Honestly, we quite like the intro to Fire Tonight that's on the Steam page, so let's start with that:
Maya and Devin are separated in a city on fire, in the year 1990, before cell phones or internet. They’re on their own, wondering about the choices that brought them here, how they met, and what the future might hold.
Cool! We vaguely remember the Time Before Mobile Phones - we recall a lot of worrying that our parents were dead and our parents worrying that we were dead if we didn't turn up to the after-school pick-up on time - so it sounds quite fun to have to navigate that world again.
Fire Tonight is one of very few games we can think of that are based on songs - in fact, the only other one we can conjure to mind is, of course, that the Mario series is based on that song by The Police. You know, the one that goes, "Maaaario. You don't have to put on that red hat. Punch those blocks for money..." and so on.
Fire Tonight is the name of a 1990 song by the band Information Society, and with lyrics like "Well, I remember what you said on the telephone / That you didn't feel like it was safe to stay alone" it serves as the inspiration behind the game.
Maya will be running, skating, training and parkouring her way through the city to get to Devin, and Devin, in the meantime, will be reminiscing about their time together by looking through mementos of their relationship in his apartment.
The game will come to Switch some time in Q2 (before July), so that gives us plenty of time to jam to the inspiration song while we wait. '90s synth pop! YEAH!
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It would have been nice if they had sprung for an 80s/90s Saturday morning cartoon aesthetic in order to stay true to the period rather than something that looks like Total Drama Island (and similar) from the 2000s. Incidentally, dialogue is just as important. It's incredibly annoying when "period" pieces (be it games, TV, or film) contain modern rhetoric that sound more at home on Twitter than a narrative supposedly set during the "good old days" before the internet/social media reigned supreme (though I hadn't noticed anything egregious in the trailer in that respect).
I actually might buy this. Bussin
You Need To Stop Spelling Your Article Names In All Caps. It Makes It Really Hard To Tell What The Game Title Is. Or At Least Use Italics
@Noid This
Good to know it's not ablaze in water.
How have I not known about this Roxanne parody before now?
This game looks really interesting. Will keep an eye out for reviews!
Man, I'm a sucker for a short-and-sweet story-based indie game. Looking forward to seeing how this one turns out.
@Silly_G I know, right? As someone who lived in that time and many other games referencing the 80s and 90s, I chuckle when I see that a lot of them seem to be written by people who were probably born in the 90s and googled what 90s culture was like.
One movie I’m pretty sure had its soundtrack made by interns who just googled what were 90s hits but got the chronology wrong (as did its script writers): Captain Marvel with Brie Larson.
Nostalgia for the 90s is hard to satiate because of how often people get it wrong! 😂
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