Publishers Wanted To Change Life Is Strange’s Protagonists Into Men

Publishers Wanted To Change Life Is Strange’s Protagonists Into Men

Dontnod Entertainment and Square Enix’s Life Is Strange looks really interesting, but it was almost a very different game, according to a developer diary video posted this week.

Apparently Dontnod shopped the game around to a number of different publishers before going with Square Enix, and it turns out most of them wanted to change its protagonists into men. That would have been a real shame, but luckily it didn’t happen.

“Square is basically the only publisher that didn’t want to change a single thing about the game,” Dontnod co-founder Jean-Maxime “J-Max” Moris says in the video. “We had other publishers telling us ‘Make it a male lead character,’ and Square didn’t even question that once.”

Life Is Strange casts you as a high school senior who rewinds time to solve a friend’s disappearance. The first episode is scheduled to be released on Jan. 30.

Via NeoGAF


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