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MINDWAVE is a really cool idea for a game, and I'm looking forward to playing it when it comes out (Hey future me likely reading this at some point, was it good?). I've been saying online for a while now that Warioware is one of those game concepts that Nintendo honestly doesn't do much with, from a narrative standpoint, so it was ripe for innovation by indie devs. The concept of jumping into people's minds like Psychonauts to play themed minigames is such a good idea, and the way it's done with Abby, the girl featured in the demo (and whose stage this song appears in) is really neat because the whole game has this sort of dark, moody atmosphere up to that point, where characters are pitted against each other for a reward and you can't trust anyone except your closest friend, so the first character you "face off" against being Abby with this cute pink pastel color scheme and cheery, peppy soundtrack just kinda throws off the whole vibe in a really refreshing way, as it shows the kind of swings the development team is willing to take in terms of variety. Vocal tracks as a whole aren't new to warioware-style games, but when they do appear, they're still highlights of their respective games, so it's a statement when a game comes out of the gate with one.

As for the song itself, despite its cheery lyrics and instrumentation, I get this air of sadness to it. Perhaps that's for word choice in the lyrics: "I know sometimes it really feels that way", "This could never be a sad place", "rest up for tomorrow", all give this sort of vibe to me of someone who like, has to make their environment happy because of past abuse or something of that nature. Like the narrator sings this happy cheery song to protect themselves and make them forget about the shit they've seen. That also could be the vibe I'm getting due to the rest of MINDWAVE's presentation, though.

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