Image credit: Annapurna Interactive A couple of years ago, The Artful Escape devs Beethoven & Dinosaur announced their next game, Mixtape . It caught my eye at the time in no small part to having an art style that actually looks like Something as opposed to the vast sea of realism simulators out there. In particular, I was fond of its choppy, post-Into-the-Spiderverse animation, and the licensed music soundtrack, despite being very dad-core (maybe even grandad-core for some of you, at this point), did it some favours for me too. Now, it's out! And brings up a pertinent point about genre. Bear in mind, I've not played the thing yet, but in thinking about Mixtape the thing I keep coming back to is what its genre is: a coming of age story. "En route to their final party together, a perfectly curated playlist draws three friends into dreamlike reenactments of their formative memories," the game's Steam page explains.…