This game makes a great end to one of my favourite game series. I did enjoy Double Exposure, but as you probably already know if you've played it, it didn't have the same impact as the original game. Reunion gives fans closure by completing the story that DE started in a way that improves on the ending of DE, and yet still feels like an authentic LiS game, with all the emotional narrative you would expect.

Does it answer every question? No, but it doesn't need to. This game gives you just enough to form your own interpretation or speculation about the ending, while at the same time making it clear that this is intended to be the final time we see Max and Chloe in a game together.
Will there be future games or spin offs? I have no idea, but if they do open the series up again I hope they create new characters or give minor characters from the main series a spin off. I would be happy either way as long as the story is great.

I did genuinely enjoy this edition of the story of Max Caulfield, although I understand why it got much criticism compared to the other games in the series. For starts the lack of Chloe, who only exists in the form of text messages, is a big dampener of the game, so for the rest of the review I’m going to focus on the game itself.

I do like that they didn’t just reuse existing characters and decided to create a new cast of characters we’ve never seen before, each with their own troubled back story. The game focuses on Max, now a grad student, and her new best friend Safi. I won’t explain the nature of Safi’s powers, just that Max isn’t the only one with powers that can be either abused or used with caution. Safi is less than cautious with her powers which brings about the event at the beginning of the game. Max has lost the ability to rewind time, but has discovered she has a new power, that she must use to solve the mystery of what happened between her and Safi, and decide whether to forgive or reject her new best friend.

I love this game. I mean it doesn't come anywhere near the emotional roller coaster than was the first game, but that 's not a bad thing. It's just a different game with different mechanics and new characters, with the exception of one of my favourites. Of course I mean Steph.

The different aura colours to show the characters' emotions worked very well and the overall story was great. I especially loved the LARP game, as that was incredibly fun and meant that I could be distracted from all the emotional stuff (both in game and IRL). I admit, I may have missed a few of the optional auras that could have been more obvious that there was a side story available. I guess I learned that from the recap screen at the end of each chapter.

I believe that Alex, like Max, was only trying to help those around her using her power, even if in some cases it may have made things worse for her friends or herself.

This game is truly remarkable. Despite half the game being in the form of cut scenes and dialog, I can't complain as it is almost perfect. I missed it when it first came out in 2016 as I didn't play this kind of game then, but I'm glad I found it while searching steam for something different.

This game had me crying for the first time in years, it's like it found all my repressed teenage memories I thought were locked away somewhere and brought them all flooding back to the surface. I'm not complaining, I just didn't know a video game could do that. I chose the save Chloe option for my first play through as after going through all the effort of bringing her back like 5 times, I just couldn't sacrifice her. Initially I tried to convince myself that the storm wasn't that bad, although the comics seem to suggest it did damage most of the town.

I believe it could be because as a teenager I experienced something very strange: I had a constant sense on deja vu between the ages of 16-18, so around the age of the characters in this game and the prequel. At the time it felt like I was stuck in a time loop and had to live these years over and over again. I felt sure that I had made a mistake in a previous life and now was a chance to redo things, only in real life we don't get an "unwind" ability like Max does. Eventually the "storm" stopped and I went to university, got a job and got on with my life,. Until I played this game and all those memories good and bad came back to me.

I also know several people in real life who lost family when they were of school age and it completely broke them like it did to Chloe. Luckily most of them ended up ok in the end, once they settled down. For this reason I can't hate Chloe for the things she does as a teenager, as I know given the time to heal, things would likely turn out ok eventually. This also seems to be the case in the comics, although I'm not sure how canon they are.

I played this game the day after I finished playing the first game (remastered) as I just got into these games so much. It's nice to play as Chloe instead of Max and get to see Rachel, even if she was fairly manipulative. I get the feeling towards the end that Rachel genuinely feels bad for getting Chloe into trouble at school and with her parents. Would Chloe have gotten expelled if she hadn't befriended Rachel? I don't know, but I get the feeling she was looking for someone who she could be herself with and not have to deal with all the crazy stuff going on at that time in her life.

I loved this game as much as I loved the first game, although this game didn't quite manage to bring me to tear like the first one did. I don't know if this was because I already knew Rachel's fate, and that the events of the prequel were certain to happen anyway, or I had already cried everything I had from the first game.

I like that Chloe spent the whole of the game keeping a journal for Max, even though she didn't know if she would see her again. I'm not sure if Max ever got to read all the messages she left for her. The bonus chapter was also great, it was not only cute to see them playing as pirates one last time, but it actually sets the context for the fact that Max had to leave the same day Chloe's dad gets into his crash. I mean I knew these events happened, but I didn't realise they happened with a day or two, so it really explains why Chloe was so upset when Max left.