“We often try to find inspiration in things we don’t necessarily like, but see the potential in,” Flesser says.

“ we naturally fell into the idea of wanting to make something that felt like the arcade games we great up with and played when we were young.” Games like Star Fox provided inspiration for the team, as did the musical integration through titles like Rez. “We wanted everything in the game to echo that sense of approachability,” Flesser says. While the two have often created playlists of brainstorm music and scoring for their games, the conceit for Sayonara was unique: What if you could take the ubiquity of the breakup album and make it interactive through the best tropes of 80s and 90s arcade games? “This is a game that is very much about the music,” says Simon Flesser, who along with his co-founder Gordon Gardebäck makes up the game company Simogo. Ever-shifting gameplay and an electrifying beat capture the stages of reflecting on a broken relationship, illuminated by a psychedelic canvas of bright rainbow colors and geometric shapes. Sayonara Wild Hearts, however, uses the approachability of the topic and transforms it into an exploration on lost love, finding independence, and moving on.

The road of relationships is particularly well-traveled where art is concerned. Art can reflect emotions we can’t process in spoken word alone: Paintings capture these feelings in color and scale, films reflect our world back to us through new light, and music puts melody to the words we don’t know how to - or cannot - say.

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