Jason Schreier

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.

There's like a Smashing Pumpkins sequence.

And then there's some kind of more obscure stuff.

Like there's John Paul Young, this Australian rock singer who I wasn't even familiar with.

And one of the best sequences in the game is this John Paul Young song, Yesterday's Hero.

That's like an amazing song and I'd never even heard it.

So it's a collection of sequences, you know, there's mini games and there's cut scenes and there's like gone home sequences where you walk around someone's room and look at stuff.

And it's all kind of a mix of memory and current events, but it's kind of magical, like impossible things will happen.

They'll fly into space.