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“EVEN WITH A TURKEY THAT YOU KNOW WILL FOLD, RHYTHM GAMES SHOULDN’T LEAVE STORY OUT IN THE COLD.”

As a recovering drama nerd, I’m a sucker for character arcs of self-actualisation book-ended by song. I had great fun taking centre stage in Metronomik’s musically minded No Straight Roads at EGX Rezzed this year. One impressive boss arena featured a piano prodigy’s overprotective mother represented as a raging, red phantom. I found myself surprisingly affected by her destruction of the stage punctuated by

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