How is everyone? I'm SoloRain and I
have a question:
do you all remember raywilliamjohnson?
You know that guy that hosted
=3 before passing it on to like three
different hosts. That guy that's on
Facebook for his videos with boobs in
the thumbnail. That guy that played the
gay man in the movie - We Love You. For this guy's many endeavors people seem to
overlook what may just be his most
underrated achievement and what is that
you may ask...? Well... that is... wait for it...cue the drum-roll!
(Kid Drums)
(Wow...)
Basically, creating the
basis of Life Is Strange.
Also that wasn't a drum-roll I was really
expecting but thank you little dude. Um...
Someone get that do to raise.
Now hear me out. I know what you might be thinking: this dudes taking larger logic leaps than
MatPat! And to that I say: just watch
and enjoy as I shatter your reality
with my analysis
(Into Music Beat Drops)
Alright, let's get started
Ray William Johnson created a series by
the name of Riley Rewind in the year of
2013. Riley Rewind was a five act series
starring a teenaged girl, Riley, that has
the power to go back in time.
Are you seeing the similarities already? Well, you should be since Life Is Strange is a
video game that has five episodes that
stars a teenage girl, Max, that has the
power to go back in time. And did I
mentioned that Life Is Strange was made
in 2015... A bit suspicious if you ask me but you
know what we just gonna keep going
these are of course the obvious
similarities and don't worry I didn't
just base this video on those aspects
alone. Trust me, there's a lot more. As a
matter of fact, we should find a way to
keep track of the similarities so it can
be easier to copyright strike the game.
Hey, if Youtube can do it so can I so
let's toss them up in the cloud as we
come across them
Alright, let's get into the meat of
things. We'll start with the characters
and then snowball them to other aspects
built around them that seem a bit too
similar for comfort. So let's begin!
Character Similarities.
Also I know that
anime baseball club was unrelated I just
wanted to do it because I thought it was
cool. Sorry, not sorry, kind of sorry. Okay
okay yeah I'm sorry I'll never do it
again
Now, there are many characters within
both Life Is Strange and Riley Rewind
that are worth analyzing the contrasts
and compares. The contrasts and compares...
Using verbs as nouns. I'm a
FREAKING
GENIUS
However, let's start by comparing
the two main characters Max and Riley.
As mentioned before, Max Caulfield and
Riley Brown are both female leads high
school students and rewind powered
morally driven people. Their power came
to them without any real explanation.
Well, Max kinda has one but that might be
another video for another time or
probably not saying that came out in
2015 that'll be pretty you know late and
well... outdated at this point. You know
what? Just leave in the comments below if
you want me to do a video on that.
They both have that one person that one best
friend in which they share the secret of
their power with, both have nerdy
male love interests, and both have
segments in which they talk to the
audience. Well, Max is more like talking
to herself but it's basically the same
thing. You know what? We can just write
that off we don't really need to add
that anyway. We're not really grasping
for straws here there's plenty more
sim-similarities as you will soon see
But what's really notable is the writing of
the support characters. To be more
precise some of the aspects that make up
the leads best friends seem to be direct
copies of one another.
Yes, the best friend of both respective main characters within both medias are indeed
both gay and both happen to be the one
person trusted with the main chick's
secret.
I put both so many times in that script...
If you ask me, that sounds pretty
suspicious (again) but I digress.
Let's talk about the love interests. It's a bit
strange that the male love interests are
both of a nerdy background.
Okay, so the love interest in Riley Rewind is
way more... Uhhhhhhhhh... "forward" in his nerd hood than Warren is...
Will you do me the honor of
accompanying me to prom?
But, they are both geeks at heart. I don't even
have to explain this mess of everything
stereotypical of a nerd to you for you to
understand that he is indeed a nerd. But
I guess Warren will take a bit more
explaining so allow me to look up some
stuff real quick like
(Typing)
Here it is!
Read it!
Love it!
Gooooooooooood!!!
OKAY, moving on.
Now let's go over some side characters. Nathan
Prescott is similar to Edward in their...
methods... and fashion sense! Not to mention
the fact that they both... have
disabilities. Yes, Nathan and Edward
Wrong Edward... Both have disabilities but not in
a way that you may think. Edward has the
disability of you know broken legs. While
Nathan's disability hides beneath the
surface. Undertale style...
I really need to remember to stay on task for these scripts.
What I mean is, Nathan's disability is a
mental one. As supported by the pills he
has in his room and locker that includes
I'm gonna murder this name. Wesperdone?... RESPredundon...
We just gonna call it Risperdone...
That includes Risperdone,
which is used to treat Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disowner.
Disowner? My goodness!
Bipolar Disorder.
And let's be honest
Nathan has been giving off signs of
having some kind of mental illness from the beginning.
"Don't be scared. You own
this school I wanted I could blow it up!
You're the boss."
Next and finally we're
going to talk about Kate Marsh and Angela
Vaughn. Honestly, I've been pronouncing it as LeBron since before this and
yes, I am ashamed...
The obvious similarity
here is the fact that both committed
suicide and had the main checks rewind
to hell to save them in addition both
have been bullied in the background of
the game and that has been shown leading
up to the suicide. They also both have a
soft side for generically cute things
such as animals.
I mean, that sounds a
little bit too coincidental if you ask me.
But you know, you're not asking me so
we're just gonna keep going...
I feel like this is a good stopping point for
pointing out similarities.
As much as I would want to keep comparing the story between the two. I feel that at a certain
point, I will be forcing comparisons that
aren't there. So I'll stop here.
So taking a look back to the cloud I think we may have some type of evidence to warrant a
copyright strike.
Wellllllllll...
No, not exactly.
You see, for all these suspicious
similarities there are many, many
differences from Life Is Strange and
Riley Rewind. From the added mystery of
Rachel Amber to the high school bombing
done by Edward there are different story
elements and character portrayals
between the two. I mean one could say
that the mystery and bombing are similar
because they are major plot points
within each respective story that become
a real focus for the main in the side
but I'm digressing again.
As much as I would like to sentence Life Is Strange to copyright.
I........... can't
(Guitar Begins)
Because of the pure fact that it took
the elements of Riley Rewind and fleshed
it out more. The character of Jay evolved
to a character that has motives outside
of the main girl. A character with family
problems, flaws, a hella amount of
personality, and a conveyed believable
friendship with the main.
The character of Angela evolved to a character with an
expressed cry for help and an
unbelievable added amount of motivation
for suicide.
The character of Edward evolved to a character with demented motivations mental issues in an express
status. And Riley's character evolved to a
character with a more indepth power of
rewinding and interesting background
actually explored in the narrative. Now I
truly believe that at least one person
on a Life Is Strange team saw Riley
Rewind and took some of their ideas
But the word copied can only be used to an
extent. I believe that Life Is Strange
use Riley Rewind as the framework and
then ran with it like they will die if
they ever stopped.
Life Is Strange took Riley Rewind and made it into a story that, in my opinion, is way better than the original.
Don't flame me in the comments.
I won't say that life is strange as a copy
instead I'll say that it's inspired.
So congratulations and thank you
raywilliamjohnson.
You may just have been the cause of
something way bigger than you expected.
Solo and Out.
How is it going everyone? My name is SoloRain and I'm sorry it got a little
bit cheesy there at the end. But thank
you for taking the time out of your day
to watch this video. It is greatly
appreciated. Please like, comment, and
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of this community I have other videos
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forward to that. I am sorry that the mic
quality is kind of, you know, messy. I'm
working with a mic that I plan on
replacing in the future when I get
enough money so look forward to that as
well. If you have any similarities that I
missed in this video please leave them
in the comments below, and talk about
them amongst yourselves. I'll be reading
them and seeing what I miss. Alright...
Solo and Out.
