Players piece together Chris’s history by interacting with the environment and identifying clues, some of which don’t answer questions definitively, merely speculating outcomes of events. DONTNOD’s reliance on allowing their highly detailed world to tell Chris’s story, instead of bombarding the player with lengthy exposition, places players in the role of detective. On the surface, these snippets seem inconsequential, but it’s the sum of the parts that tell the brunt of Captain Spirit’s story.įew developers can convey such meaningful and organic relationships with characters from merely exploring and discovering items within an environment. Studying a picture of the wilderness reveals Chris’s mom liked to hike.
Examining Chris’s broken video game console reveals his father has repeatedly been too busy to fix it. In similar fashion to Life is Strange, the environment is filled with items that reveal snippets of Chris and his family’s backstory. Players traverse these environments at their behest and to get the most out of this brief 2-hour-ish prologue, and I encourage you to interact with everything you encounter.
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit has a sandbox design that allows Chris to explore his home and his front and back yards freely. This makes the prologue inherently replayable given the number of outcomes available. The structure of Captain Spirit’s gameplay will be familiar to fans of Life is Strange, in that the player’s choices will affect the story. One of the earliest scenes has Chris designing his super suit, and this is the first moment that the player’s decisions impact the game. Chris spends his free time as his alter-ego, superhero Captain Spirit, and frequently draws and acts out his superhero antics. You play as Chris, a young boy with an overactive imagination who has recently moved to a new town with his father after the loss of his mother. The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is a free prologue to the upcoming Life Is Strange 2, introduces new characters that prove to have equally diverse backstories and predicaments living within the Life is Strange universe. And sometimes, awaken that which is buried deep beneath the surface of their reality. There’s something heartwarming about the lengths to which a child’s mind will go to protect itself from facing what they wish to avoid.
Imagination is innocent and often a way to occupy one’s mind as a form of entertainment as a way to escape from their reality. A vivid imagination is at the heart of The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit.
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