I really liked Chloe, I feel she's a really good protagonist, I just felt the story was very lacklustre in the way that there were many plot holes and not a lot of big choices, I liked Rachel as a character more in the first game which is funny because she was dead, she had no reason to leave Arcadia bay and I felt like the devs were just trying to hard to make her a twin peaks like character, just didn't really like her, in terms of it being a prequel, it didn't really add anything to life is strange 1, which is unfortunate considering how much I love life is strange one, I didn't really like the back-talk mechanic, I never really needed to use it and when I did the writing was terrible and it was to easy for Chloe to get her way, I did like learning more about Chloe as a character since I liked her in the first game and she does have so great interactions, but overall the game just felt really dumb and unnecessary as a prequel