Linkpost: Cameron Kunzelman, "On Mixtape (2026)"

On Mixtape (2026) "We can dress it up however we like, but the truth is that Mixtape is a vibes-driven experience riding high on some kind of media nostalgia. It is an on-rails narrative experience where you do some light exploration of a sleepy little woodland town among a group of three friends who are sitting on three different versions of the razor’s edge of adulthood, and the thing that pulls you through that narrative is a series of songs arranged into a mixtape that sets the mood for each scene in sequence. It has more in common with a set of narrative music videos like Dirty Computer than it does most other games that it sits on digital platforms with. I am sure there are people I am uninterested in engaging with who are mad about this." Cameron Kunzelman knocks it out of the park here with some thoughts on Mixtape, a game that sounds a bit too cloying and odd for my own taste. Cameron has remarked that many people responding to this piece are focusing a bit overmuch on the…