11/2/2022 0 Comments Oxenfree game review![]() Edwards Island, a collection of dimly-lit watercolours, establishes that mood. What follows is impressively moody and low-key, a chiller in the well-worn mold of John Carpenter’s The Fog, David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows and the like. It’s not long before they tune in to one of those signals.and they unwittingly unleash all kinds of supernatural hell. The party’s a bust, so Alex and Jonas go off on their own, chasing after some weird radio signals that Ren keeps yammering about. She’s one of five teens on Edwards Island for a traditional end-of-high school bash: there’s her, her step-brother Jonas (an unknown quantity she’s treating with quiet caution), her motormouth best friend Ren, a chilly acquaintance named Clarissa, and Clarissa’s quiet indie friend Nona. It feels pretty honest.Īlex is the centre of Oxenfree, a high school senior preoccupied with her past and treading water in her present. Even if I am imposing on her, projecting my own behaviour onto her like a double-exposed photo, it doesn’t feel like imposition. But I look at the blue-haired girl I met on the ferry to Edwards Island: distant and slightly surly, even towards her friends. This isn’t me playing Alex so much as it is me playing me. ![]() This is me imposing on my character, sure. ![]() I don’t like some of these people, and I know those people don’t like me, but I just want things to be alright. “We don’t need to split into factions.” I just want people to chill. So, whenever I can, I tell the others that what’s happening isn’t anyone’s fault. It makes me really self-conscious and uncomfortable, the idea of being expected to take a side and rip into someone. I don’t like in conversations where people are throwing blame around. The teens have this bad habit of arguing about who’s at fault. ![]()
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