Typical Mixtape Discourse

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Arcane_Monkey@reddit

I’m sure as hell not gonna go to bat for the game, but it’s weird to see so much ire for a game I never saw any marketing for.

If not for the online criticism, I wouldn’t even know the game exists.

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Porn_Addict_7749@reddit

If the creators of Mixtape had fuck you money then why even bother making a video game? Why not make a shitty ass animated movie instead

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SuperSocialMan@reddit

Video games are seen as a lesser form of media, so you can get away with dumb shit like this.

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ChainOk792@reddit

Animations are more scrutinized and harder to bribe their critics. Meanwhile every dogshit progressive games reviewer is clamoring to give this slop a 10/10

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The daughter of a literal billionaire created a Telltale-style game that fucking sucks even as the interactive movies a Telltale game is. It's titled Mixtape because that's where the focus is, a couple dozen licensed songs, which are so focused on that the godawful protagonist does a Malcolm in the Middle fourth wall break before playing each of them.

The game wants to present itself as an indie venture, which is highly laughable. Not only did the billionaire heiress build the entire game around her licensed soundtrack, she paid for an eternal license to the music. Not even Rockstar pays for an eternal license for the songs on GTA's radio stations.

It's 20 dollars to pay to listen to a handful of songs that should have stayed in the 90s, in a Telltale game with no player choice, that lasts just long enough to run out the refund window on Steam. And notoriously, the game has no gameplay. Some dude on Youtube counted: the entire three-hour game can be beaten with as little as 150 button presses.

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sadacal@reddit

What? How do you even end up at this level of misinformation? Saying Megan Ellison created the game is giving her way too much fucking credit. All she did was publish it and maybe fund it. You fell so deep into the misinformation rabbit hole that you are actually making billionaires sound way more competent than they actually are lol.

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QFB-procrastinator@reddit

Just to add on this: the game is a very poor attempt at 90s nostalgia bait cuz despite the game being set in the 90s, most of the songs are from the 80s or earlier. Also there’s a section where you need to rewind a cassette tape with a pencil and they got the movement wrong ( the game makes you rotate the pencil in the wrong direction).

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