Life is Strange - The Worst Best Friend

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    00:00 - Intro
    04:42 - EP1 Chrysalis
    08:55 - EP2 Out of Time
    12:22 - EP3 Chaos Theory
    17:04 - EP4 Dark Room
    20:05 - EP5 Polarized
    26:40 - Conclusion
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  • @uricksaladbar
    @uricksaladbar  Před 3 lety +9563

    Yo!! Just wanted to correct myself before I spread more misinformation.
    Ive been corrected and Frank and his Dog don’t have to die to get through that area. How previous puzzles were solved and others peoples play throughs made me think otherwise. Sorry about that!

    • @donnyramanditopritasa2092
      @donnyramanditopritasa2092 Před 3 lety +76

      Are you gonna review life is strange : before the storm?

    • @Gilpow
      @Gilpow Před 3 lety +118

      There are tons of mistakes in this video but ok lol

    • @Astro-Vision
      @Astro-Vision Před 3 lety +645

      @@Gilpow You could say some of the mistakes to help him correct himself instead of just say they exist.

    • @Parakirby
      @Parakirby Před 3 lety +233

      Hey, I did notice something - I believe if you look in the cell phone in episode 1, Chloe reaches out to Max several times but gets delayed or no responses in return.

    • @Loryuo
      @Loryuo Před 3 lety +352

      @@Gilpow i love when people say this and never back it up

  • @aggressica8952
    @aggressica8952 Před rokem +3967

    So ironic how Chloe wants to steal the disability fund when in another universe, she'd need that fund as a paraplegic

    • @patrickmarquez8307
      @patrickmarquez8307 Před rokem +207

      But, Chloe decided to use the money for selfish reasons just like the principal so she is just as guilty as him. It kinda makes her no better, as other people actually needed it.

    • @darkvioletskull
      @darkvioletskull Před rokem +35

      Sooo they’re both in the wrong and wanted to use it for their own personal use. Drugs and alcohol. Are you serious right now??

    • @darkvioletskull
      @darkvioletskull Před rokem +33

      And stealing is NEVER justifiable. Unless it was yours then it’s not stealing but taking back

    • @BWMagus
      @BWMagus Před rokem +21

      @@darkvioletskull Eh, if the principal was stealing the funds for his own personal use, I don't see why it's not justified to steal it from him. Why should a criminal have any more claim to what he stole than I? If anything, it's MORE moral if I get to spend it, because then at least the criminal isn't getting rewarded for his crime. That said, Max should have wanted to take it and then, you know, donate it to a legit charity or something.

    • @Casey420
      @Casey420 Před rokem +144

      @@BWMagus dude what even? If you steal from a criminal that doesn't make you any less of a criminal. Especially if you're just gonna do the same thing the criminal was going to do, which is to use the money for your own benefit when it doesn't belong to u to begin with. "if anything, it's more moral if I get to use it" is such a diluted thought it's baffling

  • @harlan7012
    @harlan7012 Před 3 lety +7979

    One thing you forgot to mention is how Chloe completely sells out Max if she fails to hide in the closet when David finds the joint. She says its Max's pot and she gets mad at you if you say it isn't.

    • @illusionofquality979
      @illusionofquality979 Před 3 lety +204

      yuuuup

    • @lunathedog6489
      @lunathedog6489 Před 3 lety +1817

      She basically assumes that you “owe her” for abandoning her and carries that mentality through the entire game ._.

    • @JadeAnnabelArt
      @JadeAnnabelArt Před 3 lety +957

      Doesn't even discuss it beforehand, she just straight up 'oh it's Max's'. She gets mad that you don't want to risk your scholarship, AND her mum gets mad.

    • @kalejuice5701
      @kalejuice5701 Před 3 lety +773

      @Killah Frost18x Past trauma explains certain behaviors, but it doesn't justify them. I wish the right person would've come along and (figuratively) knocked some sense into Chloe.

    • @selenium9479
      @selenium9479 Před 3 lety +279

      Yes, in real life I wouldn't talk to "friend" like this ever again.

  • @whynotanyting
    @whynotanyting Před 2 lety +3149

    Maybe the writers didn't realize that being rebellious doesn't always mean being an asshole. Especially towards a childhood friend.

    • @avalasialove
      @avalasialove Před 2 lety +236

      I’d say Wendy from Gravity Falls is a good example of a rebellious teenager done right.

    • @godloveszaza
      @godloveszaza Před rokem +15

      If we're being honest all of you chloe haters are pretty slow.

    • @zerareota1560
      @zerareota1560 Před 11 měsíci +56

      Yeah I had a friend who seems rebellious on the surface but really she was just an asshole who hates her family (which I’ve seen to be flawed but loving and caring) and contorts her perception of any ex-friend or partner into someone who doesn’t deserve sympathy by finding fault in regular behavior or fabricating fault from regular behavior

    • @l0v3lyniaa
      @l0v3lyniaa Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@godloveszazaall you chloe meat riders are delusional .

    • @homesickpink6474
      @homesickpink6474 Před 10 měsíci +57

      ⁠@@godloveszaza cope

  • @felphero
    @felphero Před 2 lety +6251

    Chloe gets angry with you if you refuse to steal 3 thousand bucks for the disabled. That happens. That is a thing. Why is that a thing

    • @robertramirez9251
      @robertramirez9251 Před 2 lety +528

      And are we supposed to root for her? She reminds me of Micah from rdr2 and you know that is not a good thing.

    • @aldovk6681
      @aldovk6681 Před rokem +1

      @@robertramirez9251 Duuude she's female micha only stupid lmao

    • @thomasshrum4006
      @thomasshrum4006 Před rokem +126

      It's a thing because she's a child...
      Why do people seem to pass over this obvious reason? Kids do stupid things, they say stupid things, they have stupid reasons for the things they believe in. They're kids.
      "Oh! but I never...."
      Yes you did. Yes you did.
      You were once young and stupid too. You once got upset over something unreasonable. You once let your emotions overpower your mind. You were once young.

    • @PilloTheStar
      @PilloTheStar Před rokem +991

      @@thomasshrum4006 Chloe is 19 in life is strange, you in denial plebian.

    • @PilloTheStar
      @PilloTheStar Před rokem +377

      The funniest part is that stealing the money literally changes nothing. The frank encounter goes the same way whether you do it or not.

  • @ghosty8193
    @ghosty8193 Před 3 lety +13133

    To be fair, seeing Chloe and Max's toxic relationship made me realise I was in one myself and sort of motivated me to leave so that's something I guess
    EDIT: hens when did this get 12k likes????

    • @Lojabean
      @Lojabean Před 3 lety +921

      That's great, I wish you the best!

    • @mrspandasoft
      @mrspandasoft Před 3 lety +432

      I never thought about it like that. You make a good point. Also, I'm glad for ya.

    • @princessthyemis
      @princessthyemis Před 3 lety +89

      That's great!

    • @kittycity2001
      @kittycity2001 Před 3 lety +483

      Flauros666 Z holy shit bro its hard to recognize that youre in an unhealthy relationship. sometimes you need an outside source to realize youre being taken advantage of no neef to be condescending aboutbit

    • @tallolives4337
      @tallolives4337 Před 3 lety +83

      me too actually! funny enough her name was chloe too haha

  • @ragepups6066
    @ragepups6066 Před 3 lety +7545

    i think people were a little bit too much obsessed with this "cute lesbian couple" that they didn't want to notice how unhealthy this relationship was in the first place. besides the fact that this was one of the not many lgbt relationships from that time i think.

    • @iwakeupandboomimarat
      @iwakeupandboomimarat Před 3 lety +947

      this is exactly what i think too, plus so many games before this would use lesbian/bi women as fanservice, so a lot of people were happy to see a game that didnt just use them for solely porn/sexual reasons

    • @filidolphini
      @filidolphini Před 3 lety +623

      this, absolutely. i was a terrified preteen/early teen when this game was released and i was so deep in the closet, with no representation in any media, especially video games, whatsoever. this game was my escape, my safe space. i can not express how much this game and the community helped me accept myself and start expressing myself. that’s why, despite it’s flaws, this game and the franchise will forever hold a really special place in my heart.

    • @ezrawyvern6795
      @ezrawyvern6795 Před 3 lety +321

      @@filidolphini I'm glad you're able to express and accept yourself nowadays, even if it was due to this game. I hope things are going well for you.

    • @Scruffers
      @Scruffers Před 3 lety +163

      @GrabberBythePuss Can't remember if it was set in stone or not, but having Max kiss Chloe was at least an option in a later episode, and it's implied that if you choose save Chloe over the town that they leave it as a couple.

    • @joseescobar2076
      @joseescobar2076 Před 3 lety +1

      .

  • @joshrussell4081
    @joshrussell4081 Před 2 lety +1705

    let's not forget about the fact Chloe literally gets shot because she decided to mock and belittle a clearly unstable and armed individual

    • @art3misxp784
      @art3misxp784 Před rokem +195

      Natural selection at its finest.

    • @abbydabbyback
      @abbydabbyback Před 11 měsíci

      Exactly. She cares more about fucking with people than her own (AND MAX'S) life.

    • @MikMok
      @MikMok Před 10 měsíci +68

      Tbf she didn't know he had a gun with him

    • @zxylo786
      @zxylo786 Před 10 měsíci +123

      ​@MikMok That's why you don't insult strangers and especially dealers.

    • @MaryLoveJane
      @MaryLoveJane Před 10 měsíci

      @@zxylo7862013 we weren’t as suspicious of kids bringing guns on school campuses
      Still happened, but not as often as more recent times…

  • @TheTSense
    @TheTSense Před 2 lety +2564

    ”You have to sacrifice Chloe to save Arcadia Bay"
    Normally you have to give up something to free yourself of your abuser. Here you get a free city on top of your freedom.

    • @RinLockhart
      @RinLockhart Před rokem +53

      Exactly!

    • @VeryPeeved
      @VeryPeeved Před rokem +85

      on the other hand... Arcadia Bay sucks. So really, what you're sacrificing is your chance to see that place swept away.

    • @kendivedmakarig215
      @kendivedmakarig215 Před rokem

      ​​@@VeryPeeved Not really. Sacrificing Arcadia Bay is worse because Kate and Warren will be killed and these 2 are better friends than Chloe.

    • @petra3217
      @petra3217 Před rokem +61

      this is so far fetched. abuser??? chloe had some shitty moments but if you actually explore the game you'd see that she apologized for them. like when she lashes out on you after you find out about rachel, or trying to steal money from the handicap fund. But those moments is not what makes her as a person. people are complex,not everything is black and white. let me remind you that max didn't text or reach out in any way for 5 years. if you look at the messages with her in before the storm, you can see that she would ghost chloe and that she would reply after a week to chloes messages until they stopped talking. but thats the whole point. they have flaws and no one is perfect . people need to stop saying that chloe is a poorly written character just because she's not perfect

    • @TheTSense
      @TheTSense Před rokem +246

      @@petra3217 It is abuse 101 that you have nice phases that you later use for your gaslighting. We in the field call it Lovebombing. If an Abuser is terrible all the time, their cover would get blown and contact cut.
      But this way, victims can say "She isn't an abuser, she is nice sometimes!" like you are doing right now.
      Chloe is a textbook abuser, like an AI using a wiki entry of abuse to write a character. As basic as it comes. If you feel the need to defend such a person, I am worried where you would get such a mindset. Because usually that is trained. See where I am going with this?

  • @oliviamontemayer7089
    @oliviamontemayer7089 Před 3 lety +9830

    Chloe is a very realistic character. She isn’t a very good person, and is very reminiscent of people that I’ve met. It is also very realistic that the character she takes advantage of is a person like Max.
    The problem does not lie with her. A well written character can still be a bad person. The real issue is that the game will not let you acknowledge that she’s a bad person.

    • @hydralily1646
      @hydralily1646 Před 3 lety +493

      Agree 100%

    • @umetnikmina
      @umetnikmina Před 3 lety +912

      Exactly. I actually don't even have a problem with Max going along with her ideas, neither for thinking that she loves Chloe (in any way), rather, with the gamw saying that's ok. I was in a friendship where I was taken advantage of, and I love it being represented, but I really dislike the save Chloe ending because of its message.

    • @chillstoneblakeblast3172
      @chillstoneblakeblast3172 Před 3 lety +267

      Yeah. I think "Life is Strange" does have good writing but One of the worst Executions I have ever seen

    • @protoprime4213
      @protoprime4213 Před 2 lety +68

      The narrative does not acknowledge it tho

    • @nyahnyahson523
      @nyahnyahson523 Před 2 lety +297

      @Zara Basantez It's like one of those shitty romance novels, lol. Naughty bad girl sweeps up an innocent chick and gives her life more meaning than she ever could've had before, now featuring: toxic relationships.

  • @frogmouth2
    @frogmouth2 Před 3 lety +1232

    “If it’s unhealthy, it’s realistic”
    Ya I hate how so many stories especially in games treat the protagonist as the only person who should be held responsible. It’s a really terrible and annoying trait

    • @JadeAnnabelArt
      @JadeAnnabelArt Před 3 lety +34

      Honestly it reminds me of when people say 'rape in history games are what make it realisitc.' But don't put the plague in, or dysentery.

    • @Jacob_G9
      @Jacob_G9 Před 3 lety +21

      @@JadeAnnabelArt where do they say that?

    • @someguy8951
      @someguy8951 Před 2 lety +8

      @@JadeAnnabelArt When did this happen?

    • @zekeleetiat9975
      @zekeleetiat9975 Před 2 lety

      That wasn't what this game tried to do at all.

    • @rangopistacho6928
      @rangopistacho6928 Před 2 dny

      well thats the thing, chloe was not suppost to live, you decided to bring her back and its because of your action that a storm destroys the town, it is entierly your fault so yes, it is all your fault

  • @maxwellwinters5792
    @maxwellwinters5792 Před rokem +984

    I disagree with David being paranoid for no reason. A girl of Chloe's age is missing. He's probably afraid that Chloe or someone from the school would be next.

    • @fallingxerophilous9870
      @fallingxerophilous9870 Před 10 měsíci +185

      The reason I love these games is the characters are complex. David is not a bad person at all and he genuinely cares. But his entire belief system is antiquated and misogynistic which taints everything. The good news is he does eventually get his stuff straight.

    • @catholicfemininity2126
      @catholicfemininity2126 Před 9 měsíci +54

      Not to mention he's an ex-Vet.

    • @TheRaineyMan
      @TheRaineyMan Před 7 měsíci

      Yeah, it’s actually proven that he’s correct about the conspiracy. He just also happens to be a misogynistic asshole.

    • @danielshore1457
      @danielshore1457 Před 6 měsíci +41

      Not to mention that a gun of his is missing, let's say chloe didn't end up having it (which if you go down a certain route chloe ends up losing it to a drug dealer pissed at her) that means a person has gone missing as well as one of his guns

    • @tfordham13
      @tfordham13 Před 6 měsíci +20

      ​@fallingxerophilous9870 he isn't really misogynist just a ex military dude who wants to protect his wife and new step kid who is rebellious and hates him

  • @justsomeferalminor
    @justsomeferalminor Před 2 lety +2012

    I thought Chloe'd panic when Max blacks out and regret pushing her so hard and that it'd be a turning point for her character. But that would make too much sense I guess.

    • @gaming1zanagi-1999.
      @gaming1zanagi-1999. Před 2 lety +62

      True but still even if she didn't learn from that at least later on she will once she done something so bad that Max had enough of her antics.

    • @VoltFall
      @VoltFall Před 3 měsíci +2

      Not a bad thing
      That is if max called put chloe for not giving a shit
      But guess these writers can't do that

  • @karue7581
    @karue7581 Před 3 lety +11800

    Chloe being a bad friend isn't the issue itself. It's the lack of acknowledgement of this by the story.

    • @djgamez1412
      @djgamez1412 Před 3 lety +79

      Max is a much worse friend tbh

    • @TheTiredhermit
      @TheTiredhermit Před 3 lety +850

      @@djgamez1412 how bc she couldn’t control a move? Was she expected to keep tabs on Chloe at all times? Lol

    • @djgamez1412
      @djgamez1412 Před 3 lety +770

      @@TheTiredhermit the messages on her phone show that she pretty much ghosted chloe and chloe had tried reaching out to her. If im remebering correctly even after living in chloe's home town for a decent time, she still doesnt reconnect until chloe is literally murdered in front of her. Max is canonically the kind of person who abandons her bestfriend while they are actively grieving their parent's death. Even if they were acquaintances actively ignoring a person reaching out in that situation is a dick move and they were according to the story close friends.
      Besides that through max's dialogue and commentary she show's herself to be incredibly self-absorbed, naive, and just the worst kind of twee pretentious artist. Her midterm is definitely gonna be 30 minutes of unedited footage of a plastic bag in the wind

    • @TheTiredhermit
      @TheTiredhermit Před 3 lety +296

      @@djgamez1412 fair I’d be pissed too

    • @-thegentleman1789
      @-thegentleman1789 Před 3 lety +567

      And the game force you to enjoy such toxic relationship too, gosh everything feels forced in this game.

  • @wannabehistorian371
    @wannabehistorian371 Před 3 lety +8000

    I think they wanted to write a girl who was a bit of a brat, but a lovable brat, who happens to be from a rough background and is going through some tough stuff and lashes out, but has a heart of gold under there. A sort of “She’s a jerk, but she’s my jerk” type of situation.
    Unfortunately they forgot to put more time into the “lovable” and “has a heart of gold under there” part.
    Edit: Holy balls I did not expect this to get so many likes.

    • @roccoon9892
      @roccoon9892 Před 3 lety +434

      weeby weeb i had a fucked up child/teenhood but you don’t see me stealing, doing drugs, abusing my bffs, and being a douche bad in general :] I never went to therapy to fix my broken mind, but I’m 20 (almost 21) and still doing alright. I had my moments but never once had i thought i should take it out on anyone.
      Don’t excuse her bratty actions. It’s cringe and hard to see

    • @combinecommando001
      @combinecommando001 Před 3 lety +286

      @@roccoon9892 Her actions are explained by a horrible upbringing and circumstances, however that hardly excuse any of her actions, anyone is responsible for their actions regardless of their background, but said background does explain the why of it but shouldn't affect the outcome of judgements.

    • @bwaterfall11
      @bwaterfall11 Před 3 lety +109

      Rowan P. Lol actually play the game instead of listening to this video which is very biased cause this guy completely ignored a lot of stuff in the game and acted asif all the worst outcomes were like the default for Chloe which isn’t true Chloe does apologise for freaking out on Max for calling Kate and was very sympathetic in that whole situation if you saved Kate Chloe would be the one to take Max to go see Kate and would ask if Kate is okay when Max leaves. It is actually so easy to convince Chloe at the party to not go in i have never failed to convince her and she doesn’t automatically kill Frank and his dog it’s when Frank gets pissed off and his dog runs to attack them im pretty sure Chloe doesn’t even like it when this outcome happens and heck max could literally kill the dog earlier on in the game. All the crime and sneaking in to school and stuff is literally what im pretty sure a lot of teens wish to do and probably some have lmao

    • @combinecommando001
      @combinecommando001 Před 3 lety +55

      @Summer Rose You ought to reread what I said. I say that it explains her actions but doesn't excuse them, the judgement shouldn't be affected by the why of it, a crime's a crime.

    • @angelinavargas8511
      @angelinavargas8511 Před 3 lety +81

      the literary trope is called: Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Granted, I still freaking hate Chloe and don’t find anything redeeming about her 😓

  • @astralaurora4165
    @astralaurora4165 Před 2 lety +4090

    Maturing is realising Kate Marsh would’ve been a way more likeable and better deuteragonist than Chloe.
    Kate deserved wayyy better :(

    • @primexd3838
      @primexd3838 Před 2 lety +27

      no offense, but she's not even allowed to watch r-rated films

    • @astralaurora4165
      @astralaurora4165 Před 2 lety +444

      @@primexd3838 relevance? doesn’t really change what i said

    • @imaninamakhtar896
      @imaninamakhtar896 Před rokem +246

      I know this comment is late, but I do feel LiS would be more interesting if there's no Chloe, rather Max's whole journey in high school, and she bonded more with Kate.

    • @astralaurora4165
      @astralaurora4165 Před rokem +226

      @@imaninamakhtar896 yeah I saw someone say that the game could’ve been more like choosing whether to stick with Chloe or Max going off and making better friends with other people like Kate and Warren. Then your solving different parts of the mystery depending on who you choose and that effects the ending. Like something like that would’ve been great imo.

    • @racqquel
      @racqquel Před rokem +9

      kate who would turn to guilt tripping max if she didn't offer her the exact advice that she wanted? she isn't likeable at all

  • @parycartoons6840
    @parycartoons6840 Před 11 měsíci +444

    I lost any sympathy for her after the way she response to Max telling her to grow up and reminding her that Kate just almost killed herself. She's straight up like "Yeah yeah Kate almost killed herself, big sad. Doesn't make me feel any better," Like WTF Chloe? Why do you expect people to be sensitive to your situation if you can't be sensitive to anyone else's?

    • @faratqm
      @faratqm Před 8 měsíci +20

      you r so right. I forgot about thaaattt, how people can still love so much chloe?

    • @clayhyuran
      @clayhyuran Před 8 měsíci +42

      True. I never forgave her for trying to set me up with the weed when my character stepped out of the closet. I was like “wtf” so i didnt cover up for her and didnt steal money for handicapped funds; she has then the gall to get mad at my character for not siding with her. This bitch tried to make Max give up her future for her tantrums and self interests. The only time i felt sorry for her was the alternate timeline.

    • @5i.260
      @5i.260 Před 5 měsíci +1

      if Kate killed herself, she still says the same shit. Even after earlier she was like "don't answer some bitch who you met in the school every day, and i have a many people i can hung out too". GIRL, are you serious? I'm surprised she didn't whined about Max's decision to answer Kate, like when Max didn't take the blame about weed. "you can always blamed me, like you did it with the weed" . IT WAS YOUR FUCKING WEED!

    • @ghxstTrap54
      @ghxstTrap54 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Depends on what u choose

  • @throwachair4574
    @throwachair4574 Před 3 lety +5334

    The reason the Save Chloe ending is shorter is because they didn’t expect people to pick it

    • @uhoh7545
      @uhoh7545 Před 3 lety +80

      Isnt it the cannon one though?

    • @1810jeff
      @1810jeff Před 3 lety +784

      @@uhoh7545 I don't think there is a canon ending since in the sequel your choice in the game determines the state of Arcadia bay do it will either be fine or destroyed depending on what your previous save data says

    • @meganpolkasnic8229
      @meganpolkasnic8229 Před 3 lety +39

      @@1810jeff I'm pretty sure they said it was canon

    • @1810jeff
      @1810jeff Před 3 lety +548

      @@meganpolkasnic8229 just looked it up apparently there isn't a canon ending because as a developer put it "Due to the way in which the first game ended, we didn’t want to canonize one group of players’ choices over the other - a sentiment echoed strongly by our community" There have been official comics that continue Max's story specifically the "sacrifice Arcadia Bay" ending but they were not made to canonize an ending. A second round of these comics were slated to release in October this year but they will probably be delayed to due to unforeseen circumstances so it's really still up in the air.

    • @Ashquacks
      @Ashquacks Před 3 lety +76

      @@uhoh7545 it is technically considered canon because the comic series is considered canon, which follows the save Chloe ending. Though it's mostly because there's not much to say after the sacrifice Chloe ending.

  • @bobblehead7002
    @bobblehead7002 Před 3 lety +2562

    Honestly I hated the game ending because you either:
    Save bay: The whole game's story is reversed and never happens and the relationships made were for nothing
    Save "bae": The whole town dies and all the relationships formed were for nothing except for Chole

    • @IzzySarru
      @IzzySarru Před 3 lety +255

      C H O L E

    • @becuaseimbored3481
      @becuaseimbored3481 Před 3 lety +460

      Bold of the game to assume we like Chloe enough to let millions of innocent people die.

    • @bobblehead7002
      @bobblehead7002 Před 3 lety +195

      It was a small town. Definitely not millions. Hundreds at most

    • @Gilpow
      @Gilpow Před 3 lety +14

      Chloe is more than enough lolz

    • @erzlinthewatcher
      @erzlinthewatcher Před 3 lety +252

      But when you save the Bay at least you don't have the weight of hundreds dead because of your actions. That and you can basically get closer to everyone again cause you know a lot about them. Still that choice did suck.

  • @abridgedplane4417
    @abridgedplane4417 Před 2 lety +644

    So in one timeline Chloe is pissed that Max refuses to steal from handicapped people, and in another timeline Chloe herself is handicapped…

  • @whatteamwildcats4033
    @whatteamwildcats4033 Před 2 lety +941

    I truly believe that people would dislike Chloe more if she wasn't a love interest

    • @emeraldparadox1001
      @emeraldparadox1001 Před 2 lety +289

      I saw a comment on another Chloe Price rant video and it made me think...
      Would people still pair Chloe with Max if she was a guy with the same attitude?

    • @dylancross1039
      @dylancross1039 Před 2 lety +220

      @@emeraldparadox1001 The answer to that is "absolutely not"

    • @nineinchthread
      @nineinchthread Před 2 lety +19

      @@dylancross1039 you would be surprised and this is coming from an pricefield shipper it wouldn't change my opinion if the roles were reversed

    • @Eeok
      @Eeok Před 2 lety +8

      @@emeraldparadox1001 honestly yep surprisingly .

    • @Lilothestitch
      @Lilothestitch Před rokem +1

      I bet that the people that hate Chloe hated William and acted like Chloe deserved to lose her father

  • @spookyho5994
    @spookyho5994 Před 3 lety +7359

    I still don’t understand how people would sacrifice a whole ass town, that means families and people who didn’t deserve this bs in general, for a toxic friendship/romance.

    • @smoogie865
      @smoogie865 Před 3 lety +197

      @Ashlyn Nicole lol me too. i don't really give a shit about anybody there except chloe. i would have done the same in real life if my parents and sister were out of town

    • @bigbondfan1331
      @bigbondfan1331 Před 3 lety +124

      Yer to be fair I don't care what this guy says I still love Chloe!

    • @joseescobar2076
      @joseescobar2076 Před 3 lety +12

      .

    • @spookyho5994
      @spookyho5994 Před 3 lety +59

      this is interesting

    • @D1mly
      @D1mly Před 3 lety +750

      @Chance quick remind: never live somewhere near this people

  • @cameronfrye8311
    @cameronfrye8311 Před 3 lety +1572

    The game focused way too much on failing to make us sympathise with Chloe instead of focusing on the side characters like Nathan, Warren, Victoria and Kate who are way more interesting and could be fleshed out a lot more, especially Nathan, but the game wanted to force their relationship to the point where everything else got shut out.

    • @-gohu-
      @-gohu- Před 3 lety +156

      nathan was my favorite character, and the entire prescott family storyline had so much more potential. after the final episode i felt robbed, because the previous episodes gave us so many hints about the prescotts, some native american stuff and a bunch of other shit (i don't remember exactly, it's been a while). they made it seem like this + jefferson, like it was all connected. and then they just seemed to settle for a cliche "i'm a creeper who takes pictures" ending. and all that potential was just completely wasted.

    • @cameronfrye8311
      @cameronfrye8311 Před 3 lety +84

      Małgorzata Szewczyk they were meant to give him a lot more character, even hinting in the trailer that he knew about the storm and was trying to figure it out himself, they instead took it all out because they rushed the final episode and now people see him as just as guilty as Jefferson,

    • @cameronfrye8311
      @cameronfrye8311 Před 3 lety +56

      Małgorzata Szewczyk and yeah he’s my favourite character in the game too, not many games want to explore characters with mental illnesses like him, and they instead went with the “mentally ill character is immediately evil” route with him instead of fleshing him out more, they instead focused on chloe and Max’s shitty relationship.

    • @Katie-xd1nt
      @Katie-xd1nt Před 3 lety +8

      i think it was mostly due to the fact that the game isnt about maxs high school life. its about max learning to use her powers while figuring out the mystery of rachels dissapereance

    • @cameronfrye8311
      @cameronfrye8311 Před 3 lety +31

      wxtcher I agree that the game is based on chloe and max, but as a choice based game I think they should give the option to explore more into them and have scenes where it’s just max talking with them.

  • @machine_gun_jigwy
    @machine_gun_jigwy Před rokem +411

    Interesting take. It's been a number of years since I played this game and I remember it touched me deeply. To me it didn't feel like I was supposed to sympathize with Chloe, on the other hand, I felt this overwhelming sadness for Max, I just wanted to hug her. I think the real tragedy that could be relatable for many people was watching this girl trying to save someone who is so obviously beyond saving, until she realizes that there's no saving her. Even though the game offers you a choice, the arc of this game is to sacrifice Chloe in the end.

    • @andryahh3563
      @andryahh3563 Před rokem +42

      Ugh, yes. It sucks Max went through so much and possibly gained trauma from what she had to do in order to get Chloe back.

    • @northproductions6104
      @northproductions6104 Před 9 měsíci +13

      If anyone’s played/watched PS4 Spider-Man, throughout the entire game Peter constantly blames himself for things way out of his control. I honestly think Max is very similar

    • @gabriellegoodwin4422
      @gabriellegoodwin4422 Před 9 měsíci +14

      I really liked Max, and I really related to her. Choosing to kill Chloe was barely a choice because I knew Max deserved better.

    • @elizrebezilmadommdo1662
      @elizrebezilmadommdo1662 Před 7 měsíci +12

      That's what I think. I think that was the moral that the creators wanted the players to figure out for themselves, and the last choice was sort of a test to see if you actually learned it. That's why that ending was longer and more impactful, rather than the ending just being, "Everyone in the town except David dies, and Chloe and Max just leave."
      I think the lesson is about how you just have to accept the past, and tampering with time can mess things up. That's why we had the part where Max tries to save Chloe's dad and it causes Chloe to become disabled, or those parts where if Max overuses her power too much, she faints and gets the same vision warning her about the tornado. It all backfires any time she uses her power, even when she has good intentions. You just have to let things be.
      The only thing that messes with this moral though, is that she still has the knowledge of Nathan and Mr. Jefferson kidnapping and drugging girls, and since the shooting scene in the bathroom happened after Mr. Jefferson's class, the changed timeline when she tells David about Mr. Jefferson still technically happened, so the time traveling still helped her, so....yeah. I don't know anymore. Maybe I'm wrong, actually.

  • @johnkarakash
    @johnkarakash Před rokem +475

    One point: Chloe's father dies WHILE Max is in the house. She literally sees Chloe break down and they move away right after the funeral (but you don't find that out until a DLC pack, I think).
    One theme you didn't explore, and it's a POWERFUL one, is guilt. In Max's heart, she remembers her best friend (very BRILLIANT friend... look at Chloe's grades when she isn't punked out). She blames herself for not being there physically or emotionally for years. She only re-encounters Chloe because she happened to get shot in a bathroom she was in. Chloe is likewise driven by guilt because, on some level, she does know her life is shitty because of her own actions.
    Guilt will drive you into bad choices and into keeping bad relationships. Chloe carries her own load of guilt, but that's obvious from her attempts to run from it rather than wallow in it.

    • @zoipapadaki3320
      @zoipapadaki3320 Před rokem +77

      Exactly.This toxic relationship is built upon guilt and Max is blinded by it and only stays becuz she wants to correct her mistake and make amends

  • @Norma.Corral
    @Norma.Corral Před 3 lety +6028

    I don't even feel bad for chloe dying. I feel bad for her mom :(
    She lost her husband and daughter, it most feel horrible

    • @manko6739
      @manko6739 Před 3 lety +1031

      Yeah, me too. I felt bad for joyce throughout the game bc she had to work hard to support her child and chloe just being an ass not realizing that she's not the only one whose been hurt by her father's death.

    • @Norma.Corral
      @Norma.Corral Před 3 lety +34

      @@manko6739 Ikr

    • @Saltedroastedcaramel
      @Saltedroastedcaramel Před 3 lety +318

      What's sad is depending on the ending it goes two ways for LiS 2.
      *Spoilers*
      Sacrifice Chloe : Joyce and Dave divorce
      Sacrifice Arcadia: Joyce is dead

    • @Lilothestitch
      @Lilothestitch Před 3 lety +8

      Why would you not feel bad for Chloe dying? She didn’t deserve to die?

    • @Norma.Corral
      @Norma.Corral Před 3 lety +200

      @@Lilothestitch idk, the game never made me like her. I'm not saying she deserved it of course, but I didn't feel bad either.

  • @TheFoxHound626
    @TheFoxHound626 Před 3 lety +3431

    shoutout to the chat comment on 19:07 "wait I wasn't paying attention why are we in a bunker wtf" lmao

  • @extremegrieferbible
    @extremegrieferbible Před 2 lety +1015

    When I had to make the last decision in the game, I was seriously questioning how the fuck anyone would sacrifice Arcadia Bay for this character. I'd understand if it was Kate in her position, but Chloe is literally a worse person than 95% of the people living in that town. And even if you saved her... so what? She'd find another way to stupidly get herself killed almost immediately anyway.

    • @astralaurora4165
      @astralaurora4165 Před 2 lety +163

      It’s a stupid choice anyways, no matter which character is being chosen to sacrifice. Sacrificing one character over thousands is just morally wrong. If it was Kate tho it would be wayyyy sadder lol because she’s so sweet

    • @lolvideos1712
      @lolvideos1712 Před rokem +48

      I hated Chloe but chose to sacrifice Arcadia Bay for two reasons:
      1. The clear cause of the storm was not yet fully understood. Yeah, Warren and Chloe said that it was because of Max messing with time but that’s based on what exactly? If I were Max, I would be afraid I am letting Chloe be killed and the storm still happens.
      2. After the sacrifice Chloe ending, Max has no one that can understand her. She lived a crazy week, she was drugged and almost killed by Mr. Jefferson, but she can’t talk to anyone about it because they would think she is crazy. She is effectively alone, probably with PTSD. At least in the sacrifice Arcadia Bay ending, she has Chloe who, as much of a bad friend as she is, knows about Max’s powers and believes her.

    • @ravenderamos5248
      @ravenderamos5248 Před rokem +32

      Yeah, all in all there was no good reason to save Chloe. The way max had to keep saving her from dying reminded me of final destination. Like Chloe was meant to die and death was gonna keep coming after her. And she is definitely not worth more than the lives of everyone in town, especially Kate (the sweet victim), David (the misunderstood guy who did save max in that one timeline), and Warren (best boyyy who continually put himself at risk for her and helped her with no questions asked, AND who didn't

    • @ravenderamos5248
      @ravenderamos5248 Před rokem +1

      Think she was totally crazy when she did tell him about the time powers)

    • @oliviacal2471
      @oliviacal2471 Před rokem +37

      ​@@lolvideos1712 Eh, I think it would be incredibly selfish of Max to save Chloe and sacrifice a whole town of people just because she wouldn't be understood.

  • @-MacCloud-
    @-MacCloud- Před 2 lety +275

    "Stupid gun!" Is basically the perfect thing to say when your friend shoots themselves.

  • @DitisEmile
    @DitisEmile Před 3 lety +5266

    The moment the words "It's a shame this game couldn't have been about Kate Marsh." were spoken, I just had to pause the video and take a moment to gather my thoughts. That's... yeah. That's valid. Kate was a sweetheart and an amazing character.

    • @MaskOfLimbo
      @MaskOfLimbo Před 3 lety +485

      Honestly, one of the only good characters.
      When I played (I already knew about the story and ending, but I still decided to play and get my own opinion... And yeah, I didn't like it :V) I only cared for Kate and I even cheated to know the good options to get her to survive. If she was the was one of the protag, instead of Chloe, it could honestly be better.

    • @garylevine3521
      @garylevine3521 Před 3 lety +350

      Honestly I spent maybe an hour laughing at Chloe shooting herself and didn’t even think twice about sacrificing Chloe for the town. That’s a bad protagonist, especially when you sympathize with the person she considers to be an abusive step parent.

    • @queerlibtardhippie9357
      @queerlibtardhippie9357 Před 3 lety +22

      No offense but I wouldn't have even played this game if Kate Marsh was important

    • @Gamer_Mama_0611
      @Gamer_Mama_0611 Před 3 lety +37

      @@MaskOfLimbo Kate's pain that led to her depression: A video is leaked of her kissing boys.
      Chloe's pain that led to real depression: Cat dies, Dad dies horrifically, bff moves, bff ghosts her because Chloe's mournful state makes Max uncomfortable, rich prejudiced school that Chloe experienced bullying from because she was a raggedy "scholarship kid" then expects Chloe to get over her father's death, mother moves on and dates an ex military type David. David snoop's through Chloe's room, makes sexist and ageist remarks, and even has no problem hitting her if you stay hidden in the closet, mom has no problem with that either. Chloe has one human connection Rachel, whom she worshipped and worked hard for, she saw Rachel get stabbed trying to defend her, and then Chloe trying to save Rachel's mother gets BEATEN unconscious by a big time game Criminal that made Mark Jefferson look like a privileged coward, after that dude is dead she has a small pleasant time with Rachel while no one else in her life is aware of what Chloe still has gone through. Then Rachel secretly dates Frank, after Chloe finds this out she finds the body of her beautiful beloved rotting in the same junk yard they spent so many memories in.
      Hmmmmmm yeah the struggles of Kate are soooo memorable.

    • @sugarwaterenthusiast1309
      @sugarwaterenthusiast1309 Před 3 lety +315

      @@Gamer_Mama_0611 to be fair, some, if not a majority of those events were caused, indirectly or not, by her, and honestly, it sometimes feels like the creators put her through so much shit, just so she can be a terrible person and have an "excuse." Yes, it explains her actions, but it shouldn't allow her to treat people like garbage and undermine others. In fact, since she's gone through so much, shouldn't that mean that she'd know better than to undermine others?

  • @Anastas1786
    @Anastas1786 Před 3 lety +2260

    "Stupid gun!", Max declares, chastising Chloe's stolen gun for having the gall to function exactly in accordance with the manufacturer's specifications.

    • @withercat
      @withercat Před 3 lety +228

      interestingly enough that actually works pretty well if you put yourself in the mindset of codependency instead of healthy friendship with the two, cant risk blaming chloe so you blame the closest thing that chloe would go along with, if its the guns fault for existing, it cant be chloes fault after all, and thats Safe

    • @glowkirby
      @glowkirby Před 3 lety +42

      Stupid gun! You make me look bad!

    • @Mouseforatu
      @Mouseforatu Před 3 lety +23

      @@glowkirby OOOOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!

    • @elijahwinchester6690
      @elijahwinchester6690 Před 3 lety +3

      @ROYALTYZ Zzz exactly, lmao. i think max was annoyed that chloe was stupid, but more specifically; that chloe was stupid by bringing a gun, and the fact that a gun is generally a bad idea.

    • @LycoLoco
      @LycoLoco Před 3 lety +1

      @The Xenomorphian CONTROL has entered the chat

  • @HeyItsNovalee
    @HeyItsNovalee Před 2 lety +311

    Honestly after rewatching the game recently the biggest red flag to me about Chloe is the way she keeps pushing max no matter how many times max tells her no. Even in the second episode max keeps telling her her powers aren’t a toy and shouldn’t be abused, and of course Chloe tells her she’s being too careful and pretty guilt trips her into playing dumb irresponsible games with them that put them both in danger. And because of that max ends up feeling ill for one thing, which Chloe doesn’t really seem to care or be concerned about, and it almost stops her from being able to save Kate later on that day when her powers stop working. Like that was pretty much entirely Chloe’s fault. It just gives dubious consent vibes and leaves a sour taste in my mouth

    • @gaming1zanagi-1999.
      @gaming1zanagi-1999. Před 2 lety +4

      Yep plus the fact that she got mad for us to answer a phone call from someone who is cyber-bullied is already a red flag. Like bruh I get that she don't get enough attention but does her being a total dick are completely necessary? Tbh it would make it more interesting if later on Max flipped out at Chloe later on and put their friendship at hiatus as result. Like I don't hate the idea of them being together but at least if we are expecting to like a character at least make them relatable to us.

    • @astralaurora4165
      @astralaurora4165 Před 2 lety +41

      @@gaming1zanagi-1999. The phone call scene pissed me off sooo much. I liked how Chloe apologised in the hospital (if u save Kate) about being a bitch if u answer the call but she didn’t in the ending where Kate dies and I feel that’s where an apology was really due.

    • @gaming1zanagi-1999.
      @gaming1zanagi-1999. Před 2 lety +2

      @@astralaurora4165 yeah

  • @lil_lyly
    @lil_lyly Před 2 lety +280

    Just another tiny thing I noticed rewatching a let’s play of the game. When Max meets up with Warren in the parking lot at the start of the game, you can see Chloe’s truck is literally double parking (half of it being on a handicap spot) just adding to her character lol

    • @EnderPanReigns
      @EnderPanReigns Před 7 měsíci +18

      HELP REALLY? IM SORRY THATS SO FUNNY

    • @IL0UHV_TWDG.01
      @IL0UHV_TWDG.01 Před 5 měsíci +1

      NAHHH THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING💀💀💀

    • @oliverllano8882
      @oliverllano8882 Před měsícem +4

      And even Max at that moment says "Sorry, handicapped folks, my truck needs these two spots more than you do. Bastard" and that was before Max knew that truck belongs to Chloe, and then she completely forgets about that. So I guess that was a foreshadowing about Chloe wanting to steal the funds for the handicapped people.

  • @riabekker520
    @riabekker520 Před 3 lety +3572

    If the creators said "This game symbolises the decision between getting rid of a toxic friend or keeping them, & the storm is literally just Max's good karma and she can go back in time to choose to save herself or a selfish prick"
    ... Then I would applaud.

    • @Catsby83
      @Catsby83 Před 3 lety +216

      Then all the fans who adore Chloe would be pissed and those fans are the ones who buy the most merchandise.

    • @Elerantula_
      @Elerantula_ Před 3 lety +201

      Nah, I don't think so. They would never say it genuinely: the product talks for them.
      They force us to see Chloe as a good person, even though she clearly isn't. So, for them, Chloe is a good and/or lovable person. That's what we see and that's what the game is saying to us. So even if they said that "the game symbolises the decision between getting rid of a toxic friend or keeping them"... It would still sound like they're covering their asses. I saw too many developers covering their crappy narrative with "oh but it's symbolism", or "oh you need to get metaphores" (this may be unpopular, but the first game I think of are Omori or Pocket Mirror). Your product needs to be CLEAR in its intentions, if it's meant for a big audience. I personally don't care that "the creators said this or that". Like I said, the product talks, you ("you" developer) don't need to.

    • @elizrebezilmadommdo1662
      @elizrebezilmadommdo1662 Před 3 lety +21

      If that's what they were going for, then the creators are geniuses.

    • @Latinkon
      @Latinkon Před 3 lety +71

      Sadly that ain't the case, based on any of the interviews I've read about the game's ending. The creators were more concerned about teaching the lesson of "you can't make everything perfect" and shoving it into players faces as hard as they can, a well made ending be damned.

    • @stanmarsh4566
      @stanmarsh4566 Před 3 lety

      @@Elerantula_ So what your saying is they sould not make symbolism simply because you cant stand it? I STRONGLY disagree with everything what you said.
      All being said this is the most overrated series I have ever seen, the game is a waste of life and time.

  • @KanaHyoshi
    @KanaHyoshi Před 3 lety +7476

    If Kate had been in Chloe's place instead, it would have made an interesting story. Max could go through the story slowly helping Kate have more confidence while her and Chloe grow distant.

    • @memo-fq3ps
      @memo-fq3ps Před 3 lety +654

      That's a really cool idea actually. I wish they had taken that route.

    • @victor_hensley8748
      @victor_hensley8748 Před 3 lety +331

      Kind of like a "that was then, this is now" type story/relationship, except it's all females? That would be somewhat interesting (more interesting than what we got).

    • @ultrabigfella
      @ultrabigfella Před 3 lety +261

      Based on your choices, either Kate kills herself because you don't help her or Chloe overdoses because you don't help her. (Of course with a secret ending were both live.)

    • @applecakes807
      @applecakes807 Před 3 lety +372

      I was quite disappointed with how Kate's story ended I was more invested in Kate's story and Max's relationship with her than Chloe's. Near the end Victoria says she wants to go visit Kate with Max I would have liked to see scenes of that and also the impact it has on Kate and Max's relationship.
      I also really enjoyed the development of Max's relationship with Taylor and Courtney and in general would have liked to see an overall change in Blackwell due to the decisions I had made.

    • @applecakes807
      @applecakes807 Před 3 lety +62

      @Summer Rose As the episodes went on I felt like the character of Max was changing or at least when she was with Chloe. I feel like Max's normal characteristics is being level headed and a reasonable person who just wants good for other and tries to help others. But it really frustrated me when her morality would be impacted when Chloe was involved when her thought process no longer makes sense and always favours Chloe without considering the whole picture. I feel as if maybe her guilt of not reaching out to Chloe in the past 5 years may have impacted her judgement. But I can understand this characteristic exists as I have many relatives or friends who make excuses and favour cousin's or friends regardless of the situation even when they're in the wrong, when biases aren't involved they seem to make rational decisions.
      I also feel like only Chloe had input in their relationship and was completely controlled by her it didn't seem like Max had any control in that friendship.
      I have just started playing before the storm so I'm not too sure about what happens in the game. I initially didn't play it back when it was released when I found out it was a prequel as Chloe was never one of my favourite characters but after replaying LiS I just want to experience more of the world I really enjoyed the detail and relationships outside of the main focus.

  • @kirsteniskindafunny
    @kirsteniskindafunny Před 2 lety +668

    i was team Warren since the beginning, and the fact that you only get to hug/kiss him when you’re all at risk of DYING (and on top of that it all gets erased to time reversal anyways) really hurt my feelings tbh. i chose the town over chloe with no regrets lmao

    • @madelinef2486
      @madelinef2486 Před 2 lety +17

      Thank god there was more options for ppl to kiss than that weirdo. talks about wanting to sleep with max in the first convo we see involving him and creeps around the building looking through her window. Cant believe people hate on chloe but like that twirp who is the epitome of "im nice, can you sleep with me".

    • @allengreene9954
      @allengreene9954 Před 2 lety +166

      @@madelinef2486 A dude who took a beating from Nathan defending Max and then whupped his ass the second time is the second coming of Satan??? Gtfo 😠

    • @cosmicsantos
      @cosmicsantos Před 2 lety +179

      @@madelinef2486 warren was an dorky and awkward 16 year old boy, he's bound to say some pretty weird shit. and as for the looking around the corner thing, I'm pretty sure warren was looking at the entrance to the dormitories to see if max was leaving so he could ask her to go to the drive-in, not peeking through her window 🙄 and if that makes warren a weirdo, then what about max? i love max but she snooped through everyone's shit and was in everyone's business, so much so that it's mentioned in her student file. and multiple characters call her out on being nosey. seems to me warren and max are two awkward geeks who are clearly made for each other.

    • @madelinef2486
      @madelinef2486 Před 2 lety +17

      @@cosmicsantos considering Max writes in her journal that she hopes warren doesn't try to make a move on her and that hes like a dorky brother to her & that he and Brook look cute together, they are definitely not "made for each other". In the nightmare sequence which is meant to reflect her actual thoughts, you see Warren creepin calling out for her as she tries hiding from him. She also can care less who he kisses in the nightmare scene and gets jealous of Chloe kissing others and said it made her feel physically sick. She also regrets not kissing Chloe if you make her not do it and says she wants to do it again in her journal if she does.
      if you wanna play max and warren together bc you like them better together, and the game lets you kiss him, thats fine. But if you are looking at from maxs view and what she actually feels in the game, she likes chloe, not warren

    • @madelinef2486
      @madelinef2486 Před 2 lety +1

      @@cosmicsantos also yea max creeps bc it is you as a character playing as her and you are meant to explore and investigate everything. Warren does what he does bc the hell of it

  • @zelder1371
    @zelder1371 Před 2 lety +852

    Tfw Max and Kate had more chemistry than Max and Chloe

  • @KeyOfTheTwilight
    @KeyOfTheTwilight Před 3 lety +2712

    I mean... She did bad-mouth Kate when Kate almost committed suicide. And I couldn't see her as a good friend after that. So. Guess what choice I made.

    • @Gooberwares
      @Gooberwares Před 3 lety +346

      Exactly Kate was on the breaking point what’s chloe’s excuse?

    • @Monamiinx
      @Monamiinx Před 3 lety +377

      @@Gooberwares “m-my dad died and my mom wanted to move on! I’m suffering more than anyone”

    • @Gooberwares
      @Gooberwares Před 3 lety +171

      @@Monamiinx it’s not like her mom lost the love of her life or anything

    • @jqaudiovisual
      @jqaudiovisual Před 3 lety +4

      chloe se arrepiente de eso en el hospital :c

    • @ezrawyvern6795
      @ezrawyvern6795 Před 3 lety +35

      You made the smartest choice possible. Many of us would've done the same if we were in your position.

  • @charlottelouise6433
    @charlottelouise6433 Před 3 lety +4293

    It always bugged me that Chloe got annoyed when Kate called like I genuinely had to put the game down because of course I'm going to make sure Kates okay

    • @Kira-rd7id
      @Kira-rd7id Před 3 lety +482

      Yeah she was such a brat. I was playing with my best friend at the time and we thought she was actually going to ditch us if we picked up, we both immediately agreed that being there for our friend for the 30 seconds she needs us for os more important than the friend that can't handle us caring for anyone else.

    • @aeoligarlic4024
      @aeoligarlic4024 Před 3 lety +411

      I really liked kate better, tbh she's my favorite side character.. all this time tumblr and the fandom has been overhyping chloe, when i actually played the game i was actually frustrated on how toxic and guilt-trippy she is!

    • @RedVelvetyJess
      @RedVelvetyJess Před 3 lety +135

      Oh wow I forgot about that! Yeah I don't know why she was so many people's favorite character, I never really liked her when the game came out but couldn't totally put my finger on it. Now that I'm older I can actually see all the signs of her being a manipulative and toxic friend...Especially since I used to have "friends" like that when I was growing up. Glad I'm not the only one
      And like of course we're gonna be their for our friend! Like Max is allowed to have other friends Chloe, (also had "friends" like that who got jealous any time I talked to another friend and pulled that "But I'M your best friend!" bull)

    • @SilvercraftStudio
      @SilvercraftStudio Před 2 lety +101

      I sacrificed chole just to get Kate back.

    • @Daga15
      @Daga15 Před 2 lety +83

      @@SilvercraftStudio you're right, if you sacrifice Chloe Kate won't die...

  • @Rosel13
    @Rosel13 Před 2 lety +134

    I cried when I sacrificed Chloe. But she wasn't really that good of a friend. She was right in the end. She was always supposed to die.

    • @racheldistasioliveira3871
      @racheldistasioliveira3871 Před rokem +31

      Same, she was toxic, but I still felt bad and ended up crying

    • @mattautajay3755
      @mattautajay3755 Před 29 dny

      well i cried for the people around Chloe...
      Joyce, David, Max, Kate, Warren, Frank, etc...
      not for Chloe😅

  • @BigDan98
    @BigDan98 Před 2 lety +623

    Forget sacrificing Chloe for an entire town, I'd sacrifice her for absolutely nothing.

    • @matrix9140
      @matrix9140 Před rokem +72

      I'm still mad that romance options with Warren are so limited

    • @vilmavenla
      @vilmavenla Před rokem +79

      @@matrix9140 Also, i need more scenes with my girl Kate.

    • @matrix9140
      @matrix9140 Před rokem +4

      @@vilmavenla frfr

    • @senbontorii2680
      @senbontorii2680 Před rokem +39

      Hell, I'd destroy a town if it meant getting rid of Chloe.

    • @heavensgate2245
      @heavensgate2245 Před rokem

      @@vilmavenla
      I'd want to romance Kate honestly

  • @ravenconnli6618
    @ravenconnli6618 Před 3 lety +1597

    Chloe is my least favorite character in the storyline.
    She's incredibly rude and disrespectful to everyone. Chloe sees everyone has somehow against her, even in the smallest way.
    She constantly shits on Max for not having her back(EX:if you had managed to hide in the closet, she tells you at first that it's good that her stepdad didn't catch you in the room but in the next scene she snaps at you for not standing up for her) or giving her enough attention(EX: She gets angry with you when you answer Kate's call, despite both you and Max knowing that Kate is going through a really hard time). Not only that but once she finds out about Max's powers, she treats it like it's a toy(EX:going to a junkyard to shoot at trash and telling Max to save her if anything bad happens).
    But she also acts like Max moving was just to spite her when it wasn't. They were both 13 and where Max's parents go, of course Max is going to have to follow. Chloe honestly cannot let anything go and takes out her anger on everyone, even her only friend.

    • @raiden-mei
      @raiden-mei Před 3 lety +92

      @Summer Rose and then gets pissed if you say that it isn't your weed

    • @garylevine3521
      @garylevine3521 Před 3 lety +39

      Summer Rose I let David hit Chloe because it’s funny.

    • @lilnutt5580
      @lilnutt5580 Před 3 lety

      Yeah but before the storm kinda let you see why

    • @ravenconnli6618
      @ravenconnli6618 Před 3 lety +37

      @@lilnutt5580 Before the Storm makes no sense. It was just there to introduce Rachel, which there was no point because you know she's going to die an awful death in the future.
      And with the options for Chloe to be kind and try to get along with David don't belong. She talks about not getting along with him and not wanting to try to be buddy-buddy with him in the first game. That she was angry with her mother for trying to move on from her fathers death.

    • @lilnutt5580
      @lilnutt5580 Před 3 lety +1

      @@ravenconnli6618 ye, I guess that sounds about right.

  • @someguyinahole5952
    @someguyinahole5952 Před 3 lety +15117

    Their friendship literally runs on nostalgia and nothing else

    • @Gooberwares
      @Gooberwares Před 3 lety +1620

      And chloe uses that nostalgic against her

    • @ekosovic
      @ekosovic Před 3 lety +463

      we've all been there

    • @Copyright_Infringement
      @Copyright_Infringement Před 3 lety +678

      I think you mean
      _hella_ nostalgia

    • @knox7945
      @knox7945 Před 3 lety +384

      Chloe is like a drug dealer. A nostalgic drug dealer. And you know how nostalgic is a hell of a drug.

    • @whosaprettykitty5076
      @whosaprettykitty5076 Před 3 lety +409

      “You have to do what I say cause we were friends when we were younger”

  • @megglytuff
    @megglytuff Před rokem +191

    as a disabled person, chloe wanting to steal money from the handicapped fund and then becoming disabled herself seems like just a really ugly attempt at irony. or some shitty "foreshadowing" or something. idk, didnt like that haha

    • @EnderPanReigns
      @EnderPanReigns Před 7 měsíci +31

      yeah i kind of hate when media uses a character becoming disabled as a tool for "karma" it rubs me the wrong way

    • @margarethmichelina5146
      @margarethmichelina5146 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Also, I really hate how they make people with blue hair being a problematic like Jinx from LOL and Arcane for example.

    • @nixash52
      @nixash52 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@margarethmichelina5146 yea but Jinx is actually really well written. Chloe is just an asshole

    • @czerkitka141
      @czerkitka141 Před 2 měsíci

      But what is wrong with that? It just shows that she didn’t have enough regard to not steal it even when the need for it was very high but she might actually need it herself in another timeline. And it doesn’t seem even that much connected, more like „anyone could be in need of those money”

  • @Schaemia
    @Schaemia Před 10 měsíci +52

    I feel justified 😂
    I was so confused when half of people chose to save Chloë over the bay. She was an awful friend!

    • @Sg190th
      @Sg190th Před 3 měsíci +1

      Same. Even in 2015 when the game came out, lots of ppl glorified Chloe when she literally was a disrespectful brat...

  • @panlis6243
    @panlis6243 Před 3 lety +6782

    "Destiny wants Chloe to die"
    Honestly I don't blame it

    • @Anne_one
      @Anne_one Před 3 lety +429

      For real, I can’t believe there was an option to risk the whole town for her.

    • @IZABEL06
      @IZABEL06 Před 3 lety +24

      don’t you dare do her like that

    • @OkOk-li2xh
      @OkOk-li2xh Před 3 lety +177

      @@Anne_one I did

    • @Kevin-ek1su
      @Kevin-ek1su Před 3 lety +94

      @@OkOk-li2xh me too

    • @jillianutley3967
      @jillianutley3967 Před 3 lety +127

      for real I did not like Chloe with a passion

  • @tipsycat27
    @tipsycat27 Před 3 lety +6223

    -Chloe shoots herself
    -Max, completely monotone: "stupid gun"
    I forgot how awful the dialogue was...

    • @summerrose8110
      @summerrose8110 Před 3 lety +635

      The line should've been,"Stupid Chloe."

    • @danielawesome36
      @danielawesome36 Před 3 lety +273

      She was shocked. The monotone reaction made sense.
      Keyword: _reaction._

    • @josevinicius_prof
      @josevinicius_prof Před 3 lety +75

      She can rewind, ain't a big deal.

    • @summerrose8110
      @summerrose8110 Před 3 lety +306

      @@josevinicius_prof Chloe was using Max for her power. She drank alcohol and played with David's gun on purpose, so she can use Max.

    • @josevinicius_prof
      @josevinicius_prof Před 3 lety +81

      @@summerrose8110 sorry buddy, you can't make me hate her even more. I'm at max hatred already.

  • @HiddenSeven
    @HiddenSeven Před 2 lety +168

    if the answer to every stupid action in this game is "...but they are teens" then there is certainly a problem. its similar to "its a horror movie" when the actions make no sense by the actors. either way people can enjoy whatever resonates with them. But for me this was a terrible experience all around

    • @memo-fq3ps
      @memo-fq3ps Před 2 lety +25

      Yeah, I'm a bit tired of the, "You can't say this person is toxic, because they're still young!" Excuse that they use. Of course, some young people are like Chloe, and mistakes of any kind in general are made at that age (19), but they should be held accountable their actions regardless. I don't care of Chloe is 19, or 12, 30, 40, 50, or 90. Whatever. Toxic people should not be excused for being terrible regardless of age. When you're 3 and do something bad, like hit another child or throw toys around, you face the consequences. Yeah, it may be normal for kids at that age, but they need to learn to stop before they to an age where they're way too old to be acting that way. No one says, "Oh, James hit his little brother with a toy firetruck. Oh well. He's three, you can't criticise him for it."
      Plus, using that "but they're teens" excuse to justify Chloe's behavior is frankly insulting to anyone around her age. Do these people honestly think that most teens/young adults are this selfish and entitled? Maybe some are, but they act like it's so normal to a point where it's justified because of their age. It's not normal to be like Chloe. I sure as hell wasn't like Chloe. I knew a few people with characteristics that were similar to Chloe's, but the majority of fellow peers I knew at the time are nothing like her. I was twenty when I played LIS, so I was only a year older than Chloe was in the game, and I couldn't stand her.
      Her traits aren't the "typical traits of an angsty nineteen year old". They're the "typical traits of a very toxic friend of any age".

    • @error-try-again-later
      @error-try-again-later Před 9 měsíci

      There are even people in the fandom who defend _Victoria_ with this excuse lmao 💀

  • @uh_logan
    @uh_logan Před rokem +130

    Damn I actually related to Chloe’s line of “it has to be somebody’s fault or it’s all mine.” growing up I actually wasn’t able to handle guilt so I’d blame others so I wouldn’t get to a v bad place (I think it was honestly related to my bpd that wasn’t diagnosed at the time). Will say I went to therapy lol

    • @funnylittlecreature
      @funnylittlecreature Před rokem +18

      bro as soon as a character that's done objectively bad things shows signs of mental illness it seems that people are way too giddy to blurt out "but theyre not justified for that!! theyre a bad person!!! theyre an evil psychopathic freak!!!" . this would be whatever on its own, but whenever a villain who's completely sane in the eyes of the viewer has some sort of self-perceived noble mission that's objectively wrong it's like there's a complete shift. like "he's wrong of course but like.. he's not EVIL... no one's EVIL..."

    • @uh_logan
      @uh_logan Před rokem +9

      @@funnylittlecreature interesting take. Just out of curiosity, can you give an example? :)

  • @alcerdemon9768
    @alcerdemon9768 Před 3 lety +3140

    Chloe is the antagonist, she sets plot in motion, she’s an active obstacle in Max’s life and (spoiler alert) on one of the endings she’s the reason the city got destroyed.

    • @luxa_moved7247
      @luxa_moved7247 Před 3 lety +364

      she’s basically the antagonist that everyone is being pushed and forced to love

    • @ChangedMyNameFinally69
      @ChangedMyNameFinally69 Před 3 lety +13

      @@luxa_moved7247 So most of them?

    • @enumaelish9193
      @enumaelish9193 Před 3 lety +60

      @@ChangedMyNameFinally69 What kind of games have you been playing?

    • @ChangedMyNameFinally69
      @ChangedMyNameFinally69 Před 3 lety +49

      @@enumaelish9193 A lot, and fandoms in general latch onto villains way too much

    • @enumaelish9193
      @enumaelish9193 Před 3 lety +116

      @@ChangedMyNameFinally69 Because villains when written well are usually more interesting than the heroes.

  • @weskershades
    @weskershades Před 3 lety +6582

    The romance doesn't make sense to me anyway, Chloe clearly loved Rachel and not Max. If anything she uses Max as a replacement.

    • @RR-on4sk
      @RR-on4sk Před 2 lety +652

      Agreed! Ive seen a ton of people ship max & chloe/ chloe & rachel, because LGBTQ recognition, thinking it's homophobic to insinuate max or Rachel didn't work as realistic love interests ... but it's actually homophobic to suggest a character that reads 100% lesbian (Chloe), falls in love with any female that gets close to her.
      Maybe Gen z (younger generation) has a different POV because they're more accepting, so they haven't experienced the arguments it took to get there, but a big message from LGB people was that they are just like straights -- not falling in love with everyone that's same sex, just because they're the same sex (like how straights don't just fall in love with everyone they meet that's the opposite sex).
      It takes away from the story to have both girl duos be in love, just because they're close. Females in general don't get many adventure stories together (which played a big part in the popularity of Frozen), so to jump to every relationship being romantic, feels like the same thing straight stories fall prey to constantly -- we can't get a good story about female friends without some type of romance.
      I totally buy Chloe being a lesbian (which might've been great story telling about how she fell for Rachel who was shady & might not have felt the same) but to have her fall for her only 2 friends that are girls, despite the low chances of that (just like how straights aren't in love/ in a relationship with everyone the opposite sex) really cheapens even bothering with LGB undertones. It's an old trope that gays and lesbians will go for whomever is the opposite sex, with no regular friendships like straights can have.

    • @Tomboi-qh6ru
      @Tomboi-qh6ru Před 2 lety +259

      Exactly!! She’s been using her from the beginning,ik that max ghosted her and everyone but she felt bad and guilty for it,she changed her-self she made up for it by saving Chloe multiple times and helping others…but Chloe just kept guilt-tripping her and manipulating her. It’s just a toxic relationship but the game shows it as if it’s a nice and cute lesbian relationship,forcing the players to be okay with it. And Ik that Chloe went thru a lot over those years,but she can’t use that as an excuse for being an a-hole to pretty much everyone.Waren,Kate and even David were better people/characters than Chloe and yet the game wanted Chloe to be on the spotlight…Always!!

    • @OceanMetTheSky
      @OceanMetTheSky Před 2 lety +210

      That's not how I saw it at all, quite the opposite. Rachel was a replacement for Max. I saw it as Chloe was in an emotionally vulnerable and lost place when Max left and never responded to her messages and texts. When she met Rachel, she attached hard to her to replace Max. Rachel was an illusion, which slowly unfolds the more we find out about her. And I think Chloe always knew that but she needed someone when Max wasn't around. I think Chloe always loved Max.

    • @malum9478
      @malum9478 Před 2 lety +47

      max is very strong "rebound" energy

    • @malum9478
      @malum9478 Před 2 lety +47

      @@RR-on4sk isn't chloe bi? it's been a while, but i thought chloe was said to have been in relationships with guys before. it might be that she's female preferring, or that she just is wary of men in general because of all the violent men in her life, but i could've sworn she and max were bi girls in a lesbian relationship...

  • @edgarlarios4718
    @edgarlarios4718 Před rokem +43

    I think the reason this story hit so hard for me was because I had a best friend that was EXACTLY LIKE CHLOE. All negativity, and if a choice had to be made, it was always the wrong one, and an expert at guilt manipulation on me to keep me around. This dynamic felt very real.

    • @rangopistacho6928
      @rangopistacho6928 Před 2 dny

      yeah thats the point, this game is basically meant to be a critique of toxic relationships and how people can often be blind to them because "pretty bad girl" or "edgy bad boy"

  • @DelicateFlytrap
    @DelicateFlytrap Před 2 lety +38

    Non-lover playthrougher who saves the Bay here. I think its important to note the WHO that this game is technically "made" for. Troubled youths trying to control their lives in any way they can. These situations are frustrating because they're supposed to be that way for an adult who is already well aware of these toxic power dynamics. This game was hugely impactful for me. I played it as a senior. I was max, an art focused student desperate for acceptance from anywhere, especially those difficult to please. I was also chloe, reckless and angry without care for anyone elses thoughts and emotions. Their characters are an unfinished piece, theyre children. They fail to see what is in front of them in an incredibly realistic way. Nobody wants to admit how angsty and cringe they used to be, but this is 100% accurate ouside of time power shenanigans. They're idiot kids with the power of a god as a toy and no idea of the gravity of any action, and if they did realize it- that weight is cast aside for infinite redos in the form of time travel. Controlling things out of your grasp, including other peoples emotions, and finding that despite all the power you think you might have, the only thing you can really control is yourself is a pivotal point thats made and in my opinion the very core concept of the game. Its subtextual. There are several instances where you can call chloe out for being a jerk, but ultimately she is out of your control. She will be who she is, and you can choose to deal with the fact that despite common sense, she will be the person that she is in different ways. Shes not meant to be pitiable. Shes here to test how far max will go to fill herself with a sense of belonging, but thats just what i took away from it as a kid in an abusive situation at the time. Sacrificing her, while genuinely very upsetting to me, was always right. Doing what is right isnt always easy, and you cant have what you want and not ever make someone unhappy; and that what you wish for, the potential that you see in a relationship might not be there, and you shouldn't destroy yourself holding out for it.

    • @JM.piwz1
      @JM.piwz1 Před 4 měsíci +5

      Yess. This. I’m reading all these comments saying what *they* would do but it’s not about you guys. It was about Chloe and max and them realizing that they’re not responsible for everyone. Thats the trouble with trying to play hero. You WILL NEVER SAVE EVERYONE.

  • @Vosk21
    @Vosk21 Před 3 lety +12975

    " I shot myself"
    "stupid gun"...
    most unintentionally pro-gun game ever made

    • @notinspectorgadget
      @notinspectorgadget Před 3 lety +1734

      "Only smart people like me should have a gun"
      *Catches a ricochet in the sternum due to the misuse of a firearm*
      "ow stupid gun why'd ya shoot me?"

    • @bcunt2639
      @bcunt2639 Před 3 lety +471

      i think it was pretty intentional. chloe also said that she belives in gun control but she should have one

    • @notinspectorgadget
      @notinspectorgadget Před 3 lety +537

      @@bcunt2639 yeah I'd say it was played for laughs and it doesn't get recognized as intentional irony because of the overall tone of the game and Chloe's words/actions.

    • @bcunt2639
      @bcunt2639 Před 3 lety +61

      @@notinspectorgadget agreed

    • @marcoasturias8520
      @marcoasturias8520 Před 3 lety +173

      That´s what happens when you use the joystick to aim.

  • @alucardthespy5539
    @alucardthespy5539 Před 3 lety +1465

    The most interesting character for me was David. It was strange how the game tried to portray him as a villain most of the time. Part of how it tries to show Chloe as a good person. But throughout the whole game he was one of the few people I felt genuine sympathy for.
    An example of just how good he actually is is when you tell him Jefferson killed Chloe. David takes his anger out on Jefferson by shooting the bastard, but at the end of it he blames himself. Yes, he is paranoid, but have you PLAYED the game? There's drugs, sex, etc. happening at parties hosted by Nathan whose family pretty much owns the school. The principal is a drunk. The teacher is a murderer, and creep. All this has resulted in the disappearance of Rachel Amber, Chloe's best friend, which David knows. So, he needs to find out what is happening and try and keep Chloe from being like Rachel was so she won't also disappear without a trace.
    Also, either David dies along with Joyce via waterspout or David has to go home from his job as school security guard and tell Joyce that Chloe died on his watch.

    • @anne-zh2kd
      @anne-zh2kd Před 3 lety +15

      He is a toxic, abusive prick. In real life no abuser is awful constantly and can do good things. Still abusers

    • @anne-zh2kd
      @anne-zh2kd Před 3 lety +23

      @Summer Rose He illegally surveiled a 19 year old and her mother. He is verbally abusive and extremely hostile, a bully and just a horrible human being.

    • @aubreyh1930
      @aubreyh1930 Před 3 lety +10

      Summer Rose even if it’s only once they’re still an abuser. She does deserve to be hit though

    • @aubreyh1930
      @aubreyh1930 Před 3 lety +10

      Waves oh I got it for less 🥴 she definitely deserves it but it’s still abuse

    • @aubreyh1930
      @aubreyh1930 Před 3 lety +3

      Waves the definition of abuse is “to treat (a person or an animal) with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or repeatedly” so this would qualify

  • @akselmarazyan4613
    @akselmarazyan4613 Před 2 lety +58

    To be honest Warren is a way better friend for Max than Chloe. I mean he was always kind and selfless and willing to do anything for Max he took a beating from Nathan in episode 1 and protected Max again in episode 4. Max also always metions in her diary entries that Warren is a kind and good hearted friend who she Can always trust. As for Chloe yes they are childhood best friends who love each other. But i just felt like Max was always the one doing sacrifices for her. She had to put her self in constant danger and abuse her rewind powers just for Chloe, i understand that Chloe's a good person, that cares about Max but imo warren is a much healthier friend for Max. That's also why i always prefer the save arcadia bay ending. Because 1. It's Max refusing to 'cheat' life using her powers and live naturally with her choices and consequences and 2. It's Chloe sacrificing her self for the greater good of arcadia bay. And 3. The whole cast of Arcadia bay deserved to live Joyce, David, Kate, Warren they all deserved better.

    • @elsal1353
      @elsal1353 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Well its very clear from the beginning that Max sees Warren as a brother and nothing more. Plus Warren is kind of a creep.

    • @margarethmichelina5146
      @margarethmichelina5146 Před 5 měsíci +3

      ​@@elsal1353Yeah, I also noticed that Warren likes to peep on Max on the far distance sometimes. Also, noticed that when he met Max on parking lot, he decided to hug her while Max is just wanna give him his flashdrive?

  • @yeeshieyeeshie
    @yeeshieyeeshie Před rokem +64

    as someone with bpd i lowkey relate to chloe, though that doesn't mean she shouldn't be blamed, she just need therapy lol

  • @All-Hail-Gayle
    @All-Hail-Gayle Před 3 lety +1951

    All of the characters are "cool" by doing drugs, having sex, skateboarding, or being rich. I don't think anyone actually has a personality. Just references.

    • @kotorandcorvid4968
      @kotorandcorvid4968 Před 3 lety +47

      Ehhhh, that is wrong

    • @RoronoaZoro-ur6hr
      @RoronoaZoro-ur6hr Před 3 lety +78

      Kosta Danicic, actually itsgaylebxtch is right about their comment completely because E;R points out the same problems with Life is Strange too.

    • @kotorandcorvid4968
      @kotorandcorvid4968 Před 3 lety +13

      @@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr So.....what?

    • @numb8007
      @numb8007 Před 3 lety +20

      @@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr ill also say,
      so what? that is not a point,

    • @BritishTeaFGC
      @BritishTeaFGC Před 3 lety +23

      You telling me you don't like DANK OG BUD? What are you, a nerd?

  • @msleahb12
    @msleahb12 Před 3 lety +792

    Warren was a better friend and I hate how the fandom made him out to be a stalker creep for having a crush. Also, she could've just saved Chloe and warned the town of Jefferson AND the tornado.

    • @doeatwhales
      @doeatwhales Před 3 lety +165

      Especially since without warren everyone would be dead. People who like chloe are so delusional it’s absurd

    • @msleahb12
      @msleahb12 Před 3 lety +111

      Yellamo Kcin honestly, I do like Chloe but she’s not a good person. I personally love Warren because he was the only person who put hands on Nathan’s crazy ass and he took a hit to get Max out the way. I wish he got more recognition

    • @abimon76
      @abimon76 Před 3 lety +16

      i think it was canon that he was a little obsessed with Max tho. there was an easter egg where we see the inside of warren's locker and it's covered in pictures of Max. i could be wrong

    • @thisnamemightchange
      @thisnamemightchange Před 3 lety +34

      Warren in depth isn't that great either, but better than Chloe

    • @doeatwhales
      @doeatwhales Před 3 lety +80

      Abigail Mun it was in the nightmare but in the game there was a picture of max and him and if I remember she was creeped out by it, but i don’t think he was obsessed with her. Warren just had a crush on max

  • @CrimZonOnYT
    @CrimZonOnYT Před 2 lety +48

    Chloe is exactly like my sister. The part where he talks about how Chloe gets mad at Max for being open-minded and trying to understand somebody else's point of view... I really felt that.

  • @babitferreira
    @babitferreira Před 11 měsíci +26

    I played the game for the first time this month. I could not care for Chloe as much the game wanted me to. Saving Kate obvious, befriending Courtney and Taylor too. Warren is a good friend. But Chloe wants to use Max’s powers for her own good from the get go.

  • @REvoLverj98
    @REvoLverj98 Před 3 lety +2218

    Chloe: men shouldn't have guns
    Also Chloe: shoots a man and his dog just because they are the least bit hostile

    • @dustymuffincop2481
      @dustymuffincop2481 Před 3 lety +377

      I find that extremely sexist. Imagine if a man said that. It's disgusting either way, but Max never calls her out on it. If she said people like Frank, Nathan, and David, that's one thing. She just lumps all men together.

    • @nabii2907
      @nabii2907 Před 3 lety +105

      Well, Frank did pull a knife out on her, and basically choked Max, and his dog was about to attack them so she was justified in that. But Chloe definitely was reckless, and hypocritical with the gun

    • @ernestogatto9563
      @ernestogatto9563 Před 3 lety +7

      after that she was grounded down and felt very bad. she even couldn't focus on rachel. she said she is gonna go to the police and tell em she killed frank. also, that was selfdefence. just my opinion.

    • @skull_182
      @skull_182 Před 3 lety +119

      More like:
      Chloe: men shouldn't have guns
      Also Chloe: plays with a gun risking her friend's life, shoots herself accidentally

    • @EveTheRaviolo
      @EveTheRaviolo Před 3 lety +20

      @@dustymuffincop2481 Ok but she said that after a guy drugged her, raped her and tried to shoot her. "imagine if a man said that" im not seeing a bunch of people in this comment section bashing nathan for drugging her or trying to shoot her, or the literal abductor, or the drug dealer who tried to stab her

  • @OhCrapMyFishWhy
    @OhCrapMyFishWhy Před 3 lety +2338

    I knew this girl in highschool- she never took responsibility, never thought she was in the wrong, was rash and irrational, sarcastic in the hurtful way, needy, and needed to be taken care of and paid attention to by her romantic partners/friends at All Times otherwise she'd get mad that people werent paying attention to her.
    ...she said she looked up to chloe so much and that she was wonderfully written, and that Max was a pushover who should have stood up for herself and not been so dramatic...the exact same shit she said about her then partner. She said she wanted to make something as good as life is strange because it was her favorite game.
    ...yanno, looking back? It makes sense why she liked chloe so much, goddamn.

    • @user-yu3ge4iv8r
      @user-yu3ge4iv8r Před 3 lety +256

      They're called narcissists, if you're curious

    • @memo-fq3ps
      @memo-fq3ps Před 3 lety +179

      Get out of town. I had a friend in high school who was EXACTLY like that. He even said the same thing about him wanting to make a game just like LIS because it was his favorite video game, and his personality is also very similar to Chloe's. Your former friend and my former friend should get married or something. Lmao

    • @USER2K12
      @USER2K12 Před 3 lety +11

      DAMN

    • @killerqueen1115
      @killerqueen1115 Před 3 lety +18

      @@user-yu3ge4iv8r or maybe they are depressed, have attachment issues, borderline personality or any other kind of mental illness. It is hard to judge from the outside and you don't need to like these people, but maybe you could think about what they had to experience in order to end up like this. People don't choose to behave like this and they can't just stop

    • @killerqueen1115
      @killerqueen1115 Před 3 lety +14

      @@VeWatchesVideos yessss there sure is an issue with taking responsibility. And no one is forced to stay with these people. But some people still like their friends with mental disroders and are willing to get through these hard phases. It's totally fine if most people don't want to, but you should also take into account that there are people who are genuinely willing to stay with "bad" friends. Not taking responsibility is a symptom of many disorders, but people can't just change on their own.

  • @LMaudy
    @LMaudy Před 2 lety +35

    Gee , I really cared about Chloe so much , and then this video listed everything I was kind of oblivious to, I never thought too much about her toxic behaviour and were attached to her due to everything they’ve been through together, and the nostalgia got the better of me and a lot of other players

    • @zekeleetiat9975
      @zekeleetiat9975 Před 2 lety

      this video is dumb and clearly very biased in addition to getting so many actual things wrong.

    • @JM.piwz1
      @JM.piwz1 Před 4 měsíci +1

      That’s the point. It helped you to grow up. Thats not a bad thing. It centers around their viewpoint, not the viewpoint of someone who is mature and would know exactly *HOW* to handle these situations.

  • @Oozaru85
    @Oozaru85 Před 2 lety +91

    I hated Chloe. I was so relieved when the game was over and I sacrificed her to save everyone else. I also hated how we have Warren as a second romance option, but Max and him basically spend no time together in the game. I mean, if I were in love with someone, I would spend most of my time with them instead of my former best friend. So stupid.

    • @Lilothestitch
      @Lilothestitch Před rokem +1

      What about the part where Chloe lost her dad?

    • @matrix9140
      @matrix9140 Před rokem +27

      @@Lilothestitch so? That's no excuse for her behaviour.

  • @mavenoire3704
    @mavenoire3704 Před 3 lety +3364

    I forgot how annoying it was to be a teenager. You know Warren got so much hate and was even painted as some creep by a lot of fans and I'm here like, this guy is super cool and is an awesome friend. I wish we got to bring him along to be honest. The whole time I was with Chloe I felt like I was in a toxic friendship from how hard I had to watch what I said so she wouldn't get upset with Max.

    • @memo-fq3ps
      @memo-fq3ps Před 3 lety +686

      If you want to get technical, Max was the creepier one. You can make her literally snoop around everything in every bedroom she walks in. Look at their books, computer, everything. Chloe too, because she encourages her to do so to get the plot further. People say Warren "stalked" Max, but you have the option to have Max look through everything in his locker and bedroom without him ever knowing. How ironic that people are calling Warren "creepy" for having one photo of her in his gym locker when the only reason people know about it in the first place is because they went to the pool through the BOYS locker room AND looked into Warren's locker. Lmao

    • @Takejiro24
      @Takejiro24 Před 3 lety +269

      @@memo-fq3ps Funny that you mention this since the game points Max's snooping nature out more than once.

    • @memo-fq3ps
      @memo-fq3ps Před 3 lety +337

      @@Takejiro24 I know, like with that scene with Dana and the pregnancy test for example. I'm talking about the way the fans hardly talk about how weird it actually is, but then give characters like Warren a hard time for standing near the building where Max is staying at to wait for her, even though all the kids, both boys and girls, have hung out in that same area.

    • @sakura3837
      @sakura3837 Před 3 lety +95

      @@memo-fq3ps It might be because one plays Max, the main protagonist and are blind to her and their (the players) actions. Although not all people are blind to the protagonist’s behavior or actions.

    • @sakura3837
      @sakura3837 Před 3 lety +6

      @@memo-fq3ps but hey I agree with you 100%.

  • @margaretwilson8736
    @margaretwilson8736 Před 3 lety +6547

    So I wasn't the only one thinking Chloe was a terrible "friend." Thank goodness.

    • @REvoLverj98
      @REvoLverj98 Před 3 lety +464

      She's a toxic person to Max. If you ever have a friend like Chloe, I would get rid of them asap

    • @eldaddymatty
      @eldaddymatty Před 3 lety +92

      She always was

    • @laryssanobre5976
      @laryssanobre5976 Před 3 lety +306

      That's why I feel angry about this game...the public loves and support a toxic friendship...

    • @RebelKitty19
      @RebelKitty19 Před 3 lety +47

      I thought she was, UNTIL I watched the dlc with rachel

    • @smg3250
      @smg3250 Před 3 lety +224

      Suicidal friend? What about me, Max? I wanna go to the junkyard and play with this gun!

  • @thebreakfastmenu
    @thebreakfastmenu Před rokem +15

    One really neat bit of attention to detail in the game is when Chloe decided outside of the school to look for Nathan, the second moon disappears which signals that she's going to die because the chaos would start to be corrected.
    I haven't seen anyone talk about that. A second moon manifesting is what causes the weather changes, the beached whales, dead birds, eclipse, and ultimately the storm. It's cool.
    Too bad the game handles so many things so poorly that cool things like that are totally overlooked.

  • @pearline4684
    @pearline4684 Před měsícem +7

    I think Chloe as a character is interesting and has a lot of potential but the game/story just refuses to acknowledge that she needs to change. She‘s the quirky manic pixie dream girl

    • @snknero9935
      @snknero9935 Před 13 dny +1

      If only Life is strange giving to writer who knows how write a story and good characters could have been good but sadly it was ruined by bad writing.

  • @luxzord865
    @luxzord865 Před 3 lety +7758

    ”You have to sacrifice Chloe to save Arcadia Bay"
    I would sacrifice Chloe for a soda and a bag of chips.

    • @ceilingfan3589
      @ceilingfan3589 Před 3 lety +511

      I would sacrifice Chloe for 1 bag of subway chips

    • @dozenofpugs
      @dozenofpugs Před 3 lety +464

      I would just sacrifice her without any prompt to do so

    • @randeli7785
      @randeli7785 Před 3 lety +674

      Game: you have to sacrifice Chlo-
      Me: Ok
      Game: But you didn't hear the other choice.
      Me: And?

    • @biezom5042
      @biezom5042 Před 3 lety +65

      I meannnnn....it’s gonna be a little bit different if chloe was actually your best friend that you left for years after her dad dies

    • @guychapman2072
      @guychapman2072 Před 3 lety +146

      I would sacrifice Chloe for Alexander the Great to move out of my sunlight. (hopefully gets this reference.)

  • @QueenOfFails
    @QueenOfFails Před 3 lety +1953

    People are romanticising this relationship? It's abusive and one sided, if your in a relationship/friendship like this please leave and think about loving yourself.

  • @kyre4189
    @kyre4189 Před 2 lety +62

    When I played the game, I saw a bit of myself in both Max and Chloe, which I think gave me a pretty unique perspective on their relationship. Even with all of Chloe's faults I didn't want to give up on her 'cause I just saw her as a broken and traumatized person who didn't get the help she needed as a teen. I saw her selfishness as a defense mechanism and entitlement to Max as a fear of being left again. I saw the tornado, destruction of Arcadia Bay, and the rewind powers as more symbolic as well so I wasn't really disappointed with the ending(s) or the puzzles or the powerups. And even then - I realized I cared about the game and the characters only at the end of episode 4. Today, it's my favourite game of all time.
    Life is Strange S1 is a flawed game. But, as Whitelight has put it: "I can go on for hours about why this game sucks and still recommend it to anyone". Also btw, watch Whitelight's video on S1! A great video and a great channel

    • @sadjuliy9469
      @sadjuliy9469 Před rokem +3

      Now, out of everyone I finally saw someone sharing my opinion. Thanks god, I thought, I was going crazy

    • @sonja2730
      @sonja2730 Před 4 měsíci +3

      Same! I played this when i just turned 18, i was as troubled as Chloe and as shy as Max. To me, it felt like the two of them made a good team (less in the universe, more in the game). I could empathise with Chloe being an ass, while still calling her out for it as Max. I saw myself in both of them, and played the game from both of their perspectives. I never really realised how much of a dick Chloe is because Max and Chloe are both very flawed teenagers. Max left Chloe in a critical moment of her childhood, Chloe is so traumatised by everything she experienced and lashes out. I didn't just take it as Max, but i also didn't hate Chloe for it. I saw a troubled teenager who doesn't really know how to emotion and be kind. That was me for a while.
      What bothers me now is that there are (in hindsight) no real obvious moments of Chloe acknowledging her trauma and how she treats her best friend. I'd like to imagine (since i have done the same) that Chloe gets therapy and slowly starts healing & being a better person after the game. You can see the cracks in her armor, the hurt she hides and sometimes puts on others to cope (that doesn't make it ok ofc).

  • @aru3299
    @aru3299 Před rokem +71

    Can't we have a complete rewrite of the story and instead of Chloe, It's Kate?

    • @wolfytoonsuwu794
      @wolfytoonsuwu794 Před 11 měsíci +5

      I'd spend all my money for that

    • @Kos1256
      @Kos1256 Před 6 měsíci +7

      Or one where we get to be best friends with Kate and warren and we also get to have a romantic option with warren while still being best friends with Kate I doubt it but we can dream

    • @aru3299
      @aru3299 Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@Kos1256 this

    • @jameslazaridis4180
      @jameslazaridis4180 Před 4 měsíci

      @@aru3299i can’t let you do that

  • @gallofilm
    @gallofilm Před 3 lety +3799

    Dude sounds like Yanderedev in an alternate universe where he went to college, finished Yansim, and became a reputable game dev/genuinely good person. In all seriousness though, great video, big ups!

    • @awkwardorangedrawz5914
      @awkwardorangedrawz5914 Před 3 lety +28

      Yup. 😂

    • @henrynelson9301
      @henrynelson9301 Před 3 lety +203

      I’m pretty sure that’s just Urick’s accent. Yandere Dev only talks like that because he’s under the false assumption that it makes him sound professional.

    • @jackisawesome3
      @jackisawesome3 Před 3 lety +119

      The good universe yandev didn't even make yandere sim, because he knew it was creepy

    • @Abdega
      @Abdega Před 3 lety +13

      Yandev should hav just open sourced it

    • @steellegion7054
      @steellegion7054 Před 3 lety +3

      "Accent"?

  • @The1HP
    @The1HP Před 3 lety +2029

    Wow, I was too young to understand how bad of a friend she was.

    • @carlweezer2979
      @carlweezer2979 Před 3 lety +42

      me too man

    • @wastemanagementcompany
      @wastemanagementcompany Před 3 lety +110

      Same, I’m sure I was 5th-6th grade when I played this game, now that I’m in high school I kinda see the game for how it is

    • @cutiepie6796
      @cutiepie6796 Před 3 lety +7

      @@wastemanagementcompany UMM THIS GAME CAME OUT IN 2016 I THINK, THAT'S ONLY 4 YRS AGO

    • @carlweezer2979
      @carlweezer2979 Před 3 lety +101

      @@cutiepie6796 it was 2015. And people can grow up alot in 5 years

    • @carlweezer2979
      @carlweezer2979 Před 3 lety +49

      @@cutiepie6796 plus by your math they would still be able to make it to high school

  • @dana-ger_to_society1011
    @dana-ger_to_society1011 Před rokem +20

    I feel like the story not wanting to say chloe is bad is is because max doesn't want to say she's bad. Max is too caught up in having her best friend back that she can't acknowledge that she has become a horrible person. Max is a people pleaser, trying to be friends with everyone and even using her rewind powers to know how to befriend someone. So, being a people pleaser, when her best friend tells her to do something, she does it as to not upset her.

  • @biske85
    @biske85 Před 10 měsíci +13

    It always baffled me that so many people would just sacrifice Arcadia Bay for her. I was like "meh" at first, but thought she'd get better as the story progressed and she would grow up, but she just got worse and by the end, I couldn't stand her, which made the final decision super easy for me.

    • @kurtpunchesthings2411
      @kurtpunchesthings2411 Před 2 měsíci +2

      put it like this if you save the Bay
      everything resets except Max still remembers all the fucked up things that happened to her and that she witnessed except now the 1 person who understood her and knew what she went through is gone she has no one
      no one she can talk to about this

  • @alyssam9543
    @alyssam9543 Před 3 lety +4891

    Warren was extremely underrated and the developers did him dirty imo. He ALWAYS had Max’s back and I really wish we got to see more of him and the developers explored him and Max’s relationship more.

    • @marmar4301
      @marmar4301 Před 3 lety +116

      totally agree!

    • @Latinkon
      @Latinkon Před 3 lety +782

      Agreed. Unfortunately there's a very vocal subsection of the _Life is Strange_ fanbase that want you to believe Warren was nothing more than a creepy stalker who was thirsting for Max.
      This was why I believe _Before the Storm_ had to establish a new character called Elliot in order to highlight what a real creep was vs. an awkward socially inept nerd.

    • @franziska6483
      @franziska6483 Před 3 lety +188

      Yes, he was actuallyy favorite character

    • @bruzm
      @bruzm Před 3 lety +43

      he's a WEIRDO he literally stalks her

    • @skyxclouds3765
      @skyxclouds3765 Před 3 lety +212

      @@bruzm how?

  • @lacountess
    @lacountess Před 3 lety +1788

    I remember at the end, when the option was given to save the town or save Chloe I scratched my head wondering who would choose to kill an entire town - family, schoolmates, innocent strangers - to save an awful person like Chloe. I would have sacrificed Chloe just to save Frank's dog.

    • @annalenaguptara7130
      @annalenaguptara7130 Před 3 lety +126

      Pompadouuu

    • @kiroonsmoon
      @kiroonsmoon Před 3 lety +292

      Bro, even if Chloe was a good person I don’t get how some people would rather sacrifice 100s of people over one person.

    • @soulstealer5625
      @soulstealer5625 Před 3 lety +97

      @@kiroonsmoon like condemning Joyce? Kate? Warren? Let alone the regular decent people?

    • @EggyEggtoast
      @EggyEggtoast Před 3 lety +90

      @@soulstealer5625 mentioning Joyce reminds me that the funniest part about this is that even Chloe wants you to kill Chloe

    • @MiguelRamirez-mp2st
      @MiguelRamirez-mp2st Před 3 lety

      Well actually if you really paid attention to the game that tornado happens regardless

  • @xdf8226
    @xdf8226 Před rokem +22

    Chloe is the literal personification of the song Stay High by Tove Lo

    • @art3misxp784
      @art3misxp784 Před rokem +5

      I thought that too lmao

    • @xdf8226
      @xdf8226 Před rokem +2

      @@art3misxp784 great minds think alike

  • @BuggingonBeeroids
    @BuggingonBeeroids Před 2 lety +81

    The idea of sacrificing a town for this ungrateful, self righteous and just downright *terrible* person (I know her dad died yada yada) never crossed my mind. The only reward is an indie song that tries to sell you on an upbeat ending that is actually horrific; all the choices you made are basically meaningless, tons of people are dead or at best homeless and Max continues to suffer through a toxic relationship with someone who would constantly use and abuse her and her powers (Which hurt her. Physically. What a great friend/lover.)
    The best parts of Life is Strange is watching Chloe accidentally killing herself when she's being thoughtless, selfish and reckless. That might sound hugely malicious, I'll admit that but that's because the game is intent on selling you on her being a great character instead of allowing you to call her out, so it's the only form of catharsis you can get within the game itself

  • @theversacelife5232
    @theversacelife5232 Před 3 lety +4256

    Being a victim of abuse is unfortunate but not an excuse to be a terrible person

    • @icravedeath.1200
      @icravedeath.1200 Před 3 lety +167

      Say that to feminists on twitter, I dare you.
      (I regret saying this, some of them are pretty cool).

    • @gothica3605
      @gothica3605 Před 3 lety +3

      👏

    • @summerrose8110
      @summerrose8110 Před 3 lety +17

      @beep I don't have Twitter, actually.

    • @summerrose8110
      @summerrose8110 Před 3 lety +19

      @beep Have a blessed day or night. Depending on wherever you are.

    • @viv549
      @viv549 Před 3 lety

      YES

  • @KlutzyNinjaKitty
    @KlutzyNinjaKitty Před 3 lety +1366

    It's funny how the LiS creators accidentally made a quintessential toxic and borderline abusive relationship. Complete with gaslighting and guilt trips!

    • @Shift_Salt
      @Shift_Salt Před 3 lety +150

      And made it into a "Best Friends Forever/Love Story"

    • @chaaaargh
      @chaaaargh Před 3 lety +76

      honestly. like i love this game with all my heart but man, it seriously needs a rewrite. they needed better writers to begin with.

    • @summerrose8110
      @summerrose8110 Před 3 lety +28

      @@chaaaargh Better writers. I don't know about different actors or same actors. But keep Chloe dead for the entire rewrite.

    • @Roadent1241
      @Roadent1241 Před 3 lety +6

      They got it right, at least, but then I'm used to this XD This has basically been 95% of my friendships at this point. I assume that's completely normal even for neurotypicals though, even though they can fix things a lot easier because they know how to communicate.
      Just from my understanding. I'm just an Autist a year after being diagnosed as an adult so what do I know about communication despite my best efforts? I always seem to be the toxic one despite trying NOT to gaslight and guilt trip. If I think something I want to say is emotionally manipulative, I put it on the DO NOT SAY list. And yet the opposite always seems to have the same reaction.
      I'm still trying to figure out what my 5-10-year long platonic relationships wanted me to fix in 4 months as we all learned the diagnosis when I didn't even know there were problems until they all ganged up on me yelling at me about years worth of build up of problems before leaving me to just guess my way through it with no way to confirm if I'm right or wrong. I know it's only been a year but still.
      Just gotta suffer through the bad ones to find the good ones.
      ... That IS natural and normal, right? That 95% of friendships are bad and toxic and probably borderline abusive? Or is it just me, and me doing stuff wrong I can't figure out how not to do?

    • @cinnabunnybb
      @cinnabunnybb Před 3 lety +7

      I don't really understand why no one else seems to think this was completely intentional on the writers' and developers' parts?

  • @Sercil00
    @Sercil00 Před 5 měsíci +17

    In fairness, I always took the "gotta blame somebody. Otherwise it's all my fault. F that" quote as a self-aware snarky sarcastic remark, not an actual defense.

  • @littlered6340
    @littlered6340 Před rokem +21

    I'm glad this video exists. So many people acted like their friendship was some top tier, best thing ever, and I couldn't see Chloe ever even *potentially* turning into a decent (not even good) person. She was so self centered and completely unable to conceptualise the other people are humans that she continuously hurt everyone, including her best friend. She got worse as time went on, so I don't think even if she has a change of heart as the entire world died around her, that she could have possible ever even so much as reached decent.

  • @val9502
    @val9502 Před 3 lety +2366

    Some things that weren’t mentioned that really made me dislike her:
    - her “you know I believe in gun control” comment while being the one mostly parading around with a gun and threatening / shooting people.
    - asking max to kiss her after telling her to wear Rachel’s clothes, as if to replace her.
    -making Nathan immediately the bad guy when it all started because chloe tried to take advantage of him while drunk to steal some money.
    -using her father’s death to get sympathy while precious Joyce breaks her back to support her, who doesn’t studies or has a job.
    Seriously, I found everyone except Max and Chloe to be more likeable, and I’m actually irked at how quick people are to judge characters like David or Nathan. David did wrong at hitting her, obviously, but she did get on his face and it’s important to keep in mind he’s a veteran that struggles to incorporate into normal life, given by the self-help book you can find. Then you have Nathan, who not only has his father’s pressure to fulfil a role, but also the immediate hatred of most people just because of his family name. He’s on heavy medication, is shown to be getting worse and on top of that, there’s his drug use to consider. He was used and manipulated by those around him. His phone call to Max in which he was crying and apologising did more for me than Chloe ever did in the entire game. At least Nathan has some serious issues that can explain his shitty behaviour.

    • @KanaHyoshi
      @KanaHyoshi Před 3 lety +347

      Key point: Nathan genuinely feels bad.
      Chloe? Nah.

    • @unigon794
      @unigon794 Před 3 lety +394

      God the game tried SO hard to make you sympathize with her while also justifying her shitty behavior
      But characters like David and Nathan and Victoria get pushed to the side or shat on even tho they are faaarrr more interesting

    • @ezrawyvern6795
      @ezrawyvern6795 Před 3 lety +163

      Pretty spot on. Through actions alone Chloe's almost as much of a sociopath as Mr. Jefferson. And she's supposed to be the deutoragonist.

    • @chaselanglands6757
      @chaselanglands6757 Před 3 lety +68

      @@ezrawyvern6795 Protagonist Centered Morality Trope ftw

    • @ezrawyvern6795
      @ezrawyvern6795 Před 3 lety +17

      @@chaselanglands6757 Damn right.

  • @Elcopollo
    @Elcopollo Před 3 lety +1941

    I'm a simple man. I see that people share my opinion about Chloe being an overrated character and a garbage human being - I leave a like.

    • @Alexandra-rb7ju
      @Alexandra-rb7ju Před 3 lety +94

      I thought Chloe was a garbage human being from day 1. She can't be a real friend to anyone because she's never happy about anyone else's success except her own. Toxic sign #1.

    • @ThePanda013
      @ThePanda013 Před 3 lety +76

      I still can't believe people actually finding Chole relatable to his/her life, like are you guys this jerk when you on high school irl...?

    • @LordRobaZe
      @LordRobaZe Před 3 lety

      @@ThePanda013 yes

    • @sappy.3xe
      @sappy.3xe Před 3 lety +12

      Same. I legit did not care about her dying lmao. It was an easy choice in the end for me.

  • @missjuju2577
    @missjuju2577 Před 19 dny +4

    Chloe has just been selfish the entire game no matter what choices the player made. For example if you took the blame for Chloe, she just simply said "thanks", and didn’t ask if they wanted something in return - or, if they’d blamed Chloe, she would just whine.

  • @Rose0004
    @Rose0004 Před 2 lety +69

    THANK YOU FOR THIS REVIEW. I never understood Chloe's popularity except that she had a cool wardrobe and cool room, but heck, so did Victoria. Personality- wise, though, they were both the same AWFUL person, so how Chloe was beloved while Victoria was seen as villainous was bizarre. Max and Warren were a better couple anyway. Also, the LiS dialogue reminds me of the Sailor Moon dub where the characters said things like "hunkerrific" and "Major Bumsville!"

    • @JM.piwz1
      @JM.piwz1 Před 4 měsíci

      Because Chloe could at least *tolerate* max. Victoria didn’t like her at all.

    • @allengreene9954
      @allengreene9954 Před 3 měsíci

      @@JM.piwz1. If you were nice to Victoria and warned Her about Nathan, She will admit to Max that She doesn’t really hate her and that She thinks Max is Very Cool because She doesn’t Play the Part like Victoria does.

  • @Noperare
    @Noperare Před 3 lety +702

    I thought that LiS was a cautionary tale about being traped in a abusive relationship, told from the perspective of the abused person, hence why Max always use the few good moments to justify Chloe shitty behaviour. The ending being a test to see if you learned the lesson or is still stuck to the abuser.
    Then the prequal makes you play as Chloe like she was a likable character.

    • @TheDoggoPearl
      @TheDoggoPearl Před 3 lety +181

      Doesn't help that some people actually thought it was a healthy relationship despite all the red flags

    • @Vyansya
      @Vyansya Před 3 lety +50

      Whoa I see this game differently now

    • @krill5815
      @krill5815 Před 3 lety +116

      Chloe was also stuck in a toxic relationship with Rachel but then she became toxic too smh

    • @mangachick27
      @mangachick27 Před 3 lety +81

      @@krill5815 and that's on the cycle of abuse

    • @miyeyoo
      @miyeyoo Před 3 lety +26

      EXACTLY. I guess somehow people liked chloe so much thst dontnod decided to make a game about her, but they shouldnt have did that.

  • @animecommander9433
    @animecommander9433 Před 3 lety +870

    The game wants you to feel emotion for a person who:
    Steals guns
    Lies
    Let’s you take the heat for her drugs
    Yells at you for answering your phone
    Compares her minor problems to suicidal girl
    Says hella
    Uses Max for her powers like a tool
    The only version of Chloe that is sympathetic is alternate timeline Chloe. I had no problem sacrificing her to save the town filled with decent people who, though they aren’t perfect, genuinely try to do the right thing. Be it Kate Marsh or David, they are leagues above Chloe.

    • @catherine3095
      @catherine3095 Před 3 lety +94

      "Says hella"
      Truly the worst offense of all

    • @Anastas1786
      @Anastas1786 Před 3 lety +93

      The more I think about Chloe, the easier I find it to understand why God or Mother Nature or the Universe or _whatever_ wants her dead _so very badly,_ and the more unsettling I find it that not only does the game seem to want us to risk the lives of _an entire town_ to save her, a lot of people actually seem to _agree,_ even when _Chloe herself_ miraculously comes to the correct conclusion for what may be the first time in her entire life.

    • @animecommander9433
      @animecommander9433 Před 3 lety +50

      Anastas1786 the homeless lady and the fisherman are both worth saving more than your childhood friend. I felt more emotional impact from Sam Fisher’s daughter being alive than this- and she wasn’t even my main concern when playing.

    • @thiccyvicky2192
      @thiccyvicky2192 Před 3 lety +12

      To be fair she didn't know who was on the other side of the phone nor what they were going through and later if you save Kate she even apologizes for it lol

    • @animecommander9433
      @animecommander9433 Před 3 lety +37

      thiccy vicky, I think Max says who it is, but even if she didn’t that’s not normal. That’s the kind of thing manipulators and abusers do- discourage or prevent someone from speaking to a third party.

  • @jamescole7614
    @jamescole7614 Před 2 lety +58

    I think this is a example of representation being praised for simply existing, it doesn't matter the relationship is toxic because it represents a queer relationship. Critics and fans where just so excited to see a queer relationship between the main hero's they ignore any problems in said relationship.
    Stories that focus on being representative are often garbage because they focus solely on representation, disregarding other vital aspects of the story so they can clobber you over the head with the fact they have representation in them.
    I the last 7 or so years terrible stories have been praised or defended for haveing representation or any sort of minority group regardless of how well they do it. Criticism is deflected or dismissed which offers no incentive to tell good stories. If your going to be praised just for representation why Putin the effort to make it good?

  • @sindy113
    @sindy113 Před 2 lety +13

    I couldn’t make myself like Chloe. I really tried to like her but I hated her in almost every scene she was in. I never saw her as my best friend. Every interaction we had just left me feeling depressed. When I saved the town, I was really sad for Max for losing her friend but I also felt relieved she finally escaped that toxic friendship

    • @Music-rl1ll
      @Music-rl1ll Před 2 lety

      This comment kinda depressing 😓

  • @skeleytonz5319
    @skeleytonz5319 Před 3 lety +5202

    omg she's so quirky and relatable

  • @rabbit-exe3606
    @rabbit-exe3606 Před 3 lety +1081

    honestly this game would have been a lot more interesting if it was *about* their relationship being clumsy and unpleasant and based solely around nostalgia, how you feel tied to someone because you were close a long time ago and now you're incompatible, but that doesn't stop you from trying to recapture that feeling. solely focusing on finding a way to be the same as things used to be, despite the fact that you've both grown apart

    • @RanMouri82
      @RanMouri82 Před 3 lety +35

      Exactly! Instead, the game has the characters proclaim to each other that they're BFFs while one continues to manipulate and abuse the other. Yup, uh huh, sure.

    • @desuretard8654
      @desuretard8654 Před 3 lety +5

      Night in the Woods does this remarkably better, which I'm sure is SHOCKING.

    • @thesuperMasterSword
      @thesuperMasterSword Před 3 lety +2

      To be honest, this is about how I interpreted the game. Not having many friends growing up, I just really wanted to find a way to rekindle their old friendship, since it doesn't really seem like Max has many other friends (like there's Warren, and then that's basically it?).
      That's probably part of why I was so blind to a lot of the dumb thing Chloe did, though I didn't ignore all of them. Like yes Chloe, this call is important enough that I can stop talking to you for 10 seconds. Hell Max probably could've explained it afterwards, but it seems like she didn't even try.

    • @Dojafish
      @Dojafish Před 3 lety

      That's is kinda the point of the story

  • @missmaeve_
    @missmaeve_ Před rokem +16

    It gets “better” when you realize that sacrificing Arcadia Bay was the canonical ending in the sequel

  • @micah459
    @micah459 Před 2 lety +16

    Chloe is not only a bad friend but lowkey a bad daughter to because the way she talked to her mom was not cool

    • @memo-fq3ps
      @memo-fq3ps Před 2 lety +2

      That's true. I get that Chloe was going through a lot, but I'm honestly surprised that she gets away with so much from her mom, not just with being rude and disrespectful, but the way she'd sneak out of the house, smoke in the house, scream at David, not answer Joyce's calls, and skip school. Joyce was WAY too lenient on Chloe. Most mom's would've given Chloe a slap in the face (not that I'm saying that Joyce should do that), taken her phone away, or ground her and leave her with extra chores if she acted like that in their house.

    • @faratqm
      @faratqm Před 8 měsíci

      shes both

    • @jaydenwatches166
      @jaydenwatches166 Před 8 měsíci

      @@faratqmshes not both

    • @jaydenwatches166
      @jaydenwatches166 Před 8 měsíci

      @@faratqmshes not

  • @juanpablorobayo3437
    @juanpablorobayo3437 Před 3 lety +824

    “I don’t like being used like a supernatural toy”
    “Shut up, you’re my friend so you have to do what I say”
    Dont. Be. Abusive. (Also guns aren’t toys)
    It’s crazy that the game ships these two together

    • @xJuliettex
      @xJuliettex Před 3 lety +87

      I felt so bad for Max, like... she was getting nosebleeds but still had to perform her trick for Chloe??

    • @juanpablorobayo3437
      @juanpablorobayo3437 Před 3 lety +45

      xJuliettex “hey hey, rewind for me or have my death on your conscience until you die of old age”

    • @juanpablorobayo3437
      @juanpablorobayo3437 Před 3 lety +17

      wxtcher but after max has the nosebleeds chloe keeps asking her to do crazy shit and rewind time.

    • @z-shun6661
      @z-shun6661 Před 3 lety +5

      @SpiritedReverse that would be a great ideia

    • @ayelet_t_r
      @ayelet_t_r Před 3 lety +5

      @SpiritedReverse i saw another comment that said that and i totally agree, the story shouldve developed at some point into chloe and max growing apart again and max recognizing she neglected kate and that shes goimng through a hard time (that being around ch 3 of course) and the game going in that direction from there, with kate. that could be great

  • @LazyCatIsFat
    @LazyCatIsFat Před 3 lety +3343

    I hate people like Chloe. She's constantly gaslighting Max. Max, sweetie. You need better friends.

    • @mooberrri
      @mooberrri Před 3 lety +19

      How is Chloe gaslighting her?

    • @LazyCatIsFat
      @LazyCatIsFat Před 3 lety +89

      @@mooberrri to be fair, I wrote this post back when I didnt really understand what gaslighting meant, so i used the term incorrectly, i apologize.

    • @mooberrri
      @mooberrri Před 3 lety +33

      @@LazyCatIsFat there’s no need to apologize. I get it

    • @eros-arcana
      @eros-arcana Před 3 lety +146

      They're both toxic for eachother in my opinion. I think Chloe had great potential to mature up and be responsible while keeping her fiery spirit within her. And Max well, she definitely needed to wake up and realise that life is a constant struggle and needs inner strength to go through with it, which i think she gained by the end of the game.

    • @Wind330
      @Wind330 Před 3 lety +3

      I love Chloe

  • @Hammerhead547
    @Hammerhead547 Před 2 měsíci +3

    8:09
    If you actually watch the scene and pay attention to what is being said chloe entirely deserved that backhander she got from david.
    You don't steal a gun then lie about it and run off at the mouth at the owner of said gun and not expect a belt in the mush for it.