Riley & Rochelle
Developer/publisher Sheinman Games
Format PC
Release Out now
He was a boy, she was a girl. Riley was a punk, albeit one of the gentler variety – asensitive boy with a guitar, a difficult relationship with his father, and fears of selling out – and while it’s not exactly accurate to say Rochelle did ballet, she did spend her childhood in beauty pageants. Invoking the work of Lavigne et al (2002) might be blasphemy, given this game’s fixation on the ’90s, but we can’t help thinking: could Riley & Rochelle make it a little less obvious?