Brussels (AFP)
With a bisexual protagonist who wields a mysterious superpower, the new instalment of “Life is Strange” is the latest in a growing array of video games that place LGBTQ characters in the spotlight.
Like previous games in the popular series, “Life is Strange: True Colors” allows players to pursue same-sex relationships as they journey through a supernaturally-tinged version of small-town America.
“We really wanted to continue to honour the story of queer characters in ‘Life is Strange’,” lead writer Jon Zimmerman of Nine Deck Games, the US studio behind “True Colors”, told AFP ahead of its release on Friday.
The latest game follows Alex Chen, a young Asian-American woman who embraces her power to sense other people’s emotions as she investigates her brother’s death in the Colorado mountains.
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