#oxenfree spoilers

[xierru]

girl di(time loop)nner

[arrgh-whatever]

[stormeris]

hope she gets to australia

[goodartitude]

Oxenfree posting again but you know what made me wail? When Clarissa blames Alex for Michael's death, Alex can say three different things to Jonas ("it wasn't my fault", "it was awful" and "please don't think of me like that")

No matter which option you pick, Jonas always has Alex's back and tries to calm her down. He doesn't ask for any details, he doesn't hesitate, nothing. He just steps in and goes "i know", "i believe you", "it's okay", and it's literally the sweetest thing ever. My guy really got an A in being a good sibling, sobs

[battleaxeproficiency]

theres something about see a man about a dog, saw the man but not the dog in the first game and then just . all of jacob . in the second game . theres something there . not sure what though but its something

[lovaboy]

tuning into 103.5 like

[digirainebow]

things that are (probably) true now that we have canon birthdates for the oxenfree characters

the events of the original oxenfree take place on june 4th, 2016. if taken into town, nona reveals that her birthday is in 3 days. since we now know that her birthday is june 7th, and that lost signals takes place 5 years afterwards in 2021, we finally know the exact day the first game happens. yay!

clarissa's birthday happens to fall on the same day that anna was killed. as maggie writes in adler letter 9, april 4th is the day in 1952 that she and anna tried to bring the sunken back.

last year, ren went to the movie theater and watched oppenheimer with nona (and clarissa) because she wanted to see it, even though he wanted to go see barbie, and it was his birthday that day.

[the-boroughh]

✨Slight spoilers for Oxenfree: Lost Signals✨

First plot twist I sort of expected

The second?? i did not

[onewhoturns]

Finished my first playthrough of lost signals, stats and thoughts below:

1. Told Nick to avoid the portal, gave Maria advice, got Evelyn home safely, saved Shelley by telling her not to leave, helped Hank with the photo + shoe.

2. Was friendly with Violet and Charlie but didn’t get the achievements for it, though they both sided with me, and my final stats said I befriended them but Olivia left Camena

3. I alienated Olivia this run, and next run I’m gonna try to befriend her

4. I found all the letters

5. I had Riley enter the portal (next run the plan is to be Olivia, idk how anyone can pick Jacob, poor Athena 🥺)

This was GREAT. I can’t believe we got to not just hear from Alex, but actually bring her back??? !!! Wow. Ugh she is still one of my fave game characters ever, I loved her in this as well.

I picked Riley to stay because I felt bad that she’d have to have two bad parent/child relationships in her life, and she really didn’t have much in the way of contacts, and I wanted Rex to get to be happy too. But tbh that was a super hard choice, cause Olivia really did seem to want to stay. Next run I’ll let her.

As great as the adaptive scoring is, I miss having songs from the soundtrack stuck in my head, and I don’t have that from my first playthrough at least. No music during the credits either, which is disappointing, I love the credits music from the first game.

Now, questions:

Do you think all the kids from game 1 were trapped? They didn’t talk much, just Alex, which made me think it was just Alex and her memories of them. But I guess you could read it either way. In which case, are they all free of it now or just Alex? And did Alex just pop back into existence? Had she been missing, or not remembered? Did she pop back in at the same age she was, or did she suddenly have false memories of the five years she was gone, or did she pop back to the night she disappeared and just never disappeared?

There’s an achievement called

Which looks like it involves talking to a younger Jacob on the radio or walkie. How? My only thought right now is maybe checking the radio and walkie after setting the garland tear to 1990? Or something like that? I need to figure how to do that.

I also need to figure out why I didn’t pop achievements for making friends with violet and Charlie even though they both defended me against olivia. And I need to figure out how to befriend Olivia. Let her do the thing in the community center, I guess? I broke her radio on my first playthrough.

Open to advice!

[sincerleyren]

Did anyone else playing Oxenfree Lost Signals feel chilled to the bone when it's confirmed Riley is talking to the "ghosts" of Alex and the gang at Parentage? I know at the end of the original game it is implied they are stuck in a time loop on Edwards Island but having it confirmed I feel so shook and sad that Alex has just been trapped reliving the same night for the past 5 years. I'm not done the game yet but I really hope there's a way you can help free them without hurting anyone else, because if there's not that's so cursed and haunting.

[look-a-diversion]

I stayed up too late finishing Oxenfree II last night and I regret my decisions. But also.

(Spoilers and feelings under the cut)

The scene with Riley and adult Rex did things to me I can’t properly articulate.

All the parts of Rex that he got from Riley, for better or worse, make up who is is. “And I like who I am,” he says.

Riley did her best. She loved her son. She tried to be a good mother. And it wasn’t enough; she failed him. But—

“I like who I am.”

And there he is propping her up and calling her out and pushing her forward, telling her to take her own advice. Absolutely in charge, like he deserves to be. Like he never should have had to be.

The person he sees in everything he does is the person who loved him the most is the person who failed him the worst. That’s not something you can understand; it’s just something that is. You can’t cut it out of you. He will have to live with that. I will have to live with that.

Agh.

[summerskin]

do you know what you want, riley? do you? because i've traveled a million miles and a million more years just to watch you eat breakfast. [x]

[kore-cryptid]

OXENFREE TWO SPOILERS !!!!!

so i finally sat down and played lost signals for 7 hours straight today, heres a collection of doodles i did last night watching some friends play one for the first time and then after my lost signals playthrough, i, Man

i really enjoyed it but i cant like find the words, i need to play it ten more times and see every variation but God that ending was just a gut punch, none of them felt Right and i can't believe that all this time alex let herself become lime the sunken, just, God what a game

[goodartitude]

Another quote that broke me :cc beloved siblings 🥺

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[battleaxeproficiency]

genuinely shocked that only 26% of players sacrificed riley , kind of insane that that many people sacrificed olivia instead

[chessmaton]

i am once again thinking about evelyn.

i dont understand how neither riley nor jacob commented on how she told them she didnt know riley and to stop calling unless it was an emergency.. it makes little sense when they comment on absolutely everything else. it just easily gets shoved off when i was sat there like WHAT?? WHY??

also i miss her already i wish we got to talk to her more ):