{"id":23001,"date":"2026-05-07T13:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/mixtape-review-tongues-trolleys-and-classic-90s-tracks-celebrate-teenage-misadventure\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:37:22","slug":"mixtape-review-tongues-trolleys-and-classic-90s-tracks-celebrate-teenage-misadventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/mixtape-review-tongues-trolleys-and-classic-90s-tracks-celebrate-teenage-misadventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixtape review \u2013 tongues, trolleys and classic 90s tracks celebrate teenage misadventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PS5, Xbox, PC, Switch 2; Annapurna Interactive<br \/><\/strong>The nostalgic antics of a trio of tenacious teens make for silly yet undeniably enjoyable gameplay, framed by a playlist of bona fide bangers<\/p>\n<p>The older we get, the more we tend to romanticise our teenage years. As bills pile up, we yearn for the simple days of drinking cider in parks. We often tend to forget the bad parts: the frustrating lack of autonomy, the unrequited crushes and the doofuses you\u2019re forced to tolerate in the playground. But after four hours spent hanging out with the pretentious teens in Mixtape, I felt pretty relieved to be in my 30s.<\/p>\n<p>Set in a nondescript town in northern California, Mixtape follows the exploits of tenacious trio Rockford, Slater and Cassandra as they head to a legendary party on their last day of high school. With Rockford about to leave her friends to move to the big city, she wants to immortalise the gang\u2019s time together in musical form. Every song on a carefully curated mixtape triggers a totally tubular flashback to one of their shared memories.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2026\/may\/07\/mixtape-review\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d087c6900eb9c55aeea1623c8cc97977d211272c\/1004_281_2001_1601\/master\/2001.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=59a2b992543cd2ae91f756a6363e8609\" title=\"Mixtape review \u2013 tongues, trolleys and classic 90s tracks celebrate teenage misadventure\" \/>PS5, Xbox, PC, Switch 2; Annapurna InteractiveThe nostalgic antics of a trio of tenacious teens make for silly yet undeniably enjoyable gameplay, framed by a playlist of bona fide bangers<br \/>\nThe older we get, the more we tend to romanticise our teenage years. As bills pile up, we yearn for the simple days of drinking cider in parks. We often tend to forget the bad parts: the frustrating lack of autonomy, the unrequited crushes and the doofuses you\u2019re forced to tolerate in the playground. But after four hours spent hanging out with the pretentious teens in Mixtape, I felt pretty relieved to be in my 30s.<br \/>\nSet in a nondescript town in northern California, Mixtape follows the exploits of tenacious trio Rockford, Slater and Cassandra as they head to a legendary party on their last day of high school. With Rockford about to leave her friends to move to the big city, she wants to immortalise the gang\u2019s time together in musical form. Every song on a carefully curated mixtape triggers a totally tubular flashback to one of their shared memories. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PS5, Xbox, PC, Switch 2; Annapurna InteractiveThe nostalgic antics of a trio of tenacious teens make for silly yet undeniably enjoyable gameplay, framed by a playlist of bona fide bangers The older we get, the more we tend to romanticise our teenage years. As bills pile up, we yearn for the simple days of drinking &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/mixtape-review-tongues-trolleys-and-classic-90s-tracks-celebrate-teenage-misadventure\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mixtape review \u2013 tongues, trolleys and classic 90s tracks celebrate teenage misadventure<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23001"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}