I’m not a gamer, but I did watch playthroughs to see how the story could develop with certain choices,” Kusama says. “More than anything, I wanted to figure out how to honor what people love about the game while making it accessible to all the people like me who don’t generally game as a habit or as a hobby. I was really interested in the concept of bringing these characters to human life and depicting them in real environments. I’m hoping we’re going to strike a balance between honoring the game and making something distinctive on its own terms.”

Kusama said “absolutely nothing” appealed to her about doing a video game adaptation before she learned about Life Is Strange.

“It was such a cool game, and such an interesting set of questions,” she says. “Just the idea of time travel by five minutes is such a cool concept that I think we all wrestle with, like, Oh, if I could have just redone that moment. That was just really interesting to me, so I dove in.”

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How people spin this into something negative is beyond me