"Mixtape" is a recently published game that about twenty professional game journals have given a 10 or a 9 out of 10, many declaring it a "masterpiece" and a strong "game of the year candidate".
So clearly it rivals previous industry-changing masterpieces like Elden Ring, Breath of the Wild and other similar epic scale games?
Nope. This is shell-shaded game with extremely choppy animation (that's supposedly "artsy") and pretty much no gameplay at all (raising the question of whether it can be called a "game" at all), where there are only three things you can do: Walk around, click on things to get some textboxes, and occasionally play some minigames that cannot fail, ie. they have no losing conditions at all. And that's in between lengthy non-interactive cutscenes.
And the length of the game? About 3 hours.
And that's not just hearsay, or badmouthing, or something that critics of the game are saying. That's literally what those game reviews giving 10/10 scores are saying! The reviews themselves are explicitly saying that there is no gameplay to speak of, no challenge, no losing conditions, nothing, making it questionable whether this is actually a game at all. You literally just walk around, click on things, and watch lengthy cutscenes for about 3 hours, and that's it. And all that with ugly shell-shaded graphics with very ugly deliberately choppy low-framerate animations. That's the entire "game".
In other words, the game is nothing but a long cutscene that's occasionally interrupted with barely interactive segments which have no challenge, no obstacles, no losing conditions, nothing.
And, once again, that's according to the 10/10 reviews themselves! Which still give the game 10/10 and 9/10, and call it a "masterpiece" and "game of the year candidate".
And one of the minigames is something that quickly got a lot of attention: An absolutely gross "french kiss" minigame of two of the underage teenage characters showing the inside of their mouths in extreme gross detail.
They literally dare to put this absolute piece of garbage on the same level as actual great video games like Elden Ring.
And why?
That's the incomprehensible part: So far nobody has a good idea. Why this game, out of all similar games? And why are so many professional video game journals so much in agreement? This is not just one or two of them, this is literally like twenty of them.
Because of the sheer amount of them agreeing on this, there appears to be some kind of collusion happening behind the scenes. It's just not possible for over 20 video game journals to give this kind of utter garbage 10 and 9 out of 10's all across the board unless there's some kind of coordination happening behind the scenes. If it had been just one of them, there would be nothing strange about it. Even if it had been two or three, again not very strange (given that these journalists talk to each other all the time). But over twenty of them giving this piece of garbage a perfect or almost perfect score?
That most definitely does not happen independently and in isolation. Something is clearly happening behind the scenes.
Maybe as the internet sleuths dig deeper into this, we will get more info in the near future.
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