Oxenfree ist weniger ein Spiel als eine interaktive Geschichte, ähnlich wie die Spiele von Telltale ("The Walking Dead"), nur nicht aus der Ego-Perspektive. Wenn man diese Art Spiele mag und ein Faible für Mysterie hat, sollte man es ausprobieren. Ich habs 2 mal durchgespielt, falls das irgendwas besagt. Es hat seine nervigen Stellen, aber Story und Atmosphäre sind gut und machen neugierig wie die Sache weitergeht. Am Ende kann man nochmal durchspielen und versuchen Fehler, die man gemacht hat, auszubügeln, wobei die Charaktere flashbacks haben, Erinnerungen an den ersten Durchgang - geniale Idee.
I played this game on "easy" and it was much fun. The four abilities of your power-suit (strength, speed, armor and stealth) are a fine idea. I got constantly hit from guys somewhere invisible in the bushes, but that's what "armor" is good for. You just need a short break at a safe spot to load it up again. Then to close combat distance with "speed" and use the shotgun. If nothing helps there is still "invisible". You drive Jeeps (with MGs and yes on easy-mode you can drive AND fire), motorboats, helicopters. You fight at very different locations, shoot ugly aliens, the game has everything that's fun about a shooter. It's not perfect, I was stuck once due to a bug, but with the help of a walkthrough it's doable. I don't know how good it is, if you prefer the more ambitious tactical approach, but if you love to rush in, as we say in German, "ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste", then buy it and try it. With MAXIMUM SPEED!
There are two good points for this "game" (and I use the term game loosely here), It takes less than an hour to sit through and the voice acting is excellent. In the game you fight the controls a lot more than your adversarys. During the action scenes you need to quickly click on hotspots, with a dark red brownish mouse pointer on a mostly dark and brownish background. I had to play each action seen several times until I was able to spot the mouse pointer. Once spotted the clicking part was not more difficult than clicking any other Icon. During the dialogs you have barely enough time to read the first two answers, leave alone reading them all and make a sensible decision. To make matters better the NPCs keep blabbering in your ear while you try to read the options and make your decision. Ow, wait ... that makes it a lot worse, not better. My bad. It might be a good thing that your decisions seem to not matter at all. What makes sense if you consider that the game needs to have a predefines ending because otherwise the second part have nothing it could "continue" on ... But still, choosing those dialog options is what is supposed to make the game fun. It should draw you into the story rather than leaving you with a "what the hell did I just answer" feeling every second time you choose something and on the other half of answers you did not answer at all because the time ran out before you could read all answers and choose one.
