Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Tape Two) review – love, grief and self-recrimination as the girls reunite

‘Lost Records: Bloom & Rage’ Is a ‘Yellowjackets’-Like Playable Novel — Minus the Cannibalism

“Remember 1995?” reads a package addressed to Bloom & Rage. It’s been 27 years since the protagonists of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage were last seen together in Velvet Cove, a fictional town in Keweenaw, Michigan. A time in which the group has tried to forget the events that transpired during an eventful summer. But somehow, somebody else still remembers. Told throughout the past and present timelines, Lost Records presents a narrative-driven st…

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Tape Two) review – love, grief and self-recrimination as the girls reunite

PC, PS5, XBox; Don’t NodThe concluding half of this two-parter may be lacking in interactive challenges, but is profound, sensitively structured and emotionally resonantOne thing you realise as you get older is that memories are plastic and that the stories you tell about your life change with every recollection, depending on who you are at the time. This is one of the themes – and indeed the mechanics – of Lost Records, a narrative adventure ab…