Five years after the events of Oxenfree, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.
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I enjoyed the first game. I thought it was a neat enough story and I really liked the characters and their interactions, but at no point did it ever really touch me emotionally. For reasons I can't really explain, this game hit a lot closer to home and made me cry, that's probably enough said in that regard.
In a more objective sense, Oxenfree 2 is a huge improvement over the first game, mainly in how you actually interact with it. Moving around especially feels a lot less clunky than the original, partly cause Riley seems to generally walk a bit faster, and because paths seem to be a bit wider so you don't get "stuck" as much. The dialogue mechanics have also been smoothed out a lot, dialogue choices stay on screen a lot longer and most of the time will be buffered once you select them and said once other characters finish their lines, so you're not constantly being forced to interrupt other characters and miss lines like in the first game.
Overall I really liked this. I can't be sure how much I can recommend this for someone who hasn't played the first game since I don't know of a way to unplay Oxenfree, but if you liked the original you'll probably like this.
Also, you can pet the dog. 10/10.
In a more objective sense, Oxenfree 2 is a huge improvement over the first game, mainly in how you actually interact with it. Moving around especially feels a lot less clunky than the original, partly cause Riley seems to generally walk a bit faster, and because paths seem to be a bit wider so you don't get "stuck" as much. The dialogue mechanics have also been smoothed out a lot, dialogue choices stay on screen a lot longer and most of the time will be buffered once you select them and said once other characters finish their lines, so you're not constantly being forced to interrupt other characters and miss lines like in the first game.
Overall I really liked this. I can't be sure how much I can recommend this for someone who hasn't played the first game since I don't know of a way to unplay Oxenfree, but if you liked the original you'll probably like this.
Also, you can pet the dog. 10/10.
Probably wont live up to the first one, but that's an unrealistic goal for me.
Malheureusement pas aussi prenant et vertigineux que le premier, j'aurais tant voulu l'aimer
I just got stuck in a glitch I can’t fix. I’m supposed to break in the store but the dialogue cuts off and all the buttons / menu stop working. Have to close game.
There’s no option other than restart so I’m shelving it since I’m not sure it’s worth restarting to have this issue again. The fist game was pretty cool too.
There’s no option other than restart so I’m shelving it since I’m not sure it’s worth restarting to have this issue again. The fist game was pretty cool too.
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That scene, with the guy on the boat. He made a choice. That moved me like few scenes in media ever have.
I enjoyed the first Oxenfree game. It wasn't anything super special or something like that, but it was just a good experience overall. This one, for most of the runtime, just bored me a lot. It involves too much walking from point a to b for something interesting to happen and then returning to point a just to walk to point c then. This walking part takes up a lot of the game, and nothing really happens in those parts except a lot of dialogue between the two main characters. The finale was my favourite part of this game, as it strips away all the boring parts of it and just focussed on the good mystery and plot while tying the first and second game together. I feel like this game would have been much better if they had cut like 2 hours from it, so that it has a similar length as Oxenfree 1.