The DeanBeat: Life Is Strange: True Colors — discovering emotions, identity, and your story

I love Dontnod Entertainment’s Life Is Strange games because they’re always celebrations of diversity, with interesting characters who are fleshed out with relationships and emotions. And Life Is Strange: True Colors, built by Deck Nine, hits closer to home as it is one of the first high-quality video games where a couple of the lead characters are of Asian descent.

The main character is Alexandra “Alex” Chen, who comes to a small town called Haven Springs in the Colorado mountains to reunite with her brother Gabe for the first time in many years, after she spent eight years in the foster care system. She is striking, but not in the usual wafer-thin sexy female lead character way that we often see in video games. In fact, she is heavier, and she looks pretty normal, as do most of the other characters in the game. They’re all part of a diverse crew, living their lives like normal folks in a small town.