Reminded me most frequently of Before Midnight - my least favourite of Linklater’s Before movies, but nonetheless an impressive feat for a little text-based walking sim that I played on my telephone. Video games aren’t often able to invoke the feeling of serious/arthousey cinema (despite many of them desperately, desperately trying to), so it’s always nice when a lo-fi lo-budget experience somehow manages to draw that precise curve of style, substance and feeling that good film evokes. Almost singlehandedly redeems the Flat Design, California Camping and Twitter-Speaking game genre/aesthetic movements in a single hour. A truthful triumph of human relationships! Fingers crossed that we get a 7/14/21-year Big Jacket trilogy that tracks this cute little quad’s progress through life’s biggest trek.

Reviewed on Nov 30, 2021


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