So yes, this is another 'coming of age' game. Now that you have made some choices, you've started on your path, and you're maybe now deciding whether this is the right or wrong path that you set out on-with its time loops and time tears, the game really encourages both the players and the characters to really take stock and look back and forth and just see where you want to go. Some of the themes are important to playing the game and experiencing as they come out, but a big one is just the idea that you are an adult. He continued: "And all of their particular issues bounce off each other within the buckets of a couple of different themes. But in Oxenfree II, we have a much wider range of ages and life experiences and jobs and what they want to do and what they are unable to do, and filter all that through this big crazy event in one night." With Oxenfree 1, that cast is very small-they were all graduating high school. "In both games, every character is going through some sort of where life is throwing them something and they have to make a choice of what they want to do with that. "I feel like everyone can relate to the very basic bare bones version of the themes that are in Oxenfree II and 1," Night School Studio co-founder and creative director Adam Hines added. " is having her coming of age moment at 32, and she's on the precipice of a bunch of things that are going to change her life forever," Night School Studio co-founder and studio director Sean Krankel told me. Not everything is as it appears however, and soon Riley finds herself in conflict with Parentage, a mysterious collective that seems to be manipulating the same strange anomaly that Alex first discovered in Oxenfree. Riley is responsible for planting radio transmitters around Camena to help a research group gather data about the unnatural electromagnetic waves that have been interfering with equipment around the coastal town. Taking place five years after the events of Oxenfree, Oxenfree II sees you play as Riley Poverly, who returns to her hometown of Camena to take an entry-level job as an environmental researcher. And it's in this difference where Oxenfree II most intrigues me-I want to see how a "coming of age" story centered around adult characters plays out. While Oxenfree's Alex is a 17-year-old high school girl struggling to overcome her immediate past, Oxenfree II's Riley is a 32-year-old woman trying to prepare for the hardships of her immediate future. With the gameplay looking so similar, seemingly the biggest difference between Oxenfree II and Oxenfree is their respective stories, most noticeably how their protagonists are in two very different stages of life. Now Playing: Oxenfree II: Lost Signals - Official Announcement Trailer
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It looks like it could-just as in Oxenfree, in Oxenfree II, you're walking around and solving fairly elementary environmental puzzles while taking care to skillfully navigate through conversations. Without actually going hands-on with the game, I can't tell if that causes Oxenfree II to feel a bit same-y in comparison to what Night School has released before. If you want more of the first game, it looks like that's what you're going to get. Oxenfree II doesn't seem to radically evolve upon the core formula Night School used for games like Oxenfree and Afterparty. At an hour-long preview event for Oxenfree II, I got to see how the game plays, and my initial thoughts are that it looks a whole lot like the first. Oxenfree II: Lost Signals continues building upon the world of developer Night School Studio's debut game, Oxenfree.
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