![]() ![]() I say beautifully, because that itself was a surprise. I had been waiting for the one-word stories moment or something like it through a half-hour hands-off demo for Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals conducted rather beautifully over Discord last week. ![]() A game which - I asked - is inevitably plucked from a developer's own experiences, so the plaiting of life and fiction continues. Someone who is self-aware enough to know that a game is what they need to calm them down, to orient them. What a thing! A marvel.Īnd then on the other hand - what a lovely bit of observation. I close my eyes at that and see the decision tree branching out, its bright leaves filling the space above my head. On one hand, there's that dizzying complexity going on behind the scenes, because as Jacob's friend Riley, you get to choose which word to say, which in turn must impact which word Jacob then chooses as a response. And this gets at the heart of Oxenfree 2 for me, I think. They play for one round - a silly kind of sentence emerges - and it makes him feel better. Availability: Out in 2022 on PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch.
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