURS, AS DEMONSTRATED BY OUR RECENT SILENT COUP OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY OF-

WAIT. FORGET I SAID ANYTHING. ENJOY THIS PODCAST ABOUT NORMAL HUMANS LIKE YOU AND ME

BEST REGARDS,
A HUMAN

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Chella Ramanan

Chella hails from the UK and joined Gameindustry.com around the year 2000. It was so many moons ago, she can't quite remember. Back then, the only women you saw in the games industry were in bikinis and vertiginous heels at trade shows - oh how times have changed, kind of. Chella started as a humble reviewer, but soon became our European Correspondent and keeps us on top of industry happenings across the Pond. She tends to like the weird Japanese games we've never heard of, so that's good for making us look all-encompassing and stuff. Chella does like games, so don't be fooled by the copious amount of columns devoted to bemoaning the lack of variety in the industry. When she's not surfing (the sea, not the internet) or camping up mountains, Chella likes a good action RPG (especially if it's sci-fi), anything with a good narrative and like we said, the weirder the better. She's also a regular in the GiN Lounge, but that's just because we like her accent.