In a game series known for making you choose between dialogue options or decisions that matter, where the term “bae versus Bay” will never mean anything, Life is Strange: Reunion know that there are many choices you may have made that led you to this point.
As such, when you start a new save, it quizzes you on decisions you've made during the previous games in the core Life is Strange series so it can tailor your gameplay to the canon that would be in your universe. Here's what is determined by each Legacy Choice in Life is Strange: Reunion.
Since this is a later entry in the series that relies on past decisions to shape its world, Legacy Choices in Life is Strange: Reunion and our guide to how they affect your gameplay will contain spoilers for the entire Life is Strange series.
Make five choices that shape what happens in Caledon
It can be difficult to make sequels for games that don't have concrete endings like the Life is Strange series, and Reunion, which falls quite late in the overall timeline, can be a bit daunting given the number choices you made in previous games and the potential timelines they add.
Life Is Strange: Reunion – Max Collectible Location Guide
Build up Max's photo collection.
Thankfully, the team behind the game found ways around this, and as such you will be presented decisions about Max's relationships before you can start a new save in Life is Strange: Reunion. You will see five photographs of characters and decisions that characterize the previous games in the series, and the menu will tactfully ask how you played the previous entries to ensure that the world is as you left it, with the game use your choices to shape the world you will experience the rescue you are about to begin.
If you're not happy with the choices you made earlier, you can technically change them here by lying to the game about what happened. It doesn't seem to look for any save data, so the game takes your word for it – use whatever information you want to see the endings you're trying to see.
Many of the events in the core game will play out the same no matter what, but there's plenty of reason to replay any game a few times, if only to see how different decisions affect the world differently. It could be a minor thing like texts on Max's phone or references other characters make when talking about her to each other, or it could be as big as having a headlong crush on someone earlier in the timeline or keeping things platonic between you.
If you really want to shake things up, you can randomize the decisions made in past history to save as well. The game will determine the answers to these five Legacy Choices for you and let you play on from there.
Amanda Thomas
One of the more innocuous decisions you'll make when setting Legacy Choices at the start of Life is Strange: Reunion, the game will need to know the nature of Max and Amanda's relationship during the events of Life is Strange: Double Exposure.
Overall, though, there's not much weight to this decision – you'll see different dialogue between Max and Chloe based on the choice, and there'll be different text messages in your phone between Max and Amanda, but there's not much to it other than flavor text.
Chloe Price
One of the most important decisions you have to make at the beginning of any new savings is if Chloe lived or died during the first Life is Strange game. The entire five-episode game led to a choice between saving Chloe's life or saving the city of Arcadia Bay, and of course, with Chloe back in Life is Strange: Reunion no matter what, you have to inform the nature of their relationship going forward and how both approach said relationship with the other.
If you say that Chloe survived the events of Arcadia Bay and managed to escape with Max, the couple remember a lot more regardless of what kind of relationship they had before. If Chloe died during the disaster, you will hear Max talking to the other Chloe about how they are not the same person as the one Max lost and learn a little more about how Max dealt with her death.
No matter what, Choosing one will lock you out of in-game choices related to the other optionwith this arguably the most important decision you'll make when creating a new save in Life is Strange. Like much of the material from the first game, much of what you can do in Life is Strange: Reunion depends on whether you play as the original Chloe who survived the destruction of Arcadia Bay or an alternate timeline Chloe who never died in this one.
Even outside of the ramifications of the bae vs. Bay debate in Life is Strange, there is a trophy for finishing the game with both scenarios for this choice, which requires at least two playthroughs to earn: one where Chloe lived and continued into Reunion herself, and one where Chloe didn't make it out of Arcadia Bay in your Max timeline.
Max and Chloe
Perhaps the biggest decision you'll make to start a new save in Life is Strange, you'll have to decide if Max and Chloe had a platonic or romantic relationship during the first Life is Strange title.
Regardless of what happened between the two in the past, you'll be spending a lot of time both with and as Max Caulfield and Chloe Price during the events of Life is Strange: Reunion, often working with their abilities and doing their best to prevent the fire that is about to break out at Caledon University.
That said, there are several points where you can get the opportunity to kiss Chloe, and she's more receptive overall if you decided that the pair previously had a romantic relationship. You'll have a leg up if you say they were together during the events of the first game, but you can still end up together even if they weren't.
Safiya Llewellyn-Fayyad
While it may not have much of an impact on the overall story now, you'll need to decide before you can start playing Life is Strange: Reunion whether or not Max supported Safi at the end of Life is Strange: Double Exposure. We won't spoil too much about the ending here for you, but there is only one point in the story of the current game that will be affected by this decision.
When you try to save Safi towards the end of the game, even if it isn't only thing that does, having Max's support at the end of Double Exposure will make Safi much easier to save when her life is in danger. She trusts you a lot more if you supported her before!
Vin Lang
One of the less intense decisions you'll make during Life is Strange: Reunion, this final option will ask if your relationship with Vinh Lang during the events of Life is Strange: Double Exposure was romantic or platonic.
Just like with Amanda, you won't see too much of a difference between these decisions. You'll have a different set of texts between the two depending on your choice, but even later scenes with him play out the same way based more on decisions you'll make in the upcoming playthrough than the ones you've already made in the Life is Strange series.
Life Is Strange: Reunion – Chloe Collectible Location Guide
Chloe's sketches.
