Life is Strange: Remastered Collection includes Life is Strange Remastered and Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered. Each game has touched-up visuals along with engine and lighting upgrades. Though full facial motion-capture is a selling point, it’s worth noting that this applies only to the first game and not Before the Storm Remastered.

For more details on the technical improvements and changes, head here. Life is Strange: Remastered Collection is still in the works for Nintendo Switch, which should be out later this year after facing a delay. Stay tuned for more details in the meantime. Deck Nine also released Life is Strange: True Colors, a brand new title set in the same universe, last year. You can read our official review for it here.

Both remasters will be rendered in native 4K with updated 4K-ready character models, all of whom have increased polycounts, improved hair physics, a new lighting system, and more expressive animations for characters (which also includes motion capture for facial animations and improved lip sync).

Meanwhile, Square Enix has also released a bunch of screenshots comparing how multiple characters look in the original releases and remasters of both Life is Strange and Life is Strange: Before the Storm, showcasing several improvements. You can check them out below.

Life is Strange: Remastered Collection launches on February 1 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Stadia. A Nintendo Switch version will launch later this year.

Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered is included with Life is Strange: Remastered Collection along with the first game’s remaster. Among the improvements are updates to the engine and lighting along with more refined puzzles. Unfortunately, the new full facial motion capture only applies to Life is Strange Remastered and not the prequel.

Life is Strange: Remastered Collection releases on February 1st. It will be available for PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Google Stadia (with the Nintendo Switch version out later this year). Pre-ordering the collection nets the Zombie Crypt Outfit for Chloe to use in Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.

The trailer showcases plenty, including the first game’s protagonist Max coming to grips with her time-bending powers as she walks down the hallways of her school in Arcadia Bay and continues up until she stumbles upon Chloe in the bathroom. It’s a scene from early on in the first game, where Max essentially first stumbles into her powers. The trailer ends with a few random shots of the game’s updated environments as well.

The remaster has a much cleaner presentation than the original, with environments having much better lighting for starters, plus facial textures and animations also getting a much-needed uplift. It’s not the most radical of changes, which is to be expected, since it’s a remaster and not a remake, but the improvements here are certainly appreciable, to say the least.

Life Is Strange: Remastered Collection releases for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and Stadia on February 1.

The collection features Life is Strange Remastered and Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered in one package. Along with remastered graphics for its characters and environments, it also improves character animations and implements full facial motion-capture. The engine and lighting has also seen some upgrades (though we’re yet to see the “updated and refined” puzzles).

Life is Strange: Remastered Collection is out on February 1st for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, PC and Google Stadia. The Nintendo Switch version has been delayed and will now release later this year. Stay tuned for more details in the coming week.

Square Enix recently took to Twitter to share an update about the collection and when it will launch. Though it has already been delayed once, it looks like that won’t happen again (on all platforms, at least). The publisher has reiterated the February launch date for the game on all platforms, except the Switch version, which needs “a little bit more time” before it’s ready. It’s now scheduled to release “later this year”.

Incidentally, Life is Strange: True Colors was also initially supposed to see a simultaneous release on the Switch, before then getting delayed and releasing about three months after the other versions. It remains to be seen what the timeline for the collection will be though.

Meanwhile, Square Enix is also going to share “a wealth of preview goodies” for the remastered collection in the lead-up to its launch, starting with “an extended look” next week, on January 25.

Life is Strange: Remastered Collection is due out on February 1 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Stadia.

An update from the Life is Strange team pic.twitter.com/gLx8uK0e4v

— Life is Strange (@LifeIsStrange) January 20, 2022

Square Enix has announced that Life is Strange: Remastered Collection will now launch on February 1. For those who don’t know, the collection includes the original Life is Strange and its prequel, Life is Strange: Before the Storm. Both games have updated visuals and character models, with the engine and lighting also having seen improvements, and with animations in particular seeing major upgrades thanks to full facial and motion capture being implemented.

Life is Strange: Remastered Collection will launch for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, and Stadia. Before that, Life is Strange: True Colors is also getting a DLC later this month, followed by a Switch version later in the year.

During the E3 2021 Nintendo Direct, it was confirmed that Life is Strange: Remastered Collection (which remasters and compiles Life is Strange and Life is Strange: Before the Storm) and the upcoming next game in the series, Life is Strange: True Colors are both coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year. True Colors will be launching on the Switch day and day, while the remastered collection launches later in the year.

So there you have it. It’s finally happening.

Life is Strange: True Colors launches on September 10 for Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Stadia. Meanwhile, Life is Strange: Remastered Collection is releasing for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Stadia on September 30, and later in the year for the Switch.