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Oxenfree

Good ideas, bad execution

Nice story (not much original, either way). Several endings, so its replayable. Beautiful artistic design. Music is fine, not masterful. Unbearable loading times. Wandering around is annoying, going through the same places frequently (going and returning). In the end it becomes tiring. You feel you are losing your time. Dialogue options passes so rapidly (if you move around, they fade). Artificially dense. Companion voices don't attenuate if you get some feet away. Everything is given to you with litle circles that warns you when to take out the radio. No logic thinking. 2D scenery is tricky, detecting badly your commands (e.g. up arrow, but goes down; left arrow, but turns the other side). Unnecessary platforming. What put me off are those collectables: Adler letters (13) that are misteriously placed on the ground around the isle, and don't fly away, and (most important) you can't gather until the final stretch (upgraded radio), returning to the places you previously were. Thery are essential to get the right end because, at some point. you are inquired about some details. It's an discouraging method to lenghten game's duration. Duration: 4 hours.

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