Life is Strange Remastered shows off six minutes of enhanced gameplay footage

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Following a fairly significant delay last September, Life is Strange: Remastered Collection is finally almost upon us, and, in preparation for its February release, publisher Square Enix has shared the first significant gameplay footage of its freshly spruced-up Life is Strange 1.

Square Enix's Life is Strange: Remastered Collection bundles up the original Life is Strange alongside its prequel Before the Storm, with both games set to receive enhanced visuals for characters and environments, alongside engine and lighting upgrades, as part of the release.

The remastering work on the first game will, however, go a little bit further, introducing fully motion-captured facial animations to remedy one particularly notable weakness of developer Dontnod's otherwise fondly remembered title — and all of these changes have now received a fairly substantial showcase in Square's latest video below.

For those worried about spoilers, there's little to fear here; the sequence featured in the trailer comes early in Life is Strange 1's first episode, titled Chrysalis, as Max — the focus of the supernatural phenomenon that underpins the original game — takes a tour of her school, commenting on her classmates, on the way to the bathroom.

Life is Strange: Remastered Collection — First Official Gameplay.

The overall effect of the remaster's changes is definitely subtle, not immediately helped by the fact Square hasn't offered any kind of side-by-side comparison in its new gameplay video, but a quick flick through the original sequence reveals some notable differences, with elements like improved hair for Max, and more detailed environmental textures and effects, helping to give the game a bit of a presentational nudge forward.

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