Game of the Week: Maybe it's the energy of games that makes them so good at capturing youthful experiences

"Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of high school stories," Alexis writes in the review of our latest Game of the Week. "Ones created by adults to navel gaze about their forgotten youth and project old regrets onto a fresh canvas, and ones created by actual teenagers. Goodbye Volcano High is one of the first times I've been able to fully inhabit a high school narrative without feeling the cynical, calculating spectre of a grown writer in every quip or interaction..."