July 11th, 2020

mc776: Life is Strange screenshot: Frank Bowers eating beans on a Wednesday morning. (frank beans)
(Intro post here)

We see two distinct time travel abilities in the game: focus and rewind. Max's questions of alternate realities mostly come up in the context of a focus, though there is no inherent reason why this cannot be a concern for rewinds as well.

It is possibe that Max creates a new alternate reality with each press by the player of either rewind button - or even every frame of a continuous rewind. This has consequences that are quite unfortunate, and I dare to submit both therefore and despite, unlikely.

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Conclusion

Everything about the way the story is written presupposes that no real alternate universes are created by the rewind, although at least one instance of it is mildly suggestive of such a creation in a manner similar to focus - which shall be dealt with in the next entry.

I know this

If life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

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