Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, the new game from the creators of Life is Strange, will be a bit special for a very specific reason which will perhaps make some people react.
Last December, we were able to discover the new upcoming creation from Don’t Nod, the father of Life is Strange: Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. Between this, Jusant, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden and Harmony: The Fall of Reverie, we can say that the studio is pulling out all the stops. This time, we seem to be returning to a narrative-driven adventure model, but in a 90s atmosphere. Currently, we don’t know much about the game. However, that has just changed thanks to some major information that it was given to us.
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, worthy successor to Life is Strange?
During the trailer shown at the Game Awards 2023, the title focused on four protagonists. We have Swann, Nora, Autumn and Kat, and we will follow their story and the mysteries it hides. Seen like that, we say to ourselves that we have a good chance of embodying at least two of them. Considering the casting, it seems quite logical. Well, that’s not going to be the case. It was Luc Baghadoust and Michel Koch, respectively executive producer and creative director, who confirmed this to Edge in issue 394. As in Life is Strange, among others, we will control a single character. Where this was no longer the case in other more recent Don’t Nod titles.
Koch says he likes being able to change perspective mid-game, and that’s not the problem here. He simply thinks it can disconnect the player from the current action. “I play a character in one scene, but in the next scene I see this character talking to me, and I don’t choose what to respond”, he explained. He also specifies that the conversations in Lost Records may be more “ organic » than in, for example, Life is Strange. “You may want to listen more clearly to someone or someone else and try to intervene or interrupt a person while they are speaking.”