“WTF? This is going to be amazing or horrible.” And the story actually is amazing. Looking at my notes I see that about two hours in I wrote: “Ok this is interesting”. I would advise avoiding any hints of what the story is about because the way this game delivers it over four hours is just mastery of the form.
That’s about all the “interaction” you have with the game other than moving around and looking at stuff, but that’s about all the interaction you need for this story. While that’s not the only control you have here, you have limited other choices like pulling out a radio and tuning it to stations. It is teaching you the rules and developing the characters and it does that well, which is crucial because as a choose your own adventure you’re going to have to care about these people so you can make choices. The thing is the game is pretty average for about an hour. It feels odd and simplistic but brings a feeling of a choose your own adventure. The game is played mostly by choosing options through three of the face buttons on a controller (X Y B for steam controllers) and hitting A to select objects in the world.
It’s non-traditional in how it does it but it brought me in with a great story and then made it better for a second playthrough. Oxenfree gets me to answer the question with an “Oh god yes”. “Is it worth the money for the experience, whether it’s a game or not?” Oxenfree is another unique experience that I search Steam for, it’s odd how often I find what can be discussed into “what is a game?”īut like many of these games that I have played, such as Edith Finch, Her Story, and Orwell, there’s so much more to the story that simply dismissing it as “not a game” ignores the important question.
0 kommentar(er)
