Mixtape is a nostalgic Life is Strange-like adventure where music grants "cosmic talents" to its skateboarding hero, and it's coming in 2025
Jun. 9, 2024The Mixtape trailer is a spot-the-song-reference feast
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Think iconic tracks from Iggy Pop, The Smashing Pumpkins, Siouxie and the Banshees, Joy Division, and a great many others.
From sneaking out past curfew to first kisses, joyriding, and “maybe something… a little more”, hints the trailer, Mixtape looks like a beautiful encapsulation of what it meant to be young and dumb at a very specific point in time.
The music isn’t the only way the game tugs at your wistful heartstrings; with dropped-framerate animations for each character model rendered against backgrounds in full motion, there’s an evocative sense of time standing still for Mixtape’s protagonists while the world moves on normally around them. The passage of time and the fondness of memory seem to be a huge story beat in Mixtape. “What are we going to think of ourselves in 10 years?”, one character asks. In response, our hero simply says: “I’ll just remember to tell myself it felt important, at the time.”
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