Getting around the Outer Banks is easy if you know the right people. Look, life in the OBX all depends on which side of the island you’re from. Netflix Stories: Outer Banks is driven by the choices you make. Are you hanging out in luxury with the Kooks on the north side of Kildare Island? (While the Outer Banks is a real location, Kildare Island is a fictional town.) Or would you rather do what you want, when you want? If so, the south side of the island will be more your thing and you’ll quickly make friends with the Pogues. Use this guide to bypass the ‘touron’ label and help get to where you fit.
Love against everything else
The new game Netflix Stories: Outer Banks is essentially a story about adventure and forbidden love. As you find your father and hundreds of millions in lost gold, you’ll fall in love with one of John B’s best friends. Will it be Kiara, JJ or Pope? That’s up to you.
Unlike others Netflix Stories games, op Outdoor benches there are no on-screen meters to indicate your position with a particular character. There’s also no easy way to see what the rest of the cast thinks of you. You’ll have to trust your instincts when ‘talking’ to the cast. When trying to convince your boo, you’ll need to pay attention to how they react to your dialogue choices, listen for audio cues, and pay attention to changes in the game’s user interface. A bit like real life. Well, except sometimes you see hearts magically appear when you talk to your crush.
We recommend that you make a choice early on about who will be your object of affection and stick with it. John B’s strict ‘no Pogue-on-Pogue-macking’ rule can be bent: you don’t want to go out with such a small group and cause drama when lives are at stake. There are already plenty of people on Kildare Island with the Pogues in their sights.
And if you can’t choose just one crush? Well, you can always replay and make different decisions about life and love while being chased by Kildare’s criminal element. You can also replay the game chapter by chapter. This means that if your choices didn’t go exactly the way you wanted, you don’t have to restart the entire game from the beginning.
Custom cabinet
Like the other Netflix Stories games, in this mobile version of Outdoor benches you can equip your character pretty much however you want. Want to rock more of a Pogue-esque look for your first pre-storm rager? Maybe avoid anything with a collar and buttons. Maybe you’d rather try going undercover and contact Sarah Cameron and the rest of the Kooks to see if you can learn some inside information. A striped seersucker number would help so much. You don’t have to stay in the same duds for long either. Every few scenes gives you a chance to change your outfit.
Cinematic stories
Netflix Stories: The Outer Banks changes more than the way you interact with potential lovers. During key dialogue scenes, the camera now zooms far back to provide a cinematic view of the story as it plays out. For example, when the HMS Pogue suddenly stops because he hits something in the water, and John B wants to investigate, the screen is overtaken by a wide shot of the boat overhead and a simple dialogue interface. Sometimes, as you drive away, the camera cuts to a view of the helm as the Atlantic Ocean splashes over the sides as you and the rest of the Pogues sail to safety.
Big moments
If you’re familiar with the series this game is based on, it will be hard to surprise you. However, Netflix Stories: Outer Banks plays with the show’s lore in interesting ways, considering you’re playing as John B’s long-lost half-sister.
Perhaps the biggest story tweak – aside from the whole estranged sibling subplot – is that Big John’s heirloom compass returns to the OBX when you get off the bus and onto Kildare Island. That’s right, this time the Pogues don’t find it while exploring the sunken hull of the Grady-White. And it turns out that this is not the only compass.
It will be so You climb the Redfield Lighthouse with John B and infiltrate a Kooks party in a historical disguise. You and your love interest will also investigate Scooter’s room at the Seahorse Hotel. You will be one of the suspects when Sheriff Peterkin is shot. You will Chase down Ward Cameron before he can flee, after he frames you for Peterkin’s death and takes off on his plane to the Bahamas with his daughter and Kook Princess Sarah by his side.
So if you’ve ever wished you were hunting for sunken treasure, running from real pirates, and doing it all on a freewheeling island of haves and have-nots, you’ll have a big laugh in this game.
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