I am having a serious schizo problem and I cannot seem to stop... I am still very curious as to why Mixtape managed to get all the game journalists to give it a 10/10, even getting glowing publicity from BAFTA too. Especially after completing the experience myself...and thoroughly disliking it. Its just, horrible - and now it makes me further baffled, what do the Game Journalists see in this? The characters were not likeable except maybe Jenny and Cassandra's father - the MC is honestly a self-centred and selfish person...but ok I am getting too side tracked over that. Weird: I got curious, so i did a bit of light digging - and I think I found a possible angle as to why Mixtape got all these high uncritical praises from so many game journalists. This angle is, well its a "nostalgic" angle. The star of the show, is the current Head of Anapurna Games after the ENTIRE old Anapurna team resigned (the same team that scouted and greenlit Stray and Outer Wilds fyi)... Current head of Anapurna Games, Leanne Loombe. Leanne has quite the pedigree on her, based on her public Linkedin. The most important roles relevant for me however were two roles: 1. Board member at BAFTA 2. Board member at Wings Interactive. Now maybe I am being a little bit of melodramatic or a schizo, but with the BAFTA angle, it explains why BAFTA had been giving Mixtape so much positive publicity via their social media accounts...and I expect some BAFTA awards going to Mixtape too. As for the Wings Interactive angle - well its the same Wings Interactive that Sweet Baby Inc was attached to, and is also incidentally the same Wings Interactive that Anita Sarkeesian provided consultancy for via Wings' projects. As we have seen since 2014 or even earlier, anything that has Anita Sarkeesian's influence in it, would instantly be receiving glowing praise or defense from Games Media. This include friends or people who closely work with Anita...like Leanne Loombe. Furthermore if we know our 2014 History, we would know how EASY it is for Games Journalists band together to give either the most glowing of press for their friends or people who traded favours with them...or the most horrible of smears to those who they personally dislike, or those whom their friends dislike. With all these strange connections being implied from observing all these public information - should I be surprised that so many game journalists kept giving Mixtape 10/10? No. INB4 I get some comments: For those of you who unironically think that I am merely obsessing over Mixtape...let me ask you this question. Would you take credit ratings agencies seriously in 2008, back as they said sub-prime mortgages were "blue chip investments", when you found out that the financial institutions selling these sub-prime mortgages, are collaborating with the same credit rating agencies...whether because those working at the agencies are personal friends of people in the financial institutions, or received kickbacks for giving good ratings to horrible investments? Think of that question in your head, then get back to me and if you think I am merely talking about Mixtape in a vacuum... OR am I instead talking about a Games Media Industry again being exposed as being so broken and nepotistic with some parts of the Games Industry and "Games Consultancy", to the point that they will trade favours with one another for positive or negative press, depending on what each other wants. This is my opinion at the end of the day though.