Lost Records: Bloom & RageTape 1

Hitting play on Don't Nod's coming-of-age tale

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Stepping into teenager Swann Holloway's bedroom feels like heading home. Beyond the mismatched bedding and the cat, there's no mistaking which decade we've stepped into. VHS cases scattered around, shelves stacked with supernatural horror books, and what looks a bit like a shrine to Dana Scully: it's a summoning circle for the teen years we forgot.

Swann will be leaving this all behind sooner than she likes, as her family is set to move away from her hometown of Velvet Cove at the end of the summer. We hear her mother calling from downstairs, but Swann would much rather hit the trails with her camcorder than help with packing and confront this end of an era.

As her footage backup completes, we learn how to capture the summer of '95. Wandering around in third-person, a tap of puts you into a first-person view as you peer through the viewfinder of Swann's camcorder. The star of our home video? The family's orange moggy, Pumpkin, lounging in a sunbeam. az and allow you to frame your shot by zooming in and out, while pressing is hitting record. Pink, boxy UI clues you into where to point your lens, and intermittent dialogue choices let you issue a bit of light direction - not that our lead talent takes any of it on board.