Yes, this is a blatant reference to Life Is Strange. You know, the game that puts you in the shoes of slightly introverted high school student Maxine “Max” Caufield, a student at the fictional Blackwell Academy in Arcadia Bay, Oregon, who discovers by accident that she can rewind time.
So, if you haven’t played the full game, please read no further, unless you want to be spoiled. In other words, SPOILER ALERT !
Still reading ? Well then... In episode 3, “Chaos Theory”, Max eventually and unknowingly travels back to when she was thirteen years old by looking at a photograph she had of herself and Chloe taken moments before Chloe’s father died in a car accident.
Max, knowing how much Chloe suffered when she lost her father, decides that her father must be saved, and at this point, seeing how gentle Chloe’s father is, you don’t even think otherwise. So, you save him, and by doing so, you completely alter the timeline.
You wake up at the present time, 5 years after the accident that finally never happened, and realized that everything has changed. Victoria acts like she’s your best friend, Warren is dating Stella, and while William, Chloe’s father, is alive and well, Chloe is not quite so well off.
Sure, her dad’s alive, she never had to mourn his death, never had a veteran probably suffering from PTSD for a stepfather, never turned to dying her hair blue or to getting tattoos, and clearly, she never smoked weed. The biggest change of all is that she is now in a wheelchair. Happy to see you when you visit her, but in a wheelchair, meaning she has at least lost the use of her legs, if not worse. Understandably, at that moment, you share Max’s horrified, remorseful expression, her ‘What have I done” face.
I found myself thinking about the way time changed, about how Max’s original timeline was completely altered - and it reminded me of what DC Comics had done with their Flashpoint Paradox, when The Flash, by altering a single moment in time, modified all the events after that, and perhaps even before, with Bruce Wayne dying instead of his parents, and Thomas Wayne becoming a Batman with no qualms about killing, with Superman not landing in Smallville but right in Metropolis and being taken in by the government, and so on and so forth. Basically, The Flash had “broken the time barrier” as Zoom states, and by basically “detonating” a time bomb, shifted all other events just tiny bit - like a stone dropped in water creates ripples.
Of course, at this point, I lack enough elements and knowledge to make a definite claim, but if that is the theory about time travel and chronal modification that the devs of Life Is Strange decided to follow, then it’s pretty impressive.
Can’t wait to see what Episode 4 has in store for us, to be honest. Although, Chloe being crippled did shock me a lot. I rarely felt that guilty and remorseful in life, let alone in games...
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