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These range from the mundane to the fantastical-Captain Spirit needs to throw snowballs at beer bottles to improve his aim and play with all his toys to 'check in' on them, but he also needs to assemble the parts of his costume to go on bigger adventures, like defeating the Snowmonger (an evil-looking snowman), and the water-hoarding 'monster' in his home (a malfunctioning water heater). Most of the objectives in the game are strictly optional, and you can 'finish' the game having completed very few of them, but Chris' stated desire is to go on various adventures as Captain Spirit. It's up to you how you want to spend that Saturday.

It opens, charmingly, with Chris doodling a superhero costume, giddy at the prospect of having a full day to play. That wasn’t true of Captain Spirit for me, but players with a stronger affinity for the story of Chris and his dad will likely be less irked by the elements which left me cold.The game-which runs for maybe three hours if you're a completionist, but can be sped through much faster-takes place across a single Saturday morning.

They were important to me in a way that was never dimmed by the game’s flaws. Part of the appeal of Life is Strange was the personal resonance of the story of Max and Chloe. There’s one last caveat here which relates to my experience of the first Life Is Strange. But Captain Spirit has far less time to cultivate relationships with the characters it’s easy to feel overtly manipulated, and harder to overlook abrasions. This is a problem which marred several episodes of Life is Strange, so it’s not a surprise. The game is capable of provoking anxiety or empathy, but it often tips into mawkish territory. Without getting into spoilers, I’d say it’s only partially successful in that. Take the basic setup for example: it’s the Saturday before Christmas and Chris’s dad has absolutely pinky-promised they will go out and get a real pine tree.Ī child dealing with a heavy-drinking parent at Christmas is low-hanging emotional fruit, so the supporting fiction needs to work hard to “earn” or contextualise that emotion instead of piggybacking off it. The game also tends to be heavy-handed when it wants to provoke emotion. But other options feel like they come from an adult directing the action and not a vulnerable and resourceful kid.

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