Jason Schreier

long, complicated thoughts about it.

Overall, I think it's really cool and fun and gentle and sweet and a nice video game.

It's a kind of an interactive music video, is sort of how I'd describe it.

The premise of the game is, at some indeterminate point in the 1990s,

Reads to me as mostly 94, like pre-internet 90s, but it's a purposefully timeless.

Some of the slang doesn't quite fit and there's references that don't put you in a certain year and they never say what year it is.

Three teens who live in similarly a kind of purposefully undefined California town called Blue Moon Lagoon that just looks like

a California suburb with mountains and the ocean, but it's not a real city.

It doesn't map onto anywhere in the world.

These three teens are at the end of their high school careers, and one of them, Stacey, the sort of ringleader and music lover, is about to leave the next day.

She's going to New York to go enter the music industry and to pick music for movies, to be like a playlist master, professional mixtape maker.

And so it's her and her two friends, a guy named Slater, who's kind of this stoner, who's actually pretty talented and cool, and Cass, who was previously kind of an overachieving softball jock, good girl, who then decided to become a burnout and hang out with them and rebel against her dad, who's a cop.

He's like the local cop, basically, for their town.

And so she wants to smoke pot with them and listen to music and break the law and get into trouble.

So the three of them are enjoying their final day together, getting ready for a big party that night.

And Stacey has made a mixtape for them all.

That's the kind of mixtape for the final day together.

And because Stacey is so big on mixtapes and she places all this import on picking the perfect song for the perfect moment.

Everything in the game then is accompanied by some song.

Like it starts out with Devo and then there's some silver chair.