![]() As the wry tale unfolds, players guide the heroes through the underworld and its many nightspots, chatting with locals, helping out demons and the damned, playing bar games, and drinking, drinking, drinking. In Afterparty, players alternate control of Milo and Lola as they attempt to find their way back to humanity. ![]() Seeing as the night is still young, and not particularly pleased with their premature demise, Milo and Lola form an improv plan to gain access to Satan’s soiree, out-drink the man of the hour, and return to this so-called life. Every single night the big man himself, Satan, holds a wild party at his opulent mansion, and if you can outparty the Prince of Darkness, then you can return to the land of the living. Given one last evening to explore the nightlife of the beyond, our heroes learn that there may be a way out of this unholy predicament. This comes as a surprise to the slightly acerbic pairing, who were totally unaware not only of their own passing, but also the misdeeds that have led them to the underworld, where they are being set up for a future of eternal torture.įortuitously, Milo and Lola popped their clogs right before the end of the working day, and so will not be processed for everlasting torment until the following morning. How did Milo and Lola end up on the wrong side of the pearly gates? And is it ever too late to get a second chance? Open a bar tab and let’s find out.Īfterparty (PS4, PC, Xbox One)Īfterparty is the story of best-friends-since-kindergarten Lola Woolfe and Sang “Milo” Bong, who find their college graduation party rudely interrupted by an outbreak of death, followed by a swift journey to hell. You can’t predict who or what you’ll be, but you can always take active steps toward or away from personal fate, which is half chance anyway.Īfterparty, the latest release from Oxenfree‘s Night School Studio, has its own questions about some of these themes, which feature in a bizarre tale of two young friends, their premature deaths, and a crazy drinking contest held in the inner circle of hell. All of which leads to the ultimate concept of mastering your own future. We can all only do what we choose to in the here and now. The richest person in the world can’t wind the clock forward or backward to change the past or secure the future. ![]() There’s times I know I should’ve turned left when I turned right, projects I should’ve pursued much earlier, and opportunities missed that I’ll never get again. I’m very happy for my continued highs but I’m still held prisoner by memories of the lows. Ergo, it’s more than possible I’m halfway through my personal turn on this mortal coil, and although I was sure for decades that I’d have “worked my life out by now,” the honest truth is that I haven’t, not really. Last week, my birthday took me one step closer to 40, more than late enough in the day to consider myself middle-aged.
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