One of the year's most critically acclaimed and controversial games is Mixtape.
It's a narrative-first adventure, admittedly light on gameplay, but heavy on emotional storytelling. As someone born in 1987, it's a game that hit a little close to home. Our reviewer, Ethan Krieger, felt the same way, even if he graduated in 2010. Here's how he closed his review, in which he gave Mixtape a perfect score.
The music of Mixtape is its most important part, so much so that developers Beethoven and Dinosaur said that they won't be adding a Streamer Mode for that reason. "Mixtape is about music," they said before mentioning that if you take away the music, you take away a part of the core gameplay experience.
However, with any game that uses licensed music comes another possible issue: the game being delisted from stores once the music licenses expire. Thankfully, that won't be an issue.
Don't Be Surprised If Mixtape Is Never Delisted
In a conversation with Kotaku, the game's creative director, Johnny Galvatron, said that they paid extra to license the game's music in perpetuity. In other words, the license has no expiration date, so there's no worry about Mixtape being delisted,...
