Ben Lindbergh

And the previous game by Galvatron and Beethoven and Dinosaur, The Artful Escape, which was also published by Annapurna.

Now, Matt, you love that game.

And I was much more lukewarm on it because that to me did not clear the bar of

should this be a video game or is this better as a video game?

Because in that case, the controls were so simplistic.

And that was more about being a musical artist as Galvatron has been, as opposed to Stacey being a musical enthusiast and appreciator.

And that was about the act of creating, but the actual act of playing the game was even less interactive.

It was really just sort of

I would have been just as satisfied playing The Artful Escape as an animated movie, but not mixtape.

Mixtape, I think the gamey aspects of it actually do improve the experience.

Another one, in addition to the stone skipping, there is slushie making, right?

You go to a sort of 7-Eleven knockoff and you can construct a slushie with your own personal mix of ingredients.

And it's like...

It impressively simulated the colors and the mixing of the slushies.

This is what I'm talking about.

Maybe that doesn't do it for you, but it did it for me.

And there's a real stylishness in the way the story is told, just like the use of B-roll and foreshadowing.

photos to kind of just flesh out this era.

And, you know, there's the distinction between nostalgia, which is sort of, you know, you're looking back and missing something you personally experienced versus Animoia, which is sort of, you know, stolen valor nostalgia, where you feel nostalgic for a period that you didn't actually experience.

And maybe this is more of an Animoia game than it is a nostalgic game.