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the Life is Strange 2 Iceberg explained

As promised, here is the LiS2 Iceberg explained. I created this iceberg from scratch, I hope you like it. Let me know in the comments which part was your favourite! #lifeisstrange2 #iceberg #lifeisstrange LiS1 + BtS iceberg: https://youtu.be/wzds4keT9xw TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 01:30 Tier 1 - Cassidy's patches 02:05 Sean singing 02:33 Post-it note code 02:52 Minecraft 03:12 Lord of the Rings 03:29 Jerry Springer moment 03:44 Sneak up on Daniel 03:55 Hawt Dawg Man 04:47 Ryan Gosling Shirt 05:03 Skweekinax Cereal 05:13 Goodlands 1973 05:35 Highway to Haven 05:50 List on the left hand 06:04 Playbox 06:17 Daniel's education 06:40 Chloe/Joyce calls David 06:53 Chloe and Max's photograph 07:08 Arcadia Bay 07:47 Clickers 08:04 Choices carry over from Captain Spirit 08:45 Live-action trailer 09:00 Tier 2 - Leet train 09:19 All-seeing eye 09:47 Cassidy and Finn's names 10:13 Beaver Creek and Puerto Lobos 10:24 Sean's Drawings 11:01 Enano 11:16 ACFC 11:44 Raoul Barbet's dog 12:04 Selfies 12:13 Karen's chicken 12:40 Of Mice and Men 13:03 Mike Brodie 13:24 The Evil Dead 13:42 Bob Ross 13:49 Concept art 14:04 This Is Fine meme 14:16 Lord of the Flies 14:37 Chaos Symbol on Finn's hoodie 14:48 Tier 3 - Exit door to somewhere else 15:05 Chris tries smoking 15:15 Charles' magazine 15:28 Couple at the motel 15:44 Ingrid and Anders want to break up 16:08 Penny's real name 16:26 Not all those who wander are lost 16:47 Karen's membership card QR code 17:05 Saving a bird 17:15 Three seals motel 17:23 Trump references 17:59 So it goes 18:16 A tribe called West 18:25 Stephen is on Reddit 18:39 Zathura 18:56 Doge in Brody's car 19:05 Blue Truck 19:15 Cactuar 19:25 Akira reference 19:49 Temporal inconsistency 20:14 Tier 4 - Mushroom's bandana 20:44 Eriksen family trip carving 20:59 Audra 21:29 Sean's bracelet 21:50 Cassidy and Finn were siblings 22:16 Natalie song meaning 22:29 Finn is the canon love interest for Sean 22:58 Daniel's cough 23:23 Max and Chloe's theme 24:11 Joey can help you escape the hospital 24:43 Two whales 24:52 Mark Jefferson's photography book 25:16 Real superpowers 25:34 If I could go back in time 25:48 Conal Cochran 26:22 Night in the woods 26:39 Oxenfree 27:31 Brave New World 27:39 Raccoon in Captain Spirit 27:52 Tier 5 - David's password 28:16 Unruly teenage freight-hoppers 28:39 Gone Home 29:09 Chris' cape 29:32 Breakfast conversation 29:57 Daniel vs cops 30:22 Silence has meaning 30:45 Hobo symbols 31:31 Chloe's mural 31:40 Emily went to Blackwell 31:50 On the Road 32:08 Blackflag 32:19 Chris in "Welcome Home Daniel" picture 32:37 Sean and Daniel look different in Captain Spirit 32:53 Dharma bums 33:19 Chiaroscuro 33:31 Tier 6 - Court foreshadowing 33:49 Lyla's hospital stay 34:18 Nick reported the Diaz brothers 34:34 Newspaper article about Seattle 34:47 Eye colour meaning 35:13 Daniel's sorrow 35:22 Victoria's note to David 35:45 Sean can shoot Merrill 35:57 Episode 4 teaser mystery 36:30 Receiving the gift of flavor 36:50 P.T 37:12 Sean's death foreshadowing 37:47 Joan died from her cancer 38:13 Nick killed Emily 39:03 Trauma brings on the powers 39:28 Daniel attacks Cassidy 39:45 Brody is a Prescott 40:08 Outro + Thank you SOURCES: iceberg photo: https://ibb.co/n0zSV64 web sources: https://pastebin.com/CbwC5grp video sources: https://bit.ly/3E8ReI2 SOCIAL MEDIA: -insta: https://www.instagram.com/raphaelleld/ -twitter: https://twitter.com/raphaelle_ld -facebook: https://www.facebook.com/raphaelleldyt/ MY KO-FI: https://ko-fi.com/raphaelleld MUSIC: Background: "Sappheiros - Embrace" is under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0) https://www.youtube.com/c/Sappheiros Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://bit.ly/embrace-song - end card: "oceandrive" - ULTRAWAVE: https://youtu.be/i7jU0xDABGM

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as usual this video contains spoilers for life is strange season one and two as well as before the storm and captain spirits if you haven't played them yet go do that and come back afterwards before we get into the actual video i just wanted to mention that this iceberg will contain discussions of dark themes that are part of the life is trained franchise such as death grief abuse violence and mental illness so proceed with caution hey guys welcome back if you're watching this you've probably al
ready seen my previous life is strange iceberg that covered the first two games of the franchise life is strange and before the storm if you haven't i'd recommend checking it out it's on the screen right now and in the description life is strange 2 is the second mainline game by don't knot entertainment in the life is strange franchise featuring a new story centered around sean and daniel diaz two brothers on the run after a traumatic incident caused the death of their father as a fan of the who
le franchise i wanted to make an iceberg covering life is strange too and it's playable teaser called the awesome adventures of captain spirit while the previous video i made was based on a pre-existing iceberg this one is all made by me it's my first time making an iceberg from scratch and i hope i did an okay job if you're unsure what i mean by iceberg it's basically a tiered list that goes from most well-known facts or theories to darker and more obscure as we go down the iceberg this specifi
c iceberg will contain easter eggs references facts and theories about life is strange two and captain spirit is going to be a long one so make sure you're comfortable grab a snack and a drink and let's get started with tier one tier one cassidy's patches three items referencing life is strange can be seen on cassie's backpack a pacific steve's famous crab patch referencing the pacific steve sign in the junkyard in arcadia bay a nofax patch reminiscent of the nofax given scramble letter shirt th
at max wears in 2008 and what seems to be a red plaid blanket which looks like rachel's signature red plaid shirt that max wears in chaos theory cassidy also has a patch sewn on her shorts that features the pumpkin seen on the fox posters that can be found throughout arcadia bay in season 1. sean singing in episode 1 if sean turns on the mp3 player in his room while getting ready for the halloween party he will sing along to certain verses of the song on the flip of a coin he will also drum his
hands against his thighs to the beat of this in episode 2 in the reynolds house he can be heard humming the song while walking around as though it's stuck in his head post-it note code a post-it note with 80085 can be seen on the notice board in sean's room this is an old calculator joke where typing this will appear to read boobs the boobs post-it appears again on another wall along with another post-it that says h035 aka hose very funny minecraft in episode 1 while looking around the ds living
room sean can comment on the fact that daniel spends hundreds of hours playing minecraft later on in the forest sean gets the option to mention minecraft when daniel talks about how big the trees are and daniel says he built the biggest cities ever he also references zombies and creepers multiple times lord of the rings also while looking around the living room sean mentions that they watched a lot of rings trilogy with their dad every christmas later on in the forest sean can mention lord of t
he rings instead of minecraft and says that daniel and him are on their own adventure daniel then says that he's frodo and sean is sam jerry springer moment in episode 3 while trimming birds hannah and cassidy start arguing later on sean can mention it to finn saying love the jerusbringer moment when hannah and cass started picking on each other this is obviously referring to the drama-filled jerry springer show sneak up on daniel in episode 1 in the forest while daniel is waiting for sean to wa
lk past him so he can scare him he can actually sneak up on him and scare him first i think that scene is adorable hot dog man hot dog man is a reoccurring character in the life is strange franchise he can be seen in alternative chloe's room in the zeitgeist gallery and on the plane for example in life strange season 1 then as a dog toy for pompidou and on elliot's phone in before the storm but he really gets more of the spotlight in captain spirit and life is strange too in captain spirit you c
an unlock charles's phone to play mustard party too there's a comic of him in the eriksen bathroom as well as a website about him on charles's laptop in life is strange too if you pre-ordered the game you could get the mascot bundle with a bunch of hot dog man merch to attach to sean's backpack at the three seals motel daniel watches the animated cartoon on the tv there's also an issue of the comics in the abandoned house in episode 2. later on on karen's tablet if you're quick enough you can se
e an icon for mustard party 2 on the screen right after unlocking it and there's more ryan gosling shirt in episode 3 sean can be seen wearing a t-shirt that seems to be referencing the ryan gosling macaulay culkin t-shirt saga of 2014 in which they were both seen wearing t-shirts of each other which was then continued via photoshop squeaky neck cereal this is another reoccurring fictional brand that was seen originally in the price house in life is strange and then is seen again in episodes one
and four of life is strange too good lunch 1973. in sean's room in episode one on sean's computer an active download can be seen for filename goodlands 1973. this is a reference to the 1973 film badlands by terence mallet which is often cited by critics as one of the greatest and most influential films of all time sean is a film bro confirmed highway to haven this is a checkpoint in episode 4 which is referring to haven point nevada which is where sean goes to find daniel it could also be eithe
r a reference to the song highway to hell by ac dc or the tv show highway to heaven from the 80s list on the left hand at the very beginning of episode 1 leila writes a list of party supplies on sean's left hand this could be a total coincidence but it could also be a reference to the fact that chloe writes her objectives on her left hand in before the storm playbox this is another fictional brand this time for games console it's quite obviously a portmanteau of playstation and xbox the play box
can be seen in captain spirit as well as episode 1 of life is strange 2. daniel's education one of the most interesting gameplay mechanics of the game is that depending on how sean interacts with daniel daniel's morality will be affected for example in episode 1 if sean steals the chocolate crisp bar from the car or shopless from the gas station later on daniel was still from brody's car and when sean confronts him about it he will say that he thought it was okay since sean did it chloe slash j
oyce calls david depending on if the player saved chloe or arcadia bay in life is strange david will receive a phone call either from chloe or from joyce in episode 5. david also mentions chloe to sean chloe and max's photograph if you chose to save chloe in life is strange in david's trailer you can see a photo of max and chloe chloe has green hair and more tattoos and they both look slightly older obviously upon seeing the photos shawn will comment that they look cool arcadia bay another detai
l that changes based on how you play life is strange is when sean and brody stop the car and have a conversation at a location that overlooks arcadia bay if chloe was sacrificed back in life is strange the town will be lit up and the lighthouse will be rotating its light if arcadia bay was sacrificed the town will appear abandoned and the lighthouse will be have destroyed from the storm as we see in the cutscene of the original game toward the end of this scene an information plaque can be seen
more clearly depending on the above circumstances the plaque will either be painted with a memorial and the line time won't forget about you which can be seen as a reference to max's powers or it will just describe the town clickers in mount vernier national park daniel and sean come across a weird mushroom that daniel says resembles a clicker this is a reference to a type of enemy from the video game the last of us sean then goes on to imitate the creepy sounds that the clickers make choices ca
rry over from captain spirit if you played the free demo the awesome adventures of captain spirit prior to playing life is strange too some of the choices you made during the game will carry over to life is strange 2. particularly episode 2 which is where the diaz brothers meet chris the most obvious change is chris's suit depending on which options you picked and whether or not you managed to gather all the pieces his superhero suit will look different in life is strange too smaller details suc
h as whether or not you destroyed snowmancer or clean the snowy steps will also carry over also if you rank the reynolds before half time sean will see claire speaking to chris on the phone if you rank them afterwards and had a creepy heavy breathing sean will find daniel giggling at his brilliant prank live action trailer a live action trailer of life is strange 2 came out in december 2018 featuring gonzalo martin the voice actor for sean it shows the scene at the motel in which daniel finds ou
t about esteban's death i'll link it in the description if you haven't seen it is really good tier 2 elite train the train that sean and daniel jump on at the end of episode 2 has the number 1337 written on its side this is a reference to leadspeak which is a system of modified spellings used primarily on the internet this is also the same train that almost killed chloe near the junkyard in life is strange all seeing eye the all-seeing eye is commonly associated with conspiracy theories and secr
et societies however for life estranged fans it has come to be associated with chloe price in life is strange too on one of the picnic tables in mount vernon national park an engraving of the all-seeing eye can be seen another one can be seen in the abandoned house in episode 2. finally conspiracy theories penny has an awesome eye tattooed on his neck which seems quite in character cassidy and finn's names finn and cassidy's names come from the names of two historical figures butch cassidy and h
uckleberry finn butch cassidy was an american train and bank robber and the leader of a gang called the wild bunch in the old west huckleberry finn was the narrator and protagonist of adventures of huckleberry finn and the best friend of tom sawyer both names evoke a sense of adventure and rebellion which very much matches cassidy and finn's personalities beaver creek and puerto lobos unlike arcadia bay from the previous games puerto lobos and beavercreek both actually exist in the real world al
though with some differences from their in-game counterparts sean's drawings sean's sketchbook records sean's experiences throughout the events life is changed too sean draws sketches and makes comments based on recent events and his surroundings some of which change depending on choices the sketchbook also allows the player to get information on what happened between certain events for example before the events of the game or between episodes at certain points in the game sean can sit and draw
sketches of his surroundings after sean loses his eye he writes that he sucks now because his death perception has been affected however he keeps drawing and by the end of the game his drawings are just as good if not better than they were at the beginning enano sean cozy's little brother enano which means dwarf this actually came from the voice actor for sean gonzalo martin who improvised sean calling daniel in anna because that's what he calls his younger foster brothers acfc acfc drive-throug
h is a chain of fast food restaurants from the life is strange universe the restaurant can be seen in episodes two and three of life is strange and then in life strange two a receipt from the restaurant can be found among sean's things implying that he and daniel stop there for some food while on the brand fun fact the name acfc stands for aurora creek fried chicken and is a remnant of the old name for arcadia bay aurora creek if that doesn't sound familiar to you check out my life strange one i
ceberg raul barbae's dog co-game director raul barbae likes to include his dog signature on the pencil cases of his characters it was on max's pencil case and life is strange and is also on chris and sean's pencil cases in captain spirit and life strange 2 respectively it's unknown if he drew it himself or if a team member drew it on his behalf selfies in episode 1 when looking at his laptop sean will say i'm not a selfies kind of guy which might be a reference to max caulfield and her love of s
elfies karen's chicken sean and daniel's mum seems to really like a chicken character that has been recurring in the life is strange franchise the yellow chicken originally appeared in season one on max's pajama show and then at the zeitgeist gallery it's then seen on a kid's book that belongs to chris in captain spirit then at the gas station in life is strange 2 episode 1 it can then be seen in karen's room on her car dashboard and finally in an upcycled fridge at a way of mice and men accordi
ng to co-creative director michelle kosh life is strange 2 was inspired by various media focusing around road trips and travelling including of mice and men by john steinbeck which tells the story of jordan lenny two migrant french workers who move from place to place looking for job opportunities much like sean and daniel end up doing which leads them to working for merrell at the weed farm mike brody in an interview prior to the release of the game michelle kosch explained that one of his majo
r inspirations for life is strange 2 was mike brody a photographer known for his photographs of train hoppers the group that sean and daniel end up living with in episode 3 is clearly inspired by his photography the character name of brodie might also be a reference to mike brody although the spelling is different the evil dead at the gas station in episode 1 a poster outside displays a ash-82 chainsaw for sale the name on the poster is sam r this is a reference to ash williams and his chainsaw
hand from the 1981 horror movie the evil dead directed by sam raimi bob ross a painting in clarence stevens house seems to depict painter bob ross concept art this isn't really an easter egg reference or theory i just wanted an excuse to show you guys some of the cool concept art for the game that shows various outfits and looks that didn't end up being used just like i did in a previous video this is fine meme in sean's sketchbook in the entry for october 20th 2016 which refers to the trump and
clinton debate he recreates the this is fine meme by kc green with himself as the main character lord of the flies a copy of the lord of the flies can be found in finn's tent the book written by william golding focuses on a group of british boys stranded on an island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves despite the fact that the group of drifters is older than the characters in the book apart from daniel some similarities can be seen between them chaos symbol on finn's hoodie finn'
s winter outfit seen in episode 2 and the christmas market includes a hoodie that has the symbol for chaos on it knowing finn that makes sense tier 3 exit door to somewhere else in episode 2 in karen's room if you turn on her bedside lamp you will be able to see that she engraved a door on her bedside table along with the phrase exit door to somewhere else this is reminiscent of chloe's hold to another universe from the previous game chris tries smoking in captain spirit chris can steal a cigare
tte from his dad then go up to his tree house and try smoking it obviously he doesn't like it charles's magazine in captain spirit while snipping around his dad's room chris can find a magazine to which he'll say they're naked whoa couple at the motel in episode one at the three seals motel if charm lingers outside of room 14 before entering their own room a couple having sex can be heard through the door daniel will ask whether people are fighting to which sean can either tell him the truth or
respond that it's just their television ingrid and anders want to break up ingrid and anders are a couple from sweden who live at the campsite in episode 3 although they seem happy at first glance and though they have been together for a significant amount of time ingrid and anders's relationship show some signs of strain during the going away party ingrid can be overheard speaking with cassidy about breaking up with anders due to his constant stubbornness penny's real name penny is one of the d
rifters that sean and daniel live with in episode three at a party he reveals the backstory behind his name which comes from the coin that his former lover jinx gave him before disappearing penny's real name is baptist dean michael as can be seen on his id card and his mugshot not all those who wonder are lost not all those who wonder are lost is the second line of the poem all that is god does not glitter by j.r.r tolkien this sentence can be seen on the backpack that brody gives to sean in epi
sode one it's also a reference to life is change one since it's on a sticker on page 12 of max's diary karen's membership card qr code during the opening flashback in episode 3 a sports club membership card can be found belonging to karen if you scan the qr code on the card it shows the words work hard mustered big which is the catchphrase of hot dog man i told you he's everywhere saving a bird at the gas station sean can save a bird trapped under a box upon doing this he will say fly be free wh
ich is also what max says when saving a bird in life is strange three seals motel the name of the three seals motel is a reference to the two wells diner from life is strange trump references throughout the game there are references to the trump presidency particularly his stance on immigration in their chat messages prior to the game's events lalenchon discussed the 2016 presidential election on october 19th later on hank's quote you're the reason we need to build that wall references the mexic
an border wall that trump wants to build between the two countries his threat of calling ice immigrations and customs enforcement on sean is also a reference to the illegal immigration crackdown when trump took office stephen reynolds also owns a red hat with white bars which is reminiscent of the make america great again hat so it goes this is a quote from the novel slaughterhouse 5 which can be seen on a cinema light box in sean's room the phrase is meant to convey the lack of meaning and deat
h during war and how it can come to anyone at any time which can be seen as foreshadowing for esteban's death in the following scene a tribe called west brody's travel blog is called a tribe called west which is a reference to the american hip-hop group a tribe called quest stephen is on reddit when looking at steven's laptop in his office sean can see what looks like a reddit thread about the seattle shooting incident meaning that stephen knows how to use reddit which is quite unexpected zethra
there is some similarities between the outfit worn by daniel at the beginning of the game and the outfit won by dany in the movie zethura a space adventure that and the fact that the two protagonists of the movie are brothers led some players to believe that this might have been an inspiration for the game doge in brody's car this is a blink and you'll miss it moment but a sticker of the very famous meme format can be seen on brodie's dashboard blue track blue truck that picks seanap on his way
to haven point appears to be the same track it can be seen pulling out of the gas station in episode 1. cactuare in said blue truck just behind anton's head you can see a cactus sticker that looks like cactua an enemy in the final fantasy series which is another square enix game akira reference some players noticed that with his tattered red shirt and his white bandages at the end of episode 5 daniel looks similar to tatsuyo from the anime akira according to the akira wiki tattoo represents the
destructive potential of power in the wrong hands which also makes sense considering the fact that daniel can use his power to destroy the barricade and kill a bunch of police officers in that scene temporal inconsistency i just tried to say that like 10 times in a row in episodes 2 in karen's room a cd for the single rude by magic could be seen however this would contradict the fact that she cut ties with her family in 2008 since this song was released in 2013. this was then fixed by a new cd
cover as part of a patch that was either released with episode 3 or shortly afterwards tier 4 mushrooms bandana in episode 1 brody gives daniel a red bandana which he ties around mushroom's neck later on in episode 2 mushroom is killed by a cougar in episode 3 daniel can be seen wearing mushrooms bandana around his neck mimicking finn who is wearing a bandana as well this is a way for daniel to honor his lost puppy as well as possibly implying he admires finn and wishes to imitate him daniel kee
ps the bandana until the end of the game as can be seen in some of the endings eriksen family trip carving on a picnic table in the forest a carving can be seen that has the names of chris charles and emily erickson along with the date of either 2012 or 2014 implying that they went on a family trip before emily sadly passed away audra audra is the name of charles erickson's new love interest after his wife passed away chris can find a letter in charles's wardrobe that implies that audrey deeply
cares about charles and that she worries he might be ashamed of her chris can also find audra's phone number on a note inside his dad's trousers upon calling the phone number he will reach a venue called kitty club and a lady called odessa will answer and offer him a kitty cat it is implied that audra is a sex worker for this club sean's bracelet throughout the game sean can be seen wearing a red and blue rubber bracelet in three out of the four possible endings aka lone wolf parting ways and bl
ood brothers daniel can be seen wearing sean's bracelet i'm not sure how he got it in parting ways since daniel jumped out of the car before sean realized what was happening but it's still a cute touch cassidy and finn were siblings according to the original casting calls for kesty and finn then known as charlotte and forest they were supposed to be siblings forrest was supposed to be charlotte's older brother and the only member of her family she got along with this was then scrapped but it's r
eally interesting to read the old casting calls i'll leave a link in the description you can also read the casting calls for simon who is now stephen and neil now nick natalie's song meaning natalie is a song by milkenbone that plays over the ending montage in episode 3. the lyrics i never meant to hurt you please never go away a reminiscent of daniel's guilt over hurting sean and his fear that he'll never see him again finn is the canon love interest for sean a theory speculates that finn is th
e canon love interest for sean due to how much more flirty and generally tactile finn is towards sean as opposed to cassidy a steam community post goes into detail about how finn seems to care a lot about sean i personally think that finn and cassidy are both equally canon love interest and that the player can choose who they want shaun to go with if anyone but it's an interesting theory nonetheless who did chad end up with in your playthrough let me know daniel's cough in episode 2 while daniel
and sean are staying in the abandoned house daniel has a bad cough that doesn't seem to go away in episode 3 during the heist he can be heard coughing again this led to people speculating that his calf is a side effect of using his powers a lot similar to max caulfield's nosebleeds in season one at the abandoned house daniel was training his powers every day and during the heist he got to use them a lot as well which goes along with this theory max and chloe's theme max and chloe's theme from l
ife is change one can be heard twice in life strange too the first time is towards the end of the conversation between brodie and sean at the arcadia bay outlook in episode one listen i'll drop you by a motel in a couple of hours you guys could use some time to yourselves and the second time is when david talks to sean about chloe in episode five a hurricane oh my step-daughter and her friend were among the only survivors we lost everyone else jerry can help you escape the hospital this is anoth
er thing that i had no idea about but in episode 4 sean can call joey into his room and have a conversation with him then sean can ask joey to help him escape and depending on their relationship joe will accept or refuse if you've made the correct choices in the episode aka chosen light-hearted and positive responses during dialogues with joey he will accept he will tell you to hit him so that it looks like sean attacked him to escape since the guard is still on a smoke break sean will be able t
o escape with no issues two whales at the haven point community play area two well-themed spring toys can be seen next to each other this is most likely a nod to the two worlds diner from season one mark jefferson's photography book the disgusting creep we all love to hate mark jefferson makes a cameo appearance in captain spirit in the form of a photography book previously owned by emily erickson that can be found in the living room of the eriksen home the image on the cover is one of the photo
s that could be seen as an exhibition panel on the blackwell academy campus in season one real superpowers still in captain spirit one of chris's idol comments that can be heard when standing idle for too long sounds like a reference to season 1 max's powers and her ability to save arcadia bay he says what if i had real superpowers i could protect the whole town if i could go back in time similarly when chris looks at a photo of his father's old basketball team he says if i could go back in time
i'd go see him play which is another reference to max's time travel powers conor cochran an episode one a halloween flyer inside the gas station displays an email address of conal cochrane at seasonwich.js this is a not too villain called conor cochran from halloween 3 season of the witch which is a 1982 movie produced by john carpenter it's also a nod to the first game in which another halloween related flyer refers to maya cochrane supposedly the mayor of arcadia bay when asked if this is the
same person who moved from arcadia bay to seattle the developers responded with a gif of a man clapping who happened to be conor cochran from the season of the witch night in the woods entry number three of sean's sketchbook shows a sketch of an anthropomorphic fox and bear which are reminiscent of greg and angus two characters from the video game night in the woods which is similar to life is strange in many ways and is one of my favorite games accent free entry 5 depicts sean doing an ollie o
n his skateboard along with the phrase olly early oxenfree which is a catchphrase of a known origin used in kids games however it could also be a reference to another video game called oxenfree which shares some similarities with the life exchange franchise and surprise surprise is another one of my favorite games later on there's another oxen for easter egg which is really cool while playing with the radio in david's trailer in episode 5 if sean stops on frequency 145.50 he will hear someone ca
lling out to alex and jonas who are the main characters of oxenfree jonas hey alex guys do you copy if you know the game you'll know that radio frequencies are a main gameplay mechanic of oxenfree which is why this is one of my favorite easter eggs in life is strange brave new world finn has a patch on his winter jacket from episode 2 that says brave new world which is the name of episode 2 of before the storm raccoon in captain spirits in captain spirit if chris follows the poor prince in the s
now after scaring the mysterious animal out of the garage he will get to observe a raccoon by a tree the raccoon is rumored to be a spirit animal tier 5 david's password in episode 4 a post-it note on karen's tablet hints at the fact that it was given to her by someone else the password is 112708 which is the same password that david used for his laptop in season 1 is the date that him and joyce met for the first time to the eagle-eyed player this could have hinted at the fact that david was to
return in episode 5. unruly teenage fright hoppers during captain spirit chris can come across an email on his father's computer detailing accounts of unruly teenage fright helpers in the area this hints towards the fact that sean and daniel meet finn and cassidy in episode 2 of life strange 2 and then end up train hopping with them later on it's also a reference to mike brody's work as mentioned in tier 2 and possibly to chloe and rachel in before the storm gone home conhum is a game by fulbrig
ht that was released during development for life is trained season 1 and shares some themes with a franchise in the game you come home after some time abroad to a home that was left behind by your family and you try and figure out what happened by exploring the house the developers of life is strange have been quoted saying that their fans have gone home which is why it's pretty cool that during the development of life is change 2 the writing team was actually assisted by steve gainer and carla
simonia who are the creators of gone home chris escape if you play the beginning of the game with high morality and get daniel to tell chris the truth about the powers in episode 2 then at the end of the episode chris will give the dear's brothers escape because as he says daniel is the real hero if you continue the game with low morality and end up with a blood brothers ending you can see chris's cape in the safe which means that they kept it this whole time breakfast conversation the breakfast
conversation between charles and chris at the beginning of captain spirit changes depending on how long you wait before you leave chris's room if you go out right away charles will be happy and positive but if you make him wait too long he will threaten chris and the conversation will be tense and uncomfortable but i don't this isn't a hotel buddy i get things to do various interactions between daniel and the cops depending on morality in episode 5 the way daniel interacts with the cops will de
pend on how shawn raised him throughout the game for example when daniel comes in to save sean and attacks the cop he will either show some remorse or no remorse at all later on if sean tells him to kill the cops he will either refuse or kill them without hesitating which is quite scary coming from a ten-year-old kid silence is meaning throughout the game the different dialogue options influence sean's relationship with daniel but there's another option that also has an effect whether you respon
d at all or not in some cases sean can choose to ignore daniel completely which will have a negative impact on their relationship during the motel scene after daniel fans out about their dad if sean doesn't respond quick enough daniel will get even more angry at him hobo symbols the icons for some of the achievements for life is change 2 are actually symbols that were used by homeless people in america during the great depression they were left behind by drifters to inform the others of which pl
aces were safe and which ones to avoid there were symbols for everything such as barking dog hair alcohol in this town kind lady lives here in the game for example the achievement called train of thought bears a symbol for good place to catch a train while the one called boundaries has the symbol for jail or prison hoba symbols can also be seen on the backpack that brody gives to sean at the end of episode 1. fun fact i noticed while looking for something else in before the storm when rachel and
chloe get on the train chloe also notices a bunch of herbie symbols so clearly they've been on the developer's mind for a while chloe's mural in episode 5 if you pick the sacrifice arcadia bay ending chloe's mural that she drew on as a kid with max can be found outside david's trailer emily went to blackwell in captain spirit chris can find a letter addressed to his mum from principal wells who refers to her as an alumnus meaning that she went to blackwell academy on the road brodie mentions ki
riak and his novel on the road in his blog post titled on the edge which itself may be a reference to kirk's novel writer michelle kosh also said in an interview that kiriak's work was one of the main inspirations behind life estranged 2 due to his work around road trips and travelling black flag black flag was the name of hannah's dog and it may be a reference to the 1970s american punk rock band from california chris in welcome home daniel picture in both high morality endings when the camera
pans over the board with all the photos you can see a photo of daniel with his grandparents and a banner that says welcome home daniel you can also see a weird blur in the bottom left corner which some people assume is a bush but it's actually chris sean and daniel look different in captain spirits someone pointed out that sean and daniel look slightly different in episode two compared to how they do at the inner captain spirit the main difference i can see is the patch on sean's jeans and maybe
his hoodie but you tell me if you see anything dharma buns the dharma bums is the name of an achievement that can be obtained by finding the first collectible in episode 3. it's also the name of another jack kerouac novel from 1958 about two men who travel from mexico to washington by hitchhiking and train hopping there are some similarities with the story of the diaz brothers and it's fair to assume that it was another inspiration for the game the symbol for the achievement is another hobo sym
bol that means safe camp chiaro's cure chiaroscuro is the name of another achievement in the game and it might be another reference to mark jefferson since he mentions chiaroscuro in his lecture at the beginning of life is strange tier six court foreshadowing the scene with esteban at the beginning of episode 1 where he asks sean to decide who gets to eat the last choco crisp can be seen as foreshadowing for the fact that if sean surrenders he will need to face trial and end up in prison lila's
hospital stay when we first meet lyla it is implied that she suffers from bad mental health and that she's been hospitalized in the past as suggested by brett when he says she's back from the loony bin later on if shawn didn't call lila in episode one and tries to call her an episode too her mom will pick up and inform sean that she's been admitted into hospital again due to her worsening mental health in episode five when sean checks on her social media on karen's laptop he can see that lila is
back at school nick reported the diaz brothers when you meet nick at the christmas market he seems to have some strong opinions and doesn't seem like a very welcoming guy because of this it is theorized that he is the one who called the authorities on sean and daniel if sean didn't call lyla or check social media newspaper article about seattle in captain spirit the newspaper lying on the erickson's dinner table describes the events of and fallout surrounding esteban diaz and officer matthew's
deaths in seattle eye color meaning the color of sean's glass eye changes in the three endings in which he survives in the redemption ending in which he surrenders to the police and goes to prison the eye is white in the parting ways and blood brothers endings in which she did not surrender and fled to mexico the eye is black this could symbolize a good versus evil thing or just that he could only get a black glass eye when he was in mexico you let me know what you think daniel sorrow this is th
e name of the theme that plays when daniel finds out that mushroom was killed i like in the description is gorgeous but haunting victoria's note to david if you chose to sacrifice arcadia bay sean can find a letter from victoria chase to david in which she thanks him for rescuing her from the bunker and tells him she's looking after her parents gallery in seattle she says she's going to therapy but still getting nightmares and hopes that chloe and max are keeping david company because they're a
good team sean can shoot merrell if you manage to pull up the heist and get into the safe before merrill wakes up you can pick up his gun and shoot him when he starts threating you however the outcome is not good episode 40 is a mystery the teaser for episode 4 caused a bit of a stir when it came out with people trying to figure out who the voice belonged to no way out this time we got a lot of room in jail for cop murderers like you someone in my comments mentioned that it's the same voice as t
he guard from the hospital i can't tell myself but let me know what you think another theory was that the voice belonged to david and that he turned into a bounty hunter and was after the deer's brothers receiving the gift of flavour sean's backpack's inventory icon is surrounded by the phrase receiving the gift of flavor this is likely a reference to the 1995 album of the same name by the alternative rock band the urge whose title is written in the same font style there is even a sticker on sal
e which the icon is likely based on pt the word hello can be seen as a graffiti in many places in the game the way it's written makes it very likely that it's a reference to pt a playable teaser for the since cancelled game silent hills that has a similar message written on a wall this could also be a nod to the fact that life is strange also has its own pt playable teaser in the form of captain spirit sean's death foreshadowing there are a few moments in the game that seem to be foreshadowing s
ean's death for example in the forest if daniel comes across both the dead and living raccoons he can comment wondering whether the two raccoons were brothers like him and sean sean himself has quite a few lines that can sound a bit dark if you know that one of the endings has him dying such as remind me to never get old while looking for his dad's screwdriver hope i'll never have to hold on to a bar to take a [ __ ] while in his grandparents bathroom they're probably gonna bury me in this thing
when looking at his hoodie yeah pretty dark joan died from a cancer joan is one of karen's friends and neighbors in a desert community of a way it's never said that she has cancer but it's hinted at by the fact that she is neither hair nor eyebrows and that she says she's defying death on a daily basis during the redemption ending we can see that karen is wearing jones jacket which might mean that joan sadly lost her battle against cancer and that karen is wearing the jacket to honor her memory
nick killed emily we know from looking around the eriksen house that emily died in a hit-and-run and that charles was never able to get justice for her there is a theory that nick was the one driving the car that day due to him being the only named character who appears in both captain spirit and life is strange 2 that could have a remotely plausible motive covering up their involvement nick's friendship with charles and his reputation among beaver creek's townspeople will be obviously damaged
if word got out that he caused emily's death since he mentions being involved to some extent in beavercreek's town council nick would also run the risk of losing his job due to negative public opinion nick is also implied to have helped charles find his job which he could have done out of guilt over what he did in captain spirit chris mentions that nick and charles never hang out anymore which could mean that child suspects nick trauma brings on the powers this is an overarching theory about the
life strange franchise as a whole that says that powers are brought on by traumatic events for max it was seeing her childhood best friend get shot for daniel it was seeing his dad get shot for alex i won't get into it in case you haven't played three colors yet of course don't know it have never given us a canon explanation for their powers so it's all theory but you let me know what you think daniel attacks cassidy in one of the possible endings of episode three if sean chose to spend time wi
th cassie at the party there's a chance that daniel might get angry at her and attack her he doesn't cause major damage but he does hurt her on purpose which is awful to see brodie is a prescott apparently no life is strange iceberg is complete without any strange prescott theory this one says that brody uses a fake name and that he's actually a prescott who decided not to follow in his rich family's footsteps this also coincides with another possible inspiration for the game which is the movie
into the wild in which a rich kid decides to donate his college friend to charity and go live in his car sounds familiar and that brings us to the end of this life strange 2 and captain spirit iceberg i want to say a big thank you to the viewers who helped me out with some of these entries by responding to my community post thank you zero cowaningo edgar films sasha smarty's mcflurry not zander from buffy john joseph lyoko lunatic looney jeremy baker white hibiscus tea kd gamer picks time swipe
touche rocks pet rock rebather wets octo and a super special thank you to van this was my first time actually creating an iceberg i hope i did an okay job but there's no way i covered everything so if there's a theory aristo egg i haven't mentioned or if i made a mistake anywhere let me know i'll most likely make a follow-up video with the comments like i did for the life strange one iceberg also if you want me to go deeper into one of the entries let me know and i might make a video about it al
so let me know which is your favorite ending for the game no points for guessing which one's mine as always my sources are in the description along with my social media make sure you give this video a thumbs up if you liked it and subscribe if you want more thank you again and again for the amazing support you guys gave my channel recently and i'll see you in my next video bye [Music] you

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