They can be kind and gentle with one another, or distant and dismissive, depending on your choices. Riley and Jacob are actually old high school acquaintances, and they can reflect on how they’ve changed. They have beef with their family, and are starting to wonder at the choices they’ve made along the way. They are dealing with a bunch of spooky stuff because it’s a job. In comparison, OXENFREE II has a much smaller central cast with only two primary characters, Riley and her co-worker Jacob, who are decidedly in their 30s. They do stupid teenager shit, like taking a ferry to wander an empty island at night. They are funny, delightful, spirited, angry, annoying, and afraid. OXENFREE, released in 2016 by Night School, centers on a group of painfully realistically written teenagers. Night School’s sound design is particularly excellent, invoking the Pacific Northwest, dreams, and everyday life all at once. Players move between map spaces, trying to get to the bottom of a spooky mystery. Both adventure games are absolutely beautiful with watercolor-style artwork and well-animated character sprites. It’s hard not to write a review that is directly comparing OXENFREE II to its predecessor at every turn. If you like ghosts and compassionately written alive people, and most of all, if you liked OXENFREE, you will love OXENFREE II which released on July 12 from Night School Studios. It’s Riley’s new boss at her temp job where she’ll be placing transmitters across a coastline to track radio wave anomalies. Then, Riley wakes up at a bus stop, her walkie-talkie buzzing. Scary sounds and half-remembered visions pop up on the screen for a few moments. “Bury me,” the woman whispers, turning, eyes burning posession-red, “where you can’t see water.” She gets to the top of a lighthouse where a crack in time opens up, splitting between 20. She wanders, hands up against the wind, wondering aloud if this is just a dream. Its newest trailer (above) debuted at last night’s Nintendo Indie Showcase, where we also got fresh trailers for the gothic sequel Blasphemous 2 and skating platformer Bomb Rush Cyberfunk.OXENFREE II: Lost Signals opens with protagonist Riley waking up on a dock in the middle of a thunderstorm, not remembering where she is or why she’s there. Oxenfree 2 is jumping onto consoles, Netflix ( because they acquired the developers), and PC via Steam on July 12th. It comes from how the weirdness that transpires teases and pulls at these complex, bottled feelings.” More of that, please. As Annie Mok wrote at the time, Oxenfree’s “horror doesn’t come from traditional jump scares or big toothy monsters. There’s definitely something to that line of thinking, as Oxenfree’s scares weren’t confined to overtly creepy sights and sounds. Plus, the feeling that time is collapsing in on itself made the adventure even more worrying thanks to an older cast, and a player base that has grown up in the time between Oxenfrees. “We can’t wait for players to embody Riley, shaping her through life-altering choices.”ĪliceB got a glimpse into the future - not through an interdimensional tear sadly - during her preview where she concluded that if you enjoyed Night School’s free-flowing conversations in their other games, you’d probably enjoy Oxenfree 2 as well. “We wanted to tap into the essence and world that made the original game so special, while immersing players in a brand new story with even higher stakes,” said Night School’s co-founder Sean Krankel. What follows is a reality-shifting, time-travelling mystery that somehow involves a villainous cult, previously teased through audio transmissions patched into the first game. You’ll play as the environmental researcher Riley as she returns to her hometown of Camena and investigates the choppy radio signals that freaked out many an Oxenhead. Set five years after the original, this time around there’s an entirely new cast, setting, and threat to deal with. Just like the first Oxenfree, there’ll be plenty of flexible walking and talking where you’ll be able to interrupt conversations at any time, or just stay silent throughout, which would be creepily on-brand for a series about ghostly rifts and unsettling radio frequencies. Spooky supernatural sequel Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals is launching on July 12th, developer Night School have announced.
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