On their last night together, three friends embark on one final adventure. Play through a mixtape of memories, set to the soundtrack of a generation.
En route to their final party together, a perfectly curated playlist draws three friends into dreamlike reenactments of their formative memories. Experience a variety of narrative vignettes exploring the pivotal moments that shaped them. Players will immerse themselves in the teenage wasteland by playing through a mixtape of joyful gameplay, from skateboarding and flying to taking photos after hours at an abandoned theme park, hitting baseballs, and putting on a fireworks show from the backseat of a car. It's the greatest hits of the teenage experience, from the first kiss to the last dance.
Featuring music from DEVO, Roxy Music, Lush, The Smashing Pumpkins, Iggy Pop, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, the Cure and many more.
This game gives me Life is Strange and woke vibes lol.
Seems to be getting good reviews and IGN rated it a very rare 10/10.
"Devó" yeah, that's not how its pronounced. They even have a well known song called we are DEVO, in case you need to figure out how to say it.
this looks like absolute trash. what the hell are those choppy animations? this looks exactly how i expect a game to look when its done by non gamers. reminds me of those god awful Josef Fares games. you can directly tell its made by clueless morons. might appeal to the same crowd i guess, which surprises me how many those seems to be, but i guess its the casual gamers.
@vurt
Yeah the animation is what gets me. Why I can't watch the spiderman movies that have it. It feels like "Whos running superPI in the background? End task on it. it fucking with the framerate".
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Anyone giving this ""game"" a good review is a total shill. The whole thing feels directed and paid for. Typical game where gamers gives it a 2/10 and paid for shills gives it 10/10.
As for good music in games, i think it's such a cheap way to turn something shoddy into something emotional by the use of others music.
Anyone can do this. Put on a random movie, turn down the volume, put on your favorite emotional, nostalgic track, with a bit of luck you have yourself a great music video, emotional etc. Do the same with a video game, just some random scene with people skating or doing some everyday shit turn on cool music = it will fire up those neurons. "oh wow this is a 10/10, it's the fucking CURE, my favorite band!" People not realizing this must be kids or just super stupid, like many reviewers, or they are just paid.
Of course, there can also be great games with great music, from all i have seen this is as mediocre as it can possible get mixed with some nostalgic music to make up for its shoddiness.
The experience was fine. My modern audience detector stayed pretty low throughout the "game", there is no anachronistic themes or rainbow stuff. I must admit, the interactive dream sequences was actually quite cool, as well as the intro. I think you’ll enjoy it more if you’re over 40 and have a good grasp of the indie UK/US rock scene from the '70s and '80s.
The review scores are totally overrated. I mean, you can’t really give it a score because it’s barely a game. It’s a sweet snack for under $20, I don’t understand why it's getting so much hate.
Nostalgia bait for the critics and astroturfed to fuck and back Apparently it is some billionaire nepo project, directed by Larry Ellison's daughter.
I'm sure it's fine enough if you can stomach the 15fps animations, lack of gameplay and inherent cringe of teen characters. If game journos were actual gamers it would be a 7 or 8 at best.
Apparently it is some billionaire nepo project, directed by Larry Ellison's daughter.
"look at our cute indie!" it just happens to have bigger artists than GTA games
fake shit, just like the fake "reviewers".
Disappointed to see Luke Stephens (which i usually like) also faking it, the money must have been good. This is not even the type of ""game"" he usually likes, so it comes of as especially fake.
damn ... should have been a youtube project. figured out ai could code slop their animations into a shitty game and somewhere found the cash to bribe reviewers and went fuk it. lets rip off some dumb gullable gamers ....
and now i bet they would have made more money off youtube as a miniseries or interctive video seeying the atrocious steam numbers ... damn idiots
It feels like a coming of age generic movie, trying to be a video game.
I haven't played it, but what gameplay and such I seen of it. To me it really feels like someone had a '90s LifeTime/Hallmark After-school Special' movie/tv show idea, if you guys get that reference. And decided video games is the cash cow and crammed it into one to pad out 90 minutes of movie idea, into 20+ hours of game, using generic mechanics and gameplay time sinks.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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It feels like a coming of age generic movie, trying to be a video game.
I haven't played it, but what gameplay and such I seen of it. To me it really feels like someone had a '90s LifeTime/Hallmark After-school Special' movie/tv show idea, if you guys get that reference. And decided video games is the cash cow and crammed it into one to pad out 90 minutes of movie idea, into 20+ hours of game, using generic mechanics and gameplay time sinks.
Well, don't be a jaded woman, stop watching reviews, play it and make your own mind. 20min is a plus in this case.
It's not my genre of games to start with to play. It's the opposite of the genre's I like. I don't play "Story through games as a medium" type games.
Nothing wrong with them, just not for me. So I am not against games in that genre existing, some people love them make as many as they want.
There is some that are "Doesn't look bad, game looks solid, just not my thing" I see. This one not so much. Dunno maybe it's the way the story is the only focus, with gameplay seemingly just there so you have something to do with the controller you are holding while it happens.
Watching the gameplay walkthrough - Full Game now, 3/4 done. It feels very: You are just here to move the character towards the next dialog exposition.
The top comments I saw on the video sum up how I feel after the playthrough than I can:
-You basically have played the game if you watch walkthroughs like this one lmao.
-this game is all cut scenes lol
[And it IS Only 2 1/2 hours long? I expected more than that]
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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I'll give it a try. Telling a story through gameplay is exactly what makes the medium unique and different from passive media like books and tv. Spiritfarer is grifted deep in my mind, what a game/experience that was.
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And you may pour us away like soup. Like we're pretty broken flowers.
We'll take back what is ours. One day at a time.
If it's not your genre and you don't want to play it - why comment in the thread? You are allowed not to express your opinion dude.
"It's not my genre of games to start with to play" Great. Rest of the comment can be skipped/ignored.
How so? Because I don't want to play it, means I am unable to gauge anything about it compared to other games like it? There is lots of Story centric games I think are amazing, just I don't play them.
I can not play a thing, and still neutrally judge it in its own genre.
Movie reviewers don't like every genre, even game reviewers don't like every genre. But they can do reviews based on the movie/game on its subject matter, and not based around what they like as the subject matter. All I was doing:
I don't play these games, but of the genre it is, it seems a ripoff 2 1/2 hours of cutscenes with bits to keep you using the controller you need to hold.
If you like it, that great. You got your money worth, that's all you can ask for.
I Would just ask: Do you like it because the story got to you, or because of the gameplay itself is good?
I'm not saying either is wrong. Your money, you enjoyed it. Who cares how.
My point would be if it's the first one, why is it a game based narrative medium when the only worthwhile thing in it is the story?
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-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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