If you’ve played Life Is Strange or Life Is Strange 2, you probably know roughly what to expect from Dontnod’s new story-focused adventure about about small towns and intense familial relationships, Tell Me Why. However, whereas LIS focused more on the teen experience of these themes, Tell My Why feels more like it’s been made for grown-ups – or at least us as grown-ups and not the teenagers within us. Not because it’s more sweary or any darker than LIS, but because the protagonists are adults dealing with adult problems.
In fairness, these problems are ones mostly rooted in their childhood. The Ronan twins are returning to their old home in Alaska for the first time in an actual decade after a fairly traumatic event one night that led to their separation. Alyson has been living in their home town in the intervening years, but Tyler hasn’t even been back. By using their twin-bility to share sparkly ghost visions of past events, the Ronans begin to unpick what actually happened on that fateful night (which was dark and stormy, as well).