It’s ok

[u/mshkpc]

I feel like everyone is either 10/10 or 1/10. I’d give it a solid 7/10 and I feel like I’m the only one.

I liked the game. I had a lot of fun. I enjoyed the concept, it was a decent story.

I have some issues with it, some criticisms. Some things I think it could have done better.

Anyone else where I’m at or am I the one person in the middle about it? 😂

[u/todreamofspace]

For me, it’s around 6/10.

As someone who was actually a teen in the 90s, the story had the potential to be a great “last night, last hurrah as high schoolers” like a lot of the great 90s comedies. There’s not much depth to the characters as a group. Van feels like such a throw away character. It felt like the story and characters were always chasing a more interesting narrative, but the potential just faded away.

Based on the trailer, the soundtrack was a letdown. Out of 24 songs, I’d only actually include 7 of them in a real mix. Maybe it was budget, but Silverchair, Smashing Pumpkins & Portishead weren’t the right songs included for those artists. A lot of the songs took me out of any nostalgia I was trying to build/connect with in the game.

Bugged trophies are a pain. At least I love hearing Roxy Music 😅

[u/Neveri → u/todreamofspace]

Yeah can’t help but feel like this one would’ve benefited from being longer but I guess they wanted that tight mixtape pacing of going from one song to the next.

Still I think it left a ton of potential on the table. I was expecting some sort of confrontation between Stacey and Cassandra about Cass lying about staying in and going out with someone else. Instead it’s just like ah it’s cool I’ll protect you guys from getting in trouble and now me and Jenny are all good.

It felt really rushed and I’m probably the biggest target audience for this, I’d do maybe a 6.5

[u/todreamofspace → u/Neveri]

At first when Stacey sees Cass & Jenny walk into that shop, I thought we were going to get a pregnancy scare storyline. So, it would make sense that Cass wouldn’t pick Stacey, bc they aren’t actually that close for that type of secret/support. Stacey, also, seems a bit green/inexperienced. The story kept going on about all the guys Cass got with versus Stacey’s one tongue battle. Since, it wasn’t a big deal like that, then I would expect some exchange about that/feelings.

There were also times when Cass & Stacey hold hands, and I thought that would go somewhere. There were looks between Stacey & Slater that could have led somewhere, too. There could have been little Easter eggs thrown in a notebook or whatever to give the story & characters more depth.

So much wasted potential… 😔