You’re invited to poke around the environments, but you’re never truly incentivised to find out more. I’m describing these in a very mechanical manner obviously, but the thing about Best Month Ever is the way that this story is presented feels rather cursory, as if it really is just a game set in the backdrop of 1960s America. If Louise is wont to act impulsively, or behave in a manner that’s staunchly anti-establishment, Mitch will remember it this will supposedly add or subtract some figures from a given formula, which will determine the sort of ending you’ll get. These conclusions, of course, are ultimately beholden to a system of numbers. Related: Norco Review - A Narrative Masterpiece This has been emphasised repeatedly on Best Month Ever’s Steam page as “Your choices matter!”, “Everything has consequences”, and “Your decisions REALLY matter!”, with a somewhat eye-boggling figure of nine unique endings. But how Louise and Mitch respond to these scenarios, through dialogue options and key decisions, will influence Mitch’s personality and the game’s ending, too. Louise and Mitch will visit estranged family and long-lost friends, while spending precious hours with one another, with these chronologised as montages in Mitch’s rough childhood. Of course, life in 1960s America isn’t going to be easy for a single white mother and her Black child, and it will come as no surprise that Best Month Ever is also about navigating the systematic issues and obstacles of that era as the duo. In Best Month Ever, this tale is centred around a young man named Mitch, who’s recalling one of the best and most bittersweet moments of his life: when his mother, Louise, decided to drive their beat-up car across rutted dirt roads and stretches of asphalt. And all these are set in the most Americana of backdrops: highways that lead to truck stop diners, drive-throughs amidst the cliffs of the Grand Canyon, and riverside campfires in the thick of a forest.īut the most memorable of road trips have a vivid, enduring story tying them all together. Chapters conclude with a snapshot that wouldn’t look out of place with a cheesy “Wish you were here!” greeting, emblazoned across its image. Events play out via sequences of flashbacks that are clearly spliced together, in which you’ll click on a few objects or meander around the vicinity. Everything you’ll see in the game is a recollection of old memories, tangled in a web of historical events and personal anecdotes. It replicates the nostalgia of warm, sepia-toned photographs-those taken with an old-school film camera-as it retells this tale, and I mean this both literally and figuratively. In particular, it wants to be a trip down the stretch of memory lane that goes back to the less-than-glamorous history of America: the decades after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Best Month Ever! (I’ll leave the exclamation mark out in subsequent mentions) wants to be a poignant road trip.
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