You know that watercolor feature in, like, Excel that can make your photographs look terrible and indistinct? Well, Last Day of June looks like what that watercolor feature always aspired to be: warm, painterly, and yes, watery and somewhat indistinct, like a paintbrush feeling around the edges of memory.
Judging from this release date trailer, adventure game Last Day of June tells a story of aging, late-in-life surprises, the artifacts (like paintings and photographs) that we surround ourselves with in order to keep our earlier years near to us. This could very well be someone's life flashing before their eyes as they're dying. Whoops, speculative spoiler on my part.
I'm thrilled by the music selection. Mainly because it's completely off-kilter from the average video game soundtrack, but also because the song is horrifying in a mom-rock-ballad kind of way—like this is the song she'd be blasting from her Ford Tempo in your small town's half-dead mall parking lot, crying into the faux leather of a fake Louis Vuitton hand bag.
Hm. Last Day of June must be unpacking some of my own baggage. We'll have to address that some other time.
Last Day of June, "a modern fable about love and loss," is the debut from Italian studio Ovosonico, and launches August 31 on PC and PS4.
