Mixtape looks awful, between a videogame biting on the now overdone animation style of the Spider-verse animated films that people will probably keep reusing into the next decade and all of the people claiming it's a John Hughes film-style "coming of age" story but from the sound of it it's more like what if Gen Z'ers who never saw a 1980s "coming of age" film tried to ape the style after having one described to them, by someone else who was at best only vaguely familiar with them.
A three hour long tumblr movie where you do fuck all sounds like the perfect "game" for journos. So of course it get a very natural scoring, completely organic, not biased at all.
The interactive kissing minigame, must be what gave Mixtape all the 9 and 10s.
I have the opposite problem. So many shows feel the need to awkwardly overanimate everything with tweens when snapping between a few key poses at a lower framerate would've been much more pleasing to the eye (and less effort!).
Maybe this is just my video game fried brain but I can't be alone here.
I have the opposite problem. So many shows feel the need to awkwardly overanimate everything with tweens when snapping between a few key poses at a lower framerate would've been much more pleasing to the eye (and less effort!).
Maybe this is just my video game fried brain but I can't be alone here.
A three hour long tumblr movie where you do fuck all sounds like the perfect "game" for journos. So of course it get a very natural scoring, completely organic, not biased at all.
Is this also going to be the "runaway" for Best Game of 2026 at The Game Awards, in usual Geoff fashion? And have politicians also endorsed the game yet too?
Is this also going to be the "runaway" for Best Game of 2026 at The Game Awards, in usual Geoff fashion? And have politicians also endorsed the game yet too?
Reviewers were sent out marketing package filled with trinkets, including a working portable CD player and headphones. It really strikes me as something game journalists would shit themselves with excitement over, and possibly influenced at least some of the glowing reviews.
The Victorian state government awarded at least two grants via VicScreen for a total of 240,000 AUD. Funding disclosures for the 2024-25 FY haven't been published so it's possible there was an additional grant.
I wasted 3 hours playing through the game yesterday, and it's fucking atrocious. The video @Mystery Nigga posted above of the shopping cart sequence is a good representation of how bad the gameplay and writing is. There's also single room adventure game sequences that have "puzzles" such as finding photos that are highlighted with yellow outlines and rotating around a handheld game console, inserting some batteries and rotating it around again to turn it on. Toddler level gameplay!
I've seen people saying Mixtape looks like someone’s rejected animated film pitch that was repurposed into a "game", and that seems plausible, it certainly looks like a crappy cartoon film that is occasionally interrupted by a couple of mini-games. The 10/10s and 9/10s being thrown it's way are ridiculous.
People honestly don't realize at how much damage Anita Sarkessian has done to modern entertainment. Oh, she didn't just affect gaming. It's media as a whole she's ultimately ruined.
And of course these people are shitting themselves and throwing tantrums when people point out how the game plays itself, there’s no fail state, and even if you do interact with any of the game sequences it barely changes anything that happens. But that’s a “bad faith” argument according to these faggots because games don’t have to be “interactive” according to them.
You know the people behind this wanted to make a movie SO BAD but did not have the talent for it.
This is so embarrassing. Like any AUSIS would know how a 90s America would look like.
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Fun fact: Annapurna Interactive is a division of Annapurna Picture, do you know who the founder is ? Megan Ellison the daughter of Larry Ellison, one of the most powerful toucan oligarch in the world, personnal friend of Trump and Netanyahu.
I feel like even PC players don't understand PC gaming anymore. They'll celebrate a game as long as it doesn't crash often and works on their rig but will say nothing about terrible consolized interfaces and "hold down spacebar for a full second to save game" type bullshit mechanics.
Just had a flashback to when journos were tripping over themselves to recommend this piece of shit desktop toy with 0 gameplay: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qd_x-S7IpHA
Lolcow crossovers are common on the liberal hivemind that is Bluesky, and Airbagged is a simping tranny chaser. Speaking of Pedobagged, he's butting in on the pedo MizutamariVT being permanently banned and taking the blame on Chibi Reviews. Something about Kiwi Farms lying about Mimi Yanagi? View attachment 8972294View attachment 8972329
