There's this nagging feeling that's telling me the game didn't really live up to its full potential that wasn't there when I first played the game back in 2016, but it's still a great time regardless. Fantastic vibes and soundtrack, great characters and voice acting (the majority of the cast is from the "Telltale gang" which is a group of VAs I really miss), great visuals and lovely dialogue system. The story is interesting but leaves you with a bunch of question marks more than anything else which I don't really mind in this case as they manage to pull it off relatively well.
Semi-related: This is the first time a replay of a dialogue-choice-story-driven-whatever game has made me realize how much I’ve changed as a person. I’ve recently replayed a couple of Telltale games that I played when they first came out and I was still kinda treating all the characters the same way and making the same choices. With Oxenfree, I genuinely found myself having completely different reactions to what some of the characters were saying and I though it was fascinating (I first played Oxenfree when I was 15, I’m 23 now). Maybe it’s because the writing is a lot more realistic? I don’t know, there’s a compliment here but I don’t know how to articulate it.
Semi-related: This is the first time a replay of a dialogue-choice-story-driven-whatever game has made me realize how much I’ve changed as a person. I’ve recently replayed a couple of Telltale games that I played when they first came out and I was still kinda treating all the characters the same way and making the same choices. With Oxenfree, I genuinely found myself having completely different reactions to what some of the characters were saying and I though it was fascinating (I first played Oxenfree when I was 15, I’m 23 now). Maybe it’s because the writing is a lot more realistic? I don’t know, there’s a compliment here but I don’t know how to articulate it.