History VideoGame / LifeIsStrange2

* LastSecondEndingChoice: The final choice of [[spoiler:surrender or cross the border]] causes the possible endings to split into 2 sets of 2 , which of the one picked is depended on [[spoiler:Daniel's mortality]].

* DistantEpilogue: [[spoiler: Of the four endings, three of them jump forward six years to when Daniel is 16 and Sean (if he's alive) is 22. The 'Redemption' ending jumps even further, to when Daniel is 25 and Sean is 31.]]

* CelebrityParadox: [[VideoGame/TheLastOfUs Clickers]] are mentioned in the first episode. Creator/DerekPhillips, the voice of Mark Jefferson from the first game, voiced Ellie's surgeon in both ''Last of Us'' games, and Creator/AshlyBurch, the voice of Chloe Price in the first game, would go on to voice Mel in ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII''.

** [[BittersweetEnding Redemption]]: [[spoiler:Sean and Daniel surrender at the Mexican border, with Sean saying that Daniel is no longer a little wolf. In exchange for Sean standing trial, Daniel gets to continue living a normal life with his grandparents and Sean is eventually a free man after 15 years. Daniel, Karen, and (depending on if Sean attempted to keep in contact with her while on the run) Lyla welcome him back. Sean and Daniel go for a camping trip in the woods where they first camped while on the run, and then the two brothers part ways, as close as they've ever been.]]

** [[DownerEnding Lone Wolf]]: [[spoiler:Despite Sean's insistence on surrendering, Daniel forces him to continue the journey to Mexico. Unfortunately, Sean is shot and fatally wounded during the border crossing, with Daniel upset that he indirectly killed Sean. Six years later, Daniel is now a hardened criminal with no aim in life, still mourning the loss of his older brother.]]
** [[BittersweetEnding Parting Ways]]: [[spoiler:Despite initially agreeing to help Sean cross the border to Mexico, Daniel decides to surrender himself to the authorities at the last second with Sean continuing through after Daniel opens the way. Six years later, Daniel is being watched by the government, but he lives a comfortable life with his grandparents. Karen has reconciled with her family and Daniel still keeps in contact with Sean via letters, knowing that despite no longer being together physically, they still have the brotherly connection. Sean seems to be enjoying his new life, whether he's alone or with either Cassidy or Finn.]]

** [[BittersweetEnding Blood Brothers]]: [[spoiler:After wiping out the police at the border and blasting open the gate, the boys are able to make it to Mexico and they manage to have a happy and successful, if rough, life in Puerto Lobos. Sean follows in his father's footsteps as a mechanic and Daniel is able to fend off the criminals in Sean's garage, though both are involved in some shady business. Daniel also decides to follow in Sean's footsteps as an artist.]]

* HotterAndSexier: Episode 3 features bare breasts, skinny dipping, and an implied sex scene.

* HolidayEpisode: Each episode takes place on or around a US holiday. ''Roads'' takes place on Halloween, ''Rules'' during the run-up to Christmas, ''Wastelands'' around the time of Valentine's Day[[note]]This is the only example where the holiday isn't actually mentioned in the episode, but it's thematically relevant since Episode 3 focuses most heavily on Sean's relationships with his potential romantic partners, Cassidy and Finn.[[/note]], ''Faith'' shortly after Easter, and ''Wolves'' on the 4th of July weekend.

* HolidayEpisode: Each episode takes place on or around a US holiday. ''Roads'' takes place on Halloween, ''Rules'' during the run-up to Christmas, ''Wastelands'' around the time of Valentine's Day,[[note]]This is the only example where the holiday isn't actually mentioned in the episode, but it's thematically appropriate since Episode 3 focuses most heavily on Sean's relationships with his potential romantic partners, Cassidy and Finn.[[/note]] ''Faith'' shortly after Easter, and ''Wolves'' on the 4th of July weekend.

* HolidayEpisode: Each episode takes place on or around a US holiday. ''Roads'' takes place on Halloween, ''Rules'' is during the run-up to Christmas, ''Wastelands'' is around the time of Valentine's Day,[[note]]This is the only example where the holiday isn't actually mentioned in the episode, but it's thematically appropriate since Episode 3 focuses most heavily on Sean's relationships with his potential romantic partners, Cassidy and Finn.[[/note]] ''Faith'' is shortly after Easter, and ''Wolves'' is on the 4th of July weekend.

* HolidayEpisode: Each episode takes place on or around a US holiday. ''Roads'' takes place on Halloween, ''Rules'' is around Christmas time, ''Wastelands'' is around the time of Valentines Day, ''Faith'' is shortly after Easter, and ''Wolves'' is on the 4th of July weekend.

* HolidayEpisode: Each episode takes place on or around a US holiday. ''Roads'' takes place on Halloween, ''Rules'' is around Christmas time, ''Wastelands'' is around the time of Valentines Day, ''Faith'' is shortly before Easter, and ''Wolves'' is on the 4th of July weekend.

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Subverted. The cop in the opening is basically ignoring every law of gun safety (finger off the trigger, don't point at anything you don't intend to kill, handle your gun carefully) when he's dealing with the Diazes....and then RealityEnsues when he accidentally (and fatally) shoots Esteban. Ironically, Merrill in Episode 3, despite holding the group at gunpoint, averts this; he does so to get them to submit, but spends much of the time in that scene pointing the barrel of the shotgun at the ceiling, with his finger off the trigger.

** Later in the same episode, after the rednecks beat up Sean, he has to limp on in the hot desert during the next scene. He moves very slowly. You can try to run, which makes him move a bit faster, but [[RealityEnsues after a time, he drops in exhaustion]].

* RealityEnsues:
** The game deconstructs the KidsWildernessEpic genre and the superhero genre.
*** Daniel and Sean are on the road after a cop accidentally kills their father, causing Daniel to use his powers in a state of panic. A terrified Sean is forced to become the guardian and lead them both to the border. [[spoiler: He tries to keep the reason a secret but the event is broadcasted on the news and Daniel learns what happened in the worst way possible.]]
*** [[spoiler: The racist, Hank, was hailed by the police as a hero for locking up two kids in the basement and hitting one of them. Why? These kids were outlaws, he hid his reasons for doing this and the security footage looks like ''they'' assaulted him when they looked for supplies. [[MurderArsonAndJaywalking Then stole a dog for good measure.]]]]
*** [[spoiler: Daniel takes said dog without permission and it becomes a travel partner. However, the dog doesn't survive the first quarter of the second episode since it comes across a wild puma and is promptly killed and eaten. As harsh as it is, all three of them are living in the wild and you never go there alone without a form of protection or escape.]]
*** Rather than use his power with great responsibility, [[SuperDickery Daniel just messes around with his powers]] and Sean has the choice to encourage this by playing a prank on someone. By ''Wastelands'', Daniel has started becoming arrogant and thinking little of others.
---->'''Daniel''': I am the one with power.
*** [[spoiler: At the end of the second episode, Sean and Daniel have to flee from their grandparents' home because the police managed to find them. Even if you don't use the phone or the computer, thus leading the police to the house, Sean and Daniel are fairly infamous at this point in the story. So, naturally, someone ''will'' recognize them even in the small town of Beaver Creek.]]
*** [[spoiler: You can choose to hide the truth from Chris, letting a 9-year old boy believe he really has superpowers. This naturally results with him trying to do something dangerous and potentially getting seriously hurt.]]
*** Merrill is extremely reluctant to have Daniel roaming around the cannabis farm and only allows Daniel to be there out of empathy with Sean. [[spoiler: The second Daniel messes up, Merrill fires both Daniel and Sean, then refuses to pay the wages of the other workers.]]
*** [[spoiler: When someone with unexplained powers is brought to a public place, someone is bound to assume that they are a sign of a higher power.]]
*** [[spoiler: Daniel has no idea on what his mom looks like and after finally meeting Karen for the first time in Episode 4, all he can say is that he doesn't even know who she is despite wanting to know her in the past episodes.]]
*** [[spoiler: If [[TheirFirstTime Sean has sex for the first time]], [[SpeedSex he doesn't actually last very long]] and Cassidy is understanding of this since she knows it's his "first time". [[IdealizedSex Contrary to popular belief]] or [[OfCourseImNotAVirgin school rumours]], when people lose their virginity it's a short-lived occasion since everything is a new experience. Sean is also very nervous and can refuse the offer if he wants to, also reflecting how teenage boys can be [[AManIsAlwaysEager insecure and anxious about their first time]].]]
*** One of the racist guys who find Sean in episode 4 force him to say things in Spanish for their amusement, or they'll beat him up. One of the options Sean can say repeats the phrase the man wants him to say, and it throws in an insult to the man's mother. Unfortunately, the man knows what "madre" means, and is able to glean the rest of the insult's meaning pretty easily after that, leading him to beat Sean up anyway.
*** Episode 5 still has Daniel having flashbacks towards what happened to him in the last episode. Even though the Reverend is either [[spoiler:dead or too far away to do anything to him]] and that there is a roughly three-month time skip, the trauma he faced from his brainwashing still makes him paranoid of her and having PTSD nightmares which isn't easy to remove even with treatment (which due to them being on the run with authorities, is impossible for him to get).
*** In episode 5, the players meet [[spoiler:David Madsen (Chloe Price's stepfather from the first game) and he gives a sad reality punch for the player. If Arcadia Bay was destroyed, then David lost everything he held dear while Chloe and Max drove away into the sunset without saying goodbye to him. It took him a long time to finally try making amends with them since they pretty much abandoned him without offering any form of emotional support after a tragedy on that scale. If Chloe died, then he and Joyce eventually divorced because they couldn't cope with their loss or look past the vitriolic relationship between Chloe and David. Whether you like David or not, he's still a man who lost everything because of Max's actions - though, in both cases, he seems to be more at peace with himself and his own past, and he has a much healthier relationship with either Chloe or Joyce, depending on which ending was chosen in the first game.]]
*** [[spoiler: The police have a really hard time believing Sean and Daniel's stories, since nobody would believe that Daniel has telekinetic powers and it's hard to explain how a series of "random accidents" managed to follow them everywhere they went]].
---->"Listen, once is an accident... twice is luck... three times is enemy action."
*** Sean's plan to escape to Puerto Lobos, and the consequences of it for himself and Daniel, are examined more critically in the final episode. [[spoiler:The endings in particular are [[BittersweetEnding bitterly realistic]]:]]
*** [[spoiler:If Daniel makes it with Sean to Mexico, the brothers are implied to have fallen into a life of crime, defending themselves from gangsters while Sean runs a repair shop (and they pull some jobs on the side). If Sean dies during the attempt, it's even worse - Daniel is stranded in a foreign country with no family left, surrounded by a language he doesn't speak. That ending shows that he continues down the amoral path Sean started him on, fending off other criminals with his power when threatened and doing plenty of crime himself. Puerto Lobos is hardly a great place to raise a kid, much less be one on your own - one of many reasons for why Esteban came to the US in the first place.]]
*** [[spoiler:If Daniel doesn't make it to Mexico, either surrendering with Sean or bailing out after helping his brother, he's sent to live with the Reynolds' and has a happy, healthy life in the US with his family. If he continues to Mexico, Sean is able to make a good living (the nature of it is unknown, but he appears happy, and from the other ending we can assume he's a mechanic) with his partner of choice, or alone if that particular path was taken though Daniel has an anklet tracker because the government now knows he has powers. If Sean surrenders, he is sent to prison for 15 years, but is able to become a successful comic book artist while behind bars, eventually being released to the waiting arms of his brother, mother, and potentially best friend. This is the only ending in which we know for sure that Sean does not settle into a life of crime.]]

** Over the course of the story, Sean tells Daniel an allegorical story about the Wolf Brothers, which relates to themselves and their situation. The recap for each episode is told in the form of said story.

*** [[spoiler:Cassidy seems to be the default, appearing even if Sean did not express a romantic interest in either of them in California; Finn will fill the role only if he survived the heist at Merrill's and was romanced beforehand. There's also a variant where Sean is in the photo alone, although it's unclear what conditions unlock this — possibly, it happens if Finn is dead and Cassidy is angry at Sean.]]

** [[BittersweetEnding Parting Ways]]: [[spoiler:Despite initially agreeing to help Sean cross the border to Mexico, Daniel decides to surrender himself to the authorities at the last second with Sean continuing through after Daniel opens the way. Six years later, Daniel is being watched by the government, but he lives a comfortable life with his grandparents. Karen has reconciled with her family and Daniel still keeps in contact with Sean via letters, knowing that despite no longer being together physically, they still have the brotherly connection. Sean seems to be enjoying his new life with either Cassidy or Finn. (Cassidy seems to be the default, appearing even if Sean did not express a romantic interest in either of them in California; Finn will fill the role only if he survived the heist at Merrill's and was romanced beforehand. There's also a variant where Sean is in the photo alone, although it's unclear what conditions unlock this — possibly, it happens if Finn is dead and Cassidy is angry at Sean.)]]

* MultipleEndings: Four major endings, based on Sean's final decision and Daniel's morality, with minor variations (based on romantic partner choice and if Sean talked to Lyla at all while on the run).

** A downplayed example at the beginning of Episode 4. Sean has a seemingly telekinetic dream with him and Daniel sitting on the bench back at the Trout Spring Trail, where they talk about the events that happened at the end of the last episode. Daniel urges Sean to come to find him and walks over to the edge of the cliff and deliberately falls off it, causing Sean to wake up screaming for him to stop.

[[caption-width-right:350:Once upon a time, there were two wolf brothers...]]

->'''Daniel Diaz''': What are we gonna do now?\\
'''Sean Diaz''': There's nothing we can't do, as long as we're together.