For tiny pixelated characters, they’re honestly pretty distinct: I can make up Ren’s scruffy blond hair, Alex’s red jacket and teal ponytail, and Jonas’… it’s either a haircut or a hat. Ren, unfazed, shifts his attention to Jonas, the third person on this boat. ( Game source: Bought it myself, apparently.)Īnyway, in case you were wondering what time it was:
What could possibly go wrong with this plan?! Surely the best source to finally put the source of this weird saying to bed is a tangentially titled game about a bunch of teenagers spending the night on a spooky island! I want to reiterate here that I’ve been thinking about this for seven years.īut you know how I’m finally going to put this to rest? No, not ‘just fucking Google it’, what kind of pedestrian do you take me for? My plan is to play Night School Studio’s Oxenfree. And one of his voice taunts he uses now and again is something like, “ Oh, American! Come out, come out, wherever you are! Olly olly oxenfree, whatever the fuck that means.” It stuck with me because whatever the fuck does that mean? I know the phrase, but I’ve never understood what it means, or what the context is. Random Jarenth Trivia: You know what bit of game dialogue has managed to stick in my mind for almost seven years now? It’s from Alpha Protocol, the section where you have a shootout with the coked-up Russian gangster (I won’t pretend to remember his name).