Have any thoughts on Quartet? Got other games I should check out? Toss 'em my way, would love to hear :) 🖤💛🖤💛

But yeah, not super deep into the game, but VERY intrigued so far. If you wanna see some of my thoughts on what I played, you can see it on YouTube: youtu.be/L7Ssh_a5mGc

Thanks to the folks at Evolve PR and Something Classic for the review key!

And Alvin feels more foil than trope right now: Alex is running every which way, trying to handle the struggles of the moment. Alvin takes the direct route, criminal though it may be, and that's a position plenty of people can relate to.

Mind you, there's still a bit of the story that's on notice: Alex's brother, Alvin, seems to be dealing drugs to help pay the bills.

That story can end up a messy trope, but they've gotten some trust from me in the way they've handled the story so far.

Quartet feels thoughtful, deliberate. The soundtrack in Alex's story is jazz. Alex's family owns a local store, but they're also struggling to pay medical bills. She runs herself to exhaustion, powered by her mom's old saying: "Excellence is a habit."

Those kinda sayings? IYKYK

But it's also still marginalized, and THAT MATTERS! Being Black is part of where these folks are from are and why.

There's a line where an old man says he's surprised they brought electricity to Wallside, that they're usually far behind the rest of the city.

My Intellisenses WENT OFF.

Wallside is a whole neighborhood full of Black and Brown-sprited faces, complete with 16-bit textured hair and just... it's just something I never got to see as a kid.

And it's NOT A SLUM!

After the prologue, you choose one of four scenarios to play through, revolving around a key character. I picked Alexandra because...well, because she looked like a Black woman, and I frankly wasn't sure if she actually WOULD be by the time I started play.

It's her WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD, friends.

There's no separating these events from the places they're held in, the world taking place around them. I feel this EVERY time GDC rolls around in San Francisco.