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Dear Mrsavage_991, thanks for your comment of appreciation. I'm most grateful that this alternate finale has brought you some joy.

Dear TheUltimateMaker027, that's a great idea and I confess something which hadn't crossed my mind. Chloe managed to fix up the pickup truck which she discovered abandoned in the junk yard so yes I imagine she'd be happy rolling her sleeves up in the garage.

Dear Nameless00Soul, thanks for your words of support. Yes indeed, the contents and structure of this alternate finale resolve the game's story arc appropriately and furnishes the characters with the futures that they and the international LIS fandom deserve to have.

Dear ForeignWerewolf, thanks for your pleasant words of support and encouragement. I've found a way to grant Max the opportunity to challenge fate just one more time and save the lives of both William Price and Rachel Amber. The ledger book of life and death in Arcadia Bay will be made to balance, once and for all.

Dear sithumvikasitha8811, thanks for your comment. As it can be objectively demonstrated that LIS' endings are intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt I refuse to dignify either of DONTNOD's plane crash on a train wreck endings with my participation. In response to DONTNOD's apparent compulsion to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory I became compelled to create a legitimate resolution to the story as it stood. After much research the contents and structure of this alternate finale was arrived it order that it best represent the most probable resolution to the multifaceted plot of the game. The overwhelming vast majority of this endings international viewers have embraced it and i hope that it brings you some peace and joy.

Dear gray9411, thanks for your comment supporting this alternate finale. I'd have loved it if DONTNOD had the foresight to make that the case.

Dear ASTRO29 yes indeed LIS is a very special game.

Dear maddievernati1580, yes it's both painful and beautiful to witness Frank's presence at Rachel's funeral.

Dear tayjohnson5926, thanks for your question. It can be objectively demonstrated that DONTNOD failed to conclude the story of LIS with anything approaching an appropriate resolution. The endings are intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt. As such I became compelled to create an ending which would properly represent the futures of the characters in the game. This alternate finale has a content and structure arrived at after considerable research in order that it should best represent the most probable resolution to the game. I hope it brings you some peace and joy.

Dear armytshirt, thanks for your comment. Yes it's true that there's been a few people who've said that they get to the end choice of the game and switch LIS off as they disagree so strongly with both of the DONTNOD train-wreck endings.

Dear hassanhasibul7863, yes I think that the entire structure of the game and the resolution of its storyline makes so much more sense this way.

Dear gghostqs, thanks for your kind words of appreciation.

@@nickmattedwards np

Dear Nameless777-, thanks for appreciating this alternate finale. The road not taken by DONTNOD in regards to LIS is such a painful waste of an opportunity. There's nothing meritorious about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Dear Forgotten and hidden, if wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets. Be that as it may I'm grateful that you discovered this alternate finale.

Dear slv4k, thanks for your question. It can be objectively demonstrated that DONTNOD failed to conclude the story of LIS with anything approaching an appropriate resolution. The endings are intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt. As such I became compelled to create an ending which would properly represent the futures of the characters in the game. This alternate finale has a content and structure arrived at after considerable research in order that it should best represent the most probable resolution to the game. I hope it brings you some peace and joy.

Dear itsd3br33, thanks for sharing your opinion of this. When it comes to accompanying music it's always a genuine effort to choose that which seems the most appropriate to use. I can understand why my soundtrack choices aren't for everyone though it's with some mild disbelief how the years have flown by since I created and uploaded this alternate finale.

Dear wy0lkensb.902, thanks for your question. It can be objectively demonstrated that DONTNOD failed to conclude the story of LIS with anything approaching an appropriate resolution. The endings are intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt. As such I became compelled to create an ending which would properly represent the futures of the characters in the game. This alternate finale has a content and structure arrived at after considerable research in order that it should best represent the most probable resolution to the game. I hope it brings you some peace and joy.

Dear flortrupp, many thanks for contributing such an informed comment to this discussion section. DONTNOD made such a independently demonstrable mess to the structure and endings of LIS that they have earned the most ignominious accolade of having snatched defeated from the jaws of victory. I remember one well respected review of the game describing the endings to LIS as being '...a hot mess...'. I've always taken that description as a stand-in for a more colourful metaphor that editorially they were not allowed to use. A big hot mess of we all know what! LIS was sold to us as a choice based game, as in plural, as in many, when in reality it's a 'choice' based game, as in singular, as in one choice only. As it stands the game of LIS is intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt. Which is a depressing and disenfranchising reality for a game which initially enchanted its audience with its story and characters.

Dear Sean, that's a nice performance, thanks for sharing.

@@nickmattedwards Thank You for listening! 😃

Dear ramonaflowers, thanks for your comment. I hope you can understand that it was never my conscious intention to clickbait or mislead anyone. The endings to LIS created by DONTNOD can be objectively demonstrated to be intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt. I was compelled out of respect, for the characters of LIS and the game's international fandom, to create a more appropriate resolution illustrating the futures of the main characters. The contents and structure of this ending where arrived at after considerable research in order that it best represent the most probable resolution to the game. I hope it brings you some small measure of peace and joy.

@@nickmattedwards I was joking but thanks for responding

Dear megg_ua, thanks for your question. It can be objectively demonstrated that DONTNOD failed to conclude the story of LIS with anything approaching an appropriate resolution. The endings are intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt. As such I became compelled to create an ending which would properly represent the futures of the characters in the game. This alternate finale has a content and structure arrived at after considerable research in order that it should best represent the most probable resolution to the game. I hope it brings you some peace and joy.

Dear josh, thanks for sharing your experience of playing this unique game. I've personally run the emotional gauntlet of feelings in regards to LIS. I hope that this ending brings you some peace.

Dear lily, thanks for sharing your experience of this alternate finale. Even after all of this time someone like you adds something fresh and new to the comments section.

Dear kamibrennyn, thanks for taking the time to contribute a substantial comment. The misunderstandings which pervade some sections of the LIS fandom would be laughable if they weren't so exhausting to be exposed to. DONTNOD missed a real story telling opportunity in not making more of the warren story arc.

Dear kat-tj7xk, thanks for your comment. I'm grateful that you've found some peace and joy in this alternate finale, thanks for watching.

Dear joudyayoubi4825, thanks for your question. It can be objectively demonstrated that DONTNOD failed to conclude the story of LIS with anything approaching an appropriate resolution. As such I became compelled to create an ending which would properly represent the futures of the characters in the game. This alternate finale has a content and structure arrived at after considerable research in order that it should best represent the most probable resolution to the game. I hope it brings you some peace and joy.

Dear @gabriellagrey4163, thanks for your kind words of appreciation. I hope that this brings you some peace and joy.

Dear TechShark47, thanks for your question. Have you ever wondered why it is that Max keeps returning to the ladies room at Blackwell? She returns there several times throughout the game, at the beginning of her adventure and at the end. The ladies room at Blackwell is the time and place wherein and whereof Max is granted her time control powers from Rachel's spirit animal the blue butterfly. It's the beginning and the end of the Monday to Friday time loop that Max has created and is stuck in, it's the nexus, the centre point of Max's week from Hell. You'll notice from a rewatch of this alternate finale that both Chloe and Nathan enter the bathroom at approximately 2:34 through the hallway door and on the other side is the impenetrable white space-time continuum wall comprising the edge of the photo. You will also notice that at 3:34 when Nathan exits the ladies room after Chloe, that the impenetrable white space-time continuum wall comprising the edge of the photo has been removed and instead the normal school hallway is now present to be stepped into. This is because Max has closed her time-loop and created instead a stable time-line with Chloe alive and well in it. For ease of explanation and understanding I'll use the metaphor of waves standing in for time, should it come to pass that two waves of equal size and strength do meet each other in a head on collision out on the ocean, then they shall cancel each other out. Max returning to the time and place wherein and whereof she was first gifted her time control powers from Rachel Amber's spirit animal, the Blue Butterfly and closing the time loop by establishing a new and stable time-line with Chloe alive and well in represents the second time wave which nullifies the first. I hope that this explanation helps.

@@nickmattedwards i understand but, after she travels through a photo she comes right in the exact moment when she started, maybe in a different place but still. If you're saying that this is now the reality and she won't travel again that's another theory but we don't know if that's possible 🤷

Dear Theanimeweeb5425, thanks for your comment. This channel acknowledges and respects that different fans of LIS will have different preferences for different aspects of the game such as relationships between characters etc. It's genuinely legitimate to reject BOTH of the DONTNOD endings to LIS as they can objectively demonstrated to be intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt. The structure of choice based games and how time travel is depicted in works of fiction are two things which come with comprehensively established rules which DONTNOD were compelled to conform to, yet failed to conform to. The LIS endings are an unrepresentative, disenfranchising diktat attempting to masquerade as legitimate choice. In that I demonstrably understand choice in a way that DONTNOD obviously don't, I choose not to choose one of their choices. Instead I chose to choose a different choice. The content and structure of this alternate finale was arrived at after considerable research in order that it best represent the most probable conclusion to the story arc of the game. Many viewers have stated that have chosen to embrace this ending, instead of what was forced upon them by DONTNOD. It's my hope that you now know that no-one has the right to force you to choose between two things of equal value i.e. Bay or Bae, when you have a genuine and legitimate right to both.

Dear jordanbundy4810, thanks for your question. Given that it can be objectively demonstrated that DONTNOD failed to conclude the story of LIS with any approaching an appropriate resolution, I became compelled to create this alternate finale. It's contents and structure were arrived at after considerable research in order that it should best represent the most probable futures for the main characters of the story featured in the game.

Dear cybxn, here's something for you, Max and Warren A Love Story: czcams.com/video/Gh08r1zkluI/video.html

Dear melinkanouchik, thanks for your question. It may surprise you to learn that, despite it's inclusion in this alternate finale, personally I'm not in favour of the death penalty. It's more expensive than jailing someone for life, it doesn't act as a deterrent to the crimes for which it's used as a punishment, a society that legally and calmly kills people for committing crimes is arguably at a greater moral deficit than the perpetrators. Most importantly of all, after researching the historical and contemporary use of Capital Punishment it is revealed that those executed includes, those under 18 years of age i.e. children, those who can be independently demonstrated to be criminally insane or mentally incompetent, worse of all years after their execution people have been proven innocent beyond reasonable doubt of the crime they were executed for. Given my position and the evidence above it may be difficult to understand as to why I've had Jefferson place on death row in this alternate finale. There are two reasons, firstly Jefferson's is being held accountable for his crimes in Oregon, a state that has the death penalty upon it's statutes for the crimes he's committed, so it's an accurate representation of the justice system he'd face. Secondly, he used a hypodermic needle to sedate and then kill his victims. Oregon uses the lethal injection method to execute it's inmates on death row. Jefferson murdered by the use of an injection and now will be executed by the use of an injection. There is a balanced justice in that.

Dear NapoleonVIII, thanks for your suggestion. DONTNOD created a compelling story for their game 'Life Is Strange'. Yet when it comes to the plot, the actual cause and effect structure of the happening, it's like watching a plane crash on a train wreck, it's such a mess.

@@nickmattedwards, the scene with the searching bottles is also a waste of time. Max could have used that to train her powers. If she used her powers to gain more time to train it, she would have possibly gain the ability to look into the future, making her completely OP. Though, in this case a lot of episodes would have to be cut out.

Please let me get what I want...

Dear Lilith-R, from what I've seen DONTNOD is going to release a new game, near the end of 2024, entitled Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. Apparently the plot revolves around the friendship between 4 female characters and is a tale of supernatural time travel. Here's a link: dont-nod.com/en/games/lost-records-bloom-and-rage/

@@nickmattedwards sooo excited okay awesome 😎

Dear ashton, thanks for your question. Given that it can be objectively demonstrated that DONTNOD failed to conclude the story of LIS with any approaching an appropriate resolution, I became compelled to create this alternate finale. It's contents and structure were arrived at after considerable research in order that it should best represent the most probable futures for the main characters of the story featured in the game.

Dear Lilith-R, although that may be the case, what merit is there to be earned from standing by whilst an entire town full of people is turned into a graveyard in front of you? It was the painful acknowledgement of that very fact which originally drove Chloe to offer up her own life in exchange for all of the peoples lives in the town of Arcadia Bay.

@@nickmattedwards I like the video though, its a happy ending 🥺

Dear Lilith-R, have you ever wondered what happened to the other people in Arcadia Bay? czcams.com/video/ZrHprXiesDc/video.html

@@nickmattedwards yes I did!, okay I’ll definitely click that. Thanks

@@nickmattedwards awe I loved that, you’re really good with editing and all that. Also did you watch the live action life is strange actual people are in it and it’s two hours long they also did before the storm which is 2 1/2 hours long it’s really good both of them are

Dear user-nl9dc9ii4x, thanks for your appreciation of this alternate finale. I think that I know of a way to grant Max the opportunity to challenge fate just one more time and save both the lives of William and Rachel whilst maintaining a balanced timeline. I shall have to show the way...

Dear sbn47342, thanks for your question. As it can be objectively demonstrated that DONTNOD failed to conclude the story of LIS with any approaching an appropriate resolution, I became compelled to create this alternate finale. It's contents and structure were arrived at after considerable research in order that it should best represent the most probable futures for the main characters of the story featured in the game. I hope it brings you some peace and joy.

Dear Naevedyam, thanks for contributing such an impassioned contribution to this comments section. Yes indeed there's no sense to be made as to why Max doesn't choose to take certain actions. The games studio which created LIS is called DONTNOD and they may well be masters of creating a compelling story, populated with endearing characters, yet it would appear that they have no idea when it comes to plot. The creation of and adherence to a genuinely legitimate cause and effect engine linking the causes and effects. They insulted this game's audience when they attempted to make us believe that Max would take a photograph of damn near every single last thing in Arcadia Bay, yet would fail to capture a single solitary shot of the one thing which would make a difference such as Nathan Prescott pointing a gun into Chloe's face whilst in the ladies room at Blackwell. I was so offended by the intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt train-wrecks that they attempted to pass off as legitimate resolutions to LIS, that I became compelled to create an alternate finale. The contents and structure of this ending were arrived at after considerable research in order that they should best represent the most statistically probable resolution to the story of the game and the futures of the characters. I hope that it brings you some peace and joy.

Dear SIMLWRTATIPFTU, thanks for your comment. Despite the appealing nature of the characters and the world of LIS created by DONTNOD when to comes to structural cause and effect that studio made a complete mess of its game, which is tragic for all concerned. There's nothing meritorious about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory or unconscious misogyny but DONTNOD are guilty on both counts as fundamentally LIS can be independently demonstrated to just not make sense.. The contents and structure of this alternate finale were arrived at after considerable research into how the gaming mechanics of a choice based game are meant to operate. Something DONTNOD obviously didn't do and thus I'm not artificially restricted by that which they state should have, or should not have, taken place.

Dear linckwild7996, thanks for your comment. This channel respects the right of fans of LIS to have different preferences for the relationships between characters in LIS. In regards to this I have created something for Team Wax, (W)arren and M(ax), here it is, Max and Warren: A Love Story czcams.com/video/Gh08r1zkluI/video.html

Dear andrewstpry6018, many years ago I was visiting an art gallery which featured a large impressionistic waterfall painting in its collection. I confess to being somewhat dubious as at first glanced it was just a visual mess. Yet as I sat and stared at the vast canvas, the waterfall slowly revealed itself. Somethings in life require extra effort on behalf of the viewer, but the reward is worth the effort.

@@nickmattedwards yes its the dots you see closer in the paintings and even take mr bean for example he sits in the corner and look at the paintings but not whistlers mother he ruin that painting

Dear Lizard, thanks for your question. Have you ever wondered why it is that Max keeps returning to the ladies room at Blackwell? She returns there several times throughout the game, at the beginning of her adventure and at the end. The ladies room at Blackwell is the time and place wherein and whereof Max is granted her time control powers from Rachel's spirit animal the blue butterfly. It's the beginning and the end of the Monday to Friday time loop that Max has created and is stuck in, it's the nexus, the centre point of Max's week from Hell. You'll notice from a rewatch of this alternate finale that both Chloe and Nathan enter the bathroom at approximately 2:34 through the hallway door and on the other side is the impenetrable white space-time continuum wall comprising the edge of the photo. You will also notice that at 3:34 when Nathan exits the ladies room after Chloe, that the impenetrable white space-time continuum wall comprising the edge of the photo has been removed and instead the normal school hallway is now present to be stepped into. This is because Max has closed her time-loop and created instead a stable time-line with Chloe alive and well in it. For ease of explanation and understanding I'll use the metaphor of waves standing in for time, then if two waves of equal size and strength meet each other in a head on collision out on the ocean, then they cancel each other out. Max returning to the time and place wherein and whereof she was first gifted her time control powers from Rachel Amber's spirit animal, the Blue Butterfly and closing the time loop by establishing a new and stable time-line with Chloe alive and well in represents the second time wave which nullifies the first. I hope that this explanation helps.

Dear 62detroit, thanks for sharing your experience of this alternate finale with us. I'm grateful that you've found it and that it brought you some peace and joy.

Dear simaskara, thanks for your question. Unfortunately DONTNOD have left it somewhat unclear as to what the genuine origin of the strange phenomena which start on Monday with a snow fall amongst other things and then escalates to an all out Tornado on Friday. This lack of clarity has led to much speculation within the LIS fandom as to the actual causation. Given the evidence within the game as it stands I've been forced to conclude that it's Max's time travel which destabilises the natural world and causes the events leading up to the storm, the whale beaching, the mass bird deaths, solar eclipse and snow fall etc. Max herself realises such when she turns to Chloe near the end of episode 5 and states "This is my storm. I caused this... I caused all of this." The space time continuum cannot be destabilised by the presence or absence or one life, in this case Chloe being alive or dead, just as a desert cannot be destabilised by the presence or absence of one grain of sand. It's a legitimate conclusion as a far as the story of this particular game is concerned that Max's time travel activities have indeed destabilised the space time continuum within the geographical area of Arcadia Bay. The metaphor that I use in regards to a time-line is imagine it as strip of carpet that we all walk on once, in one direction, from left to right. Time travel allows a person to walk back and forth on the same portion of that carpet, in this case Max is walking back and forth on the Monday to Friday section repeatedly and it's beginning to wear out, hence the destabilisation which increases with every passing day. If I use the metaphor of waves standing in for time, then if two waves of equal size and strength meet each other in a head on collision out on the ocean, then they cancel each other out. Max returning to the time and place wherein and whereof she was first gifted her time control powers from Rachel Amber's spirit animal, the Blue Butterfly and closing the time loop by establishing a new and stable time-line with Chloe alive and well in represents the second time wave which nullifies the first. I hope that this explanation helps.

Dear Joe, thanks for your comment. Yes it's true that the actor who plays Cameron, Alan Ruck's emotion filled, brilliant blue eyes just suck us, the audience, into his personal self perceptive revelation.

Dear michaelreeves4529, thanks for your kind words of appreciation. I'm grateful if this alternate finale has brought you some peace and joy.

Dear manahilhudda3036, thanks for your question. Given that it can be objectively demonstrated that DONTNOD failed to conclude the story of LIS with any approaching an appropriate resolution, I became compelled to create this alternate finale. It's contents and structure were arrived at after considerable research in order that it should best represent the most probable futures for the main characters of the story featured in the game. Here's something more for you, if you're interested it's a look at what happened to the other people in Arcadia Bay: czcams.com/video/ZrHprXiesDc1/video.html

Dear davidbreen6335, many thanks for sharing such an insightful comment. Yes it's true for here we see Cameron beginning to psychologically confront what he fears the most. His total discomfort with his own existence i.e the closer people get to him the less he makes sense, like an impressionistic paining viewed too closely, the image itself loses coherence. For so many of us, when we're young and watching FBDO for the first time we start off admiring Ferris though by the end we're rooting for Cameron. That readjustment of focus represents a journey of maturity, as we the audience go from radical Ferris to the realism of Cameron. Thanks for watching.

@@nickmattedwards Thank you for you kind words