Let’s just hope they’re allowed to keep making the unique and interesting kinds of experiences that they’re known for. The prospect of having them help mold Netflix’s gaming strategy and, in turn, receiving an audience of 200+ million subscribers seems genuinely exciting. It seems like Oxenfree II is far enough along in development to not really be impacted by this, but I’m still immensely curious to see what this massive move means for the future of one of my favorite formerly independent studios. One final point a bit removed from the game itself, this virtual preview event was held on the day following the news that Night School Studio had been acquired by Netflix, marking the streaming giant’s first major foray into the world of video games. A… time tear, if we’re naming this stuff?” it’s clear that this wasn’t the first time they’d found one of these anomalies. From the dialogue, “It’s another one of those things. The strangeness culminated in them encountering a bright orange rip in reality.
A bit further ahead, the path forward was blocked by a crashed elevator that looked like it had been there for a century. It’s a strange sight, considering how the rest of the cavern seemed undisturbed for decades. In our playthrough, the pair remained together, climbing down into the chasm and eventually making their way to an abandoned mine, where they stumbled across a live canary in a cage. Being the more agile of the two, Riley could choose to try to make the jump herself and separate from Jacob, or take the long way around and stick together. At one point in the demo the pair reached a small chasm. The same goes for distinct traversal decisions that play out similar to dialogue choices. The team also focused on creating multiple routes to take towards any given destination, with lots of ins and outs that lead to different micro-stories. Chatter on your new walkie-talkie can be ignored or engaged in, leading to side stories with characters that can be experienced or completely missed. Apart from the aforementioned free-flowing dialogue, Oxenfree II expands upon player choice in a handful of other ways.
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