00:00Stacey Rockford is right. Music is magic. The main protagonist of new video game mixtape,
00:05Rockford posits that the right piece of music is both a path to where we're going as well as
00:09a record of where we've been. The soundtrack of our lives goes forwards and backwards,
00:13playing and rewinding. The coming of age title, which sees three friends look back on their high
00:18school years together while preparing for what comes next in the form of one last greatest hit,
00:22drums this beat again and again. Not that mixtape ever really repeats itself.
00:26The game plays out over a series of memory vignettes inspired by objects or people in
00:30rooms or topics of conversation or songs. Remember that time where that thing happened? Now you're
00:35doing it. Mixtape is a nostalgic, vibes-based experience set to a shockingly solid soundtrack
00:40that's narratively important and also kind of a bop all its own. Teenage ennui permeates but never
00:46overwhelms while Stacey and her buds try to have one last wild night before it splits full in what's
00:50ultimately a short, meaningful game that's relatively light on mechanics.
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