GOODBYE VOLCANO HIGH
Ko-op scales up for a bittersweet ode to youthful impulse
Sweet Baby Inc and Kim Belair have recently come aboard to help write an authentic-feeling love story. It’s an underserved genre, Dabbous says: “People talk more about the romance options in Dragon Age than they do about the combat system!”
Fang
and
their
best
friend
Trish’s
band,
VVorm
Drama,
is
portrayed
by
in-house
composer
Dabu
and
vocalist
Brigitte
Naggar.
Dabbous
points
to
Bioware’s
RPGs
as
a
key
influence
on
the
way
Goodbye
Volcano
High’s
dialogue
scenes
play
out.
Fang
gets
ready
to
burn
a
yearbook.
We
wonder
if
Huerta
has
similar
plans
for
the
Discord
members’
interactive
yearbooks.
Dabbous
largely
found
the
negative
reaction
to
the
game’s
announcement
as
part
of
the
PS5
reveal
baffling:
“The
idea
that
it’s
trodden
ground
or
whatever…
It’s
like,
well,
how
many
fucking
firstperson
shooters
are
we
playing?
How
many
Zelda-likes
are
we
playing?
Like,
come
on!”