(grumbling) - Butterfly Effect.

- (Rae and Mikaela) OH!!

♪ (upbeat video game music) ♪

- "Life is Strange."

- (FBE) Life is Strange has you playing

as photography student Max Caulfield,

who recently discovered she has the ability to rewind time.

- Oh, that's cool.

- (FBE) This game is broken down into episodes,

all through which the decisions you make have actual consequences

in the game. - Okay.

- (FBE) We're going to have you play all the way through,

so you will actually experience those consequences.

- So it's like you get the good decision--

and the good endings, the bad endings.

That means you can replay it and get different endings,

and it's like the game's almost tailored to you

and your decisions, you know, and I think that's super cool.

If you make the right decision, you'll get the perfect fiction.

If you make the wrong decision, then--

- If you make the right decision, you could capture someone dying.

- (FBE) As we mentioned in the gaming update video,

because of the nature of these branching narrative games,

it's impossible for the channel to produce these videos

in a coherent way with multiple different playthroughs

at the same time.

Because of that, we're only seeing your experiences

instead of combining it with multiple playthroughs

like we usually do. - All right.

You guys ready? - The pressure's on.

We'd better make some entertaining choices.

- One, two, three, let's go! - (laughter)

- Go team!

- "Life is Strange is a story based game

that features player choice, the consequences

of all your in game actions and decisions

will impact past, present, and future.

Choose wisely."

(nervously) Ooh.

- Oh, what's going on? (thunder rumbling)

Oh, it's a thunderstorm. Oh my god.

The thing is vibrating. - She's on the floor.

- Is that us? Why are we on the floor?

- Is this how she got her powers?

Did she get struck by lightening?

- (in surprise) Oh!

Yo, we're like a little emo kid.

I like it.

- (Max) Where am I? - Oh no.

- (Max) What's happening? (rain lashing)

I'm trapped in a storm?

How did I get here?

- She doesn't remember anything.

- (Max) There's the lighthouse.

I'll be safe if I can make it there.

- All right. - Let's see.

- (Max) Please let me make it there.

- We're totally gonna get struck by lightening.

- Whoa! Whoa! Oh, it's a tornado!

- This is a hurricane.

- What if I just stand here? Would I die?

Okay, what's over here?

We're in Blackwell.

- Try and go really left. (lightening cracking)

- Just keep going. There you go.

- (startled) Oh! Cut scene, okay.

My bad.

- (Max) Holy shit.

- Okay, so she just noticed the giant whirlpool coming--

- It's a sharknado! - (chuckling)

That's crazy. That'd be so scary.

Imagine that thing-- why are you waiting?

Girl! (abruptly) Oh! - Oh man.

- Whoa! Whoa. Oh, we dead.

She-- oh, nightmare.

- (Max) That was so surreal.

- (teacher) ...famously called film "little pieces of time"...

- Oh, she's in class now. That was a dream.

- (teacher) ...talking about photography, as he likely was.

- (Max) Okay, I'm in class. Everything's cool.

- But it wasn't-- that must've been real.

This is how the game ends, and she rewinded time.

- (Max) I didn't fall asleep, and that sure didn't feel like a dream.

Weird. - (student #1) Diane Arbus.

- (teacher) There you go, Victoria!

And, frankly, it's bullshit. (shushing)

Keep that to yourself.

- (Max) I can't believe I still have this pencil case.

- That's so cute.

- (Max) I should upgrade to the 21st century.

- No, girl. - Take selfie?

Shall we take a selfie? - With the Polaroid?

- Yeah. - Yes.

In class, though? - Why not?

- Oh, someone's gonna bully her for that.

- (teacher) Too obvious? - Ready?

(Polaroid shutter snapping) - (teacher shushing)

I believe Max is taking what you kids call a "selfie."

- Oh, just kidding. Maybe we shouldn't--

- Oh, now the teacher's bullying her?

- (teacher) Max has a gift. - Max has a gift?

- (teacher) Of course, as you all know,

the photo portrait has been popular since the early 1800s.

- Okay, so that progressed the game,

and we didn't get to look at it.

- (teacher) ...selfie-expression.

Sorry. I couldn't resist.

- Ah, he's one of those teachers who try to be a smartass.

- (teacher) Now Max, since you've captured our interest--

- Goddamn it.

I progressed the game!

- (teacher) ...please tell us the name of the process that gave birth

to the first self-portrait.

- Uh, I don't know. - "You're asking me?"

- I feel like she's gonna introverted, like...

(shyly) "You asking me?"

- I don't know. Let's find out.

- She's like a little hipster girl.

- (Max) You're asking me? - Oh, yeah.

- Why are her eyes-- - She looks like she's crying.

- (teacher) You either know this or not, Max.

Is there anybody here who knows their stuff?

- (Victoria) Louis Daguerre... - (groaning) This girl.

- (Victoria) ...created "daguerreotypes,"

a process that gave portraits a sharp reflective style,

like a mirror.

Now you're totally stuck in the Retro Zone.

Sad face. - (mockingly) "Sad face."

- Shut up. - (teacher) Very good, Victoria.

(school bell ringing) - Oh, there you go.

All right. - Cool.

- I was like, "There's nothing else to do."

- "Everyday Heroes" contest.

- (teacher) ...San Franciso, where you'll be feted by--

- Oh, so we already made a bad decision.

We got one upped by that chick.

- I'm coming for her. (laughing)

- (teacher) ...don't hide.

I'm still waiting for your entry too.

And, yes, Max-- - Oh, look at how she walks.

- It just gives us motive to ruin her. - Ooh!

- (gasping) - Steal it. Steal it.

- Tablet, tablet, tablet. - (Max) Victoria doesn't waste

a second kissing ass. - Are we?

Are we? Am I looking?

- Let's look at her notebook! Look at the notebook.

(laughing)

- (Max) Even her schoolbooks are gift-wrapped.

I can't believe she-- - Use the tablet.

Use the tablet. - (Max) I should've known.

She'll have better equipment than Blackwell.

- Oh. - Talk to Kate.

Kate looks like she's down.

- Kate was the one-- oh, a paper ball.

Wait, let's read the paper ball first. - Look, okay.

- (Max) Now I wish I wouldn't have read this.

Purge. - Her porn video?

- That's why she's all upset now.

Something obviously happened to her.

- (teacher speaking in background) - What does this say? Look.

- (Max) Hmmm, this might make a cool shot.

- Take a photo.

- Man, that's a lame shot.

- "Rachel Amber 4 Ever."

- I told you, she's leaning over the desk.

Speak to him.

- (Max) Excuse me, Mr. Jefferson, can I talk to you for a moment?

- She's so cute and small.

Ugh, Victoria's such a bitch.

- (Mr. Jefferson) I'd never let one of photography's future stars

avoid handing in her picture.

- Um... - "Do I have to?"

- Yeah, because I don't think we should lie

because we have some. - Yeah, we have one.

We just need to push her to turn it in.

- (Max) I just don't think it's that big a deal.

- It's an assignment.

- (Mr. Jefferson) You're a better photographer than a liar.

I know it's a drag to hear some old dude lecture you.

- I want her to leave.

I wouldn't want to hand in my picture with her there.

- (Mr. Jefferson) ...the world is yours, blah, blah, blah, right?

But you do have a gift.

You have the fever to take images.

- He thinks that she-- why are we so--?

- Because Victoria drags her down.

- I guess, but he's pushing us up. He's a good teacher.

- (Mr. Jefferson) That's what separates the artist from the amateur.

- Artist from the amateur.

- Oh, so are we not gonna give him our--?

- All right, I think we're dipping. - Bye-bye.

- Let's leave. Let's leave this room.

- Open.

- (girl) You didn't tell me how cute I looked yet.

- (boy) I was about to.

- (Max) Welcome to the real world. - (scoffing)

You can't tell me how cute-- - (overlapping speech)

- (Max) I need a serious time out in the bathroom.

Splash water on my face and make sure I don't look like--

- Why is this girl just bitching about her--?

- She's so angsty and-- what?! - I love it!

- "Dontnod Entertainment."

- She's like one of those hipster girls

who makes me feel bad for her, and I'm like, man.

- Seth has no pity.

- She's like an angsty teen from a coming-of-age movie, you know?

- She's the outcast.

Look at this guy's cool scarf, though.

(flirtatiously) Evan! - He's definitely a hipster.

- (Max) Evan doesn't say much to me, but his photos are very cool.

- Oh my god. Which one's hers?

- Look, it's red. - (Max) ...see inside my locker.

- What does that mean? - What?

Is it clear?

- (Max) I love that picture of Mom and Dad.

- Mr. Jefferson. - Jack!

- (Max) ...you look totally fabulous, as usual.

- All right.

- A poster. Oh, it's Halloween!

- I don't feel like reliving high school right now.

Do we have to go through the whole-- do we have to go through

high school in this game? - "Missing person"?

- Oh.

- (Max) Looks like she's been gone for months.

- That's important. We're gonna save her.

- Where's the restroom sign?

- I feel like they'd have a sign. - That's men's...

so the other way's the girl's. - There we go.

♪ (indie music) ♪ - I like the song.

- Me too. It's very indie.

- (Max) Nobody can see my meltdown. - Oh my gosh.

Here we go. - She's going to have a meltdown?

Oh, honey, no. - Girl.

- Oh, she's going to clean it. Oh, maybe not.

(Max sighing) - All right.

You good?

She's got little dogs-- - (Max) Just relax.

Stop torturing yourself. You have "a gift."

- Dude, it's like--

- Why didn't she use one of the pictures on her wall

to submit instead of-- - (gasping) Girl, what are you doing?

See, what I'm confused about is it's a class, right,

and it's an assignment. - Some credit is better than no credit.

- Oh, it's a butterfly. - Illuminati!

- (Max) When a door opens... - "I hate Victoria."

Same. It's a butterfly.

- (Max) Okay, girl, you don't get a photo op like this every day.

- Take a picture.

- (mumbling) Photo. (Polaroid shutter snapping)

- (gasping) Turn it in!

- Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick!

(Polaroid shutter snapping) - Yeah!

- Turn it in. Turn it in.

- Beautiful butterfly on a nice--

- Wait, why is there a guy in here? - Oh!