THE FUSE

I love Life Is Strange, but man, do those of us who like men get the short end of the stick in this series. I get it, this started as a story about Max and Chloe, and the male love interest…oh shoot, I think I just forgot his name while writing this…Warren! Warren was just an afterthought. Life Is Strange: Reunion quadruples down on this treatment of him, with the only mention of Warren coming in a text message in which Max asks “whatever happened to that guy” who could’ve been her high school sweetheart. Reunion lets you import whether or not Max and Chloe were in a relationship in the original game, but doesn’t give a damn if you were in one with Warren or not. I’m not even here to defend the guy whose name I literally forgot, but playing Reunion really did remind me that Life Is Strange’s male love interests are always worse than its romanceable women.