The Life is Strangefranchise had to give up Don't Nod some time ago, but the French studio has not given up on the teenage mystery drama. With Lost Records: Bloom and Rage A new, narratively intensive adventure is being created in Montreal, the latest trailer of which awakens summery, melancholic emotions.
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Lost Records was announced back in December last year and was very reminiscent of the Life is Strange games at the time. This isn't all that surprising, of course, because there's something behind the project Michel Kochwho is already working on the adventure of Max Caulfield and Life is Strange 2 was involved as game and artistic director. With Lost Records he wants to build on these successes and is already hitting familiar notes with his team.
Lost Records: Bloom and Rage – Would you like some lo-fi summer?
Don't Nod released one as part of the ID@Xbox livestream new trailer on Lost Records: Bloom and Rage. It doesn't really reveal much about the story of the adventure, but it does provide a wonderfully atmospheric impression. Accompanied by a new song by ex-Chromatic members Ruth Radelet, Adam Miller and Nat Walker, the approximately one and a half minute long promotional video shows the summer of 1995 in the tranquil but purely fictional town of Velvet Cove in Michigan.
Visually, most of the trailer is in Camcorder style captured: The picture is jarring, there are glitches, everything shakes and is far from perfect. The atmosphere, on the other hand, could hardly be more summery: teenagers skate, go to playgrounds, enjoy the cool freshness of a small stream in the forest and at night they make up a few scary stories.
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At the end of the recording you can see it one of the four protagonists from Lost Records: Bloom and Rage in the eyes: Swann Holloway, who claims that she is dead – garnished with a laugh. It remains to be seen whether this is actually the case, whether the developers are doing a little foreshadowing or whether it is just a little fun for the young teenager.
Released in episode format
With Lost Records: Bloom and Rage, Don't Nod goes back to Life is Strange in a different way, as the new adventure will be released in… Episode style published. However, there will only be two chapters that will be separated by about a month, as Michel Koch and Luc Baghadoust opposite Gamesradar betrayed.
The team made this decision consciously in order to give the fans enough space to learn about the appropriate story twists speculate. Similar to what was the case with the first Life is Strange adventure. However, there is no fixed release date yet.
Currently it just says that Lost Records: Bloom and Rage expected at the end of 2024 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S will appear. Until then, you can alternatively plunge into a completely different adventure from Don't Nod: Im Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden review Find out more about the ghostly role-playing game from the French studio.