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Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories Switch ‘Travel to Hog Town, where melons are illegal’ is one of the most memorably surreal promo lines of recent times, and but for a glut of life-stealing titles this issue we might have had the chance to discover whether this ‘story-exploration game’ could live up to it. Certainly its early stages are engaging: though, as the genre descriptor suggests, it’s light on mechanics, we’re quickly won over by its viridescent presentation (it essentially resembles an emulated Game Boy game) and amusing interactions. Investigating the whereabouts of missing colleague Cantaloupe, we’ve already fallen in with a gang of local thieves and outed a hamster popstar as a lip-syncing fraud by unplugging his mixing board. What’s next? We’re already looking forward to finding out.