![]() ![]() It isn’t until Fang meets with their brother Naser-the first face-to-face interaction in the demo-that they are confronted with genuine human (that is, dinosaur) fear. In the end, most people are clearly unsure of what to think about the news, so they fill the void with online chatter and gallows humor. Again, in a post-COVID world, my take on this reaction was….sounds about right. Fang doomscrolls through ‘tweets’ that range from dismissive to argumentative to overly worried to irreverent and so on. But instead of panic in the streets, much of the reaction plays out online. The preview provided to us by indie studio KO_OP spanned the end of the first episode and the start of the second, picking up just after the news breaks. ![]() All of these mundane worries become both more trivial and more important than ever when scientists discover that a meteor is going to crash by the end of the school year. ![]() You play as Fang, a nonbinary high school senior juggling the usual adolescent crises-fretting over college, wondering why their friend is spending less time with them, desperately corralling their bandmates to keep up practice. Players watch the story unfold, complete with voice acting and animated sequences, and make dialogue choices along the way. Goodbye Volcano High is an episodic narrative game about teenage dinosaurs facing the end of an era. ![]()
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