Ben Lindbergh

And that 10 out of 10 just broke people's brains.

And I get it because if you're not used to playing this type of game and it's, you know, two or three hours and you're thinking, oh, it's even at 20 bucks, maybe it's not the best bang for my buck.

I understand that.

But

Games can be so many things, you know?

And I love a story about platonic love, you know?

Friendship, which is what this game is about.

And it can be cringe, but so can teenage rebellion, you know?

And the only part that maybe strained credulity a bit for me, I guess, is the self-mythologizing that goes on in this friend group where they're highly conscious, I guess, of like...

you know, this is a transformational moment.

Not that you don't know when you're at the end of high school and you're about to get a job, go into the real world, go to college, whatever.

You're obviously conscious of that in the moment.

But there was kind of a self-mythologizing among the friend group where they're documenting, this is our last night.

I don't know.

I don't know that all teens have that experience.

They're maybe kind of going with the flow.

But, you know, these are atypical teens.

Yeah.

Yeah, and I think some of the other critiques, the idea that this is somehow an industry plant of some sort because they got the rights for all this music.

How could an indie developer and publisher afford this?