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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is a new narrative adventure game from the creators of the critically acclaimed series, Life is Strange.

Rewind back to the 90s and live the defining summer of four high school girls as they forge bonds through their growing friendship, their punk band, and an unexplained event that will forever change their lives.

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage will release in two parts: Tape 1 on February 18th, and Tape 2 on March 18th, 2025 on PC, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5.

 

[Valt7786]

Oh boy this topic is gonna be a fun ride!

But yeah, complete and total "Western Dev Gen Z" game. It will flop hard.

 

[semiconscious]

looks hella good?...

 

[R3TRO]

Kind of want…

 

[Embearded]

I didn't understand shit from the trailer. I guess it plays like LiS.

 

[StueyDuck]

I expect those black myth wu Kong numbers on this one

 

[bosnianpie]

You have to like c*ck to play this.

 

[HAYA8U5A]

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I didn't understand shit from the trailer. I guess it plays like LiS.

Yup, it should play exactly like a life is strange game since its the same devs that did LiS 1 & 2.

 

[Vlodril]

Did love lis 1. Did not love lis 2. Loved vampyr and found banishers of eden just ok. These are very inconsistent devs unfortunately for me. They hit big but also fail a lot. This looks mid. We shall see i guess. Maybe it will surprise.

 

[Flabagast]

Looks very interesting to be honest, will most probably be a day one

 

[AJUMP23]

Everyone looks insufferable.

 

[AJUMP23]

Sisterhood of the defying the patriarchy band.

 

[calistan]

I liked Life is Strange, but this one is going to be a hard sell if you've got to play as a fat chick with her trousers pulled up to her armpits.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Looks like Goodbye Volcano High but with diverse lesbian teenagers instead of dinosaurs.

 

[Stafford]

Visually looks nice, but the characters don't look appealing at all to me, at all!

 

[Timberwolf25]

I couldn't even get through the trailer

 

[Mossybrew]

I liked Life is Strange, but this one is going to be a hard sell if you've got to play as a fat chick with her trousers pulled up to her armpits.

Yeah this is not a very appealing player character. I don't care for the voice either.

 

[Interfectum]

 

[simpatico]

Daughter might like this. She liked Life is Strange a lot. This is where these types of girls are best cast. Sadly Ubisoft will probably put the short haired one in the next Ghost Recon as a trench shotgunner.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Not gay enough.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

A lot of devs really got conned into believing there are a lot more resetera folk out there than there actually are, huh?

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

A lot of devs really got conned into believing there are a lot more resetera folk out there than there actually are, huh?

Add this to the pile of diverse girlboss flops

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

Add this to the pile of diverse girlboss flops

I just saw this as well ... I hope for their sake they were just too far along to put the breaks on and have learned from the reception from similar games before they greenlight their next one ... if they get a chance that is.

 

[manfestival]

I mean, let them make the game. This is what they want and what they want to put their money towards. It has no appeal but I rather them do this instead of transforming an IP that everyone is familiar with.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

I mean, let them make the game. This is what they want and what they want to put their money towards. It has no appeal but I rather them do this instead of transforming an IP that everyone is familiar with.

Completely agree, businesses are free to do what they want.

What I can;t believe is that these same businesses don't have any data showing the demographics where the majority of sales come from and then create these games in what must be a vacuum. It's bizarre.

 

[Loomy]

Original Life is Strange sold over 5 million copies. Assuming they've done the work to understand why the second game didn't sell as well, this seems like a good bet.

 

[RedC]

I'm still interested in playing this.

 

[6502]

I got confused and misread Life is Strange for High on Life, I was horrified watching that trailer.

 

[Senua]

Resetera the game

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

They can't even get the band name right. Blooming Rage is so much better.

 

[DrumNBassDanTTV]

 

[Frwrd]

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

I thought after Banishers maybe Don't Nod figured out what people want.

 

[emivita]

Put Stranger Things and IT in the mix, with some "girl power" and... uuh... "modern touch", and you get this. I'm cautiously interested.

 

[Trunim]

I'm really trying to be open minded, but playing as this person with her trousers up like a freshman out of Vassar college is not what I'm looking for.

Still is on my list because LiS was really good.