What I find interesting about Life is Strange is that everyone has a bit of a different experience with the games depending on if the characters resonate with them, what they're personally going through in their life at that time, etc.
I do agree with you that it felt like LiS2 was attempting to be topical, which is where I felt like it fell flat for me.
Whereas the stories in the other games felt a bit more timeless and relatable for most players.
It's an esoteric device for sure. I've really enjoyed the titles that the console ships with, and it actually has some relatively big names who have developed games for it. Crankin's Time Adventure was developed by the makers of Katamari Damacy. The upcoming Playdate game "Mars After Midnight" is being developed by Lucas Pope, of "Papers, Please" and "Return of the Obra Dinn".
The lo-fi aspect is part of the appeal, but obviously not for everyone. That being said, Panic has struggled to keep up with the overwhelming demand, and itch.io is filled with thousands of titles developed for the Playdate, and it has a very active online community surrounding the device (outside of Lemmy).
It's certainly an esoteric product. I bought mine before the price increase (when they were I believe $170), and I've been quite pleased with it. It's fun, has creatively made games on it, and makes for a perfect waiting room time-killing device. But it certainly isn't for everyone at its price point. The build quality is very nice though, as you'd expect from something designed by Teenage Engineering.
Very true, Arcadia Bay is such a great setting.
But I also really enjoyed the setting of True Colors, as well as the characters & story. I really liked Alex as a protagonist and her powers were interesting/different compared to the previous games.
I haven't seen much in terms of rumors about Life is Strange 4 yet but I'll certainly be playing it regardless, whenever it comes out.
This series has been in my watch list for such a long time and I finally started watching it over the holidays. What a great show! Been working through the previous seasons while waiting for the new episodes to release.
I'm an American who visited Cuba (legally) a few years back. I paid for goods and was allowed to bring things back into the US. There were just monetary limits for goods on what you were allowed to bring back in. I believe products like rum, cigars, and coffee were limited to $100-200, but I wasn't asked to show any receipts or anything.
BP. Obvious reasoning.
Lot of great games in here! I'd recommend FAR: Lone Sails and Norco!
Regular watch.
I find myself bombarded by notifications all day anyways, I don't also want my wrist buzzing along with my pocket. Since I work from home, I have my phone out on my desk most of the time anyways, smartwatch doesn't really add any value for me as I don't care about the fitness data.
I'm also a watch enthusiast, so smartwatches don't scratch that same itch as a traditional watch.
In all likelihood, there was never an "investigation". It felt like something they said to try to calm some of the anger towards them. I doubt we ever hear any updates on this from LTT.
Any update here? Would love to play your game if it's ready!