One of my favourite games of all time: Life is strange is full of so many symbolism some even blatantly obvious.
To summarize: Max Caulfield, an 18-year-old photography student who discovers that she has the ability to rewind time at any moment, leading her every choice to enact the butterfly effect. She goes on a mission throughout the game to save her best friend who was supposed to die in the beginning but the more she saves her the more she alters time for the worse. Which consequently leads to a tornado occurring at the end threatening to wipe the whole town
Iluminati symbol
Note the Christian mockery on the board.
Yay Go pedos!
One of the character’s sporting a pedo symbol (right in our faces)
And the rewind symbol
which is pretty interesting because one of the major events that happens in the game is this pedo photography teacher Mark Jefferson who lectures at that school (except he’s a total creep) gets into a relationship with a minor whom he proceeded to groom/murder (unbeknownst to everyone else)
Fun fact: he also groomed a 17 year old boy (who’s known to have a history of mental illness and an abusive father) to supply high school kids with drugs.
In short Jefferson would pump these kids up with drugs and take pics of them while under. He literally had a bunch of folders with these kids names called the “Dark Room”
So yes—the game is pretty morbid to say the least. Mind you the target demographic was teens at that time. I played the game when I was like 19
And get this. The game starts off with a missing teen poster.
The whole CERN thing. And opening demonic portals
MK Ultra references
The blue butterfly is actually supposed to be symbolic for the butterfly effect that takes place in the game. But it also has a double meaning of the monarch butterfly
Handler/MK Ultra Victim
That 17 year old boy I was talking about. Nathan Prescott. Yep he was a victim and Mark Jefferson was his handler. ( Nathan’s letter to Jefferson)
Nathan Prescott was also a leader of this elite club called the “Vortex Club” which is basically like the most elite of elite parties in existence (drugs, sex, etc. Mind you these are teens we’re talking about) but you guys know the elite love hiding things in plain sight
