Annapurna Interactive and award-winning Australian studio Beethoven & Dinosaur have a hit on their hands with Mixtape, a narrative game that looks back with nostalgia at the music of the 1990s and how it wove itself into our identities. I played the game in one evening in a few hours and I agree with the critical acclaim. In fact, I’ll happily give it a 4.99 out of 5 score. It’s not perfect as I have a small little nitpick with the graphics. But it does an amazing job with its teen angst story and how it matches the emotion of songs to its scenes. It shows once again that a small game from a talented studio can still outscore triple-A games that are built with hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds or sometimes thousands of game developers. The game currently has a rating of 94 out of 100 on OpenCritic and it received perfect scores from IGN, DualShockers, Insider Gaming, WellPlayed, VGC and GamingTrend. The title is an homage to the era when friends made mixtapes for each other to share their taste in music. Back in the day, mixtapes were our lives, Galvatron told me. I can believe it, as I gave a Mixtape to one of my friends as I left high school. It was a labor of love and it took time to record the 25 or so songs onto an audio cassette. Mixtape captures the emotion that it took to feel those songs and make…
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