Which ones will you take? Courtesy of DigixArt. We have the complete rundown of every game from Nintendo for you here along with the stream down at the bottom. The big standouts being at the beginning and the end with Road 96 (which has you going down multiple paths depending on your choices) and Oxenfree 2 which has already been getting a buzz on social media as we write this. Multiple studios had something awesome to show off as this particular showcase was more about the strange and unusual than just straight-up indie platforming and shooters. “We’ll probably be announcing it in the next two or three months,” he said.Nintendo had a lot of original indie games to reveal today during the Indie World Showcase, as the Switch is stepping up its selection.
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“We have a pretty solid idea for what that is and what the situation is for both the island and for the characters,” he teased.īefore that game gets here, Night School is also getting ready to announce its next project that’s “early on in the discovery phase.” The Co-Founder admitted that people will see similarities between it and Oxenfree, but it’s got “a brand new story, lots of new mechanics and a very different look and feel.” It won’t be too much longer before we get an official update either.
If that’s not quite enough, Krankel also offered us a hint regarding Night School’s still-developing work on an Oxenfree sequel. In what he calls the “definitive version” of the narrative, the player is able to dive deeper into the island’s secrets to truly understand what’s going on. She just so happens to hang out on an island with paranormal, interdimensional activity.įor fans that want a more complete answer to Alex’s problems, Krankel recommends the new game+ mode that kicks off right after the first playthrough. “Not right in terms of right or wrong,” Krankel qualified, “but what’s right for me as a person.” In other words, did I strike relationships with people that have my best interests in mind? Was it right for me to repair or disregard my fractured relationship with Clarissa? Each one of those pivotal moments creates your Alex and makes your version of Alex real. In that sense, Krankel still sees the choices of Oxenfree as something that will hopefully make the player reflect on their decisions, whether right or wrong decisions. The goal was to feel like you have forever permanently changed Alex and her friends' lives for better or worse.” “The goal is not to be open-ended and have it feel like your choices not feel like they matter. “It is not the Inception top-spinning thing where you're like, 'is it, is it not, I have no idea.' We think there's a pretty definitive version of that Alex that they played and all of her friends.
“The feeling that we hope people get is that they did inherently change that version of Alex's life and all of her friends,” he affirmed. Our protagonist and her friends are stuck in a time loop and it’s up to alternate versions of Alex or other travelers to get them out.Įven though that concept is standard across play sessions, Krankel was clear that he and his team did not intend to invalidate the choices of the player by making things that way.
While Oxenfree offers quite a few permutations of Alex’s relationship to the spirits of Edwards Island at the end of the story, its basic concept is almost always the same. SPOILERS are ahead for those who have not finished Oxenfree. He also teased a bit about the next games in the company’s pipeline. We spoke to Night School Studios Co-Founder Sean Krankel about what it all means. Like most titles created in this mold, there are many possible endings players can unlock. Oxenfree is a game with toy-like communication mechanics, beautiful art and, most importantly, an engaging narrative.
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