Each episode contains an interactive music video, the music to which you can actually buy and stream. We Are OFK is a biographical game about a real band, which turns the game into a sort of cross-media experience. I do appreciate the Final Fantasy references, though. Sometimes they sound more like teenagers than working professionals, injecting drama into situations that on the face of it really aren’t all that dramatic, and some backstory that is alluded to is so nebulous it went straight over my head.
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The dialogue and voice acting, however, are strong throughout, leading to very natural-sounding conversations that drift from dating to work to a TV show one of the characters watched the other day. Here too, you get to make choice, but neither your texting choices nor your conversation choices have any bearing on the plot. Not that it matters too much, We Are OFK is very clear about players being an audience with no control over the story. It's an interesting conversational approach as it’s much closer to how people actually decide what to say rather than the exact words displayed on the screen, but it also means you might not exactly know what you are going to get when a character opens their mouth. You follow conversations and sometimes get to choose a dialogue option displayed as a character’s thoughts. Joining Luca on his journey are pianist Itsumi Saito, who works in social media management at Leviathan, and Luca’s housemate Flores, an audio-visual effects artist.
With each episode, you follow the story from a different band member's point of view, from their initial decision to be band-adjacent to taking their first wobbly steps in promoting themselves as artists. Each one comes with its own opening, which really sells the feeling of catching a new episode of a miniseries each week. The first two episodes are available on launch day, with episodes three to five releasing weekly after the game's initial release.
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We Are OFK can be described as a 3D visual novel or a mildly interactive five-part TV series you just happened to buy on Steam. Suddenly the unthinkable, a single, an EP, perhaps even actual stardom, seems within Luca’s grasp, but life has a tendency to get in the way even when you’re ready to take the chance of a lifetime.
Jey, a successful music producer, remembers Luca as an incredible songwriter and asks him if he has any samples he could send her. A fateful encounter with his old acquaintance, Jey Zhang, at a party may just provide Luca with the escape he has been looking for. His work as a writer for Leviathan Games, one of the biggest game developers on the planet, may pay well, but it’s creatively unfulfilling. An heartfelt biopic that explores the highs and lows of breaking into the music industry.
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